Twittering from the Future of Civic Media Meeting
Opening panel at the conference is talking from local media (as civic media), ranging to macro political level. Tweeting the…
African Cell-Phone Media: Hostage to Policy Delays
There are a couple of delays in implementing our Iindaba Ziyafika – the news is coming project around cellphone journalism,…
Election Day Could Be Our Own Pangia Day
When the filmmaker Jehane Noujaim won the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED), her wish was to create one day where people…
Voces Bolivianas Featured in Vamos Magazine
Rising Voices aims not just to get new communities actively participating in the conversational web, but also to introduce their…
Will 3G iPhone Help Push Geo-Based News?
Apple’s announcement yesterday of a GPS-enabled iPhone is further fanning the flames of excitement around location based services and mobile…
MediaShift Looking for ‘Embeds’ at Newspaper, Radio, TV
As the redesign and revamp of the MediaShift site continues apace, I am looking for a few good folks to…
How to Create a Reader-Driven News System
We all know that the “audience” analogy no longer represents the way journalism should work. We know that the people…
Smart Mobs for News Participation
Following is part 3 of my 3-part series on open APIs and crowdsourcing community news. Part 1, Part 2. At…
Laptops in the Most Disadvantaged Areas of Uruguay
The following is a translation of a post by Rising Voices grantee and Plan Ceibal coordinator Pablo Flores, who details…
Reforming Media Will Help Reform Conferences
At Journalism That Matters “The New Pamphleteers,” held earlier this week in Minneapolis, every session meant horizontal communication: no one…