Judge Quashes Subpoena to Blogger Kathleen Seidel
A federal magistrate judge in New Hampshire has quashed the subpoena issued to Kathleen Seidel. Seidel publishes the blog Neurodiversity,…
MTV/Knight Choose or Lose Street Team ’08 – Leaning Local
The premise of our MTV/Knight Choose or Lose Street Team ’08 is that the path to civic participation and becoming…
Participants Balk at Controversial Topics
It might seem a good starting point for building virtual community when people already know each other in the real…
CBS Considers ‘Loyalty Index’ Over Pay for Page Views
With so many ways to track a writer’s popularity online, should that popularity be tied to a journalist’s or blogger’s…
Press Can Survive Newspaper’s Demise, But Must Benefit Public
Two weeks ago I participated in a forum on newspapers and the net put on by Britannica Blog. The tone…
A Year of Rising Voices
With this week’s introduction to Iran Inside Out, a video-blogging project led by Shaghayegh Azimi, all ten Rising Voices grantees…
Old and Young Playing a Video Game
Can a virtual world bring together young and old people to explore a community’s history in a shared video game…
Our Hidden Biases Reflected in Our Work
In a recent post Lauren Williams editor of the black interest blog Stereohyped, wrote about the case of a black…
Iran Inside Out
Shaghayegh Azimi is the epitome of what is often referred to on Global Voices as a “bridge-blogger”; that is, someone…
‘Digital New Deal’ Needs Real Life Counterpart
An interesting piece appeared in the Friday, April 11 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, calling for a New Deal-like…