i’m doing a survey of online youth civic engagement initiatives and i came across this: Pennies to Protect Police Dogs Eleven year-old Stacey Hillman started Pennies to Protect Police Dogs in March of 2000 after reading an article about police dogs and their dangerous jobs. The article told the story of a police dog that […]
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ict4d web2.0i’m moderating a panel on monday about web2.0 and development issues at a conference run by netsquared. happily, the conference is suitably web2.0 compliant and buzzworld enabled which means, of course, you can all participate online! i’ll be asking questions that are submitted to the conference site so if you have any interest in ict4d, […]
my identity leaked in halifax!
panelso, funny story. i had my first first-hand experience of that online identity management problem at the roundtable i spoke at on thursday. you know, that problem when you’re a 3rd grade teacher and you post some pictures of you drunk at a party on your friendster account and your little students find it and […]
why don’t you trust the media (or do you?)
bloggingdear friends: i’m going to be speaking at a roundtable on trust in the media this week and i need your input! the thesis of the roundtable is basically that people don’t trust the mainstream media anymore, so they are turning to bloggers and citizen journalists, and that this is a bad, bad thing. the […]