education
Gangs vs Cults of America
The above map shows where American gangs and cults live. Pretty cool. It’s taken from Vice Magazine (Gangs and Cults issue). Read more at Laughing Squid. (To view the map really large, click here.)
The Beckoning Cat
Now, reading up on the history of the waving cat as a symbol, you find all kinds of stories. Mostly localized versions based on the same common theme. LuckyMojo features some really nice & detailed background info about the history of the waving/beckoning cat, this one from Japan:
As explained by Patricia Dale-Green in “The […]
Interview with Yochai Benkler
Today was the day - this morning Thomas and I had the chance to meet Yochai Benkler. Among many other things, he teaches and researches at Yale, was one of the top speakers at Wizards of OS 4, and is the author of The Wealth of Networks: The book about which Creative Commons founder Larry […]
Foundations of Cyberculture, podcast round 2
One of my favorite podcasted lectures goes into round two: Greg Niemeyer’s Foundations of Cyberculture (one of the Berkeley Webcasts). I’m curious if it’s going to be just a repetition of last semester’s lecture, or something fundamentally new. (Quite frankly, I’m not sure what I’d prefer.) Either way, if you haven’t done so yet, make […]
online campaigning tools
Just a bunch of online campaigning toolkits & tutorials I’ve found useful lately:
CivicspaceLabs (online campaigning toolkit based on drupal. it’s CMS, CRM and community in one place. we’re talking heavy integration here.)
Campaigns Wikia (Trends and knowledge transfer about online campaigning. Non-partisan and independent wiki founded by Jimmy Welsh.)
e.politics (web campaigning basics and tutorials. great stuff!)
The […]
highjacking a skynews interview
This SkyNews snippet about the conflict between Israel and Lebanon is worth watching for just about anyone interested in news and how they are made. George Galloway (supposedly some British MP) just beats the crap out of the SkyNews anchor. (What’s her name anyway? Anna Botting?) Galloway is behaving extremely rude and unfair, calling her […]
Social Entrepreneur Essential Marketing Toolkit
On her weblog, Diana Reid explains the basics of how to get your organization ready for marketing, or better: for any kind of public interaction - from a social entrepreneur’s point of view. As I’m working for a non-profit think tank which does a lot of non-profit projects, I’m quite familiar with the special situation […]
Activist Toolkit
When it comes to planning a campaign, it’s obviously important to make it as easy as possible to join and contribute to that campaign. One way to do so is an campaigning/activist toolkit which provides your campaigners with tools, strategies, material and information. A great example is the ACLU activist toolkit. What’s so good about […]
OpenNet Initiative publishes Internet Filtering Map
More and more states try to scan and filter internet traffic. To find out who filters what, a number of university-related institutes founded OpenNet. The OpenNet Initiative’s mission is “to investigate and challenge state filtration and surveillance practices”.
The “about” section reads like a who is who of the world of internet politics:
Citizen Lab at the […]
One Laptop Per Child (aka the crank-driven mesh network)
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$100 laptop prototypes, originally uploaded by Pete Barr-Watson.
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) has launched an initative to develop a $100 laptop for children in developing countries just a bit over a year ago. So far […]