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Journalism Will Not Only Survive, It Will Thrive

On May 6th, Arianna Huffington presented the opening remarks for the Senate Subcommittee on Cummunications, Technology and the Internet’s Hearing on “The Future of Journalism”. She began with a clear statement: Journalism Will Not Only Survie, It Will Thrive! She added that we are actually in the midst of a Golden Age for news consumers, [...]

Israeli IDF Soldiers Testimonials Taken Out of Context

Several weeks after the Israeli operation in Gaza, Danny Zamir, director of the Yitzhak Rabin military preparatory academy at Oranim College, organized a meeting of his graduates. There they chatted behind closed doors and shared their experience from the operation. A transcript of their conversation was initially published in the College paper, but was picked [...]

Analog Blogging

In Monrovia, Liberia a unique form of journalism exists where the news is written out daily on a chalk board for everyone to read as they pass by. Alfred Sirleaf established his chalkboard news service called “Daily Talk” in May of 2000, when he saw a need for direct, free and accessible reporting. Because of [...]

Flickr Clock

There’s something really wonderful about using the flickr clock interface to browse through people’s moments from around the world. The clock displays only video content and lets you lean back and just click <next> to view another short clip which someone uploaded somewhere around the world.

flickr clock

I love the horizontal timeline below the image [...]

w00t:: My GVO post linked on NYTimes

First of all, I’m stoked that the New York Times indexes and semantically parses Global Voices posts within their Topics pages!! Recognizing the importance of local perspectives in this age of journalism. My most recent piece, found in a popular Israeli online forum, describes a puzzling incident which could have dire consequences for Tzipi Livni’s [...]

GVO in rich media

An interesting thread has been running in the Global Voices List on expanding GVO’s output to include audio content – a daily podcast including a summary of the day’s important posts. What I love about the GVO community is its constant efforts to come up with additional features and possible outputs, all under the big [...]

Rising Voices Superstar

Oso (a.k.a. David Sasaki) – friend and great source of inspiration – has been running the Rising Voices project, a spinoff of Global Voices, one of my all time favorite initiatives on the web. Rising Voices is successful because it arms real people with the tools to tell their stories. The projects usually focus on [...]

Using Online Video as a Platform for Social Change

I’ve spent all day at the 24/7 DIY VIDEO SUMMIT at USC and wanted to touch base on some interesting points. The ‘State of the Art’ panel focused on possibilities to leverage such a popular online video platform as youtube for public good. Alexandra Juhasz showed findings from a class she ran on youtube, concluding [...]

Losing Hope

When the East German government announced on November 9, 1989, after several weeks of civil unrest, that entering West Berlin would be permitted, crowds of East Germans climbed onto and crossed the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, parts of the wall were [...]

על חוק הטוקבקים ותרבותיות הדיון

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