November 2010
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Microfinance: Dream vs. Reality | A blog by Asli... →
June 2009
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Now can I check "Raise kid" off my to-do list?
My daughter graduated from high school last week. Oh happy, happy day.
May 2009
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Instapaper is instauseful →
Yeehaw. I love finding new apps that make you shake your head and think “Goddamn, technology is amazing.”
Recycled Cinema →
Fascinated to discover the video footage repurposing community. As the Los Angeles Filmforum says in its Call for entries for the Festival of (In)appropriation:
Whether you call it collage, compilation, found footage, detournement, or recycled cinema, the incorporation of previously shot materials into new artworks is a practice that has generated novel juxtapositions of elements which have...
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Drinking from a DIY media FiRe hose
In theory, anyone can make and distribute high quality media now. To that end I’m working with Audiofile Engineering’s new iPhone field recording app, FiRe. I want to get This-American-Life-like sound when I do an interview next week at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Turns out, however, there’s a bit more to sound engineering than record and play. For starters I...
April 2009
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If the Internet is God, then maybe there's a...
I’m learning a lot from my sudden advocacy-immersion experience about how to leverage different (social) media platforms— from my site’s blog, to email lists, to Facebook and Twitter updates, for example. I’m also learning how to quickly refurbish for these different purposes every half-way decent piece of content I can come up with.
Also, it seems too obvious to be an...
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Solidarity, Vitriol & Sleeplessness -- in other...
Crazy intense week of phone calls, emails and website updates to try and stop the abrupt transfer of people (including my family member) out of a good psychiatric rehabilitation program in the state hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska, into an admissions unit (with no such rehab program).
The messages people have sent through the website have totally propelled us forward. I had no idea how many others...
March 2009
7 posts
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Putting Internet advocacy to a very personal test →
I created this LRCPsychRehab.org website last night and into the wee hours of this morning, in response to the news yesterday that the psychiatric rehabilitation program at the state hospital where my sister lives is suddenly being shut down. And she was scheduled to be moved tomorrow.
A very poor decision I’m afraid (the details are on the site), and certainly an extremely abrupt one. I...
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Twitter agog-- fellowship, flattery, empowerment,...
Wow. Am starting to get Twitter. It’s actually really useful to know what some of the leaders in my industry are reading and doing and thinking about. The fact that it’s in real time (and my my own Tweets appear right next to theirs) gives this weird sense of fellowship to the experience. That I know what Tim O’Reilly, Clive Thompson and Pete Cashmore have on their minds from one...
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Twisting my own arm to Twitter
Yesterday I joined Twitter and posted, er, tweeted, for the first time: “First tweet. Am wondering if you have to be a megalomaniac or exhibitionist to do this right.” I gather from the followers I have so far attracted that including the word “exhibitionist” in my first post was a mistake.
I’ll admit, I don’t like the idea of publicly (or privately)...
Intrepid video blogging-- a crash course
On Saturaday I attended a free video blogging workshop for changemakers put on by Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson of ryanishungry.com (thank you Jay and Ryanne!) It was attended by a lot of great people doing interesting things with like the Sunlight Foundation, Ashoka, and itsgettinghotinhere.org. Really cool to meet so many folks putting the web to work for things that matter to them.
Jay and...
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My take on Video for Advocacy at the Center for... →
Really interesting panel discussion with political video strategy luminaries. A few notes I jotted down….
When deciding to make video a part of your organization’s cadre of online media— or when you’re going to begin publishing any new type of media for that matter—important to think about how you’re going to standardize branding, editing and quality, and...
Be It Twittering or Blogging, It’s All About... →
Gary Vaynerchuk’s interview. Good stuff. Am practicing reblogging.
WatchThis was a labor of love for the girls on my daughter’s basketball team.