media: September 2005 Archives

The still-in-process new commgrad website is looking awesome! Han has done a terrific job creating a site that promotes us to the outside world. It's clean and provides (so far) basic information that prospective and incoming students will no doubt find extremely helpful, especially international students. All good!

I was hoping there'd be a more interactive component to it for internal purposes but it's not clear that will happen. There is going to be a blog, but since folks are thinking of the overall site as an advertisement it seems doubtful that we'll take many risks there. Yes, here I am again, going on about risk-taking! I'm soooo naive! :-)

"This issue [of KM4D, on "Approaches to promote knowledge sharing in international development organizations" presents papers on experiences with knowledge sharing in international development organisations, highlighting strategies and approaches used to foster knowledge sharing in diverse settings and presenting their results."http://www.km4dev.org/journal/index.php/km4dj

This is cool. Deborah Elizabeth Finn, who blogs for & about non-profits just went off and started a new wikipedia page! One of these days I might be so bold. In the meantime, maybe there's a way to play/practice with this...I haven't paid attention (yet) to wikipedia's formatting guidelines (what 'counts' and what doesn't)...but my practice with SocialText at least has given me some confidence to experiment.

I suppose there's lots of video material online now, but here's a source from Alternet, which is a reputable online news source. Same video, different source. And then there's the print media:

Jeremy posts this top ten list to the AoIR listserv, focused on operational and engineering problems.

Wish I could go (wish I could go to so many things!) -

This international conference geared to youth engages "the phenomenon of digital inequality points to limitations consolidated by effects of cultural, social and material resources: Economical resources affect opportunities of access, priorities of everyday life shape respective intentions of internet use, social relationships have an impact on the support structures available and ways of appropriation reproduce a specific understanding of informal education (“Bildung”)."

They don't specify age ranges in the call but are specific to educational and social policies. It could be K-12 but I've got undergraduates on my mind...

i tried to go here before and failed, but now it's working. Another place to play - someday.

http://wiki.aoir.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Paul's predictive powers are amazing. Free, ad-free Skype was good while it lasted. Their "forward-looking statement" neglects to mention compromises in favor of (assumed) continuing product proliferation.

And then there's SocialText ("wiki meets blogging" - let's hope he's not too prescient with that too? I haven't got to play enough! :-/ I'm sure he's not intending to sell Dexus for a buck. A euro, maybe.

The woman writing this storm blog explains: "The way I post, is also the way I show up in the world - I just go where my energy moves me."

Yeah.

He guessed last week that Apple was about ready to unveil something new - here it is, the nano.

And then there's the Harry Potter iPod. Hmmmm....

Kanye West's Torrent of Criticism, Live on NBC
By Lisa de Moraes
Saturday, September 3, 2005; Page C01
Washington Post

forwarded by Carlos, Social Justice listserv

Why We Love Live Television, Reason No. 137:

NBC's levee broke and Kanye West flooded through with a tear about the federal response in New Orleans during the network's live concert fundraiser for victims of Hurricane Katrina last night. Kanye West performs on ABC's "Good Morning America" concert series at New York's Lincoln Center on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005. West's second CD, "Late Registration," was released Aug. 30.

***On Fri 5:40a Sep 2, 2005 maillist@michaelmoore.com wrote***
Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of
Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

Here's a great piece on the unspoken racism and classism being covertly fed by the mainstream news coverage of Katrina.