[Podcast] Jorge y Oso Present(an)
I tend to not speak much on the podcasts I publish here, but this time my good buddy Jorge and I talk a little bit about why we like the songs we chose. (And Jorge teaches us how to yodel). The podcast is in Spanish and English. Normalmente no hablo mucho en los...![[Act Now] Nakuru in Flames. How to Help.](https://i0.wp.com/el-oso.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/26kenya-span-600.jpg?w=425)
[Act Now] Nakuru in Flames. How to Help.
How did this all happen? How was it that just a few months ago I was sitting in a swanky Nairobi bar with Daudi Were, chatting about the good life, and brainstorming ideas for an African Bloggers Conference. And now … this? That photograph was taken in Nakuru...![[Video] In which La Loma Hip-Hop Star Jorge Jurado Gives a Shoutout to Oso](https://i0.wp.com/farm3.static.flickr.com/2208/2190478870_66b2a9d711.jpg?w=425)
[Video] In which La Loma Hip-Hop Star Jorge Jurado Gives a Shoutout to Oso
All this blah-blah-blah about citizen media and the democratization of participatory communication … all the traveling and the workshops and the guides and conference panels … the true end-goal of it all … the dream … the mecca … was to...Voces Bolivianas Featured on BBC's The World
Voces Bolivianas, one of the first five recipients of a Rising Voices citizen media outreach award, was featured yesterday on the BBC program, The World. In the four minute feature Ruxandra Guidi interviews project facilitator Mario Duran and Voces Bolivianas...![[Local] EveryBlock](https://i0.wp.com/el-oso.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/picture-5.png?resize=426%2C281)
[Local] EveryBlock
I’ve got a billion things to do before giving a workshop on digital photography and Flickr this evening at the Biblioteca Publica Piloto (come by if you’re around!), but this is way too cool to not comment on. So, Dunstan Orchard, an avid Faceballer...![[Literacy] Reading Benjamin Franklin's Blog on my iPhone](https://i0.wp.com/el-oso.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/franklin-autobiography.jpg?resize=200%2C265)
[Literacy] Reading Benjamin Franklin's Blog on my iPhone
It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore....Cuando subes a un autobus aquí en Medellin puede ser mucho más que transporte público. Dependiendo de tu gusto musical, a veces te toca el placer (o la mala suerte) de un concierto de rap. Aunque la cultura de hip hop ya es algo fuerte, pocas son...
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[Document] An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media
Rising Voices proudly announces the first in a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership. The first guide, An Introduction to Citizen Media, offers context and case studies which show how everyday citizens across the world are increasingly using blogs, podcasts, online video, and digital photography to engage in an unmediated conversation which transcends borders, cultures, and differing languages.
Bogotá
It had already been a month. On land. No flights. Which, for the past half year or so, is something of a record. Steve: Are you sure it leaves from the downtown airport and not Rio Negro? Me: Yeah, of course. Positive. Steve: You double-checked on the website? Me...Latest Photos
