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Voces Bolivianas Featured on BBC's The World

by David Sasaki | Jan 25, 2008 | English, Podcast (English), Rising Voices

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

by David Sasaki | Jan 24, 2008 | English

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

by David Sasaki | Jan 22, 2008 | English

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....

[Document] An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media

by David Sasaki | Jan 16, 2008 | English, Rising Voices

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.

[Elation] Recognition and Progress for Rising Voices

by David Sasaki | Jan 12, 2008 | English, Rising Voices

Below is this week’s newsletter to the Rising Voices mailing list. I’m so happy with the progress that Rising Voices has made, however, that I want to share it here as well. I’ll be publishing photos from last night’s event soon. I write...

[Progress] Getting Into Video

by David Sasaki | Jan 10, 2008 | English

I’ve never been one for online video for the same reason I’ve never really been one for traditional TV: no matter how many times I click the mouse or click the remote control, nothing of interest is ever on. Sure, there were/are some exceptions. I try to...