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[Elation] Recognition and Progress for 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 today's newsletter after what...

[Progress] Getting Into Video

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 never miss...

[You Don't Say] Things Other People Accomplished When They Were My Age

Via Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age: At age 27: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. dropped out from his job at General Electric to become a full-time writer. Henry David Thoreau went off for two years to live alone in a cabin at Walden Pond. Cosmonaut Yuri...

[Video] Don Suso y Doña Blanca Curra

HiperBarrio es un proyecto de medios ciudadanos basado en Medellín, Colombia que enseña como utilizar las herramientas del Web 2.0 para compartir las historias locales de Santo Domingo y San Javier La Loma, dos barrios de clase trabajadora. Hace dos...

Will Online Video Make the World a Better Place?

Originally published on PBS MediaShift on January 5, 2008. The impact of the digital divide (or at least the bandwidth imbalance) is most pronounced when it comes to online video. In regions where lightening-fast internet connections are taken for granted, such as...

[Nature] Lo Innato y Lo Adquirido

Hace 26 años mi papá corrió emocionado por las calles de Miraflores comprando arreglos florales y diciéndole a cualquier persona que se le acercara : “¡son dos! ¡Son dos niñas!”, mientras levantaba sus dedos...