by David Sasaki | Jan 28, 2008 | English, Español, Podcast (English), Podcast (Spanish)
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...
by David Sasaki | Jan 25, 2008 | English, Español, Music, Rising Voices, Video
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...
by David Sasaki | Jan 17, 2008 | Español, Podcast (Spanish), Video
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...
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...
by David Sasaki | Jan 7, 2008 | Español, Podcast (Spanish), Video
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...
by David Sasaki | Dec 31, 2007 | Español, Video
Medellín, Colombia, una ciudad hermosa con paisajes impresionantes y gente amable que te hace sentir bienvenido. Pero hay una cosa que nos deja confundido. Por que a nosotros todos los paisas nos llaman monos? Descarga para tu iPod Suscribe a todos los videos...
by David Sasaki | Aug 7, 2007 | English
I finished my book, Finding Flow. In a way, I feel like I read it too fast and left behind too many dog-eared pages that need revisiting. But I was ready to move on to something else, so I scanned the bookshelf and decided to dig back into The Heart that Bleeds: Latin...
by David Sasaki | Aug 4, 2007 | English
I know, I know … bad, bad blogger. I just haven’t been feelin’ it. Or at least, I hadn’t been feeling it … until I had an incredibly inspiring conversation with Héctor Aristizábal a couple of days ago. From Pasadena Weekly: In 1982,...