Just before leaving for holiday – which I’m still enjoying – I ran a one-week course on social media and social change at MS ActionAid sporting a combination of great external lectures, intense toolstraining and the actual design of online campaigns. The content and context of the [...]
July 26th, 2009 - 10:22 am § by Rune § in Link of the day
Change your tools – two-pages in 'Udvikling'
For the Danish speaking audience, your favourite blogger at this site – Anders – just ran a two-page feature on mobile-tech in Africa in the Danish dev.-newspaper Udvikling. Click the image to download in pdf. [...]
July 17th, 2009 - 2:16 pm § by anderspeders § in Featured
Language as social justice, a goodbye to the anglo web and hello to diversified campaining
I recently had the chance to join in at the Open Translation Tools 09, where bloggers, translators and coders from across the world came together in Amsterdam for a discussion about the state of translation and which tools to wish for in the future. From Cambodia, India and South Africa projects sho[...]
July 5th, 2009 - 10:07 pm § by Rune § in Uncategorized
Virtual sit-in at the Presidents palace
Apart from being an innovative use of geo-mapping – or geo-bombing – it’s also fun: Tunesian bloggers has made a virtual sit-in at the presidential palace [...]
June 19th, 2009 - 9:26 am § by Tim § in Uncategorized
Why the Iranian government can‘t keep the twitter out
Following the previous post, here is an interesting explanation of why the Iranian government — which has attempted to block eveything from BBC Persia to text messaging — can’t keep the twitter out. Jeff Jarvis from the Buzz Machine explains a little about the architecture of twi[...]
June 18th, 2009 - 8:49 pm § by Rune § in Featured
Anyone sceptical about Twitter – please go for #Iranelection
So then it came to us – a large scale social upheveal evolving with twitter as an al important medium of exchange and repporting. Yesterday we looked a little into blogs and youtube – today we continue with a note on twitter. The Iranian post-election rupture is my debut on twitter [...]
