I Read the News Today
Thursday, October 15th, 2009 07:57 pm GMT -5 in News Briefs by Michael Cervieri
Here’s a list of somewhat related mostly unrelated articles that I came across today while laid up in bed. It was these and cartoons via Hulu.
And yes, I’m happy that new episodes of Family Guy and American Dad are now available.
Onto some reading.
- One Year After Obama, Most Big DC Orgs Aren’t Embracing Social Media Tools: a look at “how 102 big Washington-based trade associations and advocacy groups are–or aren’t–making use of an array of 14 core social media tools and platforms” via Personal Democracy Forum.
- Grameen Foundation, with Gates Grant, Funds Farmer Information in Uganda: brief piece on how the Community Knowledge Worker initiative uses cell phones to share crop related information, via All Points Blog.
- CitySourced Reaches 1,900 cities: a video with the company’s founder about how they’re using mobile platforms in the 311 (ie, complaint) space, via uStream.
- A Scientists Hard Life: how a tweet became a movement to save science spending in Spain, via Personal Democracy Forum.
- China Cracks Down on Tor Anonymity Network: how China is trying to block access to tools that allow people to use the Web anonymously, via Technology Review
Fortunately, I’m not living in Venezuela anymore so I can watch Family Guy (about a three weeks ago the Venezuela Government banned it http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8277129.stm).
Having said that, I came across with this story “Backslash: web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee apologises for his strokes,” and thought it was interesting enough to share. http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6872873.ece