Application Deadline: June 15, 2007 Rising Voices, the outreach arm of Global Voices, is now accepting project proposals for the first round of microgrant funding of up to $5,000 for new media outreach projects. Ideal applicants will present innovative and detailed proposals to teach citizen media techniques to communities that are poorly positioned to discover [...]

I’m at Netsquared right now and will post my thoughts about it soon, but for now, Beth Kanter is taking care of coverage both on Twitter and at Ustream.tv: Right now Bradley Horowitz is talking about Yahoo’s social impact. (But don’t forget …)

On Removing Sphericules Similar to Ethan’s reaction at the Interactive Media Conference this week in Miami, it was a little surreal for me to be in the midst of two thousand academics all entirely focused/obsessed on exactly what I’ve been involved with for the past three years: online communication and participatory media. I had to [...]

Sigh. That’s how I start out my work day. Then a slight wince. And then I open up my to-do list. It’s a long, long … long list. It’s what I should be doing right now, not this. But then, this blog is starting to feel more like a repository of stuff from elsewhere than [...]

Cross-posted at Global Voices. Thanks to the generous support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Global Voices is now starting a new outreach project, Rising Voices, which aims to spread the benefits of citizen media to regions, languages, and communities that are currently underrepresented on the conversational web. Rising Voices will serve [...]

Babel is one of those pre-historic, mythic, biblical references which has been transformed into the title of a movie, countless software programs, and quite a few companies. Still, most of us remain fuzzy about the actual origin. From Wikipedia: According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 of the Bible, the Tower of Babel was [...]

It doesn’t seem like too long ago that Hipocratico, Moi, Candy, Rolando, and I were all sitting around drinking beers and sharing stories in Monterrey. But now, looking back at the picture, we all look a few years younger than nowadays. I’m sure that Monterrey has changed a lot since I was last there. I [...]

It’s sandal weather again, hallelujah. Dropping off Mari at City Hall, coasting down San Pablo while Keith Jarrett’s 1970′s piano chops flow out of public jazz radio like a flirtatious girl on a first date. The stretch of San Pablo from 20th to 40th is one of Oakland’s most blighted thoroughfares. Every block is bookended [...]

Mari says, after a two year break, she was inspired to start blogging again after tonight’s game … so … keep your eyes out.

Arrives at LAX Looking around the room I saw nothing but trendy pinstripe suits, Banana Republic blue shirts, and $200 haircuts. It looked like Wall Street auditioning for an Apple commercial. I was invited to the first Economics of Social Media conference (EconSM) because of a post I wrote examining how serious online media sites [...]