Are You Guilty of Media Malpractice?
Last week I attended Making Media Now at Bentley University, where, among other really interesting panels, I saw Andy Carvin talk about crowdsourcing. I was also really glad to hear Robert Greenwald of Brave New Films talk about making media that matters with Lisa Mullins of The World. Greenwald also screened a clip [...]
FCC Transition Team Plays MMOG
Image from jasondefillioppo’s PhotostreamYes, yes, this is last month’s news, but BoingBoing reports that Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford, slated to head the Obama administration’s FCC transition team, play World of Warcraft and Second Life, respectively. BoingBoing later outed Werbach’s Warcraft identity.
This is going to be a very different first hundred days. . [...]
Obama Considers Options for FCC Chairman
Image from twenty_questionsBusinessWeek reports that President-Elect Obama’s transition team is hard at work considering options for FCC Chairman.
“The new Administration is expected to give greater prominence to emerging providers of communications products and services, such as Google (GOOG)—a departure from the Bush Administration, which has tended to favor traditional providers such as AT&T (T).”
This [...]
Governing in a Web Savvy World
Image from On Bradstreet’s PhotostreamAs if in answer to my last post, it seems that the office of the President Elect has just rolled out www.change.gov, a site not dissimilar from the original Obama campaign website, but dedicated to the lead-up to the January 20th inauguration.
Thus far, the blog only has one post, but [...]
Post-Election Roundup
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Tuesday night, as I skyped into Teague’s election night party taking place a few hundred miles from my own living room. . . two things hit me: (1) I’m a dork for using skype to attend someone’s party and (2) That won’t be true in 2012.
Right now, across the country, [...]
Stop Prop 8 Ads from being served in Adsense
Image from HBC4511Several websites have reported unwanted advertising from Google Adsense from the “Yes On 8″ campaign supporting the banning of gay marriage in CA.
Here is the quick fix to make sure this doesn’t happen on your site:
Log into Adsense
Click “AdSense Setup”, then “Competitive Ad Filter”
In the appropriate text box, add “protectmarriage.com” to the [...]
PBS Vote 2008: Not Just for Television Any More
The Producer tipped me off to PBS Vote 2008, a spot where PBS is culling together the best of their documentary films, news coverage and web tools on the ‘08 election, and presenting it to PBS viewers like you.
My favorite of these is a game called Budget Hero:
You get to play “cards” [...]
Sean Tevis runs for Kansas State Rep, XKCD Style
Image from seantevis.comSean Tevis is running for Kansas State Representative. He needs to raise $26,000 by July 28th. He plans to do this by enticing 3000 individuals to donate $8.34 each on the internet (plus asking his 2 wealthy friends for $500 each).
As of this posting, 2,326 have already donated. [...]
