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Sweet Mother of FSM, Google+ Is Smart!
Being able to add people to the circles is an absolutely frickin’ brilliant move! The little animations are absolutely killer. I have been wanting this and talking about this and boring the living shit out of my tech-dw33b friends about how the one big problem STILL with social media is that it’s damn near and all-or-nothing game.
No longer. Someone at Google “got it,” and this is a killer feature that Facebook DOES NOT HAVE.
Ethiopia New Media Training
The clash of ancient and modern is never more stark than in these developing nations I've been in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the last week, training the local journalists and government information officers (aka PR flacks) on how best to take advantage of the way that...
Applause lines and final thanks
Here's a short audio file i recorded at the close of the Civic Media conference this week at MIT. I'd like to add my own thanks to the sentiments expressed herein; thus was a fabulous antidote to the general malaise afflicting so many of our traditional media...
The wrap-up of the civic media conference at the MIT Media Lab
Town Hall Meetings on Medicare and the GOP
This is a short clip from the recent "Town Hall" type meeting that brand-new Rep. Karen Bass had with her constituents here in Cal-33. This has got to be one of the most diverse districts in California, if not the entire U.S. in these Gerrymandered times.The room was...
Rep. Karen Bass uses QR codes at town hall meeting
This got written up in the Congressional Quarterly; considering that the constituents in Cal-33 overindex for mobile web use, this is a real stroke of genius. After the meeting was over, I helped at least 3 people load the QR reader software onto their phones so they...