If you’re going to get your feet wet in social media, you might as well get them really wet. Bypassing a corporate blog or Twitter account, the Spanish beer and beverage company Mahou did just that. Along with directors José Corbacho and Juan Cruz, they have finished production of a short film that will have all directing, casting and producing decisions determined by a community of over 3000, and are now in the final stages of editing.
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In a showing of the times, or perhaps ahead of the times, film director Martin Scorsese has decided to begin releasing the films restored by his World Cinema Foundation online.
The mission of the foundation is “to preserv[e] and restor[e] neglected films from around the world – in particular, those countries lacking the financial and technical ability to do so.” According to the foundation, “Only about 10 percent of the silent movies made in the United States, for instance, still exist.”
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A write up on digital activism and DigiActive as an organization.
In recent months, there’s been a marked increase in the mentions of how social media tools have been used around the world to enhance social activism either on a small scale, such as campaigning to free locally-jailed individuals, as was the case with “Free Jestina Mukoko” Facebook group or a larger scale, as was the case with the recent protests in Moldova. Press on the subject has varied from surface-level analysis to more well-informed accounts, but in each case, the use of digital tools was highlighted as playing an active and often pivotal role in the campaign.
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This is a write-up on Google’s Internet bus travels across India.
After an almost two month tour to various parts of India, Google’s Internet Bus has made its last stop in Tiruvannamalai on the southeast section of India.
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I almost always listen to NPR while driving alone, to catch up on news, listen to Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, or what have you. I’ve always thought one of the best things about the station is the cool, small stories they find that you might never have otherwise heard about – but always make you feel glad you did – and a recent Saturday afternoon rerun of An All Things Considered didn’t fail me. It featured a clip highlighting a really neat bit of urban technology.
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This post concerns digital mapping tools and highlights Nate Ritter’s CrisisWire and the work of Patrick Meier on the subject.
More and more, mapping tools are being used for real-time data collection. Some of the slickest – and most helpful – uses have been in the area of crisis warning and humanitarian issues. To be able to centralize and contextualize information from seemingly random places and from a variety of different platforms has multiple benefits.
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