I am currently back in Novosibirsk for a week-long exchange organized by djo, Sibirischer Bär and Jugendbund dealing with “freedom of media and the press”. Special thanks to Ira for the invitation!
Today was packed with talks on both main stream media and the blogosphere in Russia. While the country’s blogosphere is extremely huge – a [...]
Last Friday, I attended the presentation of a new book, “Deep Search“. They had a quite an interesting panel discussion with a few guests, including Mercedes Bunz, a German tech journalist writing for the British “Guardian”.
Later on, I stood together with another guest. Via Viktor Mayer-Schönberger’s “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” [...]
I interviewed Patrick Meier on Ushahidi and crisis mapping for netzpolitik.org. Patrick is a fellow member of DigiActive and serves on Ushahidi’s board of directors:
Simon Columbus: [...] So what is Ushahidi?
Patrick Meier: Ushahidi is a free and open source platform that allows organizations to crowdsource information and to visualize this information dynamically on a map.
Simon [...]
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