In the Civic Engagement on the Move report that I wrote for the Aspen Institute, I included this passage: Jed Alpert, co-founder and chief executive officer of Mobile Commons, pointed to FishMS, a text service in South Africa that was set up to help consumers choose seafood with the least adverse impact on the environment. […]
Archives for July 2008
Allvoices: a new global forum for sharing news and info
Just heard about a new citizen journalism site that launched earlier this month: Allvoices.com, which weaves together traditional and new media sources to create a global forum for sharing news, videos, images and blogs will end its beta version and officially launch. From the announcement: Allvoices provides eyewitness news and perspective that is free from […]
Vimby: Video In My Backyard
Eli Spector of MediaMobz — the new video production marketplace that I’m helping out on — points to a new citizen media site geared to youth culture: Vimby, short for Video In My Backyard. The site showcases video and photos taken in backyards across the nation. The site encourages contributors to “help us uncover what’s […]
Dana Loesch: Making money with your blog
In this 3-minute video interview, Dana Loesch of Mamalogues.com discusses the “More to Monetization than Advertising” panel she participated on at BlogHer in San Francisco.
Citizen expression
BubbleShare: Share photos – Play some Online Games. Friday evening, I was visited by Ignacio Escribano, founder of the Argentinian citizen media site igooh. That’s his slide show, above. Igooh is a vertical site that’s funded by Latin America’s most prestigious newspaper, La Nación, though Ignacio gets to run it with virtually no oversight by […]