At Magnify.net, founder Steve Rosenbaum has created a live Flickr stream of Inauguration events & photos. The photo gallery will constantly change over the coming days as Flickr users upload images tagged with the word “inauguration.” You can grab the embed code and place the Flash player on your own blog and resize it;
Current affairs
Harder to spin police violence in Web 2.0 era
Raj Jayadev, executive director of Silicon Valley De-Bug, a youth-serving community organization, in an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News: Much harder to spin police violence in Web 2.0 era — a look at social media’s response to the fatal shooting of an Oakland man by BART police on Jan. 1.
Documentary short: A drive through the occupied West Bank
Ilove Israel, and have loved it even before my visit there last April as a member of the Traveling Geeks. (Here were my dispatches, including a video of our visit to a Bedouin Arab family’s village of Khawalid in northern Israel.) So it’s always difficult as a journalist to report about something you have an emotional stake in.
2009 conferences: Social media, tech, marketing
I published this a week ago but am republishing it now because it’s quite timely on Jan. 1 and because I added several additional events to the calendar.
For the past two years I put together a calendar of some of the best social media, technology, media and marketing conferences for the upcoming year. Here’s the list for 2009. Apologies, I had to leave out events outside the U.S. or the list would triple in size, and I left out newspaper conferences.
Outsourcing in a socially responsible way
I finally have time to get to my backlog of video interviews, after changing jobs earlier this month.
Here’s a 4-minute interview with Leila Chirayath, founder and CEO of Samasource, a nonprofit social enterprise in Silicon Valley that that connects small and mid-size businesses with individuals and firms in the developing world that can perform outsourcing work (such as data entry) in a socially responsible way.
They now have pilot programs in Kenya, Nepal and rural India, and their goal, as their website says, is “to catalyze sustainable economic development and poverty alleviation by creating a thriving, active market for socially responsible outsourcing to developing regions.”