This doesn’t have much to do with social media, but I just love Google Earth, and now Google has put ancient Rome online. That’s right. You can now walk the streets of ancient Rome and see the Colosseum in all its glory. Amazing. From the Wired blog: The Ancient Rome 3D feature was created in […]
Voices: Community stories in Tucson
Speaking of Woices, here’s a snippet from the latest NAMAC newsletter about Voices: VOICES offers young people in Tucson [Arizona] a safe space, positive relationships, and the skills training to document real-life stories. Youth who are creative, resilient, educated, and active citizens are youth who benefit themselves, their families, and our community now and in […]
Woices: a new oral information tool for travelers
David Ciudad Rodriguez passes along word of a new site from Spain (I think) called Woices. It’s a free internet service that allows people to create, share and consume “echoes”: audio records that are linked to a very specific geographical location or real world object. Rodriguez says Woices’s ultimate goal is “to create a new […]
Hey, I’m on ‘Epic Fu’!
In today’s episode of Epic Fu, "has everything gone retro?," Zadi Diaz muses about retro fashion, retro technology — and (somehow appropriately) interviews me about the evolving mediasphere. When I showed up at Zadi and partner Steve Woolf’s door two weeks ago, they let me know that Epic Fu and Internet TV network Revision 3 […]
iJustine guest-stars in new Internet series
My friend Justine Ezarik (aka iJustine), who blogs at Tastyblogsnack, now stars in a new Internet TV series, Take180’s in2ition. In the latest episode of the fictional series, she gets kidnapped. The Program gave Hope Fox everything she needed: friends, a home – even parents. She had no major complaints, until the day they abducted […]