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Fwix’s Regional News Feeds Come To The iPhone Fwix, a social news site that skims through dozens of web services to generate a ?News Feed? for your city, has just released its free iPhone application (iTunes Link). Digital News Initiative UC Berkeley on Vimeo Open forum: Journalism students lead way As the only school of journalism in the University of California system, we feel an especially compelling duty to serve the public interest at a time of crisis in local journalism around the state. We are starting collaborations with the Haas School of Business and School of Information to further innovations in this field. We are seeking funding to re-train established journalists in the digital skills and new ways of thinking they need to better position themselves for professional futures. We want to partner with other local sites run by people similarly committed to covering Bay Area communities. We envision legions of small businesses and other potential advertisers in the Bay Area finding tremendous new audiences through these ties. We are filled with excitement and purpose, fueled by the idealism and dedication of young students who increasingly are showing the way. sexgenderbody | There is no "should" sexgenderbody.com is a community, collaborative blog, built in the same functional model of dailykos.com and mydd.com. The site is open-invitation, meaning that anyone can register and post diaries. This site has been built to serve as a public meeting place for honest and respectful conversations about the entire width and breadth of sex, gender, body. Topics will range from the intimate to the mundane, falling in love, looking in the mirror, workplace, health, advocacy, friendship, sex, identity, change, finances and the list goes on. Read more: http://sexgenderbody.com/#ixzz0H9TybMWG&B

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That trouble is about not paying bills. It's also about the vertigo of falling out of the middle class. "We talk about it as middle-class poverty, Your frame of reference, when you think of yourself as middle class, doesn't include being scared about making ends meet, realizing that welfare and food stamps are your only option. Psychologically, that shift is devastating."-- said Sara Horowitz, founder and executive director of the Freelancers Union, which has 70,000 members in New York City, quoted in a NYTimes essay on the recession and freelancers

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This 52 hour stint in Atlanta, teaching social media and technology skills at a workshop for ethnic media leaders (mostly newspaper owners/publishers/top editors) has been transformative. What a great group! The Knight Digital Media Center and the New American Media group convened this group of about 30 ethnic media executives--some from large and multi-publication companies, other small hyper-local news organizations-for a weekend of teaching around moving to digital.  Arturo Duran, Michelle McClellan, Craig Matsuda, Dana Chinn and myself were the faculty; themes included the social media ecosystem, making money in the digital realm; managing change in your newsroom and organization, setting priorities for what to do online, and measurement and metrics (always critical).As someone re-engaging with news folks  first via The Knight News Challenge and now both through teaching and workshops and starting Oakland Local, a hyperlocal news  community hub for Oakland, working with this group was fascinating.  For one thing, many participants are small-business owners, for another, many have invested little to nothing in the web (at least 2 post PDFs of their print editions, no more). Additionally, while monetizing their efforts are critical (no surprise), jiust about everyone was eager to find the right strategies for their products--and so passionate about their media AND their communities. So, we had the feeling of really progress--I am sitting here listening to the teams present what they will do when they get home--what projects will they do to move their businesses online in a more meaningful way.Some plans so far as these groups present plans based on what they learned:Add blogging and partner with a social media portal to serve the Korean community in their areaRedesign their web site (ethnic site with only PDFs, very static) to reach Pinoys more effectivelyAdd an online photo contest and build a presence on Facebook and Flickr to promote and engage community around a historic African-American hyperlocal news organizationStart a social media presence to engage the community and grow audience/page views: YouTube Channel, Facebok and MySpace pages, Twitter stream--and build a feedback loop to be leaders in the Hispanic community in their stateTraining all staffers at Hispanic news site to do blogging and social media within their workflow and incentivizing themA community engagement project for a hyperlocal African-American community newspaper site  that will add an online community of citizen journalism through their web site (this is SO exciting). Planning to use NIng or KickApps.A Native American newspaper, hyperlocal, that will start creating original content online AND adding social networking on FB and Twitter.The midwestern African immigrant  focused-site is going to use mobile to target a broader base of African ethnic communities, and to recruit citizen journalists who will write for them.The hyperlocal Middle Eastern newspaper, with very little web presence, is jumping in to become THE online multimedia destination for Arab Americans in the US, with RS feeds, ads, and so on(moving from paper focus to the web!)The local historically Black paper that is going to do a jobs-focused site with user generated content and social media.Susan sez: In such a brief time, I have come to feel so attached so some of these projects.These teams have the passion and the committment I so admire; by taking on web projects they're jumping into a new learning process that is going to change their businesses--and their lives. (yes, I am an idealist).

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"Many comments are complaining about comment moderation. This isn't about free speech. It's about dozens of death threats and hundreds of others saying pretty horrible things about one of of us. You may think that your comment needs to get heard and that calling for someone to die shouldn't be taken seriously. But multiply that by hundreds and maybe you'll get a sense of this. I was rude. I made the problem worse by saying things because I thought he was play-mad. and then i apologized. i may be a lot of things but i don't think i deserve to die over this. please. stop. i can't deal with the death threats after what happened last year and then this year in europe. leo won. you guys won. i surrender. just stop. please. stop."--Tech Crunch's Mike Arrington to his readers, post the Leo LaPorte/Gillmor Gang dust up.Susan sez: Do you have a comments policy and/or community guidelines?  If you're of any size at all, you should(And yes, I am writing one for Oakland Local)

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The Knight Foundation had made three significant grants to fund investigative reporting in this time of media re invention. As a Knight consultant who is about to start a local news and community hub of Oakland, these are interesting projects--I hope we're able to partner and/or benefit from at least two of the three, if not all three. Announced grants are for:Center for Investigative Reporting  ($1.32 million): to launch a new multimedia investigative reporting project in California that encourages print, digital and student journalists to collaborate on stories; Sunlight Foundation ($565,000): to develop web tools so the public can easily access information on Congressional lawmakers, from their campaign contributions and votes; ProPublica ($1.01 million): to help the investigative reporting organization create a sustainable business model;

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URBAN GARDENS UNDER ATTACK? DEFEND OUR LOCAL FOOD SOURCES!Monday, June 22, 2009 7-10 pm BFUU, 1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita) in Berkeley CONSCIENTIOUS PROJECTOR FILM SERIES of the Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists presents: Berkeley Code Enforcement is selectively fining activists for supposed "violations" in their gardens with fines that amount to extortion and eviction. They target neighbors actively engaged in helping communities gain some self-sufficiency by organizing permaculture skill shares, work parties, and growing diverse, edible, organic gardens that inspire and feed hungry people, wildlife, bees and other beneficials. In this time of global climate change, ecological collapse, and economic distress, tax dollars are wasted on harassment of urban gardeners by city officials who single out activists for otherwise ignored code, as well as on county and state insect trapping programs that frequently target such gardens with pesticides and quarantines. Homegrown food and ecology is not a crime! Film: "FRIDAYS AT THE FARM" Speakers: Asa Dodsworth (Acton House Victory Garden) Maxina Ventura (East Bay Pesticide Alert) Nik Bertulis (Regenerative Design instructor, Merritt College) Music by Carol Denney and Max Food by Food Not Bombs Community Participation Invited Support Urban Gardens by Growing one Yourself: Sign up for a Community Work Day in Your Yard Event sponsored by East Bay Pesticide Alert / Don't Spray Califor

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A year ago, I packed up my apartment and moved to Boulder for the summer. Then I moved into a sublet, Then I moved into a house in Oakland, Before that, I'd done 5 other moves--from a rental in San Jose to another in Palo Alto, from a house in New Jersey to San Jose, from a San Jose house to NJ, from Brooklyn to NJ..you get the picture.This is by way of illustrating that any possessions--and files--that survived the moves had to feel pretty damn valuable.So here I am, nice Spring weekend, deciding this is the moment to clean out my file cabinet and put away all those old bills, tax statements, etc lying around in a big old box. Only you know, what I discovered?So much of what I use to manage my life and pay bills, track insurance, etc. is now digital that I was able to throw 2/3rd of the paper out (after I shredded it, of course).I am writing this post, tho, because it's not the shift in the companies that service me that is noteworthy, it's my attitude.  Somehow, a year ago, having files of COBRA statements, conference attendees, etc, felt useful; today it feels like so much clutter.While I am not as close to the end of paper as I wish I was, it's clear that online filing systems, the kindle and the cloud are making it much easier to not print things out--and easier to have repositories of records that are digital.Side note: Anyone scanning their paper files? (Or is that over the top anal?)

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Noting the little bells and whistles of smart user experience design, including being able to embed a question (!) Should I become a vegetarian? - make thousands more decisions on Hunch.com Susan sez: How can I subvert this for hyperlocal? Hmmnnn....

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I'm just at the beginning of playing with Hunch (and trying to understand how it serves me differently than Likeaholix, which I have pretty much abandoned), but I am already delighted by the distinctive--and very human--voice on the site and the ways community guidelines, member recognition.incentives and terms of service seem to have been thought out. (Of course, I think this is Caterina Fake's influence, whether it is or not.) Viz: "Trolls, griefers, spammers and scum beware. We loathe you if you: Post profanity or anything pornographic or sexually explicit. If you can't imagine it being on prime time TV, it doesn't belong on Hunch. Nudity isn't allowed in buddy icons or any images posted to Hunch.Engage in personal attacks, or long-winded and tedious rants. If you want to bore someone, book a long distance flight and talk to your seatmate.Promote or endorse graphic or gratuitous violence, illegal activity, or any action designed to inflect intentional harm on anyone.Use hate speech -- speech which attacks or demeans a group based on race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation/gender identity.It's not that these would be MY guidelines, it's that I am a big proponent of clearly stated gjuidelines.

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I am heading out very early tomorrow to the Future of News and Civic Media Conference at MIT, hosted bn the Knight Foundation and MIT's Knight Center for Civic Media. Not only are all the brand new Knight News Challenge winners arriving for the conference, but Knight is bringing in past winners from alll over the world, winners of some of their local community foundation grants, and amazing friends of Knight. Even better, this year the sessions are going to be barcamp style, and participants have been very engaged proposing ideas and discussing topics.Some of of the themes discussed as possible subjects include:hyperlocal and community engagement: best practices and case studiesthe post newspaper communitymaking news innovations relevant for the world's poorestall sorts of Mobile tracksinvestigative journalism and digital storytellingpost-college experiences: recent grads and what it's like out thereThe spirit of the conference is of coming together to learn from one another, in this brief, intense time, and I know there is going to be so much to soak up, I am totally psyched.

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 Will three guys in suits in a plenary session get off news and get into nabes and nerds? This is clearly the academic session debating the issues; energy in room diminishing.The academics are MUCH more conservative that Albert Ibarguen, which is delightful to watch, but pretty annoying, actually, Newspaper academics, please just get over yourselves.@agahran:Why am I having Deja vu in this #kncmit plenary? Oh yeah: 1000th time I've heard it (content, views, format). Sigh... #fncm09 #knc09

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Three years into the grant process, Knight is starting to evaluate impact of the first 2 years of funding, says Alberto Ibarguen at the MIT conference I'm at right now. Knight sees itself as a facilitator of both growth and change; and it's clear they have seeded so many enterprises--the Digital Media centers at various universities, lots of community and news funded projects.Alberto bering asked by Henry Jenkins about user skift and city papers, classifieds' demise and the general expense of quality news at the local level as change factors for the industyr imploding. "Time and money," Alberto says, "But a much small base to pay for all of it." Henrk Jenkins quizzing Eric Klineman around the demise of news (figting for Air)--he says the "devertatin of local media has been happening for some riime." (Susan sez: this makes me think of the corporate consolidation of radio more than at community weeklies). He says that the digital outlets he studied for his book were all dependent on newspaper reporting, ergo, now that newspapers are dying, what happens to the production of news across media?Eric K says he debates "enthuiasts of citizen media" who argue new reporters will replace the current priesthood, but he says that we're going to lose information we had in the past. (Susan says" Off the top of my head, I TOTALLY disagree; there's a vibrancy to online journalism that needs more support, and many people to train, but I don't see who only corporate journalists are being deemed capable of quality work thst is wrong thought.)Alberto says the foundation's conclusion was thay the were "neither smart enough or big enough to save the newspaper business, but it was time to spend money on experiments for the future." He adds "It also is what led us to the issue of universal access and the urgency we fele in giving every american broadband access." (Susan sez: Amen!)Alberto says: Knght wants to fund the news that people need to have t function in a democracy--on a digital platform.  Henry Jenkins ties this to local moves; Eric K says dimishing interest in local is not about lack of sense of place, but investment/identity in web based communities taking away from our local sense of place.ALberto: We don't just looks for ideas that work for the News Challenge, we want ideas that help build a local community.

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The 2009 winners of #KNC09 were announced today--here's the table. Congrats to all!DocumentCloud $ 719,500 Eric UmanskyScott KleinAron PilhoferBen Koski ProPublica, with The New York Times New York, N.Y. 2009 Media Bugs $ 335,000 Scott Rosenberg Berkeley, Calif. 2009 Councilpedia $ 250,000 Gail Robinson Gotham Gazette New York, N.Y. 2009 Data Visualization $ 243,600 Aaron Presnall The Jefferson Institute Washington, D.C. 2009 Mobile Media Toolkit $ 200,000 Katrin Verclas MobileActive Springfield, Mass. 2009 The Daily Phoenix $ 95,000 Aleksandra ChojnackaAdam Klawonn Phoenix, Ariz. 2009 Crowdsourcing Crisis Information $ 70,000 Ory Okolloh Ushahidi Orlando, Fla. 2009 Virtual Street Corners $ 40,000 John Ewing Roxbury, Mass. 2009 CMS Upload Utility $ 10,000 Joe Boydston McNaughton Newspaper Group Placerville, Calif. 2009

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"That was the house that I stayed in this past weekend: a girl I'm dating, her friend whom I tried to date, a girl who dated multiple friends of mine, and a girl who has asked me out and is the twin sister of another girl that I dated. And until this weekend, I knew each of them entirely independently of each other. Are you kidding? Is that not a little ridiculous? The whole thing was one degree of Andrew."--Andrew, Igniter dater, writing about his (weekend) dating life and the six degrees (or 46 degrees) of seperation he had with every other women in the weekend share house.Susan sez:  The world is really small till you want to paint it.

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After 2.5 days at Knight's Future of News and Civic Media conference at  MIT, my brain is happily stuffed very full. Approximately 150 (?) people convened at the Strata building to talk about the future of civic media, news in an informed democracy and how technology tools can support--and accelerate--change.  For me, who spent a chunk of last year working with Knight to manage the Knight News Challenge, this was a thrilling chance to be part of the announcement event--ie be in the room; however, as someone who is about to dive into building a new hyperlocal site for Oakland, it was also a chance to talk with, meet with, and observe a brilliant cross-section of practicioners from around the world.Amy Gahran was our mobile scout, and did a great session on what could be achieved with crappy cell phones. Eric Newton talked about the Knight ecosystem to a room full of Knight chairs and program leaders (fascinating), and there were semi-bar-camp sessions on alternative funding models,  There were so many cool people and projects--ExtrACT got me super-excited; I would like to work with their tools and build Oakland-area data maps. And it's always great to talk with Kevin Slavin of Area/Code; his brain is my brain's soul brother. And Ryan Sholin, Dan Pacheco, Chris O'Brien and so many news-y folks have got it going on in the best way.And...I cojuld go on and on; basic facts would be I came home with three books, tons of new ideas, refreshed and new connections and so much excitement about what is possible.And did I mention that the kick ass Lisa Williams led a team that proposed tweetbill--and that they won a small competition for $3K in funding to make it live.  Whee!

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"For users, Web2.0 was all about reorganizing web-based practices around Friends. For many users, direct communication tools like email and IM were used to communicate with one's closest and dearest while online communities were tools for connecting with strangers around shared interests. Web2.0 reworked all of that by allowing users to connect in new ways. While many of the tools may have been designed to help people find others, what Web2.0 showed was that people really wanted a way to connect with those that they already knew in new ways. Even tools like MySpace and Facebook which are typically labeled social networkING sites were never really about networking for most users. They were about socializing inside of pre-existing networks."--dana boyd, talk given at microsoft, feb 2009

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