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Author: Ruby Sinreich
Police action
In the past hour, I have seen THREE people get pulled over by Chapel Hill’s finest in the exact same place. True, that place happens to be the center of the thriving crack trade in my neighborhood, but what are they pulling cars over for?
I might have to take a stroll up the street…
Community blogging presentation
On Friday, Brian and I did a presentation at the annual RTPnet conference on Blogging and Podcasting. The conference brings together nonprofits and community technology advocates from around North Carolina. Brian’s got the PDF of our presentation up on his blog. All I want to add are these links that I suggest for more information:
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The chat
The live chat session is up on the big screen behind the panel of luminaries (including Markos of http://dailykos.com).
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Tech No Ratty
Now listening to Dave Sifry of http://Technorati.com .
He started with a great clip of a 1950’s newsanchor talking to Univac, and explaining it with olf metaphors… “electronic brain” “face” etc.
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Podcasting
Hear it at http://www.personaldemocracy.com/conference/podcasts
The network in a nutshell
Marty’s (http://network-centricadvocacy.net) presentation was great as usual. I’ve seen it a bunch, but there were a few new slides AND he did it in 15 minutes.
Power to the edges
Now I’m in a session with a big panel about the tools for doing network-centric advocacy.
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PDF gets started
Andrew Rasiej, the founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, says people are too focused on elections instead of politics. Therefore we get sucked into the big-money crass world of elections, instead of working for political change.
Now Scott Heiferman of Meetup.com is speaking. I saw him talk at O’Reilly’s “e-democracy” conference last year… I wonder if he will have anything new to say or the same spiel.
Who’s next?
A French blogger is being sued by the city he lives in for criticizing the way it is run. If they did that in my town, I’d be in court permanently!