Tag: Media
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Practical Technology Activism
AudioActivism’s Brian Russell has taken the best practical step to advancing work on the “digital divide” I’ve seen in awhile. What has one of our great local technology activists done? Created Chapel Hill Wireless, a site whose goals are: …to help you find good wireless access points (aka WiFi) in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, North […]
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Catch the NextBus II
From today’s DTH editorial board: Coming this August, Chapel Hill, in cooperation with the federal government, will have found a new way to waste your money.
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SxSW Day 1.2 – Craigslist Newmark’s Austin Upgrade
Craigslist’s Craig Newmark’s conversation with Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales is highly informative, entertaining, insightful (Newspapers are community services, for instance). [UPDATE: Newmark’s remarks.] Ruby S. had an opportunity to ask Newmark about a comment from today’s NPR discussion of the Knight/Ridder-McClatchey media merger. A guest claimed Newmark’s Craig’s List was responsible. Newmark laughed and said it […]
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Life, the universe, everything…
Wikipedia is an open source encyclopedia that represents a “public works” project of the first-order. Jimmy Wales, the founder of the effort, realized there’s a lot of smarts in the world community – all he needed to do was to tap into that creativity and talent and then step out of the way. In a […]