Apture Test – Hurricane Bill

August 19, 2009

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Move over, Charity: Water; here comes Love, Light and Melody.

August 17, 2009

I was scrolling through the videos over on my new favorite site Virb when I came across this one with an opening shot of a guy standing in a trash dump in Managua, Nicaragua: On The Ground from Love Light & Melody on Vimeo. As you can see from the titles his name is Daniel […]

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VIDEO: Invisible Wars: Redefining Aid

August 15, 2009

Wow, this is incredible: Invisible Wars: Redefining Aid from James Bartley on Vimeo. Tweet

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Update: Satellite to Twitter now does KML and embeds

August 15, 2009

Nick Jaffe of Satellite to Twitter and Big Oceans fame wrote me a few days ago: Hey Jon, All is well – I’ve sailed down to Hawaii, and will continue on to Palmyra & the south Pacific this week (just waiting out the hurricane). Thought you might be interested to hear that in my sailing […]

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An Open Letter To The Humanitarian Technology Community

August 12, 2009

Dear Humanitarian Technology Friends- Please stop what you are doing and start worrying about bandwidth. If you really want to save lives this is the ONLY thing that matters. This is not a stab at your egos or your good efforts rather it is an attempt at redirection of an industry that has been missing […]

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How Twittering Landed Me A Live Interview With BBC World News

August 12, 2009

It was early April and I was dead asleep in a hotel room on the outskirts of Rome. When I first felt the shaking I didn’t want to believe it could be an earthquake.  I had just arrived from San Francisco and was certain I had left all that behind. I was certain Rome was […]

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Microsoft Office 2010 exits the building while social tools (like Socialtext) fight to get in

July 15, 2009

By now many of you are aware that Microsoft is moving their 2010 suite of Office apps to the web in what is seen as a direct challenge to Google Apps.  I won’t go into the details but you can read TechCrunch‘s ‘The Complete Guide To Microsoft’s Office 2010‘ to find more about what is […]

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Why is everyone hiring bloggers?

July 14, 2009

Do they know something we don’t? VentureBeat is hiring and so is Pete over at Mashable. Do they have the inside line on an economic turn around?  Maybe it was the Goldman Sachs announcement. Do you have the chops to write for them?  Mind you, you cannot just walk in and start cashing those checks.  […]

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Explore.org

July 13, 2009

Now that my family is back in the Balkans I’ve got some time on my hands and my evenings are free.  I have started working on resurrecting this blog (Upgrading to Thesis Theme 1.5.1) and pulling together some legitimate posts. I came across Explore.org a few days ago and I have been watching their video […]

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Absence

July 12, 2009

I apologize for the long absence but I have been doing some heavy lifting over here. Soon, I promise, very soon I will start with a whole new line of thinking. Bear with me for a few more days. Tweet

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