With the growth of the 99 Percent movement and occupations all over the world, a large number of citizen journalists and activists have turned to real-time video casting services such as livestream, ustream, and justin.tv. Live streaming offers a compelling way to experience a protest on-the-ground as it’s happening – […]
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Between the Bars has been busy in the last six months: We now have over 300 writers, and are regularly receiving 100 letters per week We’ve published over 1500 blog posts and profiles. We now have a paid part-time staff person, thanks to the Center for Civic Media’s support, to […]
Something that has been echoed by many of the speakers at today’s Knight Civic Media Conference is the importance of considering who participates in the design of a technology. Sasha Constanza-Chock spoke about the importance of using open technologies and open data when developing tools for communities. Chris Csikszentmihalyi spoke […]
The moment we’ve been working towards for over 3 months has arrived: Between the Bars is back online! We have a selection of new posts from new authors, as well as old posts from long time authors. As we continue to receive permission from the writers to republish their posts, […]
Today, Google Maps is rolling out bicycle directions:http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/google-maps-for-bikes There are a number of existing bike map providers, many of which have grown through community-provided, crowd-sourced data. One could argue that these projects have struggled to garner sufficient participation to really take off: http://www.bikely.com/ http://www.nycbikemaps.com/maps/nyc-bike-map/ http://opentripplanner.org/ http://www.opencyclemap.org/ Now, all at once, […]