Been playing around a bit with Tumblr (See http://fabrider.tumblr.com). It seems like twitter, blogging and del.icio.us all rolled up into one. All it really needs to be a del.icio.us killer is to incorporate tagging! Hope to see that feature show up on the site soon.
After nearly two years in the making and tons of hard work, Tactical tech has finally released this booklet.
See http://www.tacticaltech.org/infodesign
We currently have three positions open at TTC. I love working for Tactical Tech. You might too!
Here's the blurb:
Tactical Tech is seeking three dedicated individuals to help build one of the leading organisations bringing information and communications technologies to rights advocacy worldwide. We are currently hiring for the following positions;
- Director of Operations
- Business Development Lead
- Communications Coordinator
Its been a thrilling couple of weeks, watching the protests in Burma continue to gain momentum. I've had a number of queries about good independent Burma news websites and now have two that I'm pretty much recommending to anyone who is interested. See:
- The Irrawaddy at http://www.irrawaddy.org
- Mizzima News at http://www.mizzima.com/
A few weeks back I was visited by Noel Hidalgo here in Brighton. Noel wanted to interview me in Tactical Tech's office and talk about the work I've done with organizing groups and how I came to work for such a great organization.
Noel is traveling around the world and conducting interviews with a wide range of folks working on the intersection between social justice and technology, particularly open source.
I officially moved to the UK in March from NYC. Ever since I starting coming to the UK for work, last september, everyone has been talking about the smoking ban, which went into effect on July 1st. Nearly everyone I talked to about it over the last nine months has said, "I'll quit when the ban goes into effect." So now its nearly two weeks after the ban started and I don't know a soul who has actually quit since it started.
This puppy has taken a really long time to give birth to. I worked on it for almost a year and then the Ampersand Aussie took over and worked on it for nearly another year.
But today, finally, the Base edition of NGO in a box has been released at:
I'm currently working on a report about ICT use amongst sex worker advocates and I've come accross two more fabulous videos (also see http://www.fabrider.net/node/45).
The first is a redo of U2's One Whore that was put together by Asia Pacific Sex Worker Network for the Star Whore show they did at the Intl. AIDS Conference last year in Toronto. It can be found on Blip TV at http://www.blip.tv/file/199048/
We've just completed two days of staff meeting/retreat at Tactical Tech. It's a very exciting time, lots of cool projects and a strategy around helping advocates/activists from marganilized communities handle information more effectively. We are also about to make a bunch of new hires that will hopefully make all of our lives easier
One tool that came up during our Sex Worker training in Phnom Penh (thanks to Melissa Gira http://www.sexerati.com, who has been working with us on the project) is Twitter. Bettysnake got on Twitter after some exposure to Melissa as well.
