Posted by digitalsista on October 21st, 2008 in Blogging, Broadband, Community Media, Community Technology, Computing, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Digital Transitions, Diversity, Feminism, Mobile Computing, Net Neutrality, Netroots, Old vs New Technologies, Social Media, Tech Industry, Tech and Telcom Policies, Technology, Women in Tech, web 2.0
BarCampDC2 was held on Oct. 18, I realize that is was also the day LifeTime aired their movie Living Proof. (I went to the screening but I will post that later). On a day that LifeTime airs a movie about a scientist testing for a breast cancer gene to attack a disease that [...]
Posted by digitalsista on October 15th, 2008 in Blogging, Diversity, Economics, Netroots, eGovernment, elections 2008, politics, poverty, race
Tonight’s presidential debate included the voucher system that has been implemented in D.C.. For those that don’t live in the nation’s capitol this maybe an unfamiliar topic. For those that live in the district and don’t have children in the public school system this topic is also very unfamiliar.
I can’t say that as a parent [...]
Posted by digitalsista on October 15th, 2008 in Diversity, Economics, Netroots, eGovernment, elections 2008, politics, poverty, race
Sadly this question had to be asked. McCain continued to talk about Obama’s spending on his ad campaign that has been clearly more than the McCain Campaign. Current numbers estimate that Obama’s Campaign spends 4 million to 1 million of the McCain Campaign on ads. However, every campaign ad that McCain has put out is [...]
Posted by digitalsista on October 14th, 2008 in Blogging, Community Technology, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Diversity, Feminism, Netroots, Social Media, Women in Tech, eGovernment, elections 2008, politics, race
BlogHer had their Reach Tour in DC (Bethesda) yesterday, just shortly after leaving their Boston Tour.
I moderated the the session Online Community Building for Political Action. The session focused on how much action can be taken at the screen vs. by stepping away from the screen. The panelists were PunditMom, Momocrat Joanne Bamberger, Liza [...]
Posted by digitalsista on October 2nd, 2008 in Community Media, Diversity, Economics, Feminism, Netroots, eGovernment, elections 2008, politics, poverty, race
Ironically, Palin has said definitively said that the companies took advantage. This is clearly a change. She blamed uneducated consumers for choosing bad loans.
Biden states that Obama has been saying that the subprime lending was a problem, but that the constant voting of deregulation from McCain has caused some of our problems today.
When Palin [...]
Posted by digitalsista on October 2nd, 2008 in Diversity, Economics, Media Justice, Netroots, Social Media, eGovernment, elections 2008, politics, race
Ironic how the Vice Presidential debate has moved to have Republican VP Nominee Sarah Palin compete against the Journalist Gwen Ifill instead of the Democratic VP Nominee Joe Biden. It seems Ifill is easier to take down than Biden since he has experience debating women for both the Presidential and VP slots. It looks like [...]
Posted by digitalsista on October 2nd, 2008 in Community Media, Diversity, Economics, Media Justice, Netroots, Social Media, Technology, eGovernment, elections 2008, politics, poverty, race, web 2.0
Last night the Senate voted on a revised bill of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act. They rejected the bill that failed the House vote by 12. Republicans were the largest opponents to that bill. The bill started out as four pages from President Bush with little to no oversight, to a version where the House [...]