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 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 [...]
Posted by digitalsista on September 26th, 2008 in Blogging, Community Media, Community Technology, Diversity, Economics, Feminism, Media Justice, Social Media, Technology, Women in Tech, eGovernment, elections 2008, politics, poverty, race, web 2.0
Posted by digitalsista on August 13th, 2008 in Blogging, Community Media, Community Technology, Diversity, Media Justice, Old vs New Technologies, Social Media, Technology, politics, web 2.0
A huge Media House has decided to follow (us) bloggers, twitters, podcasters and others to the conventions. C-Span has finally joined the social media community in a big way. They will be creating hubs for the Democratic and Republican conventions. Bloggers (Citizen Journalists) will have access to videos for embedding and a place to link [...]
Posted by digitalsista on August 7th, 2008 in Community Technology, Mobile Computing, Old vs New Technologies, Social Media, Teens and Technology, web 2.0
I was attending the BlogHer ‘08 conference in San Francisco and came across a display for T-Mobile. They were asking people to fill out a “teens and cell phones survey”. I told the representative that I was very interested in the results of the survey. The results were sent to me via email along with [...]
Posted by digitalsista on July 28th, 2008 in Blogging, Broadband, Community Media, Community Technology, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Diversity, Feminism, Media Justice, Netroots, Social Media, Technology, Women in Tech, politics, web 2.0
[This was originally posted at Women in Media and News Group Blog]
Tonight is the first night of several ooVoo events with political bloggers. I will be on the session with Liza Sabater of Culture Kitchen discussing “Diversity in the Blogosphere”. Come join us in the discussion. There are several other political bloggers, you can find [...]
Posted by digitalsista on July 19th, 2008 in Community Media, Community Technology, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Digital Transitions, Diversity, Feminism, Mobile Computing, Social Media, Technology, Teens and Technology, Women in Tech, politics, web 2.0
I was fortunate enough to get Lesley to talk to me about the digital divide for communities of color. She was speaking during the BlogHer 08 Conference during the morning Keynote discussing old and new media with Lisa Stone moderating including Redbook editor-in-chief Stacy Morrison, and Bravo TV’s Senior VP of New Media and Digital, [...]