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Media Trailblazing

Submitted by Keith Hammonds on January 26, 2010 - 6:54pm.
Next week in Washington, the Geotourism Summit, a partnership between National Geographic and Ashoka’s Changemakers unit, will celebrate the winners of the “Geotourism Challenge,” a global competition to unearth and support innovative ideas in tourism “that celebrate the distinct destinations of the world by honoring culture, cherishing history and enhancing the environment.”

One of the winners is a Spanish outfit called Wikiloc, whose innovation should be of more than passing interest to the news and knowledge world. Wikiloc happens to be concerned with tourism, yes (Wikiloc is short for “Wiki Location”) – but what it’s really about is upending traditional information models, democratizing the machinery of publishing, and getting more and better information to more people at lower cost. Sound familiar?

election 2010

Submitted by Groundviews on February 7, 2010 - 1:02am.
there was a lovely tree in the yard at the back of our house. a lovely sinewy and tall mango tree.              one day in the morning we were woken to the sound of a thousand parrots in uproar. they were hawing the tree down. we watched the whatever you call it uproot the tree. the roots we’re [...]

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