A) a movie adaptation of Ender's Game is in the works.
B) the crew is blogging about production.

Good lessons about critique in any context.

An open source project by Lockheed Martin. It looks like an open-sourced Twitter/Facebook

"Conversational journalism is highly proactive — engaging ordinary citizens on stories before or during the reporting process, for instance, not after a story has run."

We don't broadcast in a vacuum, and the last pockets of low pressure have equalized.

Lovely, and it allows you to execute JS right in the presentation.

A mobile-specific community portal, re: women's rights in Africa. Had
community bulletin board, asynchronous chat, links to other resources.

An open source telephony server, available under the GPL.

Open-source one-to-many, two-way SMS platform that connects a laptop and phone, turning the pair into a mobile communication center. "FrontlinesSMS allows you to text message with large groups of people anywhere there is a mobile signal." No internet connection required.

A collection of essays on Mobile devices (cellphones) used in relief and development/activism situations in Africa. I firmly believe that the wildcard of social change in our lifetime will be mobile platforms and the web.

Fantastic.

"What have you been thinking about lately?"

Phones are being used as a bootstrapped food-stamp system in Relief and Development situations

How meta is that?

"...if you’re working in a job where your credibility is pegged to saying things that literally don’t make sense, then there’s a good chance what you’re doing doesn’t make sense either."

It sure as heck better be.

A man walks across China for a year and documents the trip in self-portrait snapshots of himself, and stitches it into a timelapse.

Brief informal narratives of how decisions and opinions are arrived at provide a great common ground to work from.

Design View by Andy Rutledge. Great essay on managing the design process to keep the finished product from being watered down.

Site for the TED conference. Creative commons video and audio of the talks.

The source code for spot.us, citizen-funded reporting. Other possibilities: community-funded relief and development projects, community-funded church projects, community-funded charities, community-funded city development, community-funded ____. Puts public service in the hands of the public and keeps it accountable.

A classy walk-through for potential clients. Its a great way to make RFPs work well and things to get rolling smoothly.

Mindy McAdams' journalist's resource. A simple html page with useful curated links.

A syllabus for her journalism class. Gold!

Very succinct. Very good.

...with Yahoo Pipes and RSS

George Oates, creator of Flickr talks about how she fostered and grew community, creating a place for folks to play.

Cell phones are changing social dynamics in the third world and world-wide. Designers are working with anthropologists to find out how cell owners all over the world are using their phones and what features are needed.

A resource for activists using mobile technology worldwide.

Teachers losing it, students sabotaging their education. The feedback loop of saying, not doing.

Or, "How to make a living in the world of the Long Tail"

If that doesn't make you all giddy inside, give a listen to This American Life.