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Wired for Change Liveblog: Ira Glass & Damian Kulash

Ira Glass of NPR’s ‘This American Life’ interviews Damian Kulash of OK, Go! [Blogger note: Kulash is wearing a suit with pink socks and old, dirty Chuck Taylors.] Glass notes their initial slow success, and Kulash explains that the band created a fun video in their backyard. They got an email from Chad Hurley, one […]

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Liveblogging: Wired for Change

This is the liveblog for the Ford Foundation’s Wired for Change conference. If you have questions during the event that you would like to pose to a panelist, you may submit them and I will do my best to publish and/or ask the questions. Please identify yourself when you ask. Additionally, the hashtag #wired4C will […]

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The Media and the Algerian Internet Rumors

Well, here we go again…the mainstream media tonight jumped on rumors that Algeria had shut down the Internet, without bothering to check their facts with people on the ground. They didn’t check Twitter either; Algerians were tweeting throughout. So far, neither the Telegraph nor Mashable–the two outlets primarily responsible for the rumor–have bothered to issue […]