How the U.S. Army is Using Social Media
One of the most interesting aspects of web technology and social media nowadays is how it’s being deployed by non-techies. Recently I had the chance to connect with the U.S. Army to find out how it is using the Web. Blogging, Twitter, Facebook, online …
Read More →This Week in Photos: #NASATweetup and the Final Launch of the Space Shuttle
“The space shuttle Atlantis is seen shortly after the rotating service structure (RSS) was rolled back at launch pad 39a, Thursday, July 7, 2011 at the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Atlantis is set to liftoff Friday, July 8, on the …
Read More →Memorial Day: RWW’s Coverage of Military Tech
In the U.S., Memorial Day has devolved into a notoriety based mostly on picnicking and fabulous savings at big-box stores. However, it started life as a memorial called Decoration Day, first started by freed slaves in South Carolina to honor the Union …
Read More →What is the Math Gender Stereotype Doing to Silicon Valley Innovation?
I recently came across University of Wisconsin professor Janet Hyde’s research into the gender differences in math performance, which I found fascinating especially since my wife’s desire is for our two-year-old twin girls to become software engineers….
Read More →Free Dorothy: Using Social Media to Free a Journalist
Al Jazeera reporter Dorothy Parvaz disappeared in Syria several weeks ago. Syria, whose citizens have been caught up in the Arab Spring but whose leaders most decidedly have not, has seen the death of over a hundred in the past three months. One of the…
Read More →Africans Teach High Schoolers to Change Communities with Social Media
In 2006, I created a project with a friend who had taught in Botswana. Called “Blogswana,” the project was designed to teach students at the University of Botswana how to employ social media to tell their own stories. It was very popular – with African…
Read More →Preserving Aboriginal Australian Heritage Online
Australia has begun employing the Web as a major tool in gathering, preserving and sharing the cultural traditions of its native peoples. The religious, personal and individual stories of Australia’s native peoples, their visual art and worldviews are …
Read More →Love & Tech Give a Jazzman an Eternal Voice
Something I’ve believed since I began work for ReadWriteWeb is that nothing we write about here exists in a vacuum. No matter how obscure or specific or rarefied, every story we tell is about someone somewhere doing something. War, the economy, revolut…
Read More →Open Source Farming
It’s not like open field farming. OK, it is a little bit. Marcin Jakubowski, of Open Source Ecology, has taken it upon himself to release the blueprints for 50 farm machines in open source. According to his TED page, this is one element in a more ambit…
Read More →A Final Tweet From the Front Lines: Tim Hetherington
Hundreds of Libyans are reported killed in clashes between rebel forces and the Libyan army in the city of Misurata – a conflict that international press is working hard to keep in the light of international attention over the past several weeks.
To…
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