Catching up: Back to the beginning

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Why am I doing what I'm doing? Once I realized I could actually use what I'd learned about business and technology to manifest social change in a concrete way, I couldn't do anything but that.

I could explain more, but I'll let my video do the talking.

This was the first video piece I created for Project VIEW, but I hadn't posted it until now. I created it at an amazing workshop at the Center for Digital Storytelling.

A picture's worth ten thousand miles

We've been having a great series of videoconferences with Keio University as part of their English Language Lounge (E-Lounge). In particular, here are two really cool ones.

In this picture, you can see me, Hernan, and Edgardo (three Digital Vision Fellows) chatting with some E-Lounge students. We had this chat last week, where we explained our projects and their subject areas; mobile storytelling, micro enterprise resource planning, and financial services for the poor through cash cards and SMS.

This week, we presented projects about San Francisco culture. Three interns walked around the Potrero Hill neighborhood in San Francisco to take pictures with our camera phones.

Afterwards, we created stories (two web pages and one video) about San Francisco culture. I think they are great. Check em out!

Rowvin (WEB PAGE):
http://mobilestorytelling.org/sfculture/sf_culture_rowvin/sfculture2.html

Anton (WEB PAGE):
http://mobilestorytelling.org/sfculture/sf_culture_anton/sf_culture.html

Seanne (VIDEO):

La Mission (by Nick)

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Part of the Place Project (describe a place you love) This movie (shot on a Nokia N90) covers the mission district, and is filmed only with local sounds and music. Without a voiceover, it is much easier to share across cultural and linguistic boundaries. This was shot & edited by Nick, one of Project VIEW's video interns at Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC)

Videoblogging Week 2007, Day 7: Sushi

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A little glimpse into one of my favorite local sushi restaurants.

Starring: Spinach with peanut sauce, hamachi negi-tori, snow white roll, char, aji, and Japanese snapper.

Videoblogging Week 2007, Day 6: Faces

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A short piece. Perhaps amusing only to me.

Uses Creative Commons Licensed Music

Videoblogging Week 2007, Day 5: Brief Glimpses

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A sneak peek behind the scenes of a project I'm working on, helping the Stanford Alternative Spring Break class document their experiences visiting social entrepreneurs in the bay area.

Videoblogging Week 2007: Day 4 - Third try at Second Life

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Daniel Huebner, Second Life's head community honcho, spoke at Stanford today. One of the things I find challenging about SL is nothing has hooked me yet. There's still a sort of gap until you play for a certain amount of time, after which you're supposedly hooked. This video shows two of the things I checked out today in SL - outer space and drinking.

SLurls:
Irish Bar
International Spaceflight Museum

Videoblogging Week 2007, Day 3: Sunny Day; Sunset's Great

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I went on a little walk through the Sunset this weekend, and it was actually sunny out! So I put this together, set to a nice creative commons licensed song from ccMixter.

Videoblogging Week 2007, Day 2: Words of Wisdom

A short entry for day 2 of videoblogging week 2007. Enjoy!

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DV Vlog 6: Mayor Newsom re-opens the sunset library

Day 1 of videoblogging week 2007, and here's my first video. My local library branch finally re-opened, so I got a bit of San Francisco's mayor giving a little speech and cutting the ribbon.

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Edit: There's a picture of me making this video in the coverage on NewTeeVee. I'm top right.

Mobile Persasion Conference - Cross Cultural Storytelling

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Hello from Sri Lanka

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Writing on your hand

Interesting call-and-response video on YouTube. I'm a little leery about posting videos on YouTube because of their licensing policy but I'm not too worried about what happens to this one.. :)

Original Video:


My Response:

Vlog 4: N-TEN Muni WiFi Conference

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Last Friday, I spoke at the N-TEN conference about San Francisco's municipal WiFi rollout. I talked a bit about my upcoming pilot using mobile storytelling to connect school kids here and in Sri Lanka. I also talked about some of the other fellows' usage of wifi, such as Shashank's disease surveillance project or Netika's location education project (fun to say, eh?).

Afterwards, I chatted a bit with the conference organizers as well, Emy Tseng from the City's TechConnect project, and Holly Ross from N-TEN.

In particular, TechConnect has a Draft Digital Inclusion Strategy that is open for comment.

N-TEN's website has lots of resources for nonprofits looking for technical solutions.

You can check out Holly's live report here.

Ken Banks on primate conservation

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Ken Banks, one of our Collaboration Fellows, spoke today about his work doing primate conservation in Africa. Here is with a brief overview.

One of the biggest things you can do to help is avoid products with palm oil -- lots of monkeytowns (a nontechnical term) are converted into palm plantations, furthering the problem with habitat reduction.

Ken's website is kiwanja.net, and his blog is blogspot.kiwanja.net.

UPDATE: Ken forwarded me a great (but sad) article about some of the specific problems with palm farming and orangutans on Borneo.

BBC Article

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