The Realist Idealist

On the Social Sector, Politics, Using Technology, and Making Good Things (actually) Happen

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BrightKite.com - Where People Are (maybe NGOs?)

Posted by Jake · May 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

A colleague just introduced me to BrightKite.com and as I’ve been playing with it all I can think of are the nearly infinite possibilties for it.
First and foremost the service is going to need to be integrated with others so that it doesn’t exist in a vaccum. Don’t know if they plan an API [...]

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Category: Social Media · Social Networks · Technology
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Twitter-ous Virtues

Posted by Jake · March 28th, 2008 · No Comments

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://shots.snap.com/ss/95f0dc342a26c3da87727767b468a6ff/snap_shots.js”></script> I’ve had a couple different conversations/arguments about Twitter in the last few weeks - both online and off. I will admit, I was once adamantly averse to tweeting as I saw it mostly as a big time waster. Then I went to SXSW.
At SXSW I saw how it could be [...]

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Category: Events · Mobile Technology · Social Media · websites
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Current TV: Lagos La Vida Loca

Posted by Jake · March 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Anyone I’ve talked to recently knows that I’ve been touting the virtues of Current Media’s new website and their citizen journalism through the “pods” on their TV station (now in 51 million households!) I don’t believe there is any other company that is (intentionally) democratizing media in the same way - and the potential [...]

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Category: Business · Innovation · Social Enterprise · Social Media · awareness raising
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Tell the T.S.A. How You Really Feel

Posted by Jake · February 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

On a blog aimed at “making good things (actually) happen,” it may be a bit perplexing to see the T.S.A. referenced. Not only are they maligned (or even hated) for the seemingly arbitrary inconveniences they put so many of us through, but it could be argued they don’t actually do that much good either. [...]

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Category: Government · Politics · Social Media · Travel
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