Future:Media:Change

Anderson Cooper speaks with Huffington Post by phone from Port-au-Prince. Even though he is in the TV business, Cooper reports that the small lens of television cameras cannot come close to capturing the enormity of the disaster.

It’s that time of year when all us professional procrastinators scramble to make that donation we meant to give months ago — just in time to avoid the tax man (sort of). My donation will go to the brilliant volunteers and underpaid/overworked staff at Global Voices. I appeal to you to join me in giving to Global Voices.

2008 was a big year for online communities. Obama’s online team showed everyone that amazing things can happen when you provide your community with the right tools and motivation. Epolitcs.com has outlined some of the best practices in epolitics, many of which have a direct correlation to the work of nonprofits working in the online sector.

Blogger and prediction expert, Nate Silver is in Copenhagen to cover the UN Climate Change Conference.
Nate rose to blog prominence, or “bloginence,” for his startling accurate predictions of the 2008 election on FiveThirtyEight (538 is the number of electors in the US electoral college). Having conquered baseball prediction models and election polling, Nate has set his sights climate change. He issued a bold and brilliant challenge to climate change skeptics this summer:
The rules of the challenge are as follows:
1. For each day that the high temperature in your hometown is at …

Let’s say you agree with the conspiracy theorists and think that scientists have been making up environmental data for years to scare the public into action. We’re going to cast aside the fact that thousands of scientists agree that climate change is a man made issue and work on the premise that it could be a hoax. Even if on the small chance it’s fake, it is still more practical to do something about the environment today.

Let’s say you agree with the conspiracy theorists and think that scientists have been making up data for years just to scare the public. Even if on the small change you’re right, it’s still smarter to do something about climate change today.

Bloggers and campaigners shone a light into the murky world of United Nations discussions on the Arms Trade Treaty last month. These sessions are usually fairly staid with diplomats and NGOs engaging in intense discussions about detailed wording and the placement of commas in resolutions. This year we shook things up by inviting bloggers from around the world into the UN to engage with the process.

Social Earth is running a competition to find their “official blogger for the Ashoka Tech for Society event” in Hyderabad, India, February 11-13, 2010. 7 Days Left to create your post and enter to win.