Future:Media:Change

Howard Stern might be the last person you would think about when it comes to getting the climate change debate right, but on his December 15th Sirius Satellite Radio Show, Stern nailed the entire debate in under 5 minutes.

Need a free way of creating a quick iPhone app? There’s a site for that.

A news station in Mobile, Alabama was the victim of an “Epic FAIL” with their new Twitter billboard. Guess what happened? Nothing. We all had a good laugh, but in the end aren’t we fearing fear itself when it comes to nonprofits’ reticence to fully embrace social media?

People have been saying I’m obsessed with Google Wave, but I think I’m more intrigued by the concept of what can be done with Wave.

This time news organizations are jumping ahead of the curve with really cool uses of the new Google Service. Chicago Tribune’s RedEye blog started its first public wave on November 10, and since then it has attracted more than 300 blips.

WikiLeaks.org, a site that specializes in leaked documents for the public good, has obtained 24 hours of pager texts beginning at 3AM on September 11, 2001 and continuing through 3am on September 12, 2001.

I’m all for “Sunshine,” and pushing as much information into the public sphere, but I’m not a fan of the timing of this, starting the day before the holiday, which is a major travel day and continuing three hours into Thanksgiving.