I got turned on to this great Flash video in David Sibbet’s blog this morning… It’s another great example of new media and creativity in the service of something that matters. And this is something that matters a lot right now, even if the recent debates have been less than electric.
Barack Obama’s passionate speech in this video reminds me why I want him to be our next president.
Obama ’08 – Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.
Have you used Wordle yet? Created by Johnathan Feinberg in his spare time while working for IBM Research, Wordle takes words (that you either generate specifically or draw from pages with RSS feeds), and creates these word art images.
You can customize them in all sorts of cool ways – this is my first one, taken from this blog’s front page a few weeks ago:
Go on – I know you want to! Make one yourself…
(photo from Jeff McNeill’s Flickr photostream via his Creative Commons licensing agreement)
I’m having enormous fun, participating in a free course on facilitating online community, led by Leigh Blackall of the Kiwi-based Otago Polytechnic.
There are over 60 people in this course, which is organized through a wiki curriculum/schedule and synchronous Elluminate sessions. We’ve been communicating through mandatory blogs and non-required mailing list conversations, and it’s been wild! The content of the course is brilliant, with an excellent reading list, and the interaction with the other students is priceless.
I’ve been blogging away on my dedicated new "Facilitating Online Community, aka Herding Cats" blog, if you’re interested in checking out what I’m learning and how I’m reacting to it in more depth.
It turns out that some of the coolest people I’ve met here at BlogHer are part of a collective of women photographers called Shutter Sisters, so when I saw they were hosting a photo shoot in the streets of San Francisco, I decided to drop the other session options and go for the fresh air.
It was great to be outside, even though the skies are uncommonly grey right now, and fun to explore the city from another’s point of view (our group had a local tour guide who took us on a quick loop through Chinatown). Here’s some of what I saw out there:
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