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\x0a \x0a \x0a \x0a \x0a Sounds interesting. Will check it out to see what happens. Wonder if they’ll let me in, I’m turning 42 this month…
\x0a(Hat tip to Mark Hamilton)
\x0aI just read this on Ethan Zuckerman’s blog:
\x0a“Nabuur, a new project based in the Netherlands (and funded by some of the kind folks who fund Global Voices) are trying basically the polar opposite model of what we tried with Geekcorps. They invite everyone to volunteer, don’t put anyone on airplanes and focus on what well-meaning volunteers can do over the web.
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\x0aIn my experience, the hard part of all developing world volunteer projects is defining tasks that are helpful for the beneficiaries and possible for a volunteer to carry out. Geekcorps volunteer assignments worked well when we found companies that could say, “Send us an expert who can teach us how to migrate from Access to MySQL”, and really badly when we worked with companies who said, “Can you send us someone who’ll make our business better?”
\x0a“Nabuur seems to understand this and has organized their system around small, achievable tasks.”
\x0aIt’s supposed to be on my dashboard, but I don’t see it….
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\x0a…Hmmm, I dunno why, but I had to make this post in order to get the bookmarlet. seems odd….
\x0aThis audio clip, from a July 11 On the Media interview with NYT media reporter David Carr, says it all.
\x0aTruer words were never spoken. I don’t want to point fingers here, but if I had a nickel for every time a journalist tried to go “off the record” with me, or to get to see & approve their quotes prior to publication, or to argue over trivial details in order to dodge substantive issues, or to basically just freak out because they got criticized, my house would be paid off.
\x0aI’m just saying…
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