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| Podcast title | Chewy Chunks
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| Description | morsels served up in bite-sized pieces | |
| Updated | Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:57:16 +0000 | |
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| Category | Religion & Spirituality News & Politics |
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1. Mischief managed: Uchaguzi reports “everything fine” in Kenya referendum http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Ushahidi is an online software platform designed for mapping a crisis. For the first time yesterday, the prevailing message was "everything fine" from over 650 regular citizens, using their cell phones to text in a status to a map of Kenya during the national referendum on a new constitution. These aren’t NGOs or election monitors [...] |
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2. Revisiting my neuroscience thesis dedication and the broader view http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Tonight I reread the dedication from my 2007 PhD thesis, which explains why a Neuroscientist like me eventually ended up in a non-profit. Although some of my thesis chapters never made it into papers (which was why I was reading it – to help my advisor and my lab get a belated manuscript out) the [...] |
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3. “Thanks for the raise!”: Mobile payments fight police corruption in Afghanistan (tech@state) http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: 56% of Afghans say that corruption and bribery are a bigger problem than jobs and security. 23% of Afghan’s GDP disappeared into bribery. But Roshan Afghanistan found a technology solution. Podcast: Shainoor Khoja talks about paying police using voice recognition and mobile payments over their cell phones, and uncovering the extent of fraud and corruption [...] |
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4. how to blog to wordpress from your kindle http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: i am always interested in technology that could make it easier to connect from remote places. so i’m trying out kindle and gmail via the experimental web browser right now. It’s fine for brief notes without punctuation. HOW TO KINDLE BLOG (written from my kindle) 1. HOME 2. Experimental -> Browser 3. log into gmail [...] |
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5. Stories from Kenya you need to hear http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’ve been at GlobalGiving since 2008, after spending 7 years in Neuroscience. What attracted me to GlobalGiving in the first place was knowing that stories like these were out there, and that I could do something about it. Imagine the possibility of inverting power structures in Africa and changing the way money gets spent to [...] |
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6. Maps of the height and health of Earth’s forests http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: This is the first ever map of global forest health. NASA used lasers to measure tree heights in a fashion similar to sonar. LIDAR uses a pulse of light from space at a spot on the earth to measure how long it takes to bounce back. Tall trees bounce the light back faster. Here’s a [...] |
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7. Geo-mapping gaps and gluts in Haiti disaster aid http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: The picture says it all. Blue parts of Port-au-prince have many new shelters and the fewest buildings that collapsed. Orange parts – just the opposite. There were 144 collapsed buildings to 5 new shelters in one orange area (Soleil, typical of the others), whereas the darkest blue (Petionville) had 11 collapsed bulidings and 9 new [...] |
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8. Is the Daily Show sexist? http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I didn’t know this was a current debate until I noticed this retort from 32 women staffers at the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. They were rebutting an article in Jezebel (a women’s blog that like a cheap imitation of Salon.Com). The article cited several former Daily Show women staffers; Daily Show’s retort is signed [...] |
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9. Looking back at Facebook’s privacy policies 2005-2010 http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: From Kabissa’s blog: Interesting look at Facebook’s ever changing privacy policy. I’ve added my translations below each. Facebook Privacy Policy circa 2005: No personal information that you submit to Facebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in [...] |
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10. Networking with Zombies AKA find a job in development http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Following the meme of using Zombies to demonstrate everything from international politics (hear an excellent MP3 on why zombies would win from BBC’s The World!) to ushahidi (Zombie Attack!) and Swift River, I now offer up some tips on what seems to work for finding work with an NGO in a developing country. Caveat: I [...] |
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11. Logical Awesome! http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’ve seen some good captions for this photo. This is the best: “This is the eighth picture that comes up if you do a google image search for “awesome.” This is some next level nerd shit.” Add yours now. Tagged: awesome, demotivators, logical, spock |
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12. A crowd-sourcing experiment to improve beneficiary feedback loops http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I’m recruiting for a short-term crowdsourcing experiment we’re starting in three days at GlobalGiving. Do you know anyone who’d be interested? The Question: "Can a crowd of readers reach the same conclusions as an eyewitness about aid projects?" The answer could help us improve the communication with people on the ground and their donors. The [...] |
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13. Daniel Pink on what motivates you, and two kinds of salary http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Excellent video from Daniel Pink on What Motivates You – purpose: Daniel Pink says that for cognitive tasks – the bigger the reward, the poorer the performance. What? So by paying people (especially those doing complex cognitive skills), we’re making them dumber? Yes. At least people aren’t getting any smarter. Here’s why: Pink’s explanation is [...] |
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14. Ushahidi’s future as geo-blogging platform http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Listening to the news in Gaza this morning, I began to wonder if I am not alone in the way that I wished I could use ushahidi. I imagined being able to construct my own custom multi-layered map for each blog post – a map that shows in real-time both geo-tagged facts and geo-tagged commentary [...] |
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15. Searching for Reiner Knizia in Kenya http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Last month I saw a group of Nairobi slum kids playing a board game with a Kenya slum theme. Each player took on the role of a poverty archetype – the thug, nightclub teen, smuggler, hawker, or student – and had to navigate through the conflicts that emerged to avoid getting shot, pregnant, starved, or [...] |
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16. Setup Ushahidi in 15 painless minutes using bluehost.com http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: I don’t work at bluehost.com; I work at globalgiving.org. but even though we have our own servers, it was just WAY faster to set up ushahidi on this affordable and user-friendly hosting service. Here’s how to do it. By the way, Bluehost costs like $8 a month and you get your own domain name. Our [...] |
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17. Immigration reform? No, lets try emigration reform http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Attitudes seem to be changing around immigration reform at an alarming pace. John McCain (R) and Meg Whitman (R) might lose their primaries because they’re not anti-immigrant enough. The reason certain demographics are rushing to throw all the people who talk funny out is because we have a worldliness deficit. Less than a quarter of [...] |
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18. Community problem solving through technology-aided social forums http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Good advice about structuring social innovation from Beth Kanter’s interview of Minnesota Open Idea: They developed a state-of-the art idea challenge web site. They married an online social good contest with civic engagement (raising $14M online in 24 hours!). They had hundreds of people exercising on the field at a Twins Baseball game and the [...] |
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19. Support local food and community through BikeLoc http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Bikeloc Bikeloc is a project of two guys – Robert DuBois and Aaron Zueck – interested in capturing stories of the local food movement through potlucks going on across America. They recently set out on their cross-country biking adventure, and are filming, blogging and eating along the way. The stories of the adventures they encounter [...] |
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20. Virus market down because buyers can’t verify product http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: It’s hard to believe, but there’s a business out there in finding vulnerabilities in Windows and selling this knowledge to others who want to build a new virus. Viruses can be profitable if they steal credit cards, or enable computers to serve as servers for spambots. Techies at SlashDot note that this market is less [...] |
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21. Fighting poverty – more experiments, big push, social fabric? http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Esther Duflo’s TED talk: Social experiments to fight poverty paints a clear picture of the challenges and opportunities in development work. She presents two prevailing views, summarized by two books: Jeffrey Sachs believes we just need a bigger, more coordinated push to end poverty. Bill Easterly believes most of what we’ve tried hasn’t worked and [...] |
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22. Greek financial problems linked to Bush-style tax relief loopholes http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Not to sensationalize, but that’s the conclusion I reach after doing some calculations to make sense of the sudden Greek financial crisis. The problems in Greece have been simultaneously blamed on a “socialist style” economy and on massive tax evasion. It can’t be both. Danish socialism gets blamed by conservatives for strangling the capitalist incentive [...] |
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23. Use the GlobalGiving Donation Manager to connect with donors http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Using the new donation manager to add context to your thank you emails Welcome to the donation manager: Let’s find out how you know Gareth using the web. Ken and Curt have GG profiles that make this a one-click operation, but Gareth doesn’t. This person has no TRAFFIC source listed – so it is probably [...] |
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24. Clearing word processor clutter so you can write that novel (#Atlantis) http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: Get Atlantis Word Processor Whenever I spend more than an hour tracking down some trivial bit of knowledge, I re-post it. As a writer, I’m constantly hacking away at the visual pile of refuse that computer programmers keep piling onto my software interface. 97% of the features in Microsoft Word are not needed by writers, [...] |
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25. How do we really access data and analytics? http://chewychunks.wordpress.c... download (, 0.00Mb) Description: This image from a survey I took asks a very good question. But the answer isn’t so simple. I mean, I’m an analytics guy and I couldn’t tell you how I would use the information this Water Organization would provide myself. There are four options: 1. Interactive Map – I love interactive maps. I build [...] |
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