Extraordinary Everyday Lives #051 : Mike Poole
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Blog: Greetings Earthlings – http://greetingsearthlings.wordpress.com
Greetings Earthlings! is an attempt to show that we all might know a little less than we think, and to start a discussion on how we can begin to see things slightly otherwise.
A Death in Hong Kong
Discovery Bay Residents Seeking Justice for Vicenta Flores
About – http://greetingsearthlings.wordpress.com/about-mike-poole/
PhD in Southeast Asian Studies at the Australian National University
Chief editor in Hong Kong for five and a half years for Armstrong-Hilton Ltd
Explore how we connected:
1st post – images used – http://greetingsearthlings.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/from-another-perspective/
Creative Commons issues.
FlickrCC – http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/index.php
Fang @ cc! – http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Mike_Seyfang
Roy’s Flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/royblumenthal/tags/lifekludger/
2nd Risk and Redemption – http://greetingsearthlings.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/risk-and-redemption/
The benefits of connection.
3rd Getting Organised – http://greetingsearthlings.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/getting-organised-for-good/
“But imagine if a helper has just had her contract terminated unfairly, knows she must leave town in two weeks and needs legal advice? She can send a text to the central computer, which will distribute it to all other members in the network.”
-Discuss why a central computer. Do services exist tat could fulfill this role already, maybe with some ‘patch panel’ plugging?
-Maybe Beth might have some idea about this ‘feedback’ idea from Cambodia work.
A Death in Hong Kong:
Discovery Bay Residents Seeking Justice for Vicenta (Vicky) Flores
Who is Vincenta Flores?
Blogging for Human Rights
Blogs and activism (action…shirky?)
Are all bloggers activists in some degree? (personal)
Closing remarks/announcements:
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Acknowledgements: – Jack in the Pulpit -Extraordinary Girl
Image in mp3 Album art from Leo Watson on Flickr
July 4th, 2008 at 1:57 am
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