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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Podcasting. Billy Bicket got the first Net Tuesdays going in San Francisco. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Citizen journalism. Google Maps.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

for the Big Vision Podcast. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. For me, it was interesting because living in San Francisco, the Tenderloin fascinates me.