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

Have Fun - Do Good

On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. We also did an interview with the reporter to get a feel for what went into the reporting. And it'll probably be to Southern California, Los Angeles, next.

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Data Are Not Information

NTEN

This process produces data broadly defined, whether numeric, textual, or audio-visual, structured or unstructured. and a video interview explaining "data" as anything that can be digitized.) Joe Hellerstein, a computer scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, calls it 'the industrial revolution of data.'

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You Can Use Skype to Video and Promote Your Next Church Event for Free

Tech Soup

They do a daily radio show out of Chico, California and conduct marriage and relationship workshops. Instead of paying to advertise in local newspapers, I took a few minutes to record three short video interviews with Randy and Monica over Skype. Take a few moments before shooting to make sure the audio and video are recording.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Now, all students and schools can achieve the level of success experienced by one of our student users, Tyler Norwood, a seventh grade student at the Corte Madera School in Portola Valley, California. In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

Julie Ha Truong is joining us from beautiful California by way of South Dakota in her background. So the superintendent, His name is Keith Lester, in his planning process, did a series of interviews with organizations, nonprofit, even corporate, and then also spoke with families and said. Julie, how’s it going? You doing okay?

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

For example, Lyft doesn’t report total individual fares to drivers at all, and only reports weekly aggregate fares for individual drivers, while a California study by Mission Local found that Uber reports fares to drivers that are measurably lower than the fares actually paid.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. Like there'll be times where I'm really interested in food issues, and I'm interviewing and talking to people about that.

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