OhMyNews International: “OhMyNews, the revolutionary Korean citizen-journalism outfit which launched an English-language version earlier this year has done itself one better: it’s now training participatory journalists from around the world.”
GlobalGiving: a better way to give.
Joi Ito’s Web: Video of French soldiers shooting civilians: “There is an interesting discussion going on on MetaFilter about a very graphic video of what appears to be French soldiers shooting at civilians in Cote d’Ivoire. The discussion starts with understandable outrage, but some people begin to question the authenticity of the video and question whether it might be propaganda from the Gbagbo government. There is more and more political video on the Internet and it clearly is more emotional than text. Well respected groups such as Witness have been using video to expose human rights issues for awhile now. It will be interesting to see if/when/how not so respectable groups begin using video on the Internet for political issues or to spin the truth.”
cubicgarden.com: the BBC is changing it’s historical fear of letting out plans of projects to embrace the web and create BBC backstage, something like Google Labs, hopefully mixed with webservice access to much of their data.