Three news items that caught my eye in the last couple of days: Building a Social Entrepreneurial Garage Startup in India – PBS MediaShift Update from a pretty cool project to bring community radio stations to rural India. If it’s not too prohibitive to launching one of these (who knows what it takes to legally [...]

News that caught my interest in the past week: Demonstrations in Haiti – The Freeport News Hopes of the new US president supporting former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s return to power could lead to increased demonstrations and violence in Haiti. Your Guide to Alternative Business Models for Newspapers – PBS Mediashift A roundup of online business [...]

Of interest in the past week: Haiti’s road to ruin – Straight.com Haiti’s environmental woes in a nutshell, and how they’re even more applicable after the hurricane. Why not writing a story is innovation – Publishing 2.0 Down with rewriting and publishing press releases (and other such nonsense)! The Newspaper Industry and the Arrival of [...]

News of interest in the past week: Costs of WOPR outweigh the benefits – Daily Emerald The Daily Emerald Editorial Board argues that the environmental consequences of the Western Oregon Plan Revisions, a plan to increase logging on “more than 2 million acres of public land” including old-growth, are far more significant than the short [...]