A few weeks ago, I blogged about my talk at Bentley college. Mark Frydenberg has made the audio available for download on the CIS Presents Podcast.
But, what’s way cooler than that is Holmes Wilson’s talk on “Digital News” which is also available for download.
You can subscribe to the RSS feed here.

SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “CIS Presents [...]

“Media Matters” at UMass Boston
On Wednesday, Danielle and I presented a workshop at UMass Boston titled, “Blogs: The 5th Estate: Opening The Gates For Diverse Perspectives” at the Media Matters: Writing Conference for High School Teachers and Teens.
The conference was sponsored by The Boston Globe, UMass Boston, Project: Think Different, and WriteBoston.
We had a great [...]

“Fast-A-Thon” for Darfur at Bentley College
Mark Frydenberg invited me to speak at Bentley College this evening as part of the CIS Presents “Current Topics in Information Technology.” The title of the lecture was “Technology and Social Activism”. So, I gave a version of the talk I was hoping to give at the ACME [...]

BNPG public access producers and bloggers Ralph and Hiram “learning blogging“. I’m looking forward to our next videoblogging workshop!
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “What Community Media Looks Like”, url: “http://colinrhinesmith.com/2006/09/08/what-community-media-looks-like/” });

There’s lots of change happening. The beginning of the year seems more often like Sept. 1 than Jan. 1. Let me explain:
I’m headed back to school soon. On Sept. 12, I’m starting classes at Emerson College to begin my graduate education. I’ll be staying on at the Berkman Center, moving from Staff Assistant to my [...]

I’ve decided to re-introduce our Drupal open source CMS implemented, ACMEBoston Projects as a way to keep our members connected and participating in-between our monthly meetings.
To learn more about Open Source technology, click here.
This year, ACMEBoston Projects provided members with an opportunity, beyond email, to collaborate, share ideas, and organize for two of our larger [...]

Ryanne is videoblogging the ACM 2006 conference with Jay over at the ACM Vlog. There’s lots of great video with folks from the conference there. You can also subscribe to the feed.
They cornered me at the conference yesterday. Here’s what happened:

Watch the video
And don’t forget to buy Ryanne’s new book, “Secrets of Videoblogging“.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: [...]

I wasn’t really planning on it, but I set up a new WordPress.com blog for ACMEBoston. I’d liked it so much that I decided to move the whole site there! It’s a bummer you can’t edit the template, but I traded that in for the site’s ease of use and blog functionality.
I decided [...]

(photo by Andy Carvin)
Today, thousands in cities across the country from New York to San Francisco to Chicago to Boston joined in protest against the major telephone companies. These companies are spending one million dollars a day lobbying Congress to re-write the nation’s telecommunications laws–while press reports reveal that these same companies provided [...]

I was interviewed today by Hiram Scott of the Boston Neighborhood Producers Group about bills in Congress threatening access to Community Media and the Internet. We also discussed ways that people can get involved and take action now to ensure that Congress protects the public interest in communications policy making.
Click here to listen to the [...]