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- Tilt the balance
Global Witness have recently launched a new campaign aiming to recover the £50,000 cost of their recent court case against the son of the President of the Republic of Congo and build up funds to help them fight future cases of gagging orders and libel tourism. I helped create some of the graphics for their [...]
- Still Life
Last weekend I went to see Jia Zhangke’s Goldern Lion winner. It tells the story of two people caught in the maelstrom of China’s breakneck development. The film is set in Sichuan’s Three Gorges which is soon to be flooded. In terms of plot not much happens, but then maybe that’s the point. Still Life [...]
- Cool innovation from…Microsoft?
When not making money Microsoft are busy acquiring very interesting software technologies. Photosynth is based on Seadragon technology; it creates multidimensional spaces by effectively ‘synthing’ together digital photos. Combined with Microsoft’s Virtual Earth it provides an insight into how social media can be used in a really exciting way.
Photosynth
- Inside the congo
This is one of the best pieces of multimedia journalism I’ve seen in recent years. It’s produced by photographer Marcus Bleasdale for MediaStorm. You can see the 11 min report at http://mediastorm.org/0022.htm
congo, marcus bleasdale, mediastorm, multimedia journalism
- The seemingly impossible, is possible.
Hans Rosling is a public health expert, director of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that does amazing things with global data. This is a great introduction to essentially what is going on in the world. I also think the ending is pretty damm cool.
development stats
- Access to finance
Mobile phones are the first communications technology with more users in developing countries than developed. They have a vast potential to make basic financial transactions possible anytime, anywhere for poor people. Mobile banking technology is one of the issues being discussed at ‘Next Generation Access to finance’ which you can watch streamed live via the [...]
