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Inspiring talk by Ethan Zuckerman. Excellent point on how unevenly distributed “global” online media is. It is something I have felt for a long time, being a non-American geek living as an expat in Asia. By the way, here is an early version of Alisa Miller’s news map mentioned in the talk.

Bridging the “flocks”, or rebuilding the infrastructures to allow for bridgers to do their work easier and better is the kind of problem I would like to tackle next year, when I start embarking on my Next Big Project.