One of the advantages of using a robust and recognised content management system for an online media initiative, such as WordPress, Joomla or Drupal, is that unlike a custom tailored solution, it is able to leverage the innovation of third party developers. Onswipe is a key example of this. Developed for and now available on [...]
Archive | March, 2011
Vaultpress and content snapshot of Groundviews
As of last week, Groundviews is backed up 24/7 using Vaultpress. In part, this was prompted by the DDoS attack targeted at WordPress.com recently. Not for the first time, this attack demonstrated that even the most robust web companies are subject to network outages, and that these outages can severely, indeed life-threateningly impact mission critical [...]
Sri Lanka’s and South Asia’s first citizen journalism iPhone app
Thanks to the brilliant Cezar Neaga with whom I worked for around two months on this, I launched today Sri Lanka’s as well as South Asia’s first citizen journalism app for Apple’s iOS platform. The Groundviews app works on the iPod Touch, iPad and is optimised for the iPhone 4′s Retina display. The press release I [...]
ICT4Peace: Beyond Crisis Mapping
At the invitation of Crisis Mappers, I delivered a presentation on ICT4Peace to an audience from around the world at an ungodly hour in Sri Lanka yesterday. Though Jen Ziemke’s notice on the Crisis Mappers website noted that I would be talking about the latest in the field, when in fact I spoke about the [...]
Citizen journalism: Bearing witness to violence – TED 2011
Presentation I gave at TED 2011, Long Beach based around the theme ‘The Rediscovery of Wonder’. The presentation was made for high -def projection at a 16:9 aspect ratio, so there’s some white space and bottom of presentation in the embed below.
