links for 2009-07-02

Perfectly normal people publishing effectively using unfashionable technologies, which percolate out into wider society. More examples: Sheffield Forum, parwich.org, Digbeth is Good, Pits ‘n Pots.

Next week, the Huffington Post will start "liveblogging the lobbyists", she said. They will be calling on their network of 13,000 citizen journalists and 20 million users to help them crowdsource information on lobbyists in the US.

She said that the greatest thing that internet users can bring to the world is our obsessiveness.

The work of the SWRadio crew was also a testament to the spirit of wanting to change things for the better, whatever the obstacles. Working at a large news organisation it is all too easy to get wrapped up in the day-to-day intricacies of 'producing new media', and to forget about the real and profound impact that the content we produce can have on the ground in places where there is no free media.