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WITNESS and the HUB
As we have said in previous post the power of the video have no limits. Just think about the images that we saw coming from the Beijing Olympics ceremony, or the images we saw coming from the quick war between Russia and Georgia. But there are other important issues that go uncovered. There are heart-breaking stories that go unheard. What news networks tend to cover are the political side of the issues, but hardly the human side. The reason being that they think they are not news worthy.
Nonprofit Virtual Land
To add to Britt's earlier post about Joi Ito joining the board of WITNESS, he's also embarking on a cool project to loan out plots of land (on his island) to nonprofits and their related events in Secondlife, a 3-D online world with more than 160,000 "residents" from all over the globe. To get involved, you'll likely need a Secondlife account, which is free (it's the virtual real estate that costs).
