Home of random bits and pieces that don't quite make it into an entire blogpost on emsdy.blogspot.com, but are nonetheless interesting and worth checking out.

"We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. If we are unable to be alone, we are far more likely to be lonely."

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Source: The New York Times

"Most of all, we need to remember - in between texts and e-mails and Facebook posts - to listen to one another, even to the boring bits, because it is often in unedited moments, moments in which we hesitate and stutter and go silent, that we reveal ourselves to one another."

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Source: The New York Times

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Source: designerfund.com

Source: aidthoughts.org

"media humanitarianism"

- The Rise and Fall of Poverty Porn
Source: fastcoexist.com

Source: fastcoexist.com

Source: clicktivism.org

Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers: Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change (12NTCviz)

Love how they set up a sort of aggregator page for specific topics of the seminar, complete with Twitter Feed! :)

They put their presentation slides online! :)

They put their presentation slides online! :)

Source: slideshare.net