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Facing Gender Violence on NYC Transit
Leading activists against street harassment spoke of the need to raise awareness and continue to build the movement at a Monday panel, “Talking Back: Facing Gender Violence on NYC Transit,” hosted at Hunter College and co-sponsored by MYD’s Transportation and Women’s Issues Committees, as well as the Hunter Women’s Rights Coalition, New Yorkers for Safe Transit, Hollaback, and the National Organization for Women.
Professor Gail Garfield of John Jay College moderated the panel, which included four speakers:
- Emily May,
Making NYC The Digital Capital Of The World
On Monday, Mayor Bloomberg announced New York City’s road map to become the #1 digital city, partnering with social media companies Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Foursquare, promising greater public access to data, expanded WiFi access and even going on to suggest they will have a new .nyc domain name for city websites. You can download the full report by the city’s Chief Digital Officer, Rachel Sterne, at her tumblr page and see what is in store.
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Awesome: 1.3 million watched SOTU via Whitehouse.gov
Awesome (via Mashable):
According to the White House blog, 1.3 million people watched U.S. President Barack Obama’sState of the Union speech live on the White House’s website — or at least on sites that embedded the official video. The White House also said that 50,000 people participated in a Q&A with officials on Facebook after the speech.
Less awesome (speaking for me only):
The Twilight Saga: New Moon red carpet event on Ustream actually had
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Politics 3.0: Data.gov Launched Today
We at MYD are pretty distracted from our normal blogging duties thanks to a major online campaign we launched on Tuesday.
If I wasn’t busy today connecting with our fans on facebook and supporters on Twitter, I’d write a full post on the newly launched Data.gov. Thankfully, Micah Sifry and Nancy Scola over at techPresident beat me to it:
Speaking on behalf of President Obama and the administration, senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett appeared in a
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Politics 3.0: Live from Politics Online in DC
Today, MYD begins a new series on its blog, Politics 3.0, where we will investigate the relationship between politics and new technologies. Why Politics 3.0? We’re now in the third iteration of the online movement in politics. 1.0 was about news consumption, projecting your message without much interactivity. More >>
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