While Superdelegates are the banes of the existence of anyone who just wants to see what’s happening on the news, some folks who find the existence of this institution to be “archane” are trying to figure out how to make its decision-making methods somewhat more transparent. It is all going down through the use the mysterious power of the Internet by way of the Superdelegate Transparency Project. The Nation reports. Monitoring citizen media in the developing world can be something of an overwhelming task. Juliana Rotich, a Kenyan blogger who does just this, discusses the integration of web tools and global activism. PBS highlights the work of Ryan Mark and Brian Boyer, programmer journalists based at Medill, whose experience illustrate efforts to teach journalism via Word Press. Discussed is a favorite topic of Make Something Happen: Information and news aggregation. And because looking into past through the lens of having lived through a time of hyper-accelerated evolution by way of information technologies is so fun, a gander at what The Age was saying about the future of taking organization, action and activism online back in the summer of 2002 (before Friendster!).

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