Heroines for the Planet: Executive Producer of MAKERS.com Betsy West
Betsy West is the executive producer of the recently-launched MAKERS.com, an AOL/PBS-backed digital platform showcasing hundreds of inspiring video interviews from women of all generations. She’s the woman behind the camera asking questions, eliciting empowering stories from world-changing women. MAKERS.com is a first-ever initiative to catalog women’s stories of achievement on such…
Ethical (?) Squirrel Meat, Lame Journalists (But Awesome Bloggers) and "Fockters"
In this week’s Zaproot: -Meat is meat, so why is squirrel meat ‘gross’ while other meat is ‘yummy’? -Shocking Conservative group LIED about global warming deniers (and DeSmogBlog blogger Kevin Grandia is the only one who bothered to call them out on it!) -Sarah Silverman Rules, In General To get…
Polling Place Photo Project
Although I’m pissed that Prop. 87 didn’t get passed as a result of yesterday’s election, I am psyched that the cool design folks at AIGA, Design Observer, Design for Democracy, NewsAssignment.net, and Winterhouse Institute have created The Polling Place Photo Project, a nationwide experiment in citizen journalism that seeks to…
