And this is Darfur Watch
(cross posted on Darfur Watch's MySpace page)
This is the Darfur Watch Project's first foray into MySpace and its initial post. Darfur Watch is site built on user-generated content -- blog posts (via Technorati), social bookmarks (via del.icio.us), photos (via Flickr) -- as well as some more "mainstream" news sources (via Yahoo! News), that works by scraping content from RSS feeds that's tagged with the word "Darfur."
The genesis of Darfur Watch came about on May 8 of this year. Three days earlier, the Abuja peace agreement was passed. A lot of us in the online community had been focused intently on the crisis in the weeks and months that led up to the agreement. But with it's passage, our attention turned elsewhere. Check it out -- Technorati's take on blog mentions of "Darfur" over the last year:
The problem with is, of course, that the situation in Darfur has continued to get progressively worse over the last four months since Abuja was signed.
So what's the deal? The tag line of Darfur Watch is "the World is Watching," but as I mention in the about section, the question is whether we should put a question mark at the end of that statement. Is the mainstream press paying attention while us more grassroots types have forgotten about the people living and dying in Western Sudan? Or vice versa -- are we paying attention while the bigger guys have lost focus? Darfur Watch aims to help clarify where attention on Darfur is lacking and where it is still strong.
But Darfur Watch is something more, an experiment in social technologies, a new form of media near and dear to my heart. How we take in information is changing of course, but how we chew it up, spit it out, create our own knowledge is of course, too. What happens if we collectively pay attention and engage on a situation as intractable as that of Darfur, a conflict rooted in a vast web of causes? Are we destined to a cycle of having our attention piqued by the lastest crisis, only to move one with the littlest piece of good news that someone else defines as a resolution?
Darfur Watch is very much a work in progress. The code was cobbled together by me, and I'm no real programmer. It makes use of only the tiniest bit of social media out there today, and does it in a way that's not yet overly elegant. So help me to help us to make it better. Join Darfur Watch as a friend on MySpace. And share with the crowd how you think that we might be able to make something of this project.
This is the Darfur Watch Project's first foray into MySpace and its initial post. Darfur Watch is site built on user-generated content -- blog posts (via Technorati), social bookmarks (via del.icio.us), photos (via Flickr) -- as well as some more "mainstream" news sources (via Yahoo! News), that works by scraping content from RSS feeds that's tagged with the word "Darfur."
The genesis of Darfur Watch came about on May 8 of this year. Three days earlier, the Abuja peace agreement was passed. A lot of us in the online community had been focused intently on the crisis in the weeks and months that led up to the agreement. But with it's passage, our attention turned elsewhere. Check it out -- Technorati's take on blog mentions of "Darfur" over the last year:
The problem with is, of course, that the situation in Darfur has continued to get progressively worse over the last four months since Abuja was signed.
So what's the deal? The tag line of Darfur Watch is "the World is Watching," but as I mention in the about section, the question is whether we should put a question mark at the end of that statement. Is the mainstream press paying attention while us more grassroots types have forgotten about the people living and dying in Western Sudan? Or vice versa -- are we paying attention while the bigger guys have lost focus? Darfur Watch aims to help clarify where attention on Darfur is lacking and where it is still strong.
But Darfur Watch is something more, an experiment in social technologies, a new form of media near and dear to my heart. How we take in information is changing of course, but how we chew it up, spit it out, create our own knowledge is of course, too. What happens if we collectively pay attention and engage on a situation as intractable as that of Darfur, a conflict rooted in a vast web of causes? Are we destined to a cycle of having our attention piqued by the lastest crisis, only to move one with the littlest piece of good news that someone else defines as a resolution?
Darfur Watch is very much a work in progress. The code was cobbled together by me, and I'm no real programmer. It makes use of only the tiniest bit of social media out there today, and does it in a way that's not yet overly elegant. So help me to help us to make it better. Join Darfur Watch as a friend on MySpace. And share with the crowd how you think that we might be able to make something of this project.
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