How are we connected? Well, there’s Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter… you know the list. But what about something bigger, grander, that connects us on a global level? That’s the idea behind the Global Oneness Project, a special project of Kalliopeia Foundation, “a private grant making foundation committed to honoring the unity the lies at the heart of life’s rich diversity.”
More than just the warm and fuzzy, this project is an extensive online library of beautifully crafted short films and interviews about folks dedicated to social responsibility on the really big scale. The fluid and moving videos feature people such as youth [...]

Winterhouse is more than a design studio, their founders are more than educators, and their commentary has done more to develop critical commentary around the design industry than arguably any of their kin. And now, with more than a small nudge from the Rockefeller Foundation, they will be expected to do, well, even more.
Headed by Jessica Helfand and William Drenttel, Winterhouse is a small but mighty powerhouse in Falls Village, CT, that writes, produces and publishes work geared towards advancing the dialog around community, politics, and design. They are founding editors of Design Observer, the inspiration behind the Polling Place [...]

Short text based communications on the web, or on a mobile devices can leave a lot to be desired as far as effectiveness of accurately communicating a message. Without a richer set of context clues, words can be misinterpreted and understood in ways the sender never intended. A recent NPR piece explores this problem, and the question of social responsibility on the web with the story of Twitter user “Thordora“.
NPR reports:
Alarm bells went off Sunday night for readers of a Twitter message by a woman known on the Web as Thordora. She writes a “mommy blog” — Spin Me I [...]