One of the reasons I have been so busy lately is that I've been working hard on a NewsCloud-related project, Hot Dish. It's a very cool new climate change news application for Facebook which I hope you'll try out and share with your friends!
Hot Dish allows Facebook users to read, discuss, post and share news about climate change, the most serious issue facing our planet. Editorial content is provided through our partnership with online environmental magazine, Grist.org!
If you are a 16- to 25-year old U.S. resident, you can participate in the Hot Dish Action Team, earn points through online and offline actions and compete for rewards. Top eligible participants can win a grand prize trip for two to the Arctic from Quark Expeditions, an Amazon Kindle 2, a "green" Apple MacBook and much more. Prizes will be awarded each week through May 3, 2009. Please read the official rules for full eligibility details.
The Hot Dish application is part of a study being conducted by University of Minnesota researchers to find new ways of engaging young people in current events inside social networks such as Facebook. The research is funded by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The research results will be published later this year. The software behind Hot Dish will be released to the open source community at the end of the project.
I hope you'll check it out and share it with your friends. I'd love to hear your feedback!
p.s. Yes, Quark is the company I went to Antarctica with and wrote a journal about if for Grist back in 2003
p.p.s. Yes friends, some of you may actually hear from me again soon. Perhaps not this next week, but soon. :)
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