Food Blogging for Social Change. [画像:corn.jpg]A fantastic use of blogging for advocacy: a 9-yr-old’s school lunch blog attracts international attention and shames the local council into making changes.

" width="5" height="5" border="0" align="abstop" /> 22 May 2012 | LINK | Filed in blogs, health, www

Politisches Plakat. This poster blog boasts images of over 1,900 political posters from the radical left in Germany. They have a Flickr account, too! (thanks sandy)
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" width="5" height="5" border="0" align="abstop" /> 28 June 2010 | LINK | Filed in blogs, posters

Text "Haiti" to 90999. As of January 18, a cellphone fundraising campaign to support Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti had raised 22ドル million, smashing all previous mobile giving records. The initiative is a partnership between the Red Cross, the US State Depatment and the mGive Foundation. Customers of participating wireless carriers can text message "HAITI" to 90999 to make a 10ドル donation. The State Department is posting periodic updates about the campaign on their blog and Twitter stream.

" width="5" height="5" border="0" align="abstop" /> 19 January 2010 | LINK | Filed in blogs, cellphone, gov, haiti

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After six years of publication, SocialDesignZine is shutting down. The blog on social design was set up inspire and provoke a discussion among Italian designer and beyond.

The founders maintained an aggressive publication schedule (nearly daily!), hosted offline typographic tours, published two beautiful books of selected posts and comments, an exhibition, and a publication on civic branding and design culminating in the Più Design Può conference in May 2009. Unfortunately, though the SDZ site receives a good amount of traffic, an active community of commenters never really materialized and the daily maintenance had become increasingly difficult to sustain. Still, it’s a high note to end on.

I had the great pleasure of meeting the site’s publishers Gianni Sinni and Andrea Rauch at the conference in Florence and was impressed with the depth of their politics and the ease at which they integrated their civic commitment with their studio practice. Now that they are free of the daily publication schedule, I look forward to seeing what new endeavors they develop. Grazie a Andrea e Gianni.

" width="5" height="5" border="0" align="abstop" /> 28 December 2009 | LINK | Filed in blogs, www

Publishers with a Purpose. “A group of online publishers who have pledged 5% of their total ad inventory to selected nonprofits and social causes, with the shared goal of making a difference in our neighborhoods and around the world by grouping together.” Some big, independent blog networks are doing this.

" width="5" height="5" border="0" align="abstop" /> 16 October 2009 | LINK | Filed in advertising, blogs, www