Human tragedies unite our species. It does not matter what political camp you support, nor the color of your skin, nor the faith that you follow. When children, women and men are hurt, we must all try to help. Help may be something simple as texting ‘HAITI’ to 90999 on your cell phone to donate $10 to Red Cross. If you want to do more, there is a website put together for those in our field to put our knowledge of technology to restore the human spirit. Take a look at CrisisCommons.org. These fine folks are pooling the incredible talents of our fellow IT professionals in a concerted effort to provide assistance to those on the ground in HAITI. Austin needs to be on there, maybe my fellow Door64 folks will help us establish a center here. Regardless, any effort to restore humanity is a valor I respect and support.
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Hello, my name is Ruben and I am conflicted. I am struggling to find harmony in what I am about to say. Maybe it will become clear to me once I finish this post. Regardless, once posted I will never speak of it again.
Over the weekend Techcrunch posted a wonderful opinion article about moral conscience and citizen reporting. Here is my problem, though I agree with the article, who really owns moral objectivity on the web? continue reading…
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