i noticed this today :) http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/02/kids_with_camer.html
--- In [email protected], "R. Kristiansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > Am I the only one who finds this just a Bit distasteful? To send a bunch of > branded t-shirts to Cambodia because our geeky females didn't take all of > them last summer in San Francisco? > > And then to ask for a picture to top it off? How are they to respond to > this? "Ooh, the nice people in America have sent us t-shirts about > videoblogging. Let's smile for the Americans"? > > This is really making me upset. > > IF we are going to send VloggerCon t-shirts to poor non-Caucasians in > Cambodia, we might just as well Really get involved there. Get involved with > their local community. Find ways that we as privileged westerners can really > help. Just sending them 50 t-shirts because we can't find ways to distribute > them among ourselves feels wrong. > > If we at all care about youth in Cambodia (and I am Not saying that Beth > Kanter doesn't care), we should get involved, try to do something, maybe set > up a project a la http://swajana.com/ where we can give them a chance to put > their voice out there. Give us Their perspective on life. > > Give them a voice amplifier. Don't give them a frigging t-shirt and let them > smile to the camera so we can tell ourselves and each other how > international we are as a vlogosphere. > > Am I off track here? :) > >
