Continuing to share my delicious links, here’s my top activism links so far. To reiterate, I don’t usually save the really obvious stuff to delicious, or the really easy to find stuff.

38 Degrees | people. power. change. – Democratically crowdsourcing campaign ideas.

Act Responsible -  responsible communication on sustainability, equitable development and social responsibility.

Armchair Revolutionary – social game, supports worldchanging science and technology projects.

Charity Navigator – America’s independent charity evaluator, evaluating the financial health of charities.

Citizen Tube – YouTube’s News and Politics Blog.

CrimethInc – Ex-Workers’ Collective (CWC) – a decentralized anarchist collective. Publishing and distributing literature and free propaganda. Check out their posters!

Cyber-Marx: cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism – Book by Nick Dyer-Witheford (read here via Google Books)

Cybersociology Magazine – Issue 5: Grassroots Political Activism Online (01 April 1999)

DigiActive – digital activism tools, campaigns, and tactics.

Digital Activism Decoded – The New Mechanics of Change – Book edited by Mary Joyce (read here via Scribd).

Digital Activists Expose Abuse – BBC news article.

Digital Economy Bill is Passed! – blog post summarising what the DEBill means for politics.

Feminism London – annual feminist conference.

Forum for Change – online community – a free network for campaigners and policy workers to share information and discuss the latest issues.

G20: Protesters use Twitter, Facebook and social media tools to organise demonstrations – Telegraph article

Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI) – generates money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money they automatically buy Google shares. Buying Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself – but in the end “we” own it!

Guerilla Sticker Campaign via Boris Bikes – Treehugger article

HarassMap - a system in Egypt for reporting incidences of sexual harassment via SMS messaging. Similar to Hollaback!

Hollaback! – a movement dedicated to ending street harassment using mobile technology.

Hope140 – good causes on Twitter, case studies etc. ‘Better Now’

How to turn slactivists into activists with social media – Mashable article

Internet & Democracy Project: An introduction to digital activism (video) - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School announces the Internet and Democracy Project, an initiative that will examine how the Internet influences democratic norms and modes, including its impact on civil society, citizen media, government transparency, and the rule of law, with a focus on the Middle East.

internet.artizans – Tracking the Internet, Human Rights & Social Change.

Is digital activism an effective medium for change? – Guardian article.

Is this what you mean? – Subverting adverts.

Media / anthropology – Research blog of John Postill covering digital activism & more.

Meta-Activism Project – The mission is to build human and informational infrastructure for the study of digital activism.

Nestle Kerfuffle (presentation) – A timeline showing the first four days of the online PR battle between Nestle and Greenpeace. It shows the numbers of people online who helped drive the PR disaster for Nestle over the company’s use of unsustainable palm oil.

Networked Culture: #iranelection cyberwar guide for beginners – article, but see rest of site too.

New Tactics in Human Rights – Information Activism

OpenNet Initiative - ONI’s mission is to identify and document Internet filtering and surveillance, and to promote and inform wider public dialogues about such practices.

Peace Chicken – Blog about veganism, animal rights, politics, activism and more.

Student Protest (video) – Flickr video of the student occupation of Millbank in 2010.

Tactical Technology Collective – Our mission is to advance the skills, tools and techniques of rights advocates, empowering them to utilise information and communications as a critical asset in helping marginalised communities understand and effect progressive social, environmental and political change.

TechSoup Global – TechSoup Global, founded in 1987 as CompuMentor, provides technology resources and knowledge to NGOs around the world.

The New Feminists: Still Fighting – Guardian article. Why the battle is not yet won.

Tor: Anonymity Online – Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis.

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One of my favourite projects I’ve been working on recently has been the RSPCA Think Pig campaign. I stopped eating meat when I was nine years old after reading about factory farming, and was vegetarian for 12 years (I’ve since failed, and am now pescatarian / attempting-to-be-positive-chooser). After going around ranting at people demanding that they stop eating meat due to the horrors of factory farming for a few years, and losing lots of friends in the process, I eventually realised that some people will always eat meat. So, if you’re going to eat meat, surely you should try and eat meat where the animals have been treated as well as possible?

That’s what Think Pig is about – raising awareness of the different farming methods, labelling on meat, and what they mean for pigs. There’s a great educational video and animation for the campaign, a downloadable shopping guide [PDF], and lots of other information on the Think Pig campaign site. Our contribution at NixonMcInnes was to create a Facebook Game and Facebook Page for the campaign. The game is a word game – pigs being so intelligent and all – where you get bonus points for answering facts about pigs and pig welfare correctly. People can then share these facts on their Facebook Wall, and ‘Like’ the Facebook Page to keep informed about the campaign progress and to discuss the issues around pig farming and pig welfare.

There’s been some lively debate on the Facebook Page about whether it’s helpful to promote higher welfare for pigs being farmed for meat, if you don’t agree with eating pigs in the first place. However, even though I don’t eat them myself, I’d rather people were well informed so they could make an educated choice about what (if any) kind of meat they eat.

So I clicked this Facebook ad today:

Cos I’m trying to put some weight on. Seemed like a good app, I started adding the food I’d eaten today and it counted my calories for me. Then went to put what activities I’d done. It asked me to put in my weight and target weight first so it could calculate stuff.

It then gave me this absolute bullshit:

What an absolute bitch of an app. Fancy telling underweight people they ought to lose weight! I don’t normally swear but this has really got me angry. How small minded and down-right dangerous! This app had the potential to be really useful for people trying to put weight on and they’ve just decided to only serve fatties.

I’m deleting this app right away and suggest out of support for the skinnies you do the same. I’m also going to write on the app wall about how rubbish this is.

Continuing to share my delicious links, here’s mine tagged with Advertising:

Good advertising blogs

• Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology
• Eaon Pritchard’s blog
• Osocio – Social Advertising and Non-profit Campaigns
• CST Advertising – Home of Dave Trott’s blog
• adwomen – Feminist commentary on adverts

Specifically good items

• Influential Marketing Blog: An Insider’s Guide To Marketing On Flickr
• tesco value shampoo – spoof ad
• Sprint: Plug into Now. – Massively awesome and interesting data visualisation on today’s production
• Orange online ad dimensions / specifications – For reference
• HSBC: No “goodservice” in Sight – and Orange Ad Campaign: I Am Lost? -  about using ‘search for …’ as an online advertising tactic