Social Source Commons

Being an editor on Global Voices often means investing a lot of time talking to your contributors and to your 'sources' - that is, bloggers within your region or language. Different messaging clients are more popular in different parts of the world. For example, MSN messenger is the most common in Latin America, whereas gChat/Jabber seems to be used most frequently in South Asia. Adium is a single instant messaging (IM) program that allows you to sign on with various messaging networks including AIM, MSN, gChat, Yahoo, LiveJournal, MySpace, ICQ, and more. It is highly customizable and, most importantly for GV Editors, it archives all of your conversations. It also allows you to separate your contacts into different groups. This way I am able to separate my Global Voices contacts from my personal contacts. When you set up your accounts and preferences, make sure to check "log all messages":

If you are logging your messages, they they are all saved and can be accessed via the transcript viewer:

This is a great way to conduct interviews with bloggers. You can go back to the transcript viewer copy and paste the conversation and edit it for clarity.

Previously Smultron, Fraise is a fork of the amazing open-source code editor for OSX

Calendaring application for Mac OS X

Apple's music player

Blog editing and publishing software that integrates with NetNewsWire as well as most text editors.

Just like 1001 is a great way to monitor the latest and most relevant pictures posted to Flickr, Miro is the dream application for monitoring YouTube, Google Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, as well as the many vlogs (Video Blogs) that are becoming more and more prevalent.

In 1001 you subscribe to 'streams' of photos. In Miro you subscribe to 'channels' of videos. Here is a list of some of the channels I subscribe to. I've organized them into different folders:

Each of those channels is basically a video blog, or 'video podcast.' I've set Miro's settings so that each day it downloads the newest unwatched episode from each 'channel'. For example, here is the 'channel' of Swajana, an excellent video blog from India:

With Miro you can both download videos and watch them in the same program. Miro will play just about every type of video format you can imagine.

One of my favorite features of Miro is the ability to subscribe to search queries in YouTube.

For example, here you can see I searched for "pakistan emergency':

Then I pressed the button that says "Save This Search as a Channel". Now every time that Miro updates my channels, it will download the latest five YouTube videos having to do with the Pakistan State of Emergency:

You can also make search channels for Google Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv and more. Miro is definitely the best way to stay up to date on what's happening in the online video world.

Outlining software for Mac OS X.

A unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data.

Very simple but elegant HTML code editor for OSX. It is similar to a normal text editor but does font coloring for html and offers different ways of previewing your work as you go. This means it is great for writing html pages, but even better for writing blog posts etc. For those who can write blog html but enjoy a live preview, this is a useful tool

Address Book program for Mac OS X.

Yotophoto is a search engine for free-to-use stock photographs and images. These are images that are either in the Public Domain or released under generous Creative Commons, GNU FDL or similar licenses.