Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 13, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&#
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 26, 2008
There are channels for everything. You can search YouTube, Google video or about 10 other video sites, and make those searches a new channel. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos. PBS has quite a number, as do various and sundry video podcasters.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 10, 2008
The vendor is expert at what they do, but cannot always provide a channel of communication that the client can really work with. I provide that clear channel, so both sides benefit. The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 15, 2008
The next version of Azureus, called Vuze , which I haven’t yet used, looks like it incorporates a media player and channels and such. People have written all sorts of cool plug-ins for it. Basically, becoming a serious competitor for Miro , which I’ll talk about in the next post.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 5, 2008
like right now, on the Linuxchix IRC channel, we are discussing elections, HFS+ filesystems and terabyte switches.) It is a tool which is used predominantly in the open source world, for developers and users of open source projects to talk to one another, and get support. I use IRC every day. Quasi-social, quasi-professional.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 18, 2005
It makes finding channels with interesting video easy, as well as making channels easy. I’m looking forward to the Crooks and Liars channel! They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool. It’s definitely a thing to watch.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 29, 2008
Someone in an IRC channel last night who was trying to help me as I tore my hair out said “why does xorg suck so bad?&# X Windows has always been the bane of my existence. I really have come to think that xorg has it in for me. My refrain about it has always been “I hatesssss xorg, I hatesss it.&# at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?
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