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The Gift of Reading, a Circle of Life

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Frank’s story exemplifies the life-changing power of access to information and reading. I could request books not already in the collection, and sometimes my wish would be granted. I began a reading binge. Many of the books were ones I already had on my shelves, gathering dust because I couldn’t pick them up.”

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Barcoding Life

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here's the first one: My very first ever angel investor, Sheldon Breiner, contacted me on short notice to ask if I wanted to have dinner and a brainstorm with Winnie Hallwachs and Dan Janzen , a pair of U Penn professors with a dream: a handheld barcode reader for life. More information at the Consortium for the Barcode of Life.

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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On February 16th in Los Altos, California, I shared these thoughts on Robin Seaman’s impact on the world with her family and friends at her Celebration of Life. For more on Robin's life, you can read the Publishers Weekly article. That's the Robin we all collectively know personally. The sister, the aunt, the friend, the mentor.

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Bookshare in Chennai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Maria was raised by the sisters of the local Chennai Church, given a basic education and was sent off to Worth Trust to learn life skills. The proud bride to be is full of smiles and happy that the Worth Trust- Bookshare partnership has given a new meaning to her life, she is full of confidence ready to face the world.

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Fake Facebook Friends and the CIA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The fact that a government still may be able to get that data with enough expenditure of money in terms of people, technology and legal effort (warrants) is simply a fact of modern life. We just need to make it hard enough that they don't bother almost all of the time. That's what we owe to the people we serve.

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Work on Stuff that Matters

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Life is too short to throw your professional life away on stuff you don't care about. Tim's point wasn't that all tech developers should go to work for nonprofits, it was that people should step back and think about what matters to them. Like many techies, I came to the field because I loved doing tech.

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GetaFirstLife.com and Linden Labs

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Second Life, the on-line parallel universe, is a controversial topic. I was wandering by Second Life interviews onsite at Davos. But, hearing something like the following story makes me feel good about Linden Labs, the folks that operated Second Life.