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eBooks #1: ePub is to eBooks as MP3 is to music?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There’s a great Wikipedia article to do the work for me. They don’t have the same success with eBooks that they did with music. Sony has it’s own reader and format, although, like the Nook and the Kindle, can read a variety of formats. What I want to talk a bit about is what’s next.

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The Bots Face Off – Or Do They? ChatGPT Versus Bard

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Bard is able to generate different creative text formats, like poems, code, scripts, musical pieces, email, letters, etc. Their knowledge universe includes: Common Crawl (a nonprofit organization that crawls the web and offers its archives, which contain petabyes of data, to the public), Wikipedia, articles, books, and documents of all kinds.

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How to Survive Today and Thrive Tomorrow

NonProfit Hub

According to Wikipedia , “A disruptive innovation is an innovation that creates a new market and value network and eventually disrupts an existing market and value network.” and downloadable digital music (through platforms like Amazon or iTunes). and downloadable digital music (through platforms like Amazon or iTunes).

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An online database of third-party social media apps and software, there are thousands of free tools listed in categories ranging from photos and videos to music and games. Hundreds of the apps are useful to nonprofits and in most cases all that is needed is a Twitter login and a little creative thinking. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An online database of third-party social media apps and software, there are thousands of free tools listed in categories ranging from photos and videos to music and games. Hundreds of the apps are useful to nonprofits and in most cases all that is needed is a Twitter login and a little creative thinking. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. He would play me a 90’s punk song, and I’d download Pat Benatar (saying, I had music like that when I was your age). Turns out that Chris’ mom was the acting CEO of a new software company, “Napster.” I had never heard of it. It was a magical hour.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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