Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

A mentor is going to have a more powerful impact over somebody than YouTube videos. His biggest prescription is around connecting with these human forces. A great teacher is going to be better than a software program on a laptop or tablet. I found this to be an eminently sensible approach.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2007

He challenged us to name a new (formed in the last 10 or 20 years) nonprofit Google, or Microsoft or YouTube. He used the many successful corporations who have become household names and/or hit a billion dollars in revenues. People came up with a mix of names, but Carl didn't go for many (Habitat and Teach for America he did agree to).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

is what we call social computing, when the content is contributed by the users, like YouTube or Wikipedia. It is the first library I have worked at that is a social, virtual library—this is library 2.0 at its core. Library 2.0 is what librarians call it when we apply these ideas to libraries.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube. Universal City Studios, Inc., 417 (1984), also known as the “ Betamax case ”, is a landmark copyright precedent that has had enormous implications for the media economy. Why do we at Benetech care about this so much?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 30, 2011

She recalled that when Yemen decided to ban Al-Jazeera, activists there bridged the gap by recording videos on their phones, posting the footage to YouTube and Facebook, linking content directly to the Al-Jazeera stream and then tweeting the story.

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