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Reply Comments on the Proposed Treaty for Access to Copyrighted Works

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We filed the following comments to the Copyright Office's request for comments on issues about access for people with print disabilities. Many of the comments critical of the proposed treaty come from parties that object in principle to copyright exceptions, rather than having a direct stake in the issue at hand.

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This guy is right on

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Technorati Tags: microsoft , web2.0 { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Scott Wells 04.18.07 Can you tell us some examples of how Excel is superior or more supple than Calc? at 6:14 am Thanks for the comment. Opening whatever you throw at it: say “open&# , find a file, and Excel will at least try to open it.

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Eating my own dogfood. It sometimes tastes yucky.

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. I could dump all my addresses into one big flat file, and use grep. 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 07.09.07 I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. I tout the benefits of open source software.

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The search for good web conferencing, take 2

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Jonathan Trenn 01.31.08 Here’s an example of some activists using it: [link] And, yes, I’m doing some work for ooVoo. That can share my Linux desktop. That would be the holy grail. at 12:33 pm This may not solve all your concerns, but you may want to look at ooVoo.

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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. Technorati Tags: media , opensource , economics , peer2peer { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 John Powers 11.16.06 Thanks for the comments! I found it through Beth’s Blog.

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Free and open source tool #6: Joomla!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 at 1:50 pm Modx is wonderful for adaptability (especially as a web dev) and sNews – just keep watching, no instant install as yet, still young, but wow – amazing since only one really lightweight simple php file! at 7:34 pm Hi there, nice blog.

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Lessons Learned From A Twitterthon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She and I have have linked to each other’s blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. I wrote about her project The Born2Fly Project to stop child trafficking in January, 2009 on National Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery Awareness Day. She is no stranger to building relationships.

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