Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. Authors are fighting over how much money they get: it’s clear that they are being paid. The Chafee Amendment The U.S. copyright law.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. This allows a much broader group of experts to keep working on the problem.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Consider things like ebooks, video or audio files, or even a private livestream session with a celebrity. Viewing films at home has been popularized by services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. However, if you want to hold a global scavenger hunt, open to anyone in the world, you have that option will virtual scavenger hunts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The authors present a two-by-two matrix. Before Benetech was founded, blind people were read to either in person by a family member, volunteer, or paid reader, or via audio cassette tape. As the author William Gibson famously noted, “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

I've included links to each audio interview, as well to transcripts (when they're available). Anna Lappe Author of Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It. Co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , and Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Author of two books, one just came out last February. My trusted sources, if you want to do a little bit more research anytime I cite a statistic, it’s always going to be from Pew Internet, M+R Benchmarks, Global Trends In Giving. So take a look at these Amazon skills. Get her newsletter. We’re talking about it.

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