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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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. We can just blow up the old model while striving for the next phase of equilibrium change. Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books. Fast forward to today.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

Another one that I wanted to do would be, and that I'm actually looking into, is it's California law that if you lay off 50 people or more in the next six months you have to announce that and make that public. Is it video and audio? We've done audio, we've done video, we've done text, and we've done some photo slide shows.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

Then I went to Yale for law school, fancy Ivy League, East Coast, intellectual, all this stuff. and you kind of go through your rebel phase. You can listen to the audio from this interview on the Big Vision Podcast. I also have been very very blessed. I grew up in the rural south, went to public schools there.

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