Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

His forthcoming book, Você Vai me Servir ("You Will Serve Me," Annablume Publishers, São Paulo, 2012) is a comparative ethnographic study of relationships between domestic workers and their employers in Brazil and the US. In Brazil, David wrote and directed newscasts for CurrentTV.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

The Amazon Text-to-Speech issue This one has gotten a lot of press, especially since the National Federation of the Blind and the Reading Rights Coalition has formed to fight the soundproofing of books on the Kindle2. My main point is that the two high grounds are not the name in impact. It’s the right long-term solution.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Don’t miss his new book: Retention Fundraising. Hungry children in Brazil? Gail’s book, Fired-Up Fundraising: Turn Board Passion into Action (Wiley/AFP) is the “gold standard guide to building successful fundraising boards.” . Today I’m sharing guru Roger Craver’s talk on Building Donor Loyalty. Elderly shut-ins in Boston?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 8, 2004

I just returned from Brazil yesterday: an exciting and meaningful trip that I'll talk about more later, I hope. Still, speech reco is not going to be at a level where people use it commonly instead of typing (he projected that more like 6 years out) - Thinks that small devices are going to be very exciting for book content.

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Care2

APRIL 5, 2011

In addition to working a variety of jobs ranging from picking organic peas to writing a book on using military networks, Justin has a passion for international development and indigenous rights from studies in Brazil and South Africa where he helped start a human rights nonprofit for Pygmies in Congo.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 31, 2006

They are definitely tackling market failure in the publishing industry: in Nepal they are now the second largest publisher of children's books in Nepali. Rodrigo Baggio (of CDI in Brazil) and I are trying to find more time together since we're both in the IT space: we know there's a joint project here somewhere. and more.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Developing nations to test new $150 laptops: "Developing nations to test new $150 laptopsBy Jason SzepBOSTON (Reuters) - From Brazil to Pakistan, some of the world's poorest children will peer across the digital divide this month -- reading electronic books, shooting digital video, creating music and chatting with (..)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

One corporate chief executive offered extensive in-kind support for our digital literacy enterprises that provide the disabled access to talking books and teach reading to teenagers and adults who are not yet literate.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

In 1977 he wrote an editorial for the Sunday paper, and at that time he said, "I believe that books can change the world." It's time to do a nonfiction conference about changing the world, one book at a time. We also have Ernest Callenbach , who wrote the first book on the environment, Ecotopia. laughing] And what else?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., It is abundantly clear that the great majority of people in the world who cannot pick up a book and read it effectively are at a terrific disadvantage in society.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Companies participate and get to use the Fair Trade Certified label when they open their books and demonstrate that they bought direct from the farmers and paid a fair price. PR: I was in Brazil a few months ago, and in this village in Brazil there are about eighty or ninety families that are all very small coffee growers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

I was thrilled when Ilyse Hogue , contacted me to say that her friend Anna Lappé was in town to promote her new book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , and might be available for an interview. And so organic didn't cut it, and there was no other word out there that summed up the food that we talk about in our book, Grub.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

I certainly get inspired by getting to touch and be a part of some of the vast wilderness left on the planet, so the job has allowed me the privilege, which not everyone has, of going to Indonesia, and going to the Amazon in Brazil, and certainly that is fuel that will fill my engine for a very long time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Carol’s social enterprise in Nairobi employs over 100 students working to proofread books for our Bookshare digital library. I had a particular brainstorm as a result of some ideas presented by the team, because on the flight back from Africa I had just read Sally Osberg’s new book on social entrepreneurship (coauthored with Prof.

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