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Why We're Blacking Out Sites: PIPA and SOPA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). Copyright hawks like Rupert Murdoch and the MPAA have attacked this movement as being for piracy, against jobs, and dangerous. But, we're not for piracy.

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Lame spam of the day: Notice from WesternUnion) : Account Deactivate.

Robert Weiner

First, there's what looks like a reversed smiley face in the subject (maybe it was supposed to be a copyright symbol). The friendly footer looks like it might be from a real Western Union message, inviting me to send comments. We are continually improving our Web site to better serve you.

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Great reads from around the web on October 18th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. And where you stand on the discussion of copyright, digital rights, online content sharing and intellectual property? I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

ASU Lodestar Center

If you have your own tips for nonprofit success, please share in the comments section below. Hello friends, it looks like the comment section was down, - it deleted a couple of comments - but is up and working now! But, the cards are copyrighted by Gallup. Sorry about the missing comments, folks!

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Can I Use That Video on My Website?

Tech Soup

Once you create a video, it is automatically copyrighted and you have full rights to it, unless stated otherwise by a sharing service. Please visit the site to view this video). Currently the site has a billion users , who view 4 billion videos per day on average. Please visit the site to view this video).

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Creating, Building, and Sustaining.

ASU Lodestar Center

Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 12:16 PM Labels: Asset Based Community Development , Chandler , community , Hannah Humphrey , nonprofits , Public Allies , social media 1 comments: George King said. Maybe youll find that your community is made up of people around the world, or maybe youll discover that theyre right next door.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 12:13 PM Labels: AmeriCorps , Arizona Citizens for the Arts , Michael Soto , Public Allies 1 comments: Siobhansaid. Thank you, Michael for sharing your story and reminding all of us Americorps Alums of our service to this Country. Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be.