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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 18, 2012
Part of my objective was to show the unintended consequences of Internet censorship bills like SOPA and PIPA (SOPA's Senate buddy bill), responding to alerts from organizations I trust like the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands).
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. We have an array of copyright exceptions that cover the activities of archives and libraries, especially fair use and the copyright exception that benefits people with disabilities.
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Tech Soup
APRIL 7, 2009
Some people have responded to the news with little more than bemusement that Encarta lasted as long as it did, and many have pointed to Wikipedia as Encarta's killer and successor. For me, Encarta was never a replacement for the library; it was an intellectual onramp to the library. Photo: Bright Tal.
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Cloud computing basically means services you use over the Internet like Google Apps, Microsoft Office Web Apps , Live Documents , or One Hub rather than installing software and housing the document or information in-house. More conversations in our Virtual Community Forum. The most famous wiki is of course Wikipedia.
Tech Soup
JUNE 21, 2012
"Our community health agency recently expanded into additional counties, causing a difficulty in conducting necessary meetings with our management team. The donation of GoToMeeting has enabled us to meet on a regular basis, keeping communication an important aspect of running our agency. Citrix Donations in Action.
NTEN
AUGUST 25, 2009
Sure, the average price of a computer has been falling for years, but that doesn't take into account the recurring cost of Internet access. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles? Andrew Sears suggests that you, "Immerse yourself in the community you are serving and learn from it."
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 1, 2007
Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. It will be interesting to see how the open source community develops around Ingres. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.
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