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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Lack of access to the knowledge in books perpetuates ignorance, generates poverty and squanders human potential. I believe it is a combination of copyright exceptions and business model innovations. My point is that copyright exceptions enable the ebook to deliver far more social benefit than would be practical in an earlier era.

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What is a Widget?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to wikipedia , The earliest known occurrence of the word "widget" is in Beggar on Horseback (1924), a comedy play written by George S. Wikipedia's definition of widget also points to some popular, cultural, and technical, including: A comic book character and copyrighted image. Kaufman and Marc Connelly.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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12NTC: Nonprofits and the Future of Internet Rights

Tech Soup

You might recall a day earlier this year when you were greeted with an odd blackout message instead of the Wikipedia entry for poutine. Many became aware of the movement against the Stop Online Piracy Act after the January 18 service blackouts started by Wikipedia and Reddit (with support from Craigslist and Google ). Future Threats.

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SOPA Strike: 12 Hour Internet Blackout on Jan. 18th To Call Attention to US Bill That Threatens Open Internet

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sites includes Wikipedia , Reddit , BoingBoing , and Global Voices are “going dark” and will black out the Global Voices Advocacy site for 12 hours on January 18 beginning at 8 am. Current copyright laws are occasionally misused in the U.S, In response, many web sites are going on strike.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most blog software can generate a RSS feed with the click of a button - you don??????t Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. the work of copyright holders. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. Discovery Exercise #2: 1.

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