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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. I stopped at the license agreement. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m. Good specs, cheap price. It booted fine.

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My Slides from the Screencasting Session and Please Vote.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If more of us are screencasting, then all I have to do is remix other people's work, provided they've licensed their material using creative commons licensing. minute videos, map out the screencast before you actually film it, create a storyboard, write a script, use music. no more than 3.5 There's some execellent content there.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. I think it can also work for the folks who perhaps use laptops as their primary machines, and don’t do anything except email and web. And, guess what? I’m giving up. And, of course, always, for developers.

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What color is the social web?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Unfortunately, I did not have my laptop accessible in that moment. It took me about an hour of searching on many different key words to try to find a photo that was creative commons licensed, showing a person or people of color at a computer. "In traditional civil rights groups, there's a pattern???

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