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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ethan Zuckerman, a persuasive critic of Second Life, has withdrawn his "Second Life is not Open Source" complaint in light of Linden Labs announcement. If you think that Seocond Life is just about buying virtual houses, be sure read this. See Allan's comment and read Ethan's post. This should be good fodder for debate.

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Favorite Free Software

Robert Weiner

Joe Medina of Colby College asked members of the FUNDSVCS listserve about their favorite free software programs. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. Here are mine, minus obvious ones like Gmail and Firefox (note that many are only free for home use).

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