A great video, and it fits in, too!

July 12, 2007 in Free Culture, NFP/NGO

Amnesty International: Signature

Here’s the future of advocacy, and just another example of a critical advantage that the NFP sector has over other methods of organization. this particular advantage is because of Web 2.0, but there already were many advantages that the NGO/NFP sector has, as I have posted about here: [...]

A Note to Readers

July 11, 2007 in Uncategorized

I will be traveling, and very busy (if it is possible to be any busier than I have been for the past couple of weeks, that is!) so, July will only get the two posts, not counting this one. Won’t return until first week of August. (Long Trip!)
Poland and (perhaps) Tunisia or some other somewhat [...]

Convergence

July 11, 2007 in Amartya Sen, Censorship, China, Financial Times, Public Health, sustainability

Amartya Sen had observed that a Free Press is the very best weapon against hunger. There has never been, he asserts, a famine in a modern nation that has both a Free Press and multi-party democracy. I had wondered a while back (in this post: The Free Press, Famines, and Disease Outbreaks) [...]

But what will the RIAA do with all the nukes…?

July 1, 2007 in Corporate Fascism, Free Culture, IP, RIAA, Wikipedia, predictive frameworks

The case of the man who sued his drycleaners for 67 million dollars has nothing on the RIAA, who is suing the Russian web site allofmp3.com for 1.65 trillon dollars. This exceeds the entire GDP of Russia. If they succeeded in this lawsuit and were somehow able to collect, the income from this [...]