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Bookmarks for March 2nd through March 3rd

webb — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:06 +0000

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

The Future of the Library: Urban Mediaspace – GOOD Blog – GOOD – Interesting stuff.
Chile earthquake relief: Cellphone donations struggle compared to Haiti / The Christian Science Monitor – CSMonitor.com –
Omidyar Network awards $100K to NewsTrust to separate wheat from chaff – San Francisco Business Times: –

Bookmarks for February 4th through February 16th

webb — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:00:06 +0000

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

HOW TO: organize your tweeting staff in a natural disaster | Social Media 4 Good –
eRead the Economic Report of the President | The White House – Now if only they would release bills in a similar fashion.
Nonprofit Commons in Second Life 2010 (You Tube) – Terrific video talking about the work that the TechSoup Global team is doing in Second Life.

Bookmarks for January 24th through January 27th

webb — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:00:04 +0000

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web – Bits Blog – NYTimes.com – "If someone approached me even five years ago and explained that one day in the near future I would be filtering, collecting and sharing content for thousands of perfect strangers to read — and doing it for free — I would have responded with a pretty perplexed look. Yet today I can’t imagine living in a world where I don’t filter, collect and share."
Word of the Year 2009 | eyecurious – "I think the crucial difference is that curating should really imply more than a process of selection. Ideally it should not only be based on in-depth research into a particular area, but it should also attempt to contribute new ideas that shed light on some unseen aspect or that allow us to see things in a new context. When I think of the best curated photography shows over the past decade, they were all based on several years of painstaking research and all attempted to say something new about their subject. Curators also have a crucial role to play in terms of collaboration with artists. Just as there is some concern about self-publishing because it generally implies that there is no outside editorial input, exhibitions curated by the artists themselves tend to be messy affairs."
Google Maps Mania: Community Mapping with Google Maps – Interesting way to map a community.

Bookmarks for January 4th through January 13th

webb — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:00:04 +0000

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

Haiti: 2010 Earthquake – Ushahidi has deployed their emergency reporting platform to support information sharing with regard to the Haiti earthquake.
Incomplete Manifesto for Growth (Bruce Mau Design) – Many of these items are very worth incorporating.
Indexcard + KJ method -> Keynote on Flickr – Photo Sharing! – This photo just speaks to me.

Bookmarks for December 4th through January 4th

webb — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:00:03 +0000

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

Social Innovation Fund Process Draft (Tactical Philanthropy) – The fine folks at the Corporation for National and Community Service are seeking comments on their funding criteria for the Social Innovation Fund. Give them your thoughts — and send them to Sean at Tactical Philanthropy as well to help push the whole conversation of finding and funding innovation forward.
Newspapers See the Appeal of a Local Web Gadget, SeeClickFix – NYTimes.com – Great to see SeeClickFix getting this kind of attention. If you haven't checked 'em out, you should.
Omidyar Network grants $1.4M to Ushahidi – San Francisco Business Times: – Congratulations!

Bookmarks for November 30th through December 4th

webb — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:00:04 +0000

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

Net Squared White Paper Nov 2009 – As always, we'd love your feedback.
Open Now: Sparkseed Application for Social Innovators | Social Entrepreneurship | Change.org – Anyone responding to this opportunity?
Nonprofits Get Word Out Through Social Media – Industry News – Portfolio.com – Nice to see the work that the Net Tuesday hosts do getting recognized!
Cultural Data Project – One example of what happens you share and aggregate data.

Bookmarks for November 17th through November 28th

webb — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:00:09 +0000

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

5 Important Tips for Successful Web Meetings – We run virtual meetings — badly. We have to get better to be able to be more inclusive.
Are Metrics Blinding Our Perception? (NYTimes.com) – "The once-mysterious formation of tastes is becoming a quantitative science, as services like Netflix and Pandora and StumbleUpon deploy algorithms to predict, and shape, what we like to watch, listen to and read.
These services are wondrous. They also risk lumping us into clusters of the like-minded and depriving us of the self-fortifying act of choosing. What will it mean to prefer one genre of song when you have never confronted others? It is one thing to love your country because you have seen the world and love it still; it is quite another to love it because you know nothing else."
The War For the Web – O'Reilly Radar – We do need to depend on interoperability.

Bookmarks for November 9th through November 16th

webb — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:00:05 +0000

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

Justin Massa on MoveSmart.org's new neighborhood finder – Great to see all the work that MoveSmart is doing.
Why Social (Site) Segregation is a Political Concern | Personal Democracy Forum – "Politicians aren't supposed to be using newfangled technology to the same ends as the rest of us, namely to make ourselves look cool. The hope and dream is that they're using it to connect with voters, potential voters, and plain ol' constituents. And if their technology efforts are guided by the trends and hot practices they hear about from their privileged friends and allies, rather than an accurate reflection of the modern digital world, they risk using communications technologies to widen — not lessen — the gap between themselves and a fair number of the people with whom they should be engaging."
Why Geeks (like me) Promote Transparency (Idealware) – Peter Campbell pushes the recent data transparency conversations further. What say we make this conversation real at a certain conference coming up in Atlanta next year? Specifically, the Unconference on Open Data?

Bookmarks for November 8th through November 9th

webb — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:00:06 +0000

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

Net Tuesday Organizers Stand Up for a Web that Connects us ALL — Will YOU? | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Great — great! — note from Joe Solomon to the Net Tuesday organizers about Causes redlining MySpace.
New on SSIR: Letting Technology Lead (Amy Sample Ward’s Version of NPTech) – Amy writes about Causes leaving MySpace. Great post and comments.
New @Extraordinaries mission: Help MoveSmart.org compile access to community information nationwide. #moving #housing – Nice to see this collaboration!

Bookmarks for November 2nd through November 7th

webb — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:00:05 +0000

Here’s what’s piled up in my reader:

Social Media is the New Collaboration | CloudAve – "If you are going to measure social media, and you are finding it hard to do so, go back to how you measure the effectiveness of teams, look at the individual contributions of all the members of the group including the outside social media resources."
A new way of looking at the world – CNN.com – More examples of data visualization.
Google Dashboard: Will You Need a Warrant for That? – "What’s scariest about Google isn’t the fact that it has all my email, YouTube, Maps and web searches, but how it can farm that data to discover more about me (and how long it keeps it). People know they have Gmail accounts — what they don’t know is which Google demographics are sold to advertisers based on that history."
Visualising the Guardian Datablog (Information Is Beautiful) – Are we all thinking about how we can apply this kind of thing to our sector?
Why Twitter “Lists” Change Everything (Dave Troy: Fueled By Randomness) – "But the genie is out of the bottle. Start managing your reputation in a way that’s authentic and ethical and stay on top of this. And be prepared for what I’m calling the “curatorial economy.” (You heard it here first.)"