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A nice list of non-profit web tools

September 16th, 2007 · Comments Off

Read/Write Web has a terrific list of non-profit web tools. This goes along great with some of the previous guides I’ve linked (see “How we set up a non-profit by the seat of our pants” and Startup Guides).
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Blogging Scholarships

September 5th, 2007 · Comments Off

Collegescholarships.org is offering a $10,000 scholarship for college bloggers. Like almost everything I see nowadays, I wonder why they didn’t have this when I was in college and was still writing Calstuff (via Read/WriteWeb).
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“How we set up a non-profit by the seat of our pants”

August 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

A few months ago, I wrote up a list of Startup guides where people like Evan Williams and Nick Denton gave a list of which web apps they were using to help their web companies. I also said they were good for a nonprofit, as well as a startup. Well, after scouring the [...]

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How to become a blogger in college

August 16th, 2007 · Comments Off

Advice on how to become a blogger in college from Wired:
Spend less time on coursework, because unless you’re going to graduate school, your grades don’t matter. And you don’t need to go to grad school to be a journalist. This route will leave more time for you to start blogging in college and jump into [...]

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Understanding climate change and weird weather

August 9th, 2007 · Comments Off

From Wired Science:
No, you cannot blame individual events like [the tornado in Brooklyn] on climate change, as it was possible for them to occur even without the human-made changes to the atmosphere. However, it is fair to ask whether the human changes have altered the likelihood of such events. There the answer seems [...]

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My class photo is on the front page of Wikia

July 18th, 2007 · Comments Off

A section of a class picture I had posted on Flickr is now serving as the picture of the front of Wikia (link to the image). Sadly I was cut out from it, but I am happy to see the picture used on another web site.
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Top 10 Things Americans Want but Can’t Have

July 15th, 2007 · Comments Off

Top 10 Things Americans Want but Can’t Have - The standard list of things that doesn’t seem to get through to the people in the beltway of Washington, DC. Namely, this list includes universal health care, increased social spending, and the impeachment of George W. Bush. It’s been pretty clear our politicians aren’t [...]

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test post with vagablog

June 5th, 2007 · Comments Off

I think I may have found a working blogging client for Palm. Get Vagablog.
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How to submit your sitemap.xml to Ask.com

May 27th, 2007 · Comments Off

How to submit your sitemap.xml to Ask.com-There’s a manual submit link to submit your sitemap file to Ask for indexing. Just use the following URL: http://submissions.ask.com/ping?sitemap=http://theurlofthesitemap.xml
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Nike Megatron and Optimus Prime

April 25th, 2007 · Comments Off

Nike is planning to unveil transforming Megatron and Optimus Prime shoes. They sound cool, but could be painfully uncomfortable to wear. (via Boing Boing)
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