The Realist Idealist

A colleague just introduced me to BrightKite.com and as I’ve been playing with it all I can think of are the nearly infinite possibilties for it.
First and foremost the service is going to need to be integrated with others so that it doesn’t exist in a vaccum. Don’t know if they plan an API [...]

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I’ve heard a lot of talk around the nonprofit sector in the last 6-9 months about “blogger strategy” and “leveraging the blogosphere.” That is to say, a lot of people are talking about how to get bloggers to write (positively) about them and/or their organizations.
The same has been true at my own organization as I’ve [...]

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It’s been three weeks since I’ve written anything. The last time I did was in Argentina when a co-worker sent me a great link and I more or less didn’t have to to think at all.
The month of April was abysmal as far as posting was concerned. The crazy thing is, I probably [...]

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No matter how much I try not to have the conversations about online fundraising - mostly because others who know much more about it than I should be having them - I sure do end up talking about it an awful lot.
Along those lines one of my colleagues at Idealist just sent me a link [...]

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I am very pleased to announce that ADOOGA.com has officially launched the Beta version of its website today!
Why am I pleased you might ask? If you did ask, I might answer that there are two reasons.
1) It’s the brain child of one of my best friends and 2) It’s fun, innovative, and has huge [...]

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Yesterday, I got sent a press release about the Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based organization I’d never heard of dedicated to preserving a record of the Internet and to increasing access to the Internet. This week, the little known organization began offering free internet service to public housing projects at speeds far greater than [...]

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<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://shots.snap.com/ss/95f0dc342a26c3da87727767b468a6ff/snap_shots.js”></script> I’ve had a couple different conversations/arguments about Twitter in the last few weeks - both online and off. I will admit, I was once adamantly averse to tweeting as I saw it mostly as a big time waster. Then I went to SXSW.
At SXSW I saw how it could be [...]

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Anyone I’ve talked to recently knows that I’ve been touting the virtues of Current Media’s new website and their citizen journalism through the “pods” on their TV station (now in 51 million households!) I don’t believe there is any other company that is (intentionally) democratizing media in the same way - and the potential [...]

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The more you dig into the actions of the Chinese against Tibet, the more cold and systematic their cultural genocide begins to appear.  Indeed “cold and systematic” is exactly what genocide is in the first place.  (Just ask the Rwandans whose recognized genocide took place in 1994, but which had indicators and events happening as [...]

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I am a Flickr addict. It’s no secret. And I have no shame in proclaiming it.
I’ve been known to spend hours on end, mouth agape, staring at some of the amazing work people around the world are able to capture and share with each other. This is one of my favorite contacts. [...]

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