A new book The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change by Alison Fine and Beth Kanter is being launched online today.
The idea is to generate enough sales to chart it on Amazon.
Video stream: uStream
Twitter hashtag: #netnon
Buy the book: Amazon
Video has now been posted of the New York Technology Council‘s May meeting “New York Media Success Stories: How Media is Using New Technology to Evolve”
Part 1
Part 2
Moderator: Adam Balkin, NY1
Panelists:
Clay Shirky’s second book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age is now out. At ISOC-NY we well remember when Clay first expounded these ideas to our ears at the ‘Futures of the Internet’ forum at NYU in April 2008.
Cory Doctorow in his Boing Boing review sums up the theme of the book thus:
Shirky’s hypothesis is that a lot of the 20th century stuff we used to take for granted — most people didn’t want to create media, people didn’t value homemade and amateur productions, no one would pitch in to create something for others to enjoy unless they were being paid — weren’t immutable laws of nature, but accidents of history. The Internet has undone those accidents, by making it possible for more people to make and do cool stuff, especially together.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s 38th Meeting is taking place in Brussels, Belgium on 20-25 June 2010.
* Remote Schedule (EST is Brussels -6) | iCal
* Twitter tags #ICANN38 | ICANN38 | #ICANN
Sunday Jun 20:
* ALAC and Regional Leaders Working Session 3 am EST – 3 pm EST
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Onion Router (TOR) project have teamed up to release a new privacy-enhancing Firefox plugin called HTTPS Everywhere. It was inspired by Google’s new encrypted search engine, and it ensures that whenever you visit a site that accepts encrypted connections, your browser switches into encrypted mode, hiding your traffic from snoops on your local network and at your ISP. HTTPS Everywhere covers Google search, Wikipedia, Twitter, Identi.ca, Facebook, EFF, Tor, Scroogle, DuckDuckGo, Ixquick and other smaller search engines.
Click here to install the Firefox plugin.
via Boing Boing.
Audio is now available of yesterday’s (June 17, 2010) Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee (ICAC) briefing on consumer privacy.
Background:
Last month, Congressmen Rick Boucher and Cliff Stearns, respectively Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet, released a discussion draft of legislation “to assure the privacy of information about individuals both on the Internet and offline.” This is the most significant movement in over half a decade to craft privacy rules for consumers in the digital age.
Panelists:
The DebConf10 local team would like to invite you to participate in the upcoming Debian Conference which will take place from August 1 to 7, 2010, at Columbia University, in New York City, USA, in cooperation with the Columbia Computer Science department. In DebConf’s eleven-year history, this will be the first time it is being held in the United States of America.
More information here: http://debconf10.debconf.org/
Mashable reports that Starbucks will offer free Wi-Fi at its stores nationwide starting July 1 via AT&T.
The story notes:
Starbucks joins an increasing list of brands and chains to offer free Wi-Fi in its stores. For example, last December, McDonald’s rolled out free Wi-Fi to nearly all of its restaurants across the country. Panera Bread also offers a similar program.
and
the company is also planning on rolling out a new Starbucks Digital Network in partnership with Yahoo later this fall. This network, which will only be accessible in U.S. company-operated stores, will offers customers free and unrestricted access to paid sites and services like WSJ.com and other content providers on their phones, tablets or laptops.
The 49th meeting of the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) is underway in San Francisco (Jun 13-16 2010).
NEW YORK, June 10, 2009 – On June 21, 2010 at 10:00am on the 16th Floor Public Hearing Room of 250 Broadway, New York, NY (across from City Hall Park), the New York City Council Committee on Technology will hold a hearing on Introduction 029-2010, seeking to establish open data standards for all city agencies. Int. 029-2010 (formerly Intro. 991-2009) aims to increase government transparency and facilitate easier access to public data.
Beyond the ‘good government’ benefits of this legislation, the bill will also unlock City data to enable web developers and entrepreneurs to interact with City government in new and unforeseen ways. Data published under this legislation will be readable by any computer device, including laptops and phones, for innovative developments. This Gov 2.0 inspired transparency legislation targets application developers, startups, small businesses, and academics with the ultimate goal of strengthening the connection between government and the public, while re-energizing the small business-tech sectors and highlighting New York’s digital future.
* More info: http://nycctechcomm.wordpress.com/opengov/
* Webcast: http://www.livestream.com/nycctechcomm
* June 2009 hearing archive: http://nycctechcomm.wordpress.com/opengov/062909opendata/