Washington Area Women’s Foundation Launches New Website, is Blogging

This morning our client and philanthropic partner, Washington Area Women's Foundation, launched a redesigned version of their website, thewomensfoundation.org.  The Women's Foundation works in the Washington, DC metropolitan area to better the lives of women and girls through community outreach, education, and grants.  The Women's Foundation is a fantastic organization that contributes an immense amount to communities of struggling women in the Washingon,...

Yahoo’s Time Capsule Project Seeks Contributions

Described as the "first ever collection of electronic anthropology" and "a digital mosaic of humanity," the Yahoo! Time Capsule project, created by Internet artist Jonathan Harris, will be continuing to collect contributions from anyone and everyone for the next 29 days. The resulting collection will be "projected onto an ancient pyramid and beamed into space before it is presented to Smithsonian Folkways Recordings,...

China Filters the Internet

Researchers from OpenNet Initiative (ONI) released an excellent report last year on the scope and degree to which China filters Internet content. Though quite a few countries filter Internet content, the researchers agree that "China's Internet filtering regime is the most sophisticated effort of its kind in the world." They describe it as "pervasive,...

Politicians, Advocacy Groups and Social News Sites

We’ve written often here about social news sites like Digg, Reddit and Netscape that give users control of what appears on the sites’ homepage through voting.  Until a few months ago, these sites were really geared towards techies, so they were largely ignored by politicians and advocacy groups. 

Now that these social news sites have built an audience and expanded their focus beyond technology news, ...

Reviewing the Flash Players of Major Video Sites

Update: The folks at Blip Tv contacted me and corrected my statement that YouTube was the first company to allow bloggers to imbed third party video content on their own sites. Blip TV launched that feature one month before YouTube. My original post follows.

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