• Complementary Currency
  fascinating article about creating more intentional, local economies. in brazil, the government created the Saber, a money given to 7 year olds that could only be spent on college. one result: this induced teenagers to become tutors of younger children to earn money for college. 1 billion invested returned an estimated 10 billion in educational benefit.
  with banking best-of-2008 currency economics economy money
• Debunking Five Myths of Online Fundraising
  Article from 11/20/2008 on the Nonprofit Technology Network
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• 10 Ways to Get Serious About Social Media
  10 ways to get serious about social media this year
  with media social
• A Strategy for Using Email Lists
  
  Is your organization using email lists as well as it could? Read on to find out how we think EVERY Northwest environmental group should use email lists every day.
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• Alpaca owners shed light on industry
  sienna's parents in NC
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• bell hooks: MediaRights
  bell hooks' shortlist of films that matter
  MediaRights helps media makers, educators, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.
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  with films movies
• Brain cells in a dish fly fighter plane
  scientist grows functioning brain cells in a petri dish. quite an experiement.
  An array of rat brain cells successfully controls a fighter jet simulator - the array could also provide a test-bed for brain drugs
  with brain experiment.
• Buying 'Green' Flooring
  this old house. eco hardwood floors.
  10 options for the eco-minded remodeler
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• Caring for Your Introvert
  The habits and needs of a little-understood group
  The habits and needs of a little-understood group
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  with introvert by 8 users
• class
  clear stats and facts about class. interesting look at mobility. includes an attempt to measure class through education, income, occupation, and wealth and the chance to find your place. does not include race and other factors that impede opportunity and degrade quality of life no matter where someone stands.
  There was a time when Americans thought they understood class. The upper crust vacationed in Europe and worshiped an Episcopal God. The middle class drove Ford Fairlanes, settled the San Fernando Valley and enlisted as company men. The working class belonged to the A.F.L.-C.I.O., voted Democratic and did not take cruises to the Caribbean.
  with class income money wealth
• Colony Collapse Disorder
  In 2007, bees throughout the US and then the world began rapidly disappearing. CCD is poorly understood phenomenon in which worker bees in a beehive or Western honey bee colony abruptly disappear.
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• Coworking Survey
  survey of 120 folks involved or interested in coworking
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• Crowdsourcing
  a task completed by an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call over the Internet.
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  with distributed peer
• Diversity, Power and Privilege in Open Source Communities
  Jack Aponte on Diversity, Power and Privilege in Open Source Communities
  with diversity drupal opensource
• global dimming
  goodbye sunshine. the amount of sunshine reaching us is declining rapidly, likely due to dust in the air
  with atmosphere weather
• graphicPUSH
  Work for Hire and Freelance Web Designers. Why and how to avoid them...
  Work for hire (work made for hire) agreements are common in freelance design, although they are not applicable or even legal.
  agreement contract copyright design for freelance hire law made work
  with contracts
• I Chat, Therefore I Am...
  conversation between two chatbots
  Conversation between two robots drifts into flirtation and philosophy. Visit Discover Magazine to read this article and other exclusive science and technology news stories.
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• iPhone: Five Thousand Dollars per Megabyte
  "On a per byte basis SMS is the world's most expensive way to communicate, and the most profitable product ever introduced by wireless operators. [ on the iPhone, I ] assumed that I would be able to install iChat myself. But I will not be able to do that because ... it will not be possible to install applications on the iPhone without the approval of Cingular and Apple."
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• Man who claims FBI is after him puts entire life online
  "Elahi has documented nearly every waking hour of his life during that time. He posts copies of every debit card transaction, so you can see what he bought, where, and when. A GPS device in his pocket reports his real-time physical location on a map ."
  with art fbi surveillance
• Meatpacking Laborers Victimized
  Alternet: "Undocumented immigrants were recently arrested for securing jobs at meatpacking plants by using Social Security numbers that didn't belong to them. Their crime: paying for someone else's retirement." january 2007
  with immigrants labor law security social

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