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Community Technology Review call for abstracts
	Community Technology Review has issued a call for abstracts for their fall 2002 issue. The focus is on community building, volunteer corps programs, and international models. The deadline is July 26, 2002. Posted: 7/8/02; 11:29:56 AM #

Deconstructing "half the world without phones" factoid
	Clay Shirky takes on the phrase "half the world has never made a phone call" and in so doing sheds some interesting light on the international digital divide. Posted: 7/8/02; 11:29:46 AM #

Drucker Award for Canadian Nonprofit Innovation
	The Drucker Award for Canadian Nonprofit Innovation is accepting nominations, which are due by July 31, 2002. Posted: 7/8/02; 11:29:33 AM #

Impact of Palladium and DRM
	Hal Varian is a very smart observer of the world of computing and understands how control is excercised online. His review of Palladium and Digital Rights Management should be setting off alarm bells right now. Posted: 7/8/02; 11:29:21 AM #

Sharp decrease in click through on email ads

Email advertising is decreasing in its effectiveness, according to new research. But I think the methodology is flawed. Just look at the language. It's all about advertising. What has really happened is that the amount of spam and other stupid email has increased, which makes the deeply permission based email (which is still the majority of nonprofit email) into a much smaller proportion. Posted: 7/8/02; 11:29:07 AM #