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Frictionless Fundraising
	Our first feature in a great many months is a good one. Frictionless Fundraising: How the Internet can Bring Fundraising back into Balance is my treatise on how we can avoid the false turns of both technocentricity and old media thinking, and realize the genuine promise of online fundraising. Posted: 1/29/03; 6:10:35 PM #

Open Networks, Closed Regimes

In Open Networks, Closed Regimes: The Impact of the Internet on Authoritarian Rule, Shanthi Kalathil and Taylor Boas describe how repressive regimes have not been undermined by the internet, unlike many of us hoped. It has been said that the internet "routes around censorship" the way it routes around any other sort of damage, but has not come true. Further, it's disturbing to read about the extent to which American and European companies have "fallen over each other in their eagerness to sell the latest surveillance gear and software to China and Saudi Arabia". Posted: 1/29/03; 2:06:34 PM #