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Disinfopedia
	I'm a big believer in exposing the false "objectivity" of propagandists. Disinfopedia.org is a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Posted: 1/7/05; 2:12:13 PM #

10 Reasons Nonprofits Should Use RSS

Marnie Webb has written her 10 Reasons Nonprofits Should Use RSS. The last one is that we're just at the beginning, but the rest all start with "it's ridiculously easy to": Read the web. Discover relevant information. Share the information you get. Participate in conversations. Control your own subscriptions. Allow people to trade your good content. Lend a bit of web real estate. Avoid being a spammer. Contribute to web-wide conversations. Posted: 1/7/05; 2:07:53 PM #

Make it Simple
	In Make it Simple, the Economist makes a demographic and economic argument about the need for technological elegance. Well, actually, they say "simplicity" but I'm not sure that it should be framed that way. What we're all looking for is that elusive bridge between simple interfaces or rules and rich, complex contexts and outcomes. Posted: 1/7/05; 2:00:07 PM #

List of Faith Based Programs
	The Associated Press has produced a map of the states with lists of agencies receiving "faith based" funding from the U.S. government in 2003. I deplore the nonprofit habit of chasing new sources of money, but in this case I would be very interested in seeing just how broad a definition of "faith" the Bush administration could accept. Posted: 1/7/05; 1:45:10 PM #

Using the Web to promote tsunami relief
	David Wallace-Wells has compiled a nice survey of the role of the Internet in a rapid response to the tsunami disaster. One interesting tidbit: OxFam received over 80% of their tsunami related contributions online. Posted: 1/7/05; 1:29:12 PM #

Small Websites, Great Results

Doug Addison's Small Websites, Great Results is a decent first book for a small organization, despite its focus on for profit businesses. It doesn't represent the cutting edge of marketing, but it is a solid collection of common sense recommendations. It's greatest flaw, in my opinion, is a distorted use of the word "small" to describe a way of thinking, rather than the size of a site. But it's easy to see how well grounded the author is in the real world troubles of small organizations without much of an online presence, and trouble managing their web sites. Posted: 1/7/05; 1:23:35 PM #