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Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space
	In Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space, Ellen R. Cohn and Bernard J. Hibbitts describe what I see as an inevitable trend: a rich permanent online presence for all individuals. Posted: 1/11/05; 6:24:50 PM #

Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata
	When it comes to knowledge management and classification, I tend to like a mix of top down and bottom up approaches. The latter gets a thought provoking analysis from Adam Mathes in Folksonomies - Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata. Posted: 1/11/05; 6:19:59 PM #

Free Software

Dmytri Kleiner and Phillip Smith have compiled a guide entitled What Not-for-profit Organizations Need to Know About Free Software. Their contents include: (1) Free software as a global movement. (2) But is it really free? (3) Free beer: when free actually means "at no cost". (4) The four freedoms. (5) No more serial numbers, no more CD keys. (6) Free software: adaptable and sustainable. (7) Old hardware is good hardware. Old software is bad software. (8) So what are you afraid of? Just try it. Posted: 1/11/05; 6:16:57 PM #

Poll: 3 in 10 in U.S. give tsunami aid
	In a great little snapshot of U.S. giving, a recent poll shows that three in ten Americans say they have given to Tsunami aid. Posted: 1/11/05; 6:13:14 PM #

Iran Cracks Down on Internet Sites

Hossein Derakhshan reports that Iran has cracked down on Internet access, especially weblogs and social networking sites. He proposes a three part response: (1) Technical: using proxies, email, P2P applications, etc. (2) Civil: creating consumer associations for internet users and organizing effective campaigns through them against the censorship. (3) Legal: filing local or even international lawsuits against the government and related organizations or officials for violating the constitution of Iran and international law. Posted: 1/11/05; 6:09:49 PM #