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Principal bans 'anti-military,' 'anti-American' materials
	Two nonprofits -- Veterans for Peace and a Quaker organization -- have been banned from a Tennessee high school, while the military continues to be allowed to promote to the students. I am very concerned about the political and media environment that nurtures this sort of thing. Our work gets harder and harder. Posted: 2/6/05; 5:51:32 PM #

Understanding Site Navigation: Key Terms
	Jordan Dossett at Antharia has written a great basic guide to the terminology of web site navigation. I find that we are constantly reinventing this language, but this article captures the prevailing vocabulary nicely. Posted: 2/6/05; 5:46:15 PM #

Lifemapper
	I continue to be fascinated by data visualization as a tool for knowledge building. The Lifemapper tool is one great example. It uses data from the Internet to compute the ecological profile of a species and map both its potential and its actual habitats. Posted: 2/6/05; 5:43:54 PM #

Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network
	The Open Society Institute has funded the development of the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network, which is now documenting its work and releasing its software for setting up free neighborhood wireless networks. The vision is "community-owned, not-for-profit broadband networks in cities and towns around the globe". Posted: 2/6/05; 5:37:53 PM #

NIH reveals open-access policy
	I'm very excited about the explosion of innovation and knowledge distribution that could come from the open access policy of the National Institutes of Health. I would still love to find a similar model of free and easy publishing of the research findings of all grantmakers. Posted: 2/6/05; 5:35:17 PM #

Apocalypse now: how mankind is sleepwalking to the end of the Earth
	With a veritable encyclopedia of nonprofit causes at stake, Geoffrey Lean catalogs the impact of the world's trajectory toward global warming in How Mankind is Sleepwalking to the End of the Earth. Posted: 2/6/05; 5:18:36 PM #