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Blog Action Day: Blog About the Environment on October 15
	I'm not sure how effective it is, but October 15 is Blog Action Day. This year is dedicated to the environment. I plan on participating and encouraging Gilbert Authors Network bloggers to participate as well, if only to track the spread of ideas in a coordinated action like this. Posted: 9/25/07; 10:08:23 PM #

A Race to the Bottom - Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies

Many nonprofit organizations are putting their own and their constituents' data and communication into servers of corporations who are utterly unaccountable to them. There are financial reasons for this, of course. But if you are in that position, you owe it to yourself and your stakeholders to learn about the privacy policies of these companies. I recommend that you read A Race to the Bottom - Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies. Interesting news: Google was ranked as the very worst. Posted: 9/25/07; 10:02:33 PM #

‘Giving’ and Taking: Christ Hedges Reviews Bill Clinton's New Book

Chris Hedges has written a scathing review of Bill Clinton's book Giving. It's a well thought out critique of a certain kind of annoyingly popular charity screed. Early in the review he writes: "It is filled with a lot of vapid, feel-good stories about ordinary and wealthy Americans setting out to make the world a better place." I don't recommend the book, but if you're interested in exploring some classic tensions between charity and justice, I highly recommend the review. Posted: 9/25/07; 9:54:54 PM #

MySpace Censors Anti-War Websites

It amazes me how many people use a corporate social networking profile as their personal home page. There are so many good arguments against this already, but Myspace just added a new one of particular relevance to social change organizations and their supporters. It looks rather likely that MySpace is censoring outbound links in people's profiles and blogs. The evidence so far is that they are redirecting links to certain anti-war sites back to a page owned by MySpace, meaning if you or a supporter of yours tells other people on MySpace about an organization with a blocked site, they will prevent that link from working. Posted: 9/25/07; 9:05:54 PM #