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 Stanford professor -- and open culture intellectual -- Lawrence Lessig has made his The Future of Ideas available free online. Essential reading for changing technology's tectonic collision with intellectual property law. And speaking of free stuff and open-source software, the sui generis Michelle Murrain unpacks the hidden costs of "free" software at TechSoup. 

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06:42 PM Jan 15, 2008 - 0 comments permalink

Photo of the Week

 "Plungers run (screaming) out of the Bay" is the caption under this week's photo. Hundreds gathered on the beach of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for CCAN's Polar Bear Plunge...brrr! You can donate to your favorite plunger on their website, as well as read up on CCAN's activities on their blog.  

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02:07 PM Jan 14, 2008 - 0 comments permalink

Tips for Preparing Photos

 Tired of laying awake at night wondering what the deal is with preparing photos for the web or email? Here are some quick tips on how to get the most from your online images. File Size: Keep your file size small (25KB to 100 KB (kilobytes) and about 300 to 500 pixels in dimension for the web and smaller for email. It’s important to keep images small for dial up, mobile phone users, to prevent flagging large images as spam, and to retain look of email for users who block images.

Image Quality: Email and web pages display 72 ppi (pixels per inch), which determines the image resolution or quality.  

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12:20 PM Jan 14, 2008 - 0 comments permalink

Women Who Tech TeleSummit- March 31

 Attention women of DIA. I thought you'd like to know about an upcoming virtual conference called Women Who Tech: A Teleconference for Women in Technology. It's designed to engage women in the non-profit technology sector (that's you) who are interested in learning more about our field with other talented women (that's you too). 3 things I love about this conference: - You don't have to live in the center of the universe (DC) to participate - It's free - Everyone will speak womentalk (no translators needed!) Here's how the conference organizers describe this unconventional event:  

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12:12 PM Jan 09, 2008 - 2 comments permalink

Your Fundraising Drive Was Better Than This

 What with the holidays, things have been a bit quiet on the DIAtribe lately, but DemocracyInAction has so many fish to fry, such a plentitude of balls in the air, so awfully many buns in the oven, there'll be chatter aplenty right quick. We're cranking on some new tools and some new documentation and help sections that'll be exciting to share and get feedback about. And with the end of the year, we'll be diving back into our data for updated intelligence on last year's popular series of the best Hour/Day/Month to ask for donations, along with whatever else we find. So things ought to get friskier hereabouts as well.  

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05:11 PM Jan 07, 2008 - 0 comments permalink

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