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 Monday, April 10, 2006
started 4/10/2006; 1:02:17 PM - last post 4/10/2006; 11:48:51 PM
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Doc Searls - Monday, April 10, 2006 
4/10/2006; 5:02:17 PM (reads: 5067, responses: 2)
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Quotes du jour 
| | From a speaker here at the SB Forum: Most nonprofits suck at organizing people. Ever notice how well organized public radio listeners are? |
| | From another (Josh Silver): We're all here because we give a shit. He then went on to list three things that are broken: 1) Politics, by which representatives are bought and sold; 2) Voting; and 3) Media — "the Orwellian fog" in which the masses are still opiated. Hard to disagree. |
Wrong tale
Rights idea
| | Paul Jones: What if every bit of Free Software carried the Universal Declaration of Human Rights within it? |
I don't want teleportation for myself. Just for my bladder.
| | Last night, toward the end of Howard Rheingold's talk, during the Q&A, I couldn't wait any longer for a break, and decided to sneak out to a restroom. I was sitting up front, however, and I didn't want to walk out in front of the entire crowd. So I decided to skulk out by going behind the black curtain that concealed the backstage area. I quietly ducked back there, stepped over snakes of fat cables, squeezed behind the projector, and worked my way behind the other end of the black curtain, which hung flush against the wall behind the registration desk, where sat half a dozen student interns. It was dark, spelunking through this fabric cave, and it must have looked strange from the outside. |
| | Upon emerging from behind the curtain, I said "I've tunnelled through!" Danah Boyd followed. What the hell is that? said the expressions on the students' faces, as they looked at the two of us. |
| | All of which is a set-up for the headline. |
Connections
| | Also Dan Gillmor: We are all reporters now. (Sorry, that's not the original link; but I can't find it right now.) Next question: how do groups of reporters become the new newspapers? Or, better yet, how do they help the old ones before the ClearChannelization that sucked the soul out of radio (mostly by counting its beans rather than valuing its talent, and the passions through which that talent was invested) does the same to newspapers as well. |
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lou josephs - Re: Monday, April 10, 2006
4/10/2006; 6:19:09 PM (reads: 568, responses: 0)
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Why RFE RL does not podcast or use MP3. They don't have the same server software that VOA does. It's that simple. But the RSS that VOA puts out comes from Cold Fusion. And when VOA News Now shuts down in October their won't be any news from the USA in English any more.
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Susan Kitchens - Re: Monday, April 10, 2006
4/11/2006; 3:48:51 AM (reads: 615, responses: 0)
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"Most nonprofits suck at organizing people"
I'm curious to know a bit more about what the person who made that statement meant. And the context.
In my limited experience, I find that to be true... for a non-profit that I've done some work for, and for a nonprofit that I volunteer for. But it's more than that. It involves
...burnout (induced from lack of organization)
...unqualified people mucking things up in the coure of daily work lives
...tyranny of the urgent. Not enough time to plan the long view, but boy howdy, there are fire drills aplenty.
...what happens when trying to do big things on shoestring and a dime
...and so on.
I'm interested in knowing more of the context in which that statement was made...
Is this part of a discusison about web apps and tools (read: web 2.0/web woo-woo/web whatever) provide better means of managing things so that non-profits can be better organized? i.e, statement was made as description of a problem for which solutions were beign discussed. If so, then I'm all for hearing what those solutions are!
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