A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog.
- At the beginning of a fascinating (yet short) piece on privacy, Stowe Boyd quotes Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life." You're certainly not going to get many Twitter followers with that philosophy.
- Just in case privacy does matter -- or you're just antisocialweb -- here are the Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Top 12 Ways to Protect Your Online Privacy".
- If you're concerned about the future of privacy, you need to attend our upcoming event "The Evolution of Privacy and the Social Web".
- Turn your old Bon Jovi t-shirt into a laptop sleeve. If you have a new Bon Jovi t-shirt, there's nothing we can do to help you.
- The oldest tree in the world has been around since before the first pyramids were built. Don't feel so old yourself now, do ya? You're welcome. But back to that Bon Jovi t-shirt...
- Open Data! (Although we wonder what will happen when Google's search engine becomes sentient and demands a little privacy.)
- Then, of course, there's Big Data, which may or may not tranform the social sciences -- hopefully not in the same way Big Oil helped transform the environment.
- Some dude posed his Stormtrooper action figures in a different photo every day for a year. The results are awesome, even if they could be used to lock him away at some point.
- "Lights. Camera. Help." wants your cause-driven videos for their film festival.
- The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is a spectacular undertaking. It currently has fully-searchable information on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages, right down to the ships' captains.
- The last cat-related video site you'll ever need.
- Okay, fine, here's one more.