There’s a great overview of how non-profits are using blogging, over at the Oakland Tribune. And not only will you find out about amazing projects like Interplast and Kiva, you’ll see the first print mention of Social Signal.

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Paul Summerville is taking a break:
Been blogging every day since mid-August with some podcasting and videocasting.

Taking a break until 6th March.
Egads. Suddenly, I feel like a piker… Read more...

I remember the speech at my university graduation only dimly. Something about barely being able to stay awake through it… and wishing the damn thing would end.

That was nearly 20 years ago, and according to Fannie Mae speechwriter Jeffrey Denny – who took us on a ride through the worst and best of commencement speaking in 2005 – they haven’t improved a bit since.

Neither have the… Read more...

Will has announced his availability with a blog post entitled Web Marketing Prodigy and Sales Rainmaker Seeks Awesome Job. Frankly, any awesome job worth its salt ought to be seeking him:
I’m moving on from Raincity Studios, because I’ve done my part in getting this startup off the ground and now it’s time for me to take on my next challenge. In just one year we’re now recognized as… Read more...

Ah, chaos theory. Somewhere in Africa yesterday, a butterfly flapped its wings. Here in Vancouver last night, I bought The Drivers’ “Tears on Your Anorak” and Squeeze’s greatest hits from the iTunes Music Store.

A short while later, that very purchase turned one Alex Ostrovsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan into a minor celebrity. Instead of being just the guy who bought the 999,999,979th song from iTunes, which he would… Read more...

I just overheard Kermit the Frog on TV singing “It’s not easy being green” and flogging the new Ford hybrid SUV.

That news again: Kermit the Frog is selling SUVs.

Send the four riders home early; the apocalypse has clearly already happened. It’s only a matter of days before Marlboro product placement starts showing up in Elmo’s World and Prairie Dawn’s out there hawking cruise missile guidance systems… Read more...

• Let Evan Leeson show you what might be the iPod’s ultimate role: as both a nifty media gizmo in its own right and as the world’s most talented remote control. “Depending on where you are, the iPod is either your main device, or your remote. If it is your remote, all the functionality is taken over by the Mac and your entertainment/communications experience takes place through your

Once more, with feeling: this over here is how you handle a crisis, and this over there is how you don’t.

As I type this in the departure lounge at Ottawa International Airport, an Air Canada staffer is on the horn, patiently explaining why it is that standby passengers won’t be getting to Toronto tonight. She’s walking people through it step by step: flight crews are stranded too because… Read more...