Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

The internet was once considered a great equaliser, a platform that could bring strangers together, even across racial boundaries. But internet users of the same race have recently begun clustering on certain social media websites. Watch Video. Via BBC News Magazine : .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Days after freeing the (fictionalized) nipple, Twitch is backtracking on its “artistic nudity” policy that allowed streamers to show illustrated, animated or sculpted renderings of breasts, butts and genitals.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 25, 2025

The AI Blueprint for 3D-guided generative AI will give artists finer control over image generation. The artist can create 3D assets by hand or generate them using AI, place them in the scene and set the 3D viewport camera. This means its responsive, free and can run without an internet connection.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2021

An artistic rendering of a satellite in orbit. Amazon has acquired a team of employees from Facebook focused on delivering internet connectivity from low Earth orbit satellites, The Information reports. The move brings an end to Facebook’s efforts to deliver internet connectivity to remote areas via its own satellites.

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NTEN

JUNE 7, 2013

Based in Seattle, Artist Trust supports and encourages artists working in all disciplines in order to enrich community life throughout the state of Washington. It''s not uncommon for artists in rural areas to have to drive long distances simply to access the Internet. "We

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The Verge

DECEMBER 21, 2020

On Monday, congressional leaders unveiled their massive spending and coronavirus relief measure, including a handful of controversial copyright measures civil liberties activists fear could penalize internet users for everyday online behavior. The CASE Act is a terribly written law that will threaten ordinary Internet users”.

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The Verge

APRIL 29, 2021

Another internet meme has sold for big bucks online: Zoë Roth, best known as “ Disaster Girl ” for the popular image macro taken by her father in 2005 of her smirking at the camera while a house burns down in the background, has sold the original copy of the meme as an NFT for 180 Ether, worth almost $500,000. Photo: David Roth.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Please do not put your internet router in a Faraday cage. Please do not put your internet router in a Faraday cage. If you’re reading this, as someone who uses the internet, this may seem obvious. Image: Amazon. A Faraday cage, after all, blocks electromagnetic radiation and signals from escaping. My sides are in orbit.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In the past in the internet, you’ve seen platforms choose either to be ad-supported or to be subscription. So it’s really kind of three models, and that’s when you bring to bear the entire opportunity of the internet, I think, for monetizing that content. I just don’t believe that’s going to be true in the future.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The skins were previously collected on the Internet Archive but assembled into this new accessible format by Facebook engineer Jordan Eldredge. It has all of the artistic value of a national art gallery, but it focuses in on late-’90s / early-’00s aesthetics with enough raw energy to bring back nü metal. He’s not wrong.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In many cases taking the majority of an artist’s ownership. “I grew curious why artists were unable to resource themselves from their community in an impactful way — but instead, were forced to seek out potentially predatory relationships. “I Like what the f**k is up with that?” . It’s time for an upgrade.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

You might try reaching out to businesses, artists, or other people in your neighborhood to see if they’d be willing to list things on your store (either as a donation or for a share of the profits) or produce branded items like mugs and hats based on popular products. 8) Digital download donation rewards. 10) Hybrid concerts.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

From my personal experience, Latin Americans often see Internet and the tech scene as the magical potion that’ll make us more like our idealized image of North Americans. 254 million internet users (18mm ’00). 273 million internet users (108mm ’00). In 2000, there was a total of 18 million Internet users in Latin America.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

At the end of 2013, more than 100 entrepreneurs, artists, environmentalists, and yogis flew into Panama City’s chaotic metropolis, seeking an adventure, and a fun way to celebrate the New Year. Hotsko and two of Panama’s most celebrated artists, Thomson Moore and Anne Dillon.

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The Verge

MARCH 7, 2022

Come sail away with Hundred Rabbits In 2017, on a 10-meter-long sailboat off the coast of French Polynesia, Canadian artists Devine Lu Linvega and Rekka Bellum — also known as the two-person studio / collective Hundred Rabbits — realized that something had to change about the way they worked. At this moment, the project lives without us”.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

government, members of the diplomatic corps, successful business and civil society leaders, philanthropists, media professionals, academics, artists etc. Following the summit, we attended an Entrepreneurship and Public Diplomacy Luncheon which brought together Muslims and Arabs with officials from the U.S.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Unless all your social media accounts are set to private, you’re handing out a lot of free data about yourself you may not want randos on the internet to know.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2021

Nike and the internet collective MSCHF have settled their trademark dispute over a run of unofficially modified Satan-themed Nike sneakers. They said that the artistic message was also “powerfully” communicated by Lil Nas X’s song “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” and “dramatically amplified” by Nike’s lawsuit. Image: MSCHF.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2004

Imagine if you will, a group of free/open-source software internationalization/translation/localization evangelists gathered in an artist's studio in snow-covered Warsaw, heated by a wood-stove, but with high-speed wireless internet access! That's the report I had today from Anna Berns, who is a product manager for our Martus Project.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

The internet is powered by open source technology—exciting software that's built collaboratively from the bottom-up. In February 2014, groups of artists and tech-savvy folks staged what called they called a “feminist intervention” to Wikipedia. Sarah Mirk. Online Editor. B h Magazine.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Click here to begin the process of searching publicly accessible internet pages for instances of your choice keywords” is a long-winded way of saying “Google Search.” We particularly appreciate search bar suggestions, like how Spotify invites users to search not only a song title but an artist or a podcast too. Keep it concise.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

This is a continuation of digital art history that started decades ago, by that I mean art made on a computer and distributed through the internet.”. As for Dickinson, she said she is still looking for her tribe of crypto-savvy artists on Twitter. “This will be seen as the next chapter of digital art history.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2021

The startup makes screens that show a single video from a single artist and don’t do anything else. The company has worked with artists since 2018 to make (often limited run) series of physical display frames highlighting a specific digital work of the artist that looped forever. Sound familiar?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2013

It isn’t a good idea to just grab an image from Internet, tweak it, and call it your own. Morgue File – This collection of photographs were freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects. I recently asked nonprofits on my Facebook brand page where they got their images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Back in 1993, I first started working with nonprofits and the Internet as the Network Builder for ArtsWire, an online peer community of artists. I didn’t know a modem from a microwave, but I was responsible for providing technical support to over 1000 artists who were first getting online or building web pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2012

When I started working in then embryonic field of nonprofit technology (back in 1992), my job as online network coordinator for Arts Wire (an online network patterned after the Well, but for artists) was to provide training and technical assistance to those brave artists and arts organizations who wanted to get online. When I started, I didn’t (..)

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The Next Web

JANUARY 22, 2014

Maybe because my startup’s name is Entirely; most designers—literally more than half—seemed to be inspired by the previously tolerated Microsoft Internet Explorer logo, circa 2006. The creative spark I was looking for was almost non-existent, and instead I was just getting repetition. It was a race to the bottom.

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The Verge

MARCH 14, 2022

The “Nintendo GameCube Advance” is a strange piece of internet gaming history: a fanciful render of a portable version of the GameCube that has made the rounds online since 2005. As for the original render, it was created by an artist who goes by the name Demond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

I’ve been working in the nonprofit sector almost 35 years and 20 years ago I had the a front seat at the creation of a new field, nonprofit technology and using the Internet for mission driven work. My first job was as a network coordinator for an online network of artists, called ArtsWire. My job responsibilities: designing and delivering (..)

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

But NFTs are designed to give you something that can’t be copied: ownership of the work (though the artist can still retain the copyright and reproduction rights, just like with physical artwork). That really depends on whether you’re an artist or a buyer. I’m an artist. Thank you, internet. What’s the point? I’m a buyer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Angels including Thiel, Immad Akhud of Mercury Bank, and Asif Keshodia of Souq also participated in the round — alongside previous investors Fatima Gobi Ventures, SOSV, and Artistic Ventures. of the country’s total internet userbase, Adnan Shaffi, co-founder and CEO of the startup, told TechCrunch in an interview.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

For most of the afternoon, the event transformed Terminal 5 into a digital art gallery, showcasing rising NFT artists. Some time afterward, I ended up in a conversation with an artist and an employee of a major NFT exchange. We won’t be offended,” the artist said. The artist was offended. I hesitated before answering. “We

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

The fund plans to invest about half of the fund in so-called “blue-chip NFTs,” including popular projects like CryptoPunks, Art Blocks and Bored Apes, as well as works from popular artists selling singular NFT works. A nine-figure fund for JPGs?

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

NFT mania seized the world , after artist Beeple — aka Mike Winkelmann — sold an NFT of Everydays: The First 5,000 Days for $69 million. For those of you fortunate enough to have avoided internet-related brainworms: a bunch of people probably thought this was a reference to a phrase used by internet traders, “to the moon.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Spotify Wrapped shows listeners their most-played songs and artists, along with other fun surprises. […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2020

The change could help publishers, photographers, and artists get in front of their audience, while also helping users find images that they have a right to use. Google is rolling out an update to Google Images designed to make it easier to license photographs or pictures that are covered by copyright.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As a site, it seems to do what it says on the tin, but as a statement it could spark an interesting discussion around what it means if you claim ownership over something on the internet. On the internet, that means someone’s going to pirate it.” You want to claim ownership over something,” it asks. “On

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