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Music company wants Google to delist a Wikipedia page about YouTube rippers

TechSpot

For a few years now, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been sending takedown requests to Google for the company to remove YouTube ripping sites, which allow, among other things, audio to be ripped from YouTube videos and saved as music files. Read Entire Article

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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Morgue File – This collection of photographs were freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects. Wikipedia Public Domain Images – Wikipedia uses public domain images and has organized a collection with information on how the photos can be used and attributed.

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Web Application Frameworks

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In the old days (when I was starting with web programming, back in the early-mid-90s) it was all HTML flat files (and not even much in the way of CSS or JS at the time.) This isn’t really the place to describe what programming languages are, or how they work, but Wikipedia (as always) as a nice entry , worth a read.

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The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

.&# He talks about three examples which have become classic – free/open source software, SETI@Home , and Wikipedia. He spends a fair bit of time talking about the Wikipedia model, and how, basically, amazing it is.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

We open every file submitted before publishing it to the website. Since my desktop computer at work is set up to scan all downloaded files, every file is checked. Some are huge. Some are successful, but messy. This also allows me to adjust the abstract and add tags if needed.

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Data and Storytelling: 6 Ways to Use Data to Move Your Mission

NTEN

It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. David zeroed in on two relevant data points to tell the story - the number of hours Americans spend watching TV in a year, and the total combined man hours needed to create all of wikipedia: 4. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets.

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An 8-step process to writing blog posts that don’t suck

The Next Web

I started to store these ideas in a single file. If you’re thinking about something, don’t know the answer, and it seems interesting enough where you’ll probably research on Wikipedia later, this could be a topic worth writing about. When you’re out with friends, taking a walk, or in the shower, ideas will start to flow. Jot it down.

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