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Why We're Blacking Out Sites: PIPA and SOPA

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). We're not alone: far larger sites like Wikipedia and Google and hundreds of others (if not thousands). Like almost all libraries, we're scrupulous in following the law, because we're serving incredibly important communities.

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The Internet Archive has ended its ‘emergency library’ early

The Verge

After four commercial publishers filed a lawsuit earlier this month, the Internet Archive ended its National Emergency Library program earlier than planned, the organization said in a blog post (via ArsTechnica ). million books for people unable to get to classrooms or libraries during the coronavirus pandemic.

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WordPress vs. Drupal … fight!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A caveat: I have more experience, especially with larger sites, in Drupal than in WordPress, so there are things that I may be missing. Getting a site up and running in both platforms is pretty easy, although neither are really ready for non-techies to take on. That is a deal-breaker for many kinds of sites. eCommerce sites.

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3 SEO Strategies To Increase Your Nonprofit’s Online Reach

TechImpact

Make your site crawl-friendly. These crawling bots index websites, further categorizing them in an immense internet library. When an internet indexes a bot it is not only taking note of what is on the site, it is noting the originality, relevance and quality of your content.

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Pinterest Changes User Terms So It Can Train AI on User Data and Photos, Regardless of When They Were Posted

Futurism

In other words, it seems that any piece of content, published at any point in the social media site's long history it's been around since 2010 is subject to being fed into an AI model. And here I was hoping someday there'd be something done to slow the waves of AI slop on the site," reads one comment.

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10 Types of Nonprofits That Absolutely Must Add Themselves to Foursquare

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Part social networking site, part smartphone App, Foursquare is a tool meant to be primary used on the go on your smartphone. Libraries :: New York Public Library. Foursquare now has 1.6 million users. Quite simply, you “Check-in” to venues while physically at the venue and offer “Tips” and send out “Shouts”.

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Patapon 1 + 2 Replay brings two PSP classics to PC, PS5 and Switch on July 11

Engadget

A pair of cult classics from Sony's PlayStation Portable library are heading to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and PC. Patapon and Patapon 2 were well-received on release and went on to define the PSP's library of quirky but fun games.

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