David Ewing Duncan, science writer extraordinaire and a principal organizer of the BioAgenda Institute, has recently started his own blog, On Science and Everything…  Busy guy. Tonight he’s launching his new book, The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with My DNA : . . . And Other Masterminds from the Frontiers of Biotech at a bash in San Francisco. I’ll have ...

Philanthropy Journal is doing a series of articles about online fundraising. The charity [Save the Children], which raised $33.3 million that month [after the 12/04 tsunami], just over one-third of it online, previously had relied heavily on direct-mail appeals and phone-bank solicitation, but now sees the web as key to its future, says Fiona Hodgson, vice president for leadership giving ...

I’ve collected and posted for the past week nearly all the posts mentioning Relay For Life that I could find with the Technorati blog search engine. That’s about 350 posts. I just wanted to see how many posts are generated per week. I’m not going to do it anymore because I don’t have time to keep it up, but I ...

Some people would like to forget blogs, but my point is blogging is only the most recent incarnation of something much bigger—P2P. Blogs will certainly morph into something else—indeed, that’s happening as we speak—but what won’t change is the underlying sociological change of person-to-person (P2P) communication. The technologies of nearly-free, universal access to tools enabling people to find others with ...