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Arienna Foley at Get Real has a good post about the social networking qualities of Flickr. I think she gets at why Flickr draws people in and creates community more than any other photo site. Again I say, I think Flickr offers to the ACS a cheap opportunity to explore the power of community building and of pushing an event ...

From Wired: Former Vice President Al Gore unveiled a new interactive cable TV channel for the internet generation Monday that blends the immediacy of video blogging with the voyeurism of reality TV. Current TV, formerly known as IndTV, will be launched Aug. 1 and will aim to combine the interactivity of the internet with the couch-potato pleasures of TV. The ...

From the Washington Post: The Senate Finance Committee yesterday listened to a range of suggestions for dealing with the tax cheating that experts say is widespread among charities and other nonprofits. Yesterday and in earlier hearings, the committee has heard a stream of testimony from the Internal Revenue Service and experts on Congress’s own staffs about abuses by charities and ...

Overweight costing California $22 billion per year We all imagine California as a state full of health fanatics – the opposite could not be more true, according to a new report which says that overweight and obesity is costing the state over $22 billion per year.  The report was commissioned by the California Dept of Health Services. Over 50% of ...