Here’s a question: How can traditional media–TV, newspapers, ad agencies–interface with bloggers? Well, evidently KRON in the Bay Area held a Meetup and 100 bloggers came. SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The personal media revolution came to the KRON 4 studios Saturday when more than 100 members of the Bay Area blogger community accepted our invitation for a meet-up. KRON 4 ...
Read More »Chronicle of Philanthropy Annual Survey
The June 9th issue of the Chronicle of Philanthropy has a number of interesting articles based on their annual survey of Internet giving. It’s not a surprise that online donations grew sharply in 2004 for large charities. While Internet contributions still account for a small percentage of overall fundraising, the growth rate of online donations is outstanding. The charities that ...
Read More »Relay For Life in Iraq
How cool is this? "Indirect fire is a constant threat to the small base on the western outskirts of Baghdad, just south of Abu Ghurayb." Excerpted from an article by 2LT PETER J. EULER546th Transportation CompanyLog Base SeitzIraq For soldiers deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom III, free time is often hard to come by, and is usually reserved ...
Read More »This is your brain…on silicon
IBM’s Blue Brain project is a two-year venture for scientists from Big Blue and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne to create a detailed model of the human brain. This effort represents the greatest investigation yet into how the human brain works, achieved by creating a detailed model of the neocortex using the Blue Gene supercomputer. The model, which aims ...
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