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What is it about the new year that gets minds to speculating about the future? (See the NYTimes article about the future of the Net, for instance.) Last week Mike Mitchell brought to FICenter members’ attention the ideas that had been posted at Edge: The World Question Center asking people to answer the question: “What do you believe is true ...

NYTimes article on prognostications about Internet futures. The survey (Pew Internet Life) results solidly confirm what media watchers may already know (and perhaps fear): that the Internet and the rise of the blogger are expected to drive greater change in the news media and publishing industries than in any other sector of society. Internet specialists also expect broad changes in ...

I was reading Ed Duke’s post about Wiki’s and decided to go look up the American Cancer Society entry on the online wiki Encyclopedia.  Sure enough, as another Blog poster had pointed out, there is something negative attached to our entry. It was basically a refrence to an anti-acs web site run by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Basically ...

A philanthropic advisory service has been launched to match donors with nonprofits that share their values.  SmartGiving at www.smart-giving.com aims to help donors focus their giving by helping them write a mission statement and spell out their phillantropic values. Nonprofits may submit information about their organization.  Donors will pay an advisory fee and nonprofits will have free access to Smart’s ...