shouting loudly

Here’s a great article by the Times exposing how text messages are incredibly overpriced and discussing one Senator’s investigation into the subject.
Text messages may cost you and me $.20 per, but they cost the carriers almost nothing to send, says Srinivasan Keshav, a professor of computer science at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario. Here’s a chunk [...]

I received a couple of noteworthy e-mail solicitations from nonprofits today.  The first was from SaveOurEnvironment.org, the second from MoveOn.
For those who don’t know, the core finding of my dissertation is that the targeted online fundraising that MoveOn engages in is fundamentally different from the Prospect Direct Mail model that has ruled small-dollar fundraising since [...]

Most of you perhaps don’t know that I am writing my dissertation about Global Voices. But this is an incredible group of people who make sure that parts of the world that otherwise gets ignored in the mainstream media get their voices heard.
They are currently looking for donations that will help them sustain the [...]

Lawrence Lessig, the man who’s done more than anyone to publicize the debate over copyright law in the digital era, is returning to Harvard Law School. In addition to being a professor, he’ll head the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics.
The Harvard press release (first link) explains:
He will also launch a major five-year project [...]