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  2. Obama MySpace Snafu

    TechPresident features a few posts from Micah Sifry on the recent Obama MySpace snafu. The short of it is this: volunteer makes a Barak Obama MySpace profile in 2004. Over time that profile grows to 160k friends. The volunteer gives freely of his time doing it (by his account 5 to 10 hours a day since the beginning of the year). The Obama campaign decides they want control, ask the volunteer how much he’d like to be compensated.

  3. Edwards Campaign Goes Carbon Neutral and Helps Voters Do It Too!

    John Edwards is the first presidential candidate to go carbon neutral . Not only has the campaign taken steps to offset its carbon footprint and conserve energy, they have also launched ReduceYourCarbon.com a site that lets people pledge to reduce carbon emissions through concrete steps like changing incandescents to fluorescents, adjust the thermostat, improve fuel economy through reducing driving or keeping tires inflated.

  4. Turtles and Galapagos in the news again

    President Rafael Correa ordered his government ministers to meet urgently to discuss ways of preventing environmental degradation in Ecuador’s famed Galapagos Islands. CNN has a story about environmental problems on the Galapagos and the steps that Equador is taking to preserve this unique place on earth. The turtles will be on their way there shortly!

  5. NetSquared and Witness’s Video Hub, and Genocide Intervention Network

    NetSquared has created a Technology Innovation Fund . About 150 projects have been submitted on the site, and NetSquared is asking people to vote for 5 to 10 of the projects. They will then select 20 projects based upon the votes to focus on during the 2007 NetSquared conference in May.

  7. The passing of a great american writer, Kurt Vonnegut

    A last check of the RSS reader brought sad news tonight, Kurt Vonnegut died today at 84. I spent 2 weeks in the summer before my 14th birthday laid up in bed with an unexplained sickness that led to, or followed a spinal tap, depending on how you look at it. Standing was unbearable. I read probably half a dozen of Vonnegut’s books while sick.

  8. Worldchanger Survey 2007

    We are conducting a short survey to find out what crazy, sexy, cool world changers like you (and us) are interested in, where we get our information and where we go to meet other people who want to change the world. Please take a few minutes to answer these questions. Please put one response on each line

  9. The Passing of an Internet Cafe

    My brother sent me this article from the NYT about an internet cafe in NY called Alt.Coffee . Alt(dot) as it was often called was one of the first internet cafes in NYC opening in 1995 with a full T1. I started hanging out there when it first opened and I was a student at NYU.