The Daily Entrepreneur: File-Sharing, Reduced Giving, and Facebook

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-04-20 17:06:00 UTC
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Why the War Against File-Sharing is Unwinnable: Umair Haque takes on the question of RIAA/copyright/filesharing battles. I think this fight is proxy for a much more important fight about how the law is used to prop up dead business models.

Two-Thirds of Foundations to Reduce Grantmaking in 2009: PhilanTopic reports on a Foundation Center report just released about the impact of the recession on philanthropic giving.

Facebook Goes International: Sees Impressive Growth Rates in Africa and Asia: ReadWriteWeb writes about the growing international influence of Facebook. This warrants a link considering how much power for online and offline organizing Facebook provides.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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