Online Donors Give Much More

Reuters.com: “The Wikipedia, which has surged this year to become the most popular reference site on the Web, is fast overtaking several major news sites as the place where people swarm for context on breaking events … Some 350,000 people have contributed to the grassroots publishing phenomenon, which lets any Web user contribute terms, background…

I got a note this week that one of the companies I wrote about from the DEMO conference has launched has opened up for a free public beta.  Now, this isn’t the sort of product that would interest me since my interest in music is slim and I haven’t played an instrument since guitar in…

Google has launched an app called Sidebar that sits on your desktop and monitors news, email, weather and other things. It self customizes based on what you browse. I just installed it to test it out and will let you know what I find. [via TechCrunch]

TechCrunch reports on an interesting approach by Seth Godin to marketing his new book: As I mentioned in a recent weekly summary (see no. 6), Seth’s new book, The Big Moo, is coming out and he’s eating his own dogfood in promoting it. Seth has started selling batches of 50 galley copies to people if…

I created a short video for a presentation I did today about the promising future (and productive past) of online advocacy. It is entitled "Digital Advocacy Works" and it covers the history of online advocacy since 1994 (in brief), as well as some of the technologies available today and what this means for companies and…