Charles Best
Charles Best, founder of DonorsChoose.org, discusses the organization he created to match contributors with public schools needing supplies, equipment, or other funding.
Now the Obama campaign has a massive list of supporters and donors with disparate motivations and desires. It is likely that not all of them support the stimulus package currently on the table, and it is even more likely that support for future policy battles will steadily erode as details emerge and divergent viewpoints resurface.
Nevertheless, Obama has an important resource and even partial success could translate into legislative victories in Washington, DC.
Sam Sethi today starts a rumor in the blogosphere sure to spread like wildfire: Google is to buy FeedBurner. I have no information to confirm or deny the rumor, so instead I find myself pondering whether it’s a good thing. Certainly it is likely to be for FeedBurner shareholders. But what about bloggers, podcasters, and…
Barbara Nixon, Shonali Burke, and I had some interesting dialogue on Twitter this morning, and it inspires this post. The conversation started when I remarked that I had not slept well last night and kept waking up with ideas spinning around in my head. Naturally, that led me to firing off a number of emails…
Those of us who seem to be living at the cutting edge of technology often don’t take enough time to reflect on how quickly things change. The point was driven home for me recently when my grandfather celebrated his 100th birthday and gave a speech about his life growing up a century ago. It’s worth…
I subscribe to SmartMoney magazine, the dead tree version. Although I subscribe to and read several hundred blogs every day, I still find value in printed magazines, especially for reading while on an airplane (my Sony Reader can’t be used on takeoff and landing for instance). And I do find the “serendipity” factor discussed a…