Social Change

June 16, 2006

Google Base as a global repository for lesson plans?

Google has high hopes for their Google Base as you can glean from articles like this one. Perhaps it will be an eBay killer. Perhaps not. […]
June 15, 2006

The AIDS Quilt in Google Maps?

It would be great to see an online version of the AIDS Quilt with a Google Maps-like interface with smooth panning around the Quilt. There is […]
June 9, 2006

A Human Rights Hotspots badge/sticker for webmasters?

I’m surprised by how so many countries like Myanmar (Burma) get away with so many human rights abuses without much international scrutiny. Why isn’t the media […]
June 9, 2006

Charitable Commons: a possible extension to Creative Commons?

Some of the more forward thinking copyright owners are slapping Creative Commons licenses on their content, allowing reuse and remixing of their content by others. The […]
June 9, 2006

Encouraging kids to remix thought-provoking documentaries

As I mentioned in my last post, I loved The Corporation. My daughter Chloe did too. She wants to be a director, and watching The Corporation […]
June 9, 2006

Wielding PageRank to googlebomb evil corporations

An organization with a super-high PageRank (like the W3C for example) wields an awfully big stick. They can Google bomb somebody they didn’t like, causing a […]