Mitch Arnowitz

Open Standards – A Call To Action

March 29, 2005 by Mitch Arnowitz

NTEN stands for Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network and is an organization that "works to support the diverse people and organizations who help nonprofits understand and employ technology effectively".

Their blog has an interesting post on open standards:

Open Standards – A Call To Action
http://nten.typepad.com/forecast/2005/02/open_standards_.html

Despite recent innovations, technology in politics and the social
sector too often limits rather than enables people and organizations to
collaborate, share information, and solve problems.

Podcasts Serve Up Uneven Audio Buffet

March 25, 2005 by Mitch Arnowitz

And, yet another article about John Edwards Podcast

Podcasts Serve Up Uneven Audio Buffet (WashPost- free reg req’d)

Many Advertisers Find Blogging Frontier Is Still Too Wild

March 25, 2005 by Mitch Arnowitz

Cindy Webb points to a (free for 7 days) WSJ piece on blog advertsing and citizen journalism:

Many Advertisers Find Blogging Frontier Is Still Too Wild

Blogs’ reader commentary can take unpredictable
turns — which is why it takes a thick-skinned company to experiment in
this medium. On Weblogs’ Autoblog and Engadget blogs, some ads are
followed by a link that says, "Comment on this automobile," or "Comment
on this product/service." On Engadget, 24 readers did just that,
offering praise, suggestions and criticism about the ad and the
products for Griffin Technology, a Nashville, Tenn., maker of Apple
accessories.