2 days ago
Anil : Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-co
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Anil : Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-co
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3 month ago
Linkorama : FreeRice - For each word you get right, we donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
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9 month ago
nelson : Technophilanthropy from a victim - Scathing view of $100 laptop, etc: "They almost always fail, but they satisfy the giver. To the recipients, the things have no context, no relationship to their ideas of themselves or their possibilities"
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20 month ago
deusx : Information philanthropy at FactoryCity - "It occurs to me that perhaps in the information economy, quality information, links and good ideas really are useful and valuable surrogates in place of donating money"
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20 month ago
Linkorama : The Million Dollar Blog Post - 1 Comment Wish = $1 to Charity
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26 month ago
Linkorama : A conversation with Warren Buffett - fascinating to think how significant the Gates endowment is, while being driven by an entrepreneurial model. Carnegie is spinning in his grave with glee.
Rod Begbie : FORTUNE Magazine: A conversation with Warren Buffett - Interview with Warren Buffet concerning his massive donation to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation last week. Basically explains that he'd rather their team spends his money, than him having to hire more people. [via] #
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26 month ago
jimray : Buffett to Give Bulk of His Fortune to Gates Charity - New York Times - Simply amazing.
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27 month ago
philgyford : The New York Review of Books: City Lights - Review of Tristram Hunt's 'Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City'. Were things better when wealthy Victorians did things for the plebs? (Subscribers only unfortunately)
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31 month ago
Linkorama : Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone - sustainable software politics
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34 month ago
Linkorama : 10 over 100 - James: He Made His Money on a Whim, but Now He's Got a Serious Idea
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36 month ago
jkottke : $100 laptop - Nicholas Negroponte spoke this morning about the MIT Media Lab's $100 laptop initiative. "One does not think of community pencils--kids have their own. They are tools to think with, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and play, drawing, writing,
jimray : MIT Media Lab: $100 Laptop - This looks amazing - the design is really well thought out
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37 month ago
Linkorama : SVFuture - A call for a New Rules community platform centered on education and public schools
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41 month ago
jimray : Google.org - The Google foundation - doing some good with all them billions
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