guest post by Chicken John So our friend Hollis Hawthorne falls off a motorcycle in India while exploring the planet. Hits her head and tumbles into a coma. Sad. Scary. Mom flies over, hospitals, information gets passed around… and this thing happens. I’ve seen it before. It’s amazing. Activat...

As the tides continue to turn toward corporate social responsibility, we are seeing what I affectionately term "conscious capitalists" popping up, using their high profile influence, social capital -- and revenue -- to drive change on a grand scale. Black Card Circle, an elite social network of prom...

The New Yorker, in a January "Shouts and Murmurs", offers a glimpse into the world of philanthropic giving levels. The theory of giving levels is that donors either like to be identified (and published) as giving at a certain level, and/or donors like the benefits (whether public or private) that ac...

This Devil’s Advocate post will cover something that’s bound to elicit a lot of discussion - here are four reasons why you shouldn’t donate money to charity. That’s right, you read that correctly, I have four reasons why donating your hard earned money to a charity is a bad i...

Our friend Cheri “Rat Girl�, who is part of Cyclecide Bike Rodeo and currently living in Turkey, is going to need major surgery soon and is trying to raise money to cover the costs. A PayPal fund has been setup for Cheri for anyone who would like to help out. Jon Sarriugarte wrote about Cheri...

Spheric Technologies is a web consulting firm specializing in WIC and Ruby on Rails, but what sets them apart is not their technical expertise and all around geekery, it's their overarching commitment to the three C's - Customer, Culture, and Consciousness. It's fueled by a unique understanding of w...

It has been an emotionally draining day. Friends are off skiing or swimming for February vacation while I’m putting in long hours on a programming project. I continue to read about the ups and downs of a friend who has recently been diagnosed with Leukemia. Then, yesterday, I learned that Irv Stol...

BBC News - Feb. 15 (News Report) - The last surviving member of the group who helped hide the Jewish girl Anne Frank and her family from the Nazis in Amsterdam has turned 100 years old. Miep Gies will celebrate her birthday on Sunday quietly with relatives and friends, she said this week. She said s...

We've transcribed Bill Gates' talk on mosquitoes, malaria and education and posted the full text below the fold. Here's a snippet: But we have to be careful because malaria -- the parasite evolves and the mosquito evolves. So every tool that we've ever had in the past has eventually become ineffecti...

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit. I start the first blog post of every month with the phrase “Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit� harkening back to a hope of childhood that saying those words first thing in the morning of the first day of the month would some how bring luck for the month. The beginning of a new month...