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• The Dark Knight pretty sweet new trailer

• Fold-Ins, Past and Present - The New York Times

• Ars Book Review: "Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky: Page 1 A great review of Clay Shirky's new book and interview with the author. Seriously: go read this.
• What the Frak is Going On? | Videos | SCI FI Pulse Get caught up with B*G in 8 minutes. Funny, too!
• Couple Sues Google Over "Street View" - April 4, 2008
• Clinton Campaign's MyPA Now you can choose what part of the campaign efforts you want to fund.

• Drupal Theme function flow in 5 & 6 Diagramed One of major changes in Drupal 6 is the flow of the theme function. These PDFs of the flow of the theme function in D6 vs D5 are a great place to get a sense of Drupal's theming internals.
• Yellow Drum Machine | Let's Make Robots! This is a very fine robot.

• Pixel Couch friends -- we're looking for a couch donor; please buy this for us!?! you could come sit on it whenever you like....
• John Adams’s Emails To Abigail Adams
• new british money! pretty cool looking -- and designed by a 26 year-old who won a contest
• Compulse | Armor Games This is the best flash game I've seen in a while.

• YouTube RickRolls Users alright, I'll admit: this is actually a pretty funny April Fools joke

It is with a heavy but excited heart that I tell you all: as of today, EchoDitto is ceasing to operate as an online consultancy and instead will refocus our efforts on the ancient art of pantomime.

It is with a heavy but excited heart that I tell you all: as of today, EchoDitto is ceasing to operate as an online consultancy and instead will refocus our efforts on the ancient art of pantomime.

• Buy A Tree and Watch it Grow Thanks to Google Earth "Your $5.50 donation will buy a tree, lifelong care and feeding, scientific study of the forest that it becomes a part of, and the exact coordinates of where that tree is on our big beautiful Earth."
• Middle-Aged Users' Declining Web Performance
• markItUp! Universal Markup Editor If awesome inline text-editors make you happy, and you know what a blessing it would be to have one which is written in clean jQuery, check out markItUp, complete with Markdown and Textile modes!
• Using Turk to find media bias for Hillary or Barack The Dolores folks used Mechanical Turk to analyze media bias and then plot that output against the candidate's stock value on the intrade prediction market. It's not that many samples, and I imagine Turk skews the results, but interesting all the same.

• Benchmarking now available in Google Analytics
• SF Activists Use Twitter to Coordinate War Protest
• What's an Email Address Worth?
• Michael Silberman at Google: What's Working and What's New for technology and non-profits "In February 2008, Google and Google.org hosted international development non-profits for an interactive discussion at our office in Washington, DC."

• Best Green Adventures on Earth
• Net Neutrality's Quiet Crusader: Free Press' Ben Scott
• Digital Footprints and Digital Shadows Your digital footprint is all the information from and about you which is stores anywhere, averaging 45 GB per person, and "for the first time your digital shadow is larger than the digital information you actively create about yourself."

• NYT: Web fueling word of mouth 2.0 - The New York Times- msnbc.com
• 10 Tips for Optimizing MySQL Queries (That don’t suck) | 20bits Good stuff to know, even if day-to-day Drupal development now involves disappointingly little SQL.
• Amazon Releases EC2 Updates New updates to Amazon's ElectricCloud service begin to really leverage servers in the clouds with "elastic ips" and the ability to have single machine instances on multiple computers around the world for redundancy.
• RingSide Open Source "Social App Server" Since it doesn't look like there will ever be a single standard for getting social networks to talk to each other and the outside world, this could be just what is needed to build sites integrated with multiple social sites.

• RWW: Nonprofs miss major donors online A new report by Convio, Edge Research and Sea Change claims that the conventional wisdom that major donors don't give online is wrong and NPOs are missing out on big money by skimping on their fundraising platforms.
• RWW: Semantic Web Nuts and Bolts The best overview so far of the basic Semantic Web technologies available NOW. Low hanging fruit: Microformats, Semantic discovery and automation like Dapper and Semantify and 1st gen semantic APIs from Reuters and SemanticHacker.
• Ewww…What’s That Smell? It’s MyStarbucksIdea.com
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial (The Vietnam Wall) : Footnote.com interesting

• Follow Twitter Conversations handly little tool to follow entire twitter conversations
• Unix Toolbox If you ever need to find out how to do anything from the command line, or want to learn how to be a hot-shot command line operator, this is a good place to start.
• A List Apart: Sign Up Forms Must Die
• Yahoo, Google, Myspace Create OpenSocial Foundation Stay tuned for more information on this - OpenSocial foundation is a non-profit formed by Google, Yahoo, MySpace to promote the work of opensocial
• Brands of the World - vector logos of brands need to get a quick mock-up for a prospective big client? or maybe a bit of subversive culture-jamming for and upcoming campaign? this is a good place to start.
• O'Reilly Network -- Creating Games in Ruby (Part 1) Neat

Now that spring is here (well, maybe not so much in NYC, but it's coming!), thoughts turn to chocolate bunnies, March Madness and of course, spring cleaning. It's a good thing that EchoDitto recently launched the new Seventh Generation website to help smart, environmentally conscious consumers not only find the right cleaning products, but also connect with like minded individuals. Some highlights of the new site include:

• consumer-generated product reviews
• forums for discussing the environment, new product ideas, healthy living
• a new corporate blog called 7Gen, in addition to the Inspired Protagonist, SVG President Jeffrey Hollender's well-respected blog

• a new loyalty program where members can create profiles, share tips and ideas, download coupons and special offers and more

The techies among us are also quite thrilled with the innovative implementation of the new Drupal Panels2 architecture on the site (they told me to say that).

So before you head out for a game of ultimate frisbee this spring, check out the new seventhgeneration.com and join the Seventh Generation Nation. Enjoy!

Now that spring is here (well, maybe not so much in NYC, but it's coming!), thoughts turn to chocolate bunnies, March Madness and of course, spring cleaning. It's a good thing that EchoDitto recently launched the new Seventh Generation website to help smart, environmentally conscious consumers not only find the right cleaning products, but also connect with like minded individuals. Some highlights of the new site include:

• consumer-generated product reviews
• forums for discussing the environment, new product ideas, healthy living
• a new corporate blog called 7Gen, in addition to the Inspired Protagonist, SVG President Jeffrey Hollender's well-respected blog

• a new loyalty program where members can create profiles, share tips and ideas, download coupons and special offers and more

The techies among us are also quite thrilled with the innovative implementation of the new Drupal Panels2 architecture on the site (they told me to say that).

So before you head out for a game of ultimate frisbee this spring, check out the new seventhgeneration.com and join the Seventh Generation Nation. Enjoy!

• Open Source Facebook Newsroom CMS Application Beta Nonprofits can make fancy-looking newsrooms on Facebook
• YouTube - The Onion: Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power? Both sides make compelling arguments.

• Social Network Users Get Involved in social causes 15% of US Internet users are members of an online community, defined as "a group that shares thoughts or ideas or works on common projects through electronic communication only." But within that group, 94% said the Internet helped inform them about social
• 11 Ways to Find New RSS Subscribers for Your Blog
• picture of the internet circa 2005
• My Mommy’s Online - eMarketer mom's online! everywhere! just in time for mothers day campaigns
• Online HTML Form Builder Software - Create Free Forms & Surveys instant webforms

• fix - Perl script for removing high-ascii garbage nice to not have to reinvent the wheel for every data migration project...

One of my favorite clients through the years here at EchoDitto has been the Clinton Foundation. We've worked with them at their annual conference, helped them launch a book and inspired thousands of people make a commitment to change the world.

This week we helped them with the inaugural meeting of CGI University. CGI U is a project of the Clinton Global Initiative that challenges college students and universities to take on global problems with real, concrete solutions. For us, that meant helping them get those commitments on the web, as well as updating the site to emphasize some of those new commitments.

You don't need to be a college student to make a commitment - anyone, anywhere can give time, money, or resources to help solve global problems. So, what will your commitment be?