Sunday 06 April 2003
Community technology resources achieve social change. [VoluntaryNews]
New guide to making events suitable for as a wide an audience as possible. [VoluntaryNews]
Sites funded by New Opportunities Fund Digitisation programme get a portal to view. [VoluntaryNews]
Massive funding announced to establish a web site reporting the activities, finances and performance of charities. [VoluntaryNews]
New awards for community IT, sustainable communtiy projects and smaller charities. [VoluntaryNews]
New web accessibility checking facility. [VoluntaryNews]
Charity Commission issues summary findings and advice on mergers and joint working, while cancer charities launch competing awareness events. [VoluntaryNews]
According to this recent report at 80211Planet, Ed Sutherland reports: "If growing concern over Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) culminates in a quarantine of affected regions, it would mean "nuclear winter" to an electronics industry forced to find alternative production sources, according to a new report. [Lockergnome Bytes]
Salling Software today announced the immediate availability of Sony Ericsson Clicker 1.5, an update to its program that lets users remotely control almost any Mac application from compatible Sony Ericsson mobile phones... [MacMinute]
This article reports that (unauthorized) designer masks in HK is a booming business. [The Trademark Blog] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
Scientists are developing a new breed of genetically engineered plants that can sense the presence of harmful chemical or biological agents. The hope is to deploy these leafy recruits in the fight against terrorism. By Lakshmi Sandhana. [Wired News]
The Washington Post writes about RSS readers: “Keeping up with the world on the World Wide Web can be more trouble than it’s worth. But there is another way.” [Ranchero]
The UN must be put in charge of rebuilding Iraq after the war, Welsh minister Peter Hain insists. [BBC News]
Designers have come up with a web-enabled toilet cubicle, complete with print-offs on toilet roll. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]