Dennis Deery

[1,000 True Fans](http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/03/1000_true_fans.php) An interesting, much-discussed article from Kevin Kelly on the proposition of artists and others making a living from the support of true fans. (tags: [marketing](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/marketing) [longtail](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/longtail) [strategy](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/strategy)) [Fundable Online Fundraising — Welcome](http://www.fundable.org/) A site to collect funds. Interesting twist in that you can name the amount you're trying to collect for a project. Fundable collects the funds and releases them when the threshold is met. If the threshold isn't met, contributors get their funds back.

[A New Chance to Fix GDP](http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007896.html) A discussion of the use of GDP as a measure of a country's well-being. This article makes mention of the fact that a motivated President could change the way the U.S. measures itself. And we all know, what gets measured gets improved. (tags: [economics](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/economics)) [The Advantages of Keeping an Analog Work Journal | D*I*Y Planner](http://diyplanner.com/node/4534) Some good ideas about journaling at work. (tags: [productivity](http://del.

[The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers](http://www.idealist.org/en/career/guide/index.html) A free e-book for those considering a career in non-profit organizations. (tags: [nonprofit](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/nonprofit) [career](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/career)) [10 Ideas That Are Changing The World - What's Next 2008 - TIME](http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1720049,00.html) I love features like this. My favorite - synthetic authenticity. (tags: [Future](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/Future) [technology](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/technology)) [Cultural issues in implemention of social technologies](http://tarina.blogging.fi/2008/02/27/cuture-social-technology-in-london/) A great set of slides from a presentation on cultural issues in technology. Teemu Arina is an original thinker in e-learning and social technologies whose blog you should be reading.

[Yell if it changes - Essential SEO Tool - Get notified of changes](http://yellifitchanges.com/) A web service that will notify you if a web site is updated, it's Google ranking changes, or if it gets more incoming links. (tags: [web](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/web))

[PGP Corporation - Products - PGP Whole Disk Encryption](http://www.pgp.com/products/wholediskencryption/) Encrypt your computer's hard-drive. Might be good to consider this if you have to experience the United States' TSA at any point. (tags: [Encryption](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/Encryption) [pgp](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/pgp)) [31 Remarkable Drupal Powered Websites | Six Revisions : Web Development and Design](http://sixrevisions.com/design-inspiration/31-drupal-content-management-system-cms/) Some nice examples of the power of Drupal. (tags: [drupal](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/drupal) [webdesign](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/webdesign))

[Dinner in the Sky](http://dinnerinthesky.com/) Wow! Have dinner at a table suspended in the sky from a crane! (tags: [restaurant](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/restaurant) [cool](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/cool))

[Action Verbs](http://www.writeexpress.com/action-verbs.html) A list of action verbs that might be good for use on a CV. (tags: [CV](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/CV) [resume](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/resume)) [COLOURlovers :: Color Trends + Palettes](http://www.colourlovers.com/) A web site that can help you create color palettes based on photographs. Very simple. (tags: [design](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/design) [colors](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/colors)) [LuckyOliver » Stock Photos and Illustrations for a Dollar (Royalty-Free Images)](http://www.luckyoliver.com/) A new stock photo web site with a good selection, great prices. (tags: [stock](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/stock) [photography](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/photography)) [apophenia: cultural sustainability](http://www.

[Spykee](http://www.spykeeworld.com/spykee.html) Starting this year's Christmas list a little early. A very cool robot that you remote-control through your laptop with a wi-fi connection. (tags: [webcam](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/webcam) [wifi](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/wifi) [robot](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/robot))

****Bernard Goldbach has a good post up on his blog about one of the dangers in traveling with a laptop. As someone who regularly travels internationally with my laptop, this has been a big, and growing, concern to me. The United States’ Transportation Security Administration can be truly draconian in their approach to travelers. Those who run afoul of a screener, for whatever reason, can be subject to pretty unbelievable treatment.

[jaxtr - home](http://www.jaxtr.com/) Free international calls through a web site widget. (tags: [phone](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/phone) [VOIP](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/VOIP)) [VisionWorks' Breakthrough Solutions](http://www.vworks.org/News/default.htm) A good newsletter on rural economic development from the University of Arkansas Extension. (tags: [comm](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/comm)) [LefseSoft - geoXtract - Extract, Transform, and Load Your Data to Google Maps and Google Earth](http://www.geoxtract.com/index.php) Easily publish your own Google maps. (tags: [maps](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/maps) [googlemaps](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/googlemaps))

[CodePlex - Open Source Project Hosting](http://www.codeplex.com/) Microsoft's open-source portal. (tags: [opensource](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/opensource) [microsoft](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/microsoft) [.net](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/.net))

Every year Wisconsin plays host to the biggest aviation event in the world. The Experimental Aircraft Association annual fly-in usually hosts more than 700,000 visitors over the week-long event. I had the great luck to work at the show a few times when we were exhibiting our attempt to create a collision-avoidance system for light aircraft. EAA has produced a video that I think does a good job capturing the spirit of the event.

[Social Entrepreneurship Ireland - Irish Social Enterprise - Social Entrepreneurs Ireland - Home](http://www.socialentrepreneurs.ie/) An organization dedicated to supporting social entrepreneurs in Ireland. (tags: [social](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/social) [entrepreneur](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/entrepreneur)) [NetSquared, a project of TechSoup.org | remixing the web for social change](http://www.netsquared.org/) (tags: [web2.0](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/web2.0) [nonprofit](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/nonprofit) [community](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/community)) [Scribus :: Open Source Desktop Publishing for Linux, Mac OS® X and Windows®](http://www.scribus.net/) (tags: [publishing](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/publishing) [design](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/design)) [Visualizing Information for Advocacy](http://apperceptive.com/infodesign.pdf) A short primer on using graphics to convey information.

[Conversation Week 2008](http://conversationweek.org/homepage/) Celebrating the power of conversation to change the world. (tags: [activism](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/activism))

[T-Shirt Hell: t-shirts, shirts, funny t-shirts, funny shirts](http://www.tshirthell.com/hell.shtml) A great collection of t-shirts. Not safe for work, and not for the faint-of-heart or easily-offended. (tags: [t-shirts](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/t-shirts))

[Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager? — HBS Working Knowledge](http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5774.html) A call for better marketing for democracy in general and campaigns in particular. (tags: [poltics](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/poltics))

[Earth Class Mail](http://www.earthclassmail.com/) Take your postal mail online. Pretty handy for people living on the road or overseas. (tags: [mail](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/mail) [paperless](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/paperless) [scanning](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/scanning)) [Songerize - Listen Now!](http://www.songerize.com/) Enter a song name and the artist and hear the song. Works pretty well, and seems to have a great database of songs. (tags: [mp3](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/mp3) [Music](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/Music))

[PicLens | Immersive Slideshows Across the Web](http://www.piclens.com/site/firefox/win/) A great Firefox plugin that allows you to view photos on Flickr and other sites in a 3-D slide show. Very nice for quickly scrolling through a lot of pics. Thanks to Eirepreneur (http://eirepreneur.blogs.com/eirepreneur/2008/02/pixie-piclens-p.html) for t (tags: [firefox](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/firefox) [extension](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/extension) [photo](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/photo)) [Making it Personal](http://83.223.102.49/files/Demos_PPS_web_A.pdf) An interesting white-paper from Demos discussing self-directed service offerings by government. Rather than mandate how services are provided to people by the government, individuals are provided with a budget and allowed to make their own care decisions.

[Silicon Republic » Digital industry body needed for Ireland says expert](http://blog.siliconrepublic.com/2008/digital-industry-body-needed-for-ireland-says-expert/) Press release on the recent Irish digital industry association dinner I attended. (tags: [ireland](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/ireland) [digital](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/digital)) [In this great meritocracy, only one thing matters: who is your daddy? | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited](http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections08/comment/story/0,,2251853,00.html) A blistering take on hereditary privilege in American politics. (tags: [politics](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/politics))

[Process Explorer v11.04](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) A great replacement for Task Manager. (tags: [windows](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/windows) [utilities](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/utilities)) [Blueface | VoIP | Ireland's Internet Phone Service](https://www.blueface.ie/) Ireland-based VOIP service - cheap international calls on your mobile. (tags: [voip](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/voip)) [Oil Change International - Follow the Oil Money - Presidential Races](http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/federalRaceGraph.php) Where does the oil industry contribute their money in U.S. politics? Color me surprised. (tags: [politics](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/politics) [oil](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/oil) [money](http://del.icio.us/ddeery/money))