A close friend of mine is donating a brand new couch to her local rape crisis center. (Long story short - the newly ordered couch wouldn't fit in her place and she'd lose a few hundred dollars even if she didn't take delivery of it, so she decided those lost few hundred dollars would be a better donation.) If you'd like to contribute a couple of bucks to the cost of the couch and you've got a PayPal account, you can send it to her at kjas@mindspring.com.

NetDay Speak Up Day
Already 56 schools representing 9,000 students have registered for NetDay Student Voices' Speak Up Day on October 29. During this online event, approximately 500,000 students will share their ideas about using technology and the Internet. The results will help shape the US Department of Education's National Education Technology Plan, a mandate of the No Child Left Behind Act. Students will have a first- hand lesson in civic engagement, and schools will gain valuable information about student views and ideas on technology use.

UN Summit Tones Down Open-Source Stance
International governments have toned down their proposed endorsement of open-source software models, following lobbying by businesses at a preparatory meeting of the World Summit on the Information Society, which is set to run this December in Geneva.

Designing for Civil Society - Technology for Social Benefit
Position papers available.

Kabissa is a nonprofit organization that seeks to use information and communications technologies to strengthen civil society organizations working to improve the lives of people in Africa.

PowerPoint, Robomanagers, and You: The Growing Intimacy of Technology
Diane L. Coutu met with Sherry Turkle, the Abby Rockefeller Mauz? Professor in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. Turkle is widely considered one of the most distinguished scholars in the area of how technology influences human identity. Trained as a sociologist and psychologist, she has spent more than twenty years closely observing how people interact with and relate to computers and other high-tech products. At her home in Boston, she spoke with Coutu about the psychological dynamics between people and technology in an age when technology is increasingly redefining what it means to be human.

Linux in Hollywood
It seems ironic that Linux dominates at studios known for building secret proprietary technology to gain competitive advantage. What's happened is Hollywood has recognized that having a standard open platform to develop upon enables them to dedicate more of their resources to creating their secret sauce, the technology that sets them apart as a studio.

Net guru peers into web's future
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, discusses the development of a more "intelligent" Web in an interview with the BBC's Go Digital program.

Thank this guy for 'control-alt-delete'
Every time a software program locks up and you want to start over, every time you need to change your password or log on or off your computer, you can thank David J. Bradley.

Technology opens books for teenager
For 14-year-old Maria Creswell reading a book can be challenging. Maria has cerebral palsy, a disorder that affects movement control and makes holding a book difficult. However, with the help of her friends at the East Tennessee Technology Access Center, reading a book becomes much easier. ETTAC is a United Way-supported agency that uses assistive technology to help people of all ages with disabilities learn, work, communicate and live to their fullest potential.

Site has the vision-impaired in mind
Reagan Stone can't drive because she has a degenerative eye disease. So she turns to the Internet to do a lot of the things she used to do in her car, like banking and shopping. A special computer program that magnifies her computer screen allows her to see a lot of what is on the Net. But some Web sites look more like a tangled mess of dead ends than a sleek information superhighway. A site launched Thursday will provide an alternative for people like Stone. VisionConnection.org is aiming to become the Yahoo for the 40 million people worldwide who are blind and 140 million who have only partial sight.

The NonProfit Times has named its picks for the six "hottest" nonprofit Web sites. The publication picked the sites after reviewing the Web sites of over 200 nonprofit organizations on criteria that included availability of materials, rotating content, ease of navigation, and unique features.

Woman Sentenced for Intercepting E-Mail
A judge sentenced an Arizona woman to 60 days home detention for intercepting her husband's ex-wife's e-mail, saying the penalty is a warning to others who might be tempted to do the same. [...] Lee pleaded guilty in March and admitted accessing at least 215 e-mails sent last year to her husband's ex-wife, Duongladde Ramsay. Officials said she fraudulently obtained the user name and password information for Ramsay's e-mail account.

Net booms in Kabul
In a country with precious little infrastructure, wireless technology is helping Afghans develop their economy.

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