New MacBook Pro Line-up by Apple »
Apple today introduced new models of the MacBook and MacBook Pro. MacBook Pro models feature the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors (running at up to 2.6GHz with 6MB of shared L2 cache), larger hard drives (up to 300GB), and 2GB of memory standard in most models. They also include the latest NVIDIA graphics processors — with up to 512MB of video memory — and an innovative Multi-Touch trackpad, first introduced in MacBook Air.

Free Event: Using Emerging Tech to Empower People with Disabilities - 2/29 »
Join us for a FREE one-day event this Friday, February 29 in TechSoup’s Community forums and in Second Life, where we will discuss ways that new technologies are improving access for people with disabilities.

Free Event: Using Emerging Tech to Empower People with Disabilities - 2/29 »
Join us for a FREE one-day event this Friday, February 29 in TechSoup’s Community forums and in Second Life, where we will discuss ways that new technologies are improving access for people with disabilities.

Free Event: Using Emerging Tech to Empower People with Disabilities - 2/29 »
Join us for a FREE one-day event this Friday, February 29 in TechSoup’s Community forums and in Second Life, where we will discuss ways that new technologies are improving access for people with disabilities.

Small Business, Big Picture »
SproutWire—Think Digg, but run by a dedicated team of editors who browse the web to find the best articles, tips and ideas to share with anyone interested in small business. Each link comes with a short editorial that tells why the article is relevant to you and puts it in a broader context.

Free Event: Using Emerging Tech to Empower People with Disabilities - 2/29 »
Join us for a FREE one-day event this Friday, February 29 in TechSoup’s Community forums and in Second Life, where we will discuss ways that new technologies are improving access for people with disabilities.

Chronicle Tech Forum: Campus Rights vs. Copyrights »
Campus officials and the entertainment industry exchanged words—some of them sharp—about the best way to stop students from illegal downloading

Lessig Says No to Bid for Congress »
The Stanford law professor and cyberspace activist won’t seek political office after all.

How a Pakistani ISP briefly shut down YouTube »
One of the inspirations for Global Voices Advocacy, our online free speech project, was the good work being done by Don’t Block the Blog, a project led by two Pakistani bloggers to protest that nation’s block of Google’s Blogger platform.

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector »
Despite the best of intentions and trillions of dollars worth of assets, nonprofits have been unable to solve many of society’s worst ills. A new casebook by 4 Harvard Business School professors argues that the social sector should take an entrepreneurial approach. Q&A with coauthor Jane C. Wei-Skillern .

Clean-Up Strategies for a High Quality Mailing List »
Cleaning up a mailing list is never quite as easy as it should be. To purge an inactive address from your database can feel like you’re letting go of something that could “come in handy” someday — even if it’s not useful now, and hasn’t been productive for quite some time. Just like spring-cleaning your home, however, a good clean-up on your mailing list will pay off in terms of efficiency and effectiveness, and make it easier to manage. It’s a matter of trading in the quantity of contact addresses...(read more)

More ‘Celebrity news’ »
Within the last hour spammers have changed the distribution method of Troj/Exchan-Gen . On Friday I talked about the last incarnation of this attack (blog). The spammers are still using ‘Celebrities’ to lure users into installing their malware. Obviously the spammers are hoping that people will want to know more about the their favorite stars. Messages are [...]

Washington City Paper: Cover Story: One Mission, Two Newsrooms »
The blockbuster investigative series debuted in the Post on Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007. But an information-hungry public got a preview the night before. In a video, Priest described life in Walter Reed’s Building 18: “Conditions here are far from ideal: mold and peeling wallpaper, shower rot, mice and cockroaches.” That kind of multimedia pre-story hype is just why the Post invests so many dollars in washingtonpost.com, the dynamic site that tallies about 9 million unique visitors per month and regularly ranks among the top news sites in the country.