Five browser plugins that make you more secure online

In terms of effort/benefit ratio, there is no more effective way to improve your security than updating to a current Web browser.

Information security concepts for activists, journalists & troublemakers

Much attention has been given to the potential of technology to connect, empower and accelerate movements. Less attention has been given to the fact that technology also empowers the adversaries of these movements.

An Online Collaboration Handbook: How to get a group working online

Online collaboration is simply getting stuff done over the Internet, and online collaboration tools, all of them, have some means of keeping people connected, getting them the stuff they need, and sorting out what to do next.

Indaba in 2011: What we learned on the way to 3,000 completed jobs

During the past year, Indaba has moved from a good idea to a field-tested tool with strong user validation.

QR codes for nonprofit PR are a terrible idea

When you sell the hammer, everything looks like a nail.

What the burning of Alexandria can teach us about the Internet

Alexandria had a good run — some 700 years as the center of scholarship in the Western world — but it didn’t last. It was not the books that failed. It was the ideas.

Kringle 2.0

A recipe for a delightful German pastry.

Hacking Kringle

I always assumed that tinkering with my grandmother Alice’s Kringle recipe was akin to remixing Thriller — it’s never going to be as good, so why would you?

The Aspiration Manifesto

This is written by Allen Gunn and co. at Aspiration, an organization that helps nonprofits make better technology decisions. I love this thing. I send so many people to this page, that I wanted to post it somewhere with slightly bigger type.

Jonathan’s reading list, Winter 2012

At a recent event featuring a great many people smarter than me I asked for recommendations on amazing books to read in the upcoming winter.