Links for the day - Kindle/eInk and Muscular Dystrophy Campaign

I love the look of the Amazone Kindle 2 - check out the review on http://www.geekbrief.tv/gbtv-519-kindle-2.

It has wifi, and I hope that if it doesn't right now, it includes RSS functionality in the future. It would allow the creation of a continously-refreshed e-ink based newspaper. E-ink is a great technology for the future - it basically is a screen which only draws power when it changes image rather than all the time. Apart from being greener, it also looks like real paper so you don't get that eye-burn you get from a laptop screen. More reading on this at http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/e-ink.htm 

For UK readers, Waterstone's (www.waterstones.co.uk) do a version. If you're in a store, get the staff to turn on the demo model they have. Like with HD - it's a technology you have to see.  

The other thing that I'd like to see with an RSS-enabled reader like this? Consuming the reports from a Blackbaud Infinity product such as Enterprise CRM so that a Director of Development can have to-the-second easy-to-view reports at all times.

(And if someone has done these - send me the picture and I'll post it! .... when I learn how to post pictures of course...)  

WELL DONE Muscular Dystrophy Campaign!

http://www.muscular-dystrophy.org/ went live today with a new beautiful-looking site. Importantly, the site has been redesigned to help engage with and support those with MDC better, and I find it a really engaging site to navigate. Interaction with The Raiser's Edge is powered by donation and event forms powered by Blackbaud NetCommunity. We're really proud to have played a part, but I'd like to wish Sally, Eleanor, Abby and Colin at MDC a big congratulations for giving birth to this site!

(PS. Links not so slick today. Java not working right on my laptop, so can't press the button to make links embed with text. I'll clean-up when I next post!)