Some nice things to do
December 27th, 2008 by Steve BowbrickThree things you could do if you were feeling charitable (and not just broke or depressed) here on the wrong side of Christmas:
You could give some money to Chicago Public Radio, the station that makes This American Life. We've featured the show four or five times here but never included it in the podcast because public radio in the States is funded almost entirely from donations so nicking it would feel wrong. They're already laying people off in response to the recession (so is NPR) so they could evidently do with the help. Make a donation here.
You could support Radio 4's annual Christmas appeal which, for the last 82 years, has been for the work of St-Martin-in-the-Fields with homeless and needy people in London and all over the country. Make a donation here.
You could pass a few dollars in Jimmy Wales' direction, if you think Wikipedia's important. I can't count the number of links I've made to Wikipedia from Speechification. Imperfect it may be but it's becoming the backbone of the emerging 'semantic web' and a lot of people, including the BBC, have begun to use it as a 'controlled vocabulary' for other organised content. We evidently can't live without it. Make a donation here.
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