Over 100 million impressions. 50,000 tweets. Twitter dump here. This might be the last update of the twitter dump, as others have continued to scrape the tweets and have added in some of the data from the older tweets. Please…

Pros: – You get to see it mentioned on almost every major online news source (NYTimes, FT, BBC, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, CBC, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, Businessweek, FastCompany, Huffington Post, SFGate, The Daily Beast, Slate…), almost every major tech source…

#pdftribute as a hashtag is dying down, but several concrete endeavours are arising from many good people who were involved in or motivated by it. Here are a couple of initiatives about which I am aware (merely curating; this does…

I want it to be clear that pdftribute is not “my” movement. It isn’t really anyone’s movement per se – if it were anyone’s, it probably wouldn’t be a movement! My involvement has been: thinking to put out the initial…

Update #1: Now with ~30,000 tweets! Update #2: Now with ~40,000 tweets! Update #3: Now with ~50,000 tweets! You may be following pdftribute.net, which is a great initiative to scrape the #pdftribute links as they stream. I am posting a…

Update: As I type this, we’re approaching 40 mil impressions, 15k tweets with the hashtag #pdftribute. I would really like for this to not be a flash-in-the-pan protest. I am sure that as the days pass, tomorrow and tomorrow and…

Aaron Swartz has died. In a small tribute, I will put all the .pdfs I have online – these are a few hundred gathered by AidGrade. I encourage you to do the same. Let’s use the hashtag #pdftribute. Bookmark on…

Someone asked me this and I realized that I don’t have a good model of it, other than believing that it is not purely based on the question’s importance. Any experts care to opine? N.B.: This question is slightly different…

I’ll be blogging at AidGrade. Some posts there are from the organization as a whole – there isn’t a place for an “author: Eva” tag yet on posts but those which are my personal views will be marked as such.…