Favorite Links of 2011
Every web site that had a tribute to Steve Jobs when he passed away.
Daring Fireball
iGoogle

Best Books of 2011
The Passage by Justin Cronin
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
The Jack Reacher series by Lee Child

Best Movie of 2011
The Descendants more

Part of the Ditto Contract that we have to be into cool and nerdy stuff (Ok, it's not...but it might as well be), so we thought we'd share with the world some of our favorite coolest and nerdiest things from the past year.

Kicking it off is our newest Ditto Developer, Tyler!

Favorite Links of 2011
AnimalsBeingDicks.com - animals being *awesome*.

XKCD - super witty nerd comics

Engrish.com - Translation flops.

Best Books of 2011 more

Hi, my name is Apollo Gonzales and I'm the new guy here at EchoDitto.

For nearly five years now I've been developing digital strategies in the environmental non-profit space. When I started doing this work five years ago there were no members of congress on Facebook, and Twitter was a small niche service that few people knew existed. In those years the space has matured from a playground where college kids connected to one another, into one where elections are won and lost, and revolutions are born and witnessed. more

Why do people work for change?

I’ve wondered about this since I started in an entry-level job for a public interest citizens group a long time ago. And I’ve thought about it more since hooking up with EchoDitto awhile ago. Check out the clients we’re working with. Together we are doing some amazing stuff.

The folks who work for EchoDitto – and the many nonprofit and for profit clients they help – have signed on to use their talents to benefit others. more

With corporate greed, labor rights, environmental action, and governmental spending all topics that have spawned some of the most powerful calls for social change we have seen in the United States, it is no wonder that 2011 will go down as a year where digital organizing powered on-the-ground action, and visa versa.  more

As the Egyptian revolution played out, and especially after the government effectively killed the internet in Egypt between January 27 and February 2, we’ve had an ongoing conversation around the office about whether or not internet access should be considered a human right. These freewheeling discussions are one of the things I love most about working at EchoDitto, and, as usual, this one sparked all kinds of new ideas and ways of thinking about the issue. more

Cross-posted on ReadWriteWeb!

The problem with working to change United States foreign policy is that you're never really sure what it's going on behind the curtain. By the time you have submitted a FOIA request and the government deems your information save, the present has passed into history. Which raises the question, will Wikileaks bring us the transparency we need to be able to understand the internal workings of US covert operations? more

Cross-posted on Read Write Web. more

In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Karnani makes the case that corporate responsibility is a distraction from the true purpose of companies, to maximize shareholder value. Reading through his article, I found myself persuaded in the opposite direction.

At EchoDitto, we are engaged in a continuous conversation about what it means to be a responsible company: who we want to work with, what we want to do, and how we work for a sustainable world. more