In the mix...philanthropic entities, who's online doing what, data brokers, and data portability

1) Mimi and I are constantly discussing what it means to be a nonprofit organization, whether it's a legal definition or a philosophical one.  We both agree, though, that our current system is pretty narrow, which is why it's interesting to see states considering new kinds of entities, like the low-profit LLC.2) This graphic of who's online and what they're doing isn't going to tell you anything you don't already know, but I like the way it breaks down the different ways to be online.  (via FlowingData) At CDP, as we work on creating a community for the datatrust, we want to create avenues for different levels of participation.  I'd be curious to see this updated for 2010, and to see if and how people transition from being passive userd to more active userd of the internet.3) CDT has filed a complaint against Spokeo, a data broker, alleging, "Consumers have no access to the data underlying Spokeo’s conclusions, are not informed of adverse determinations based on that data, and have no opportunity to learn who has accessed their profiles." We've been wondering when people would start to look at data businesses, which have even less reason to care about individuals' privacy than businesses with customers like Google and Facebook.  We're interested to see what happens.4) The Data Portability Project is advocating for every site to have a Portability Policy that states clearly what data visitors can take in and take out. The organization believes "a lot more economic value could be created if sites realized the opportunity of an Internet whose sites do not put borders around people’s data." (via Techcrunch)  It definitely makes sense to create standards, though I do wonder how standards and icons like the ones they propose would be useful to the average internet user.