Techcafeteria is the website of Peter Campbell. I am a nonprofit technology professional, working currently as IT Director at Earthjustice, a public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the planet. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife and son, and blog and speak regularly about technology tools and strategies that support the nonprofit community.

I'm active on a number of social networks and web 2.0 sites with the username peterscampell. The best one to connect with me on is Twitter. I also run the non-profit technology information aggregator at nptech.info and a site devoted to cartoonist George Herriman and his classic strip Krazy Kat at Krazy.com.

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The latest entries from the Techcafeteria Blog:

Why Does The Right Attack Nonprofits?

Robert Egger's brilliant response to Rush Limbaugh's recent diatribe against nonprofit employees is a must watch, particularly the last five seconds or so, which neatly sum it up. Limbaugh claims that nonprofit employees are "lazy idiots" and "rapists" of the economy. Wow, like what he does for a living is so healthy...... more

Published on 08-20-2010


The Years Of The Kat

This is a memorial post for Krazy.com, a domain that I registered in February of 1995, back when Network Solutions was the only domain registrar and the annual registration fee was $0. I had recently closed my computer bulletin board system, which was called the Coconino County BBS, after the home of George Herriman's classic comic character, Krazy Kat. In it's place, I put up a web site that grew to be the most complete and best known source of information on the now somewhat obscure, but dearly loved early 20th century newspaper strip about a Kat, named Krazy, who loved a Mouse, named Ignatz. ... more

Published on 07-31-2010


Dr. Rand Paul, The First Sign Of The Apocalypse

'll happily give Kentucky's Republican Senatorial candidate, Dr. Rand Paul, a pass and assume that he is no racist.  In fact, his objection to the portion of the civl rights act that denies businesses the right to discriminate based on race is very consistent with Libertarian views. The problem is that those Libertarian views are based on an idealistic world view that is so radical that electing them to high offices would be the first step towards armageddon.... more

Published on 05-20-2010


Techcafeteria Turns Five!

Today is the fifth anniversary of this blog, which was started on May 20, 2005. Back then, it was on another website and not very well-defined. I'd say my purpose in starting it was pretty much "because I should be blogging". After a year or two, though, I started to find my voice by discussing what I do: nonprofit technology.... more

Published on 05-20-2010


Void Rage: Unable to Muster Facebook Anger

Following is a guest post from Jon Loomer, offering a different perspective on Facebook's privacy changes: It took a few weeks, but internet rage over Facebook's Like button and latest privacy ramifications is in full swing. Bloggers swinging at Facebook's knee caps with aluminum bats seem to outnumber those who come to CEO Mark Zuckerberg's defense 20:1. And if a blogger does post a defense, duck and cover as soon as you hit "publish" because the rage will bubble up from the comments section.... more

Published on 05-18-2010