Month: March 2006
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Anti War Postage Stamps for Your Taxes
Just got an email from Andrew Hoppin over at GoodStorm (the cool custom merchandizing web fullfillment screen printing, ecommerce store thingy built on Drupal). Andrew and some others are working on a project called BringThemHomeNow.com Well, you may recall that in advance of the holidays, the USPS created a service that allowed customers to create…
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Make your own anti suv commercial
Last night, Eric Gundersen of Development Seed sent me a link to the Chevy Tahoe / Apprentice Ad Campaign. Looks like a bunch of environmentalists are doing a little culture jamming. Check out Marty Kearns’ Network Centric Advocacy blog for links to some pro environment andti suv commercials. Be sure to make your own and…
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SpeedGeeking: Oso from FreeGeek
Oso from FreeGeek talked about the work they do to reduce eWaste and recycle computers with volunteers.
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ActionCast: Kaliya Hamlin
I sat down with Kaliya Hamlin for a few minutes at NTEN and she told me about her travels, and how folks have been talking about Identity at recent conferences…
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ActionCast: Camron Assadi of NTEN talks about NTC
Dan recorded me talking to Camron Assadi of N-TEN at the very beginning of the NTC.
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SpeedGeeking: Andrew Hoppin on Good Strom
Andrew Hoppin (of Draft Clark and CivicSpaceLabs fame) has a new project called GoodStorm. It is a socially progressive Cafe Press. THe site allows users to upload images and create products (t-shirts) that are sold through a webstore on the goodstorm site. The actual products are printed to order, so there is no risk for…
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SpeedGeeking: Gunner on Social Source Commons
Gunner of Aspiration Tech, founder of Penguin Day and co-creator of SpeedGeeking shows us how it is done!
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File Under: Should be Illegal
This should be illegal. John Ashcroft is now a lobbyist! “Clients would call in an individual who has a reputation for the highest level of integrity,” he said in an interview in his office. “Those who have been in government should not be forbidden from helping people deal with government, which is what I see…
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Zipcar and Car Sharing in the news
Great clip from CBS on Zipcar and car sharing. I would love to create a site/tool that allows folks to set up their own car sharing co-ops. Aaron and I were talking about this during my trip to the Bay Area last week. Wouldn’t it be great if I could log on to a website…
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Revisionist History, Political Hacks and Reporting
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<p>I just finished the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/magazine/312bwarner.html?ex=1143090000&en=0b8f3626e83ac6d2&ei=5070" target="new">Mark Warner profile piece in the NYT Magazine</a>/</p> <p>Mark seems like a good guy. Would probably make a good president and will be a decent candidate, he might be able to capture the nomination. But do the dems really want Mark Warner? He would be perhaps the most centrist…