Gregory Heller

Month: April 2006

  • Getting information to consumers about the products they buy

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    WorldChanging ran a great post on the GreenScanner, a public database of consumer opinions about the environmental accountability of over 600,000 products. Basically the Green Scanner is a website that allows a user to enter the UPC from the bar code label on a product and get information about the product. Green scanner focuses on…

  • We’re made out of corn!!!

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    This is a great story from Science Friday about corn. The author of “Omnivores Dilemma”. Corn is in almost everything we eat, and our carbon is from corn. A bushel of corn is 56 pounds of 20% of oil consumption is for food growing, more than for transportation! Corn is over produced. And the government…

  • Drupal Camp New York

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    Drupal Camp NYC will be an opportunity of people interested in Drupal and developers interested in learning to develop sites with drupal to get together and learn from each other.

  • DrupalCampNYC and 3 of our sites get a plug from Micah Sifry

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    Deanna Zandt (who we work with on the Jim Hightower sites) pointed out that Micah Sifry referenced JimHightower.com along with a number of other Drupal sites over on the PDF Blog along with DrupalCampNYC which we are sponsoring and helping to organize along with Noel Hidalgo (the man on the ground) and some other folks.

  • Jim Hightower is podcasting!

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    Our client Jim Hightower has been podcasting for 6 years. He just didn’t know it! For about the last 6 years, Hightower has been recording daily

  • Deanna Zandt on the Lower East Side

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    I had the opportunity to talk to Deanna Zandt while I was in NY. We talked about her upcoming move from the Lower East Side to the South Side of Williamsburg. (video link after the jump) <!–break–> <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cKkdlldLaNU" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cKkdlldLaNU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="350"></embed></object>

  • Zunafish? I can’t see how this will work out

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    While I generally like the idea of “re-use” and swapping and freestore and all that, I can’t see how this company Zunafish.com will work out. Basically you have to trade items one for one with other users, and the items must be of the same category. So I have a dvd… “When We Were Soldiers”…

  • 15 minutes for the environment

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    I just took about 15 minutes to call 9 catalog companies and have them remove me from their mailing lists. Upon returning to NY from some time in Seattle i had a stack of catalogs nearly a foot high waiting for me. The 9 calls resulted in me being removed from 12 catalog mailing lists.…

  • Thank You Harry Taylor

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    <p>[l:http://www.civicactions.com/node/325|Fen blogged] about [l:http://www.thankyouharrytaylor.org|ThankYouHarryTaylor.org]. Dan also had a conversation with the organizer of the site and the [l:http://thankyouharrytaylor.blogspot.com/|coordinated actions this Saturday] to the "Thank Harry Taylor" for giving us all voice.</p> <p>Here is the back story: Harry Taylor said the following to George W. Bush:<br /> <cite><br /> “In my lifetime, I have never felt…

  • Thing Sender: a Mass Mail Recipe for Drupal

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    Recently, a client of ours needed mass mailing capability. Nothing fancy, just the ability to send original messages and existing nodes to a large list of email addresses. No token replacement, no click through tracking. Just get the word out. We contracted with Allie Micka to create a suite of modules that would handle not…