Month: January 1970
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Worldchanger Survey 2007
We are conducting a short survey to find out what crazy, sexy, cool world changers like you (and us) are interested in, where we get our information and where we go to meet other people who want to change the world. Please take a few minutes to answer these questions. Please put one response on…
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The Passing of an Internet Cafe
My brother sent me this article from the NYT about an internet cafe in NY called Alt.Coffee. Alt(dot) as it was often called was one of the first internet cafes in NYC opening in 1995 with a full T1. I started hanging out there when it first opened and I was a student at NYU.
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Kleenex Ad Shoot Hijacked by Greenpeace Kleercut Campaigners in Times Square
I just got an email from Greenpeace’s Beka Economopoulos (who I know from NYC activism circles, and of
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DefectiveByDesign.org Scores a Big Victory with Apple EMI Announcement
CivicActions has been working with the Free Software Foundation on the DefectiveByDesign campaign since last May. In that time we have seen a significant shift in the way DRM is talked about in the news media and an increasing awareness of DRM among music fans and the general public.
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Report Back from the OSCMS Summit in Sunnyvale
I’ve been down in California since Tuesday, met with Henri, did some work from Aaron’s and then went down to Yahoo in Sunnyvale for the Open Source CMS Summit (OSCMS 2007) and DrupalCON.
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Continuous Partial Attention and attention.xml
This morning as I ran my errands I listened to Your Attention Please, the full panel discussion from which some content in the Distributing the Future podcast I blogged about last week came from. The whole panel discussion is about an hour long and includes Steve Gillmor, Glenn Reid, Doreé Duncan Seligmann, David Sifry and…
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Ordering on Amazon.. too much packaging?
I just placed an order for some books and cds on Amazon. And I bought some items used and others new. As I was preparing to check out I thought about the following: Buying used is good for the environment: it reduced waste, reuses stuff that people don’t want. Buying used stuff on Amazon is…
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Drupal Developer and Business Meetup
The meeting is being convened to support communication amongst developers and the small businesses being built on the drupal platform. I am really open to your ideas about what to cover. Please contribute thoughts to the agenda. The event will be held at the CSL office
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Washington State moves to a statewide voter database
Washington state has moved to a state wide voter database replacing the current 39 county databases. In part this is to comply with HAVA, but this article points mostly to the anti-fraud benefits like eliminating duplicate registrations, voting by dead people and felons. Perhaps the biggest benefit is that anyone doing voter outreach work in…
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Drupal Guild (A Prelude)
Today I am going to begin (again) to work on the Drupal Guild proposal. I’d love folks to take a little time to look at what is on the wiki and let me know if you have anything to add at this point (just edit the wiki if you have access) or send me comments…