Month: February 2005

<p><a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html" target="_blanl">If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.</a></p> <p>This quote is from a little post I found, and it struck me as apt. As we think about how to make the web relavent to…

<p><a target="_blank">Many IT departments have indeed done a great job in introducing their organizations to the importance of the Web. However, the Web should no longer be managed by IT. The public website should be managed by marketing, and the intranet should be managed by communications.</a></p> <p>It may well be that certain IT people who…

<p>This evening i recorded my first podcast. I am not sure that i am particularly pleased with the results, but it was fun. There is a bit of a learning curve, not just with the format; coming up with a topic, making the show compelling, but i am also using a new computer, and Apple…

<a href="http://nten.typepad.com/forecast/2005/02/open_standards_.html">Open Standards – A Call To Action</a> – <em>By Nick Gleason, CitySoft, Inc. and Zack Rosen, CivicSpace Labs Despite recent innovations, technology in politics and the social sector too often limits rather than enables people and organizations to collaborate, share information, and solve problems. The software development organizations…</em> [<a href="http://nten.typepad.com/forecast/">nTEN Forecast</a>] As someone who…

<p>I have been reading here and there about <a href="http://del.icio.us" title="http://del.icio.us">http://del.icio.us</a> but couldn't really get my head around it from the little i had read–until today, that is. <a href="Http://del.icio.us" title="Http://del.icio.us">Http://del.icio.us</a> is social networking software for links. You add your inkls or bookmarks to your account at del.icio.us and you "tag" them. Your l;inks becmoe…

<p>After reading the summary of the 48 laws of power (direct link <a href="http://www.tech.purdue.edu/Cgt/Courses/cgt411/covey/48_laws_of_power.htm" target="_blank">here</a> it strikes me that these "rules" are outmoded, written for a "closed source" society of zero-sum games, and while much of the world/society/economy does still function in a "closed-source" manner, they seem to run counter the trend towards open-source and…

<p>Woah! There's an idea!<br /> <a href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/02/17/democrats_push_voting_holiday.html">Democrats Push Voting Holiday</a> – <em>Sen. Hillary Clinton joined Sen. John Kerry "and other Democrats Thursday in urging that Election Day be made a federal holiday to encourage voting," the AP reports….</em> [<a href="http://politicalwire.com/">Teagan Goddard's Political Wire</a>]</p>

<p>Interesting and scary. The RNC "gets it" but unfortunately Zephr Teachout doesn't <a href="http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/342" title="http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/342">http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/342</a></p> <p>Distributed campaigning is obviously the wave of the future, Michael Turk takes aim at Zephr Teachout's call for "old-school" community building as an "end" in an of itself.<br /> <a href="http://www.personaldemocracy.com/node/355">Counterpoint: The Citizen and His Browser, Volunteering Alone – by…

<p><a href="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2005/02/10/kerry_gives_to_dnc.html">Kerry Gives to DNC</a> – <em>Sen. John Kerry "gave $1 million in campaign funds" to the DNC's "grass-roots organizing campaign, and is asking his network of political supporters to build on his donation to help Democrats compete at the state and local levels," the Boston Globe reports. "Kerry is earmarking the money for grants…

<p>There is an interesting <a href="http://www.economist.com/finance/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3623762" target="_blank">article in the Economist</a> about open-source as a movement and a model for the sharing of resources other than human technical skill in software development. The few that are raised are processing power, bandwith and hardrive storage space. What if these resources were used to make a distributed automated…