Month: May 2005

<p>I first met [l:http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/bios.php/Sheldon_Rampton|Sheldon Rampton] online over at [lk:civicspacelabs.org|CivicSpaceLabs] and then in person at the nTen. Sheldon has contributed some modules to drupal civicspace, my favorite being interwiki which i use ever day here on the site.</p> <p>Sheldon is the research director over at [l:http://www.prwatch.org|Center for Media and Democracy] and runs their website usign CivicSpace.</p>…

<p>I had the opportunity to spend some time during the PDF and the Civic Space user summit with [l: http://www.civicactions.com/index.php?topic=pool|Dan Robinson of CivicActions]. In [l:files/cs_danrob.mp3|this short interview, Dan comments on both conferences.]</p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://home.gregoryheller.com/sites/gregoryheller.com/files/cs_danrob.mp3">cs_danrob.mp3</a></td><td>250.6 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<p>I had the opportunity to meet Christian Crumlish yesterday and today (well monday and tuesday, at this point). Christian is a writer for [l:http://www.personaldemocracy.com/about/#crumlish|Personal Democracy Forum] and is also author of the book [l:http://x-pollen.com/many|The Power of Many].</p> <p>Christian was a panel moderator at the PDF and was a participant at the CivicSpace User Summit. </p>…

<p>Jo Lee from [lk:citizenspeak.org|Citizen Speak] just put the CitizenSpeak development project (to redevelop Citizen Speak as a CivicSpace Module) on [lk:fundable.org|Fundable.Org].</p> <p>The idea is that if lots of people give many small donations towards the budget ($7000) we will be able to pay for it.</p> <p>So you can go to [l:https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/citizenspeaktocivicspace/groupaction_view|Fundable Citizen Speak Campaign]</p> <p>and…

<p>Here is an advocacy campaign to stop global warming that is using the friend of a friend (FOAF) to spread the message. Interestingly, i got an email about this that i think was not sent through the website, but someone just sent me an email about it….</p> <p>[l:http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/campaigns/sgw/register/8b5895076e66f6363237564fc5e38e8d|You can go to my page on the…

<p>I logged a bunch of the chat from yesterday's PDF. There was live back channel chat throughout the conference, and at many points it was shown on a big screen in the main auditorium behind the speakers. THis made for a few intesting moments when the chat overtook the presenters. But like anything else there…

<p>I have blogged about this before, bu ti just got out of the session on Muni Wifi with Andre Raseij and Dianah Neff from Philadelphia.</p> <p>The conversation was interesting, and hopeful, the big take away was that if we don't fight for muni wifi, the telcos are going to lobby to take it away, or…

<p>Remember it is pronounced "Row-Shay"…</p> <p>Andrew gave the introduction this morning for the conference and for the Key Note Speaker, Scott Heiferman of MeetUp.com (<em> y'all know the url, I'm not giving them a link, you can go to upcomming.org for all your meetup calendar/invite need</em>)</p> <p>Besides the usually plesentries of thanking attendees, presenters and…

<p>Zack Rosen of [lk:civicspacelabs.org|Civic Space Labs] took a few minutes to speak with me about the PDF, the [l:http://upcoming.org/event/18738|CivicSpace User Con (tomorrow at the tank)] and techno-political conferences in general.</p> <p>[l:files/PDF_Zack.mp3|Click here to listen]</p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://home.gregoryheller.com/sites/gregoryheller.com/files/PDF_Zack.mp3">PDF_Zack.mp3</a></td><td>378.82 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<p>Here is a short interview with [lk:nonecknoel.com|Noel Hidalgo] (my coworker)</p> <p>He gives his quick impressions on the morning sessions at the [lk:personaldemocracy.com].</p> <p>[l:files/PDF_NoelH.mp3|Click Here to Listen]</p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://home.gregoryheller.com/sites/gregoryheller.com/files/PDF_NoelH.mp3">PDF_NoelH.mp3</a></td><td>229.32 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>