Month: May 2005

<p>Ben Geyerhan took a few minutes to answer my questions between sessions. Ben is now with teh [l:http://www.newdem.org|New Democratic Network], but we know each other form the John Edwards Primary Campaign.</p> <p>[l:files/PDF_BenG.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_BenG.mp3">PDF_BenG.mp3</a></td><td>146.15 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<p>Noel just pointed out to me that two screen we can see in front of us are trained on tasks unrelated to the conference (as in, not their personal blogs, and not the PDF site, and not the Live Chat). Maybe they are researching posts? Well not the guys editing a video on his mac,…

<p>The morning session of PDF was interesting, starting late, rife with technical difficulties (projector not working, spotting internet access). Scott Hjeiferman, an interesting choice for keynote speaker, being that the general consensu around the net (well atleast the activist community, is that MeetUp Jumped the shark by starting to charge, what when you can use…

<p>You may remember [gh:node/82|an earlier post on funding open source development collaboratively]. I have been talking about this with people since the [lk:nten.net|nTen] and now, courtesy of [lk:sstrudeau|Scott Trudeau] if have found [l:http://www.fundable.org/|Fundable.org] a tool for collaborative funding of "purchases". </p> <p>Basically your contribution is only a pledge until a target ammount has been raised.…

<p>I love the internet, and i love people who subvert the mainstream with it's own tools.</p> <p>I just found [lk:delocator.net|The Delocator] on [l:http://techstrategy.typepad.com/emerging/2005/04/delocatornet.html|TechStrategy.org's blog] <strike> Not sure how I found tech strategy, I think someone put it up on the [lk:wiki.penguineday.org|Penguin Day Wiki].</strike> That's right, this is Katrin Verclas' Blog.<br /> (I was in the…

<p>So there is debate raging in the blogosphere, it started with [l:http://www.edbatista.com/2005/05/blogs_are_obsol.html|Ed Batista's post, "Blogs are Obsolete"]</p> <p>There are folks weighing in on both sides. I am going to jump to the meta level on this debate and say that it is really a semantic issue about what poeple using the term "blog" to describe.…

<p>In this short clip, [l:http://penguinday.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AmandaHickman|Amanda Hickman] (from [l:http://lincproject.org/|LINC project] and [lk:nosi.net|NOSI]) and I chat briefly about tagging and, once again, upcoming.org.</p> <p>[l:files/gh_and_abh_tagging.mp3]</p> <p>This is super short, and quiet, crank up the volume.</p> <p>I promise, i will get better with the mic.</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/gh_and_abh_tagging.mp3">gh_and_abh_tagging.mp3</a></td><td>107.05 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<p>I was talking to [l:http://penguinday.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Dkg|Daniel K. Gillmor] at [lk:newyork.penguinday.org|Penguin Day] about podcasting and audio recording. I recorded this description of a program he helps out on that teached public school kids to produce "radio" shows.</p> <p>We talked about the technology they use, and later, not on the recording, we talked a bit more about using…

<p>Andrew is running for public advocate, I like his explanation of the befit of low cost pubvlic wifi….</p> <p>[l:http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2005/05/07/andrew_rasiej_candidate_for_public_advocate.php|One of your big ideas is to build a universal wi-fi network serving the whole city. That sounds cool- but what'll it do for New Yorkers?</p> <p>For one, low-cost universal broadband will plug our kids into the…