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January 2006

31 posts

  1. My Presentation at BarCampNYC

    I’m at BarCamp today. I am posting my presentation on the CivicActions Open Business Model and the Drupal Guild Concept. The presentation was created in OpenOffice2.0 and exported to PDF using the built in PDF export. This is the first version of the presentation. i’ll be giving some variation on this presentation at PlaNetWork in Seattle on January 25th, and then at Open Source CMS Summit and DrupalCon and maybe the Drupal Developers Meeting in NYC in February (tentatively the 16th).

  2. U.S. Threatens to Sue Albany Over Voting

    Last month I pointed out that Washington State had deployed a statewide voter database , well, today, the New York Times reports that the Justice Department gave New York State notice that they might sue the state. It seems that the Legislature has done next to nothing in the last 3 years about complying with H.A.V.A . The assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s civil rights division, wrote in the letter that “it is clear that New York is not close to approaching full H.A.V.A. compliance and, in our view, is further behind in that regard than any other state in the country.”

  4. State of the Union: Live Back Channel

    I have been talking about this for what seems like ages. Ever since i went to my first conference with live back channel chat projected above the heads of the speakers. I think it was the PDF in 2004. The idea is that during big national political televised events, like debates, conventions, state of the…

  5. Drupal Guild: Some Thoughts, Discussion and Resources

    Following on last week’s Drupal Developers Meeting in San Francisco and the presentation about Drupal Guild given by Dan Robinson, a few folks commented on their blogs (http://www.blkmtn.org/node/279 and http://delocalizedham.com/node/50 ). This morning, as I was preparing to head to the gym, looking for a podcast to listen to, I found this interview with Alex Lindsay , the founder of PixelCorps .

  6. 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 Linda Stone. I highly recommend it. Linda Stone’s concept of “continuous partial attention” is very interesting and I plan on reading up more on the concept on Corante and Joi Ito’s blog and on O’Reilly .

  7. 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 bad: more packages (packaging) coming from more places (polution from the shipping) So what do you think? Is ordering from Amazon just bad, period? SHould I forego the cost savings of buying used items because of the environmental impact that results from multiple shipments and more packaging?

  8. Distributing the Future

    I found this podcast, Distributing the Future via dorkbot, I think. Anyway, I listened to the Attention episode yesterday, and it is relevant to us and the way we work, and the work that we do. I think that everyone should listen to this particular episode, and I am hopeful about this podcast as a keeper in my itunes line up!

  9. Time Lapse Phonography, Sonic Fabric and RFID Implants

    Just another night at DorkBot . I accepted an invitation from a friend of mine to go to this session of DorkBot and it was super cool. I have to say, if you are a bit of a geek, or a dork and miss those science fair days… dorkbot is for you. I was a little turned off by the presentation by a “tagged” human about implanting and RFID chip in his hand. Right now the benefit does not seem that great: keyless entry to your house, substitution for passowrd and biometrics on your computer…. seems to me that carrying an rfid in a ring, necklace or keyfob or using biometrics would be a better and definitely less invasive option.

  10. 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