Month: July 2006
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Craig's List Enables Crime, Shut It Down
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<p>If newspapers running classified ads were anything like th record companies and the RIAA, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/baycitynews/archive/2006/07/17/craigslist17.DTL" target="new">reports like these</a> would be a jumping off point for a campaign to shut down the popular classifieds site, <a href="http://www.craigslist.org">CraigsList.org</a>.</p> <p>What is the connection? Well, CraigsList enables all sorts of crime, real criminal crime, not just civil infractions,…
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Riding on the Burke Gilman Trail
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Late last month I topok an afternoon to go on a bike ride with Hope. I took my camera with me and shot this little video while riding on the Burke Gilman Trail. (video after the jump) <!– break –> <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-TsJI-V-ruc" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-TsJI-V-ruc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
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Unconferences in the news
Kaliya Hamlin pointed me to this article about Mashup Camp (not to be confused with MashPit the Mashup hackathon that Chris Messina envisioned and has been involved with.) Mashup Camp is an unconference utilizing open space strategies like the law of two feet. Apparently unconferences are becoming so popular that “Doug Gold and David Berlind,…
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CivicActions launches HightowerLowdown.org
CivicActions launched HightowerLowdown.org on Monday. This site follows on our launch, earlier this year, of JimHightower.com and last year’s Hightower Roadmap, our first project with Hightower’s team.
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Images in email M&RSS weighs in
M&R Strategic Services did a quick little study on the effectiveness of images in advocacy emails. Basic idea is now that so many people block images in their mail clients, or their mail clients do it for them, images may hurt, rather than help the organization. You can read the 4 page study here. From…