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If newspapers running classified ads were anything like th record companies and the RIAA, reports like these would be a jumping off point for a campaign to shut down the popular classifieds site, CraigsList.org . What is the connection? Well, CraigsList enables all sorts of crime, real criminal crime, not just civil infractions,…
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)
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, the organizers of Mashup Camp, hope to turn unconferences into a business.” Um… I guess. The business will be one the organizes unconferences. Seems a bit strange. I know it does take work to line up sponsors, locations, etc… But one of the things that really makes the unconferences i have been to so great is the “of the people, by the people, for the people” nature of them.
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.
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 what I gather, the numbers don’t prove the case “images hurt you now.” And the study doesn’t answer the question in the title “Do Images Help or Hurt?”. The number say “The effect of images in email are really statistically insignificant.” The differences in open rate or response rate were all withing a few hundredths of a percentage point, which given the unreliability of email metrics like open rate tracking and click through tracking, I would say are within the margins of error.