Month: October 2006

Thanks for the tip Arthur, the article you mentioned on O’Reilly about Content Relationships is an interesting read. I’m not sure where to begin, but I did very much like this: The methods I gave earlier for advertising interests (“Did you know … Joshua Schachter also competitively whittles Persian cats”) let you learn more about…

I am a frequent reader of the blog Worldchanging. It is really a wonderful source for very detailed and informative commentary about issues of sustainability from farming to autos. I’ve been waiting for Worldchanging the book to come out, and just today I got an email from my friend Sarah Pullman over at DeSmogBlog.com. It…

Complex formatting in mass email is bad. There. I said it. I just don’t like it. When I look at a message (and I look at messages in a preview pane that is less than a 3rd of a screen high) and there are complex headers that mimic the website through the use of tables…

Rollingstone has an article on the 10 worst congressmen. It is great that a music/culture magazine like RS has takes up some big political issues, and, especially before the election, takes the ink to highlight some of the worst folks out there. it would be better though if they actually directed their readers to ways…

On a recent flight from San Francisco to Seattle, I took a few minutes to organize my personal email in box. Recently I noticed that some of my filters had stopped working. What I discovered as I cleaned them up, and added some new ones was that many of the “non-profit-yâ€? types of lists i…

Last fall or winter I convened a few “Shop Talk” conference calls to bring Drupal development shops together on the phone to talk about projects, modules and other things related to the work we do with Drupal. The idea stemed from my discussions with Phillip Smith, Mike Gifford and Joe Murray at Web Of Change…

Last week I particpated in a discussion of DRM and the DefectiveByDesign.org campaign at a meeting of the Cardozo Cyberlaw Society in New York City. It was interesting to hear these law law students talk about DRM and engage with each other on both sides of the issues.