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2006

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  1. Three Questions with Amit Gupta

    So if youhave been listening to these podcasts, you have realized by now that “Three Questions with…” is just a title and has nothing to do with the number of questions I actually ask. It is, however, the way I dupe my subjects into participating in the podcast: “Hey Amit, can I ask you three questions for my podcast?” Anyway, this is the shortest one of the batch, I think that both Amit and I were pretty burnt out, he more than me perhaps, but the point is after two marathon days of sessions, discussions, debates, blogging, tagging, photographing, it was hard to muster the energy to talk more.

  2. Three Questions with Jakob Lodwick (of ConnectedVentures)

    This is a short conversation with Jakob Lodwick of Connected Ventures . BarCamp is happening at ConnectedVentures’ office. Jakob works on CollegeHumor.com and Vimeo.com , a video sharing and social networking site. Yesterday Jakob lead a talk about soft links in social networks. I talked about it a little bit in my first podcast from yesterday. Basically the idea is that there isn’t just one type of connection between people, we have different connections, social networking applications should recognize that. The machines should be able to learn the strength of our connections based upon how we give our attention. If I look at your flickr pictures all the time, but not the photos of another contact, then flickr should stop showing me the other person’s and show me more of yours.

  3. (Way More Than) Three Questions with Chris Messina at BarCampNYC

    I just talked to Chris Messina of Flock and formerly of CivicSpaceLabs about Microformats, Flock, Attention and BarCamp. Chris is one of the Founders of BarCamp and seemed to be pleased with the outcome so far here in NYC. He was also happy to answer way more than three questions, even given the late hour… Listen here barcamp

  5. CivicActions First podcast (from BarCamp, saturday Night)

    Noel and I just spent 30 minutes recording ourselves talking about bar camp. At the urging of noel, and some others who listened to us record the session, and against my better judgement, I am posting an unedited MP3 here. This was recorded with a Samson C01U studio condensor USB mic, and Audacity on my IBM power Book. Some Links http://www.barcamp.org http://www.flickr.com/groups/barcamp/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcamp http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/barcampNYC And listen here barcamp

  6. 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).

  7. 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.”

  9. 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…

  10. 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 .