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This is the latest in my series of “Work From Anywhere” videos. I’ve been traveling a bunch, and will soon be adding some more videos. The hunt for open wifi is different wherever I go. In this video, I had just finished a training with a client over VOIP on the wifi signal provided by the Hollyhock Retreat Center at the Web Of Change conference.
I took a minute to speak with Matt Thompson, a documentary film maker and indie journalist who recently complete BEst War Evern . Matt and I met last year at Web Of Change when he was still working with Independant World Television (which became “Real News”).
While in amsterdam, Jonathan discovered some exotic fruit. In this case, the Dragon Fruit.
October 3rd is the Day Against DRM . Check out DefectiveByDesign.org for more information. Protect your freedom!
DefectiveByDesign.org a joint project of teh Free Software Foundation and CivicActions got some digital ink this morning in the Chicago Tribune . Columnist Eric Zorn wrote about Amazon’s Unboxed license agreement which FSF ED Peter Brown described as: [A] road map for what all content providers want to have down the line: Their goal is to have so many locks and gatekeepers that every interaction you have with copyrighted material becomes a transaction. Cory Doctorow published a point-by-point analysis of the Unboxed license which represents some of the most restrictive and anti user DRM we have ever seen. This is why we have declared October 3rd the “Day Against DRM” . DBD members around the world will be taking part in both virtual and meat-space actions to raise awareness of the dangers of DRM . Check out the site, join an action , or start your own. The only way DRM will fail is if people know about it (and don’t take my word for it, that line is borrowed from a Disney Exec!).
From the CivicActions Blog: CivicActions, LLC is a "virtual" company specializing in delivering F/OSS applications to a growing list of progressive non-profits, political campaigns, and socially responsible businesses. We build LAMP web apps for our clients using Drupal. We are seeking the right people to join our team of over 20 practitioners…
I went to see “ Who Killed the Electric Car ” over the weekend. It is a nice little documentary that will make you really mad if you are anything like me. Big oil, and big auto have way to much control in our government.
The New York Times reported a quote from George Bush earlier this week (it might have been last weekend, i tore the quote out but didn't note the date). that caught my eye for the extreme absurdity of it. "No, these are people that are politically driven. They want to impose their vision on other…
There were to good stories on NPR and PRI about technology today. The All Things Considered bit is about back to school technology, back to school sales and what is “wanted” vs “needed”. Market Place ran a story about wireless email access and vacations.
In mid September nearly the entire CivicActions team will converge in Amsterdam for our fourth Quarterly “off site”. It is an anniversary of sorts, we were in Amsterdam in October of 2005 for our first offsite. As a virtual firm, distributed across the world, we make it a point of coming together on this periodic basis to meet each other, share ideas, get aligned, and do amazing things. (You can see photos from earlier offsites on our Flickr group .) This year, as last, our retreat is times to coincide with DrupalCon , this time in Brussles. Arthur, Dan and Ethan will be staying on for DrupalCon. CivicActions is a Gold Sponsor of the conference which will play host to many wonderful discussions about nodes, permissions, relationships and other drupalish things. This will be the third DrupalCon that members of our team have participated in.