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Deanna Zandt (who we work with on the Jim Hightower sites) pointed out that Micah Sifry referenced JimHightower.com along with a number of other Drupal sites over on the PDF Blog along with DrupalCampNYC which we are sponsoring and helping to organize along with Noel Hidalgo (the man on the ground) and some other folks.
Our client Jim Hightower has been podcasting for 6 years. He just didn’t know it! For about the last 6 years, Hightower has been recording daily “Common Sense Commentaries” that air on radio stations around the country. When we started talking to Hightower’s organization we realized that these 2 minute commentaries were ready made for podcasting. Earlier this year we relaunched JimHightower.com which features the text transcripts and now downloadable mp3 audio files of each daily commentary. You can subscribe the the PodCast feed either via FeedBurner or iTunes .
I had the opportunity to talk to Deanna Zandt while I was in NY. We talked about her upcoming move from the Lower East Side to the South Side of Williamsburg. (video link after the jump)
While I generally like the idea of “re-use” and swapping and freestore and all that, I can’t see how this company Zunafish.com will work out. Basically you have to trade items one for one with other users, and the items must be of the same category. So I have a dvd… “When We Were Soldiers” let’s say. You watched it, and once was enough, so you think, let me put it up for trade along with these other 20 war and Mel Gibson DVDs I will never watch again. Some one sees my list of movies and figures I are a war movie buff, and they have “Saving Private Ryan” so they offer to trade… But I am a war movie buff, I already saw “Saving Private Ryan”.
I just took about 15 minutes to call 9 catalog companies and have them remove me from their mailing lists. Upon returning to NY from some time in Seattle i had a stack of catalogs nearly a foot high waiting for me. The 9 calls resulted in me being removed from 12 catalog mailing lists. I have about 4 more calls to make, and I am sure, upon my next return, there will be some other catalogs that had not come in the last month. The most difficult to be removed from (and only obviously outsourced call center) was the Dell Catalog, which took over 8 minutes. Some of the easiest were tool and home furnishing companies who just needed a code from the back of the catalog.
Fen blogged about ThankYouHarryTaylor.org . Dan also had a conversation with the organizer of the site and the coordinated actions this Saturday to the "Thank Harry Taylor" for giving us all voice. Here is the back story: Harry Taylor said the following to George W. Bush: “In my lifetime, I have never felt…
Recently, a client of ours needed mass mailing capability. Nothing fancy, just the ability to send original messages and existing nodes to a large list of email addresses. No token replacement, no click through tracking. Just get the word out. We contracted with Allie Micka to create a suite of modules that would handle not only this discrete needs but other sending needs of this, and other clients. Ingredients: Drupal 4.7 Mime Mail http://drupal.org/node/37911 Mailing List Manager http://drupal.org/node/44580 Send http://drupal.org/project/send News http://drupal.org/node/45616
I thought I would share two recent links that came across my laptop recently: Jewcy carries some kitch apparel with slogans like "Shalom Motherfucker" and "A great Miracle Happened Here" Jews Rock is a website dedicated to ingformation about Jews in Rock and Roll. A bonus link:…
I am just now getting to uploading some more video casts I did at the NTEN NTC… Coming soon, a few more Video Casts from SpeedGeeking and Penguin Day!
Web Technology Recommendations For Conservation Voter Leagues I have written up the following document after speaking with a number of League representatives during the recent Federation Annual Conference. Included below are some ideas, best practices, links and suggestions. Some are basic and for the league that is just getting started, others are geared towards leagues already using the Internet I have to credit the folks I spoke with, you all have great ideas, and are