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DrupalCampSeattle2007 was a huge success, and a lot of fun! I just got home and figured I would post a quick note before heading back out. We had over 40 people spread across our two tacks (user/superuser admin focused and developer focused).
Not on our site, but on political blogging sites. There is truly some useful content out there, and interesting points of views, I just wonder about the value of the time spent commenting on blogs. I caught the story about the Edwards Coulter exchange on Hardball yesterday and then saw a post about it on The Caucuses . There are 108 comments. Basically taking 1 of three views (well I only sampled about 9% of them ;-).
On Tuesday, Dan, Aaron and I had an interesting and spirited conversation about “green business” and what exactly it means. We are really interested in working on projects that have a real measurable impact, and with so much happening these days in the realm of “green business” or “clean tech”, there seem to be alot of “good” projects out there, but how do we really know which ones are authentic? Dan asked a question that is on alot of people’s minds these days, “What makes something green, and how do I know?”
I’ve been watching some feeds recently for particular terms, for example, DRM on technorati, google news search, google blog search, digg and delicious. What I have noticed is that the same story gets blogged about on a 100 blogs, mostly pretty little, and many with very little extra information. There is nothing wrong with blogging stories like that. I do it all the time. But it sure can get tedious wading through to find the good one, maybe the one with some new info, or the one worth linking too.
Probably something like $3. Assuming you have 4 a week, that’s $48 a month or over $500 a year! This is not a blog post about Fair Trade , nope, this is about political campaigns in the United States. It’s not a new development that campaign fundraising is “dirty” business, but it certainly has escalated in recent years.
Pack your bags, its summer time, and that means time for Drupal Camp! CivicActions will be participating in and sponsoring two upcoming Drupal Camps, one in Seattle (the second annual DrupalCampSeattle on June 29th, and the other in New York City on July 14th.) I’ll be one of the “camp counselors” in Seattle, and Arthur and Ethan will be heading down to New York to talk about MediaMover and some other cool modules we’ve been working on recently.
Webware just announced that Drupal is the winner of a Webware 100 award for in the publishing category : Drupal is a powerful publishing and content management system. Users can add all sorts of content to Web pages through a system of modules. The software itself is free and open-source; users need simply pick out which site elements they want, and then put them together.
Public Radio is reporting this morning that border agents on the US Canadian border are looking way back into people’s past to find ways to deny them entry to one country or the other. Border agents are even using Google. One case mentioned in the story was of a Canadian Psychoanalyst who was denied entry after agents found an article he wrote in 2001 about his use of LSD in the 1960s. I imagine the day is not far off when border agents use facebook or myspace!
Paul Krugman has had two great columns recently in the NYT. Unfortunately they are buried behind a pay-wall. In “Authentic?
Listening to Market Place last night, I heard a story about online privacy, and privacy in general. Seems that Privacy International issued a report recently that marks Google as the worst internet company when it comes to privacy. Stop the presses!