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Robert Douglas of Lullabot wrote a great tutorial on setting up Views Fast Search , a great module that speeds up search on your Drupal site (an oversimplification, but I’ll let you read Robert’s article for the details).
One of the missing fruits in the Drupal module cornucopia has been online petitions. It seems with each major release of drupal there has been something “petition like” but never has a module really satisfied a broad range of requirements around petitions. There are many reasons for this, to be sure, competiting CRM solutions (to use CiviCRM or not), various specialized petition requirements, numerous ad-hoc soolutions. Online petitions falling out of favor with the people who typically might use them.
About two week ago I was listening to Inside Renewable Energy (my favorite podcast, because I’m a geek like that!) and host Stephen Lacey interviewed Mitch Rofsky, President of the Better World Club , a different kind of auto club (like Automobile Association of America).
This weekend is DrupalCampNYC3. DrupalCamps are an fun, interesting, if a bit quirky distributed event that CivicActions has been involved since what we think was the first one last year in SF, we subsequently were involved in sponsoring or planning DrupalCamps in Seattle (2) , New York City (2) and Toronto .
I was watching the nightly news tonight when I heard about this alarming story . Apparently, Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff has a gut feeling that America might be attacked this summer. On Tuesday, Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security, told the editorial board of The Chicago Tribune that he had a “gut feeling” about a new period of increased risk. He said he based his assessment on patterns of terrorists in Europe and intelligence he would not disclose.
SaveTheInternet.com just launched another great video by Matt Thompson (a Web Of Change alumn). The last day for public comment on Net Neutrality is Monday, July 16th. So take a few minutes to take action and submit your comment to the FCC .
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.