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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!
I guess it is video week here at CivicActions… Visit ImpeachGonzales.org .
TechPresident features a few posts from Micah Sifry on the recent Obama MySpace snafu. The short of it is this: volunteer makes a Barak Obama MySpace profile in 2004. Over time that profile grows to 160k friends. The volunteer gives freely of his time doing it (by his account 5 to 10 hours a day since the beginning of the year). The Obama campaign decides they want control, ask the volunteer how much he’d like to be compensated.
As an outspoken carbon offsetter, this past Sunday and Monday I found my inbox filling with emails from friends about the NYT Week In Review cover story on Carbon Offsets . The Times article compared carbon offsets to indulgences offered by the church and suggested that the industry needs a Martin Luther to come along and spark a reformation.