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NetSquared has created a Technology Innovation Fund . About 150 projects have been submitted on the site, and NetSquared is asking people to vote for 5 to 10 of the projects. They will then select 20 projects based upon the votes to focus on during the 2007 NetSquared conference in May.
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c <td style="padding:2px 1px 0px 5px
A last check of the RSS reader brought sad news tonight, Kurt Vonnegut died today at 84. I spent 2 weeks in the summer before my 14th birthday laid up in bed with an unexplained sickness that led to, or followed a spinal tap, depending on how you look at it. Standing was unbearable. I read probably half a dozen of Vonnegut’s books while sick.
The New Organizing Institute has just announced its Summer 2007 Bootcamp early admission application process. NOI trains political organizers to use the new tools of the trade: the internet, blogs, social networking sites, and the like…. The Summer Bootcamp is an all expenses paid opportunity to get up to speed with these tools and get ready for the 2008 political season. CivicActions co-sponsored RootsCampNYC with the NOI back in November.
Last week I was back in NY and walking down Avenue A. I ran into Judy Bodor, wife of Nick, the owner of Alt.Coffee. She mentioned to me that Alt would be closing this week after nearly 12 years! The NY Times marks the passing in an article today . I walked into Alt.Coffee…
My brother sent me this article from the NYT about an internet cafe in NY called Alt.Coffee . Alt(dot) as it was often called was one of the first internet cafes in NYC opening in 1995 with a full T1. I started hanging out there when it first opened and I was a student at NYU.
I just got an email from Greenpeace’s Beka Economopoulos (who I know from NYC activism circles, and of NotAnAlternative.net and Brooklyn CoWorking).
CivicActions has been working with the Free Software Foundation on the DefectiveByDesign campaign since last May. In that time we have seen a significant shift in the way DRM is talked about in the news media and an increasing awareness of DRM among music fans and the general public.
I’ve been down in California since Tuesday, met with Henri, did some work from Aaron’s and then went down to Yahoo in Sunnyvale for the Open Source CMS Summit (OSCMS 2007) and DrupalCON .
Owen recently posted a cool data visualization site . I was talking to a friend last night who pointed me to State-Machine.org , a data visualization site for political funding. The site allows you to compare different sources of campaign funding (3 axis) and distributes the presidential candidates accordingly. This is very cool!