Author: gregoryheller

I just got an email from Greenpeace’s Beka Economopoulos (who I know from NYC activism circles, and of

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!

MySpace and Presidential Politics Sunday’s NYT ran an article about MySpace’s new Impact Channel where presidential candidates’ profiles will be aggregated and presented for MySpace’s 60 million (mostly young) American members. The article basically says “candidates are going where the voters are” and expects that MySpace and the Impact Channel could have an, err, impact,…

I got an email from Ethan today who is in Brooklyn working with Arthur and Zoey and one of our newest clients. On his way from their hotel to the client’s office, they spotted this poster: ShayaIsComing.org is a campaign of the Laborers Eastern Region Organizing Fund, one of our clients!

I have been meaning to write about carbon offsets (again) but haven’t gotten around to it yet. This post over on TerraPass.com seemed like a good enough reason.

Yesterday DefectiveByDesign.org launched an open letter to Steve Jobs. We offered 3 concrete steps Jobs could take to show that he us willing to support his vision for “a world without DRM”.

Last fall we began working with The Montana Conservation Voters. We just launched their new website MTVoters.org. We also launched MTVotersEdFund.org, the site for their Education Fund. The 2006 election was a big one for Conservation Politics in Montana with the election of MCV endorsed US Senate Candidate John Tester.

I was cleaning up my email in box today and noticed an email from Eliot Spitzer the newly minted governor of New York State. Nothing out of the ordinary there, until i went to set up a filter to stick the email (and the barrage of subsequent ones I am sure I will get) into…