Author: gregoryheller

I just read of Charles Leadbeater’s book project, We-Think on World Changing. Leadbeater and his publisher have pre-released his book about new forms of collaboration and organization. From the introduction:

At CivicActions we know all about open WiFi networks, and I often get asked by friends about “internet security” and specifically, how secure their activities are when they are on open networks. David Pogue covered the issue in his column today. While he believes his wifi traffic is not worth snooping (“Frankly, I consider the…

Bruce Byfield wrote a nice article for Linux.com about the work of our client, the Free Software Foundation in this past year including the DefectiveByDesign campaign.

Just saw an email from Matt Thompson up in Canada (met him at

After about a week we are back. Our site is now upgraded, and we’ll be blogging again!

The CivicActions blog is taking a short break. We should be back in time for the holidays!

On saturday I attended RootsCampNYC, and unconference dedicated to debriefing on the elections with a decidedly technological flavor. I shot some video with a Samsung SC-210 digital video camera (that I am returning tomorrow because it doesn’t play well with Mac despite what the box says.) The video above is a short interview with Sanford…

Is it about privacy or transparency? Or just colossal failure of judgement? On Monday, AOL admitted making a 2-GB file with the search records of 658,000 people available for public download — exactly the sort of information the DOJ sought, and failed, to force Google to provide under the guise of protecting children. Recall that…

This morning we had a really good Drupal Shop Talk with about a dozen participants. These calls are really great for getting to know other people working in the sector and find out what kind of development is going on. You can read the back channel transcript and my notes at groups.drupal.org The next Drupal…

Just learned of Confabb via TechCrunch Confabb is a new service launching today that offers a centralized place to find information about all kinds of conferences. The site offers everything from speaker and event reviews to photos of the events after the fact through integration with Flickr. It’s an impressive full service site that could…