Author: gregoryheller

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…

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…

I just downloaded and listened to the new Tom Wiats track “Road to Peace” (i got it free from eMusic.com, you can also get it from Pitchfork Media for free (Waits has released it for free along with a few other tracks). I had no idea what I was in for. The song is a…

Time magazine named YouTube “Invention of the Year” saying: What happened? YouTube’s creators had stumbled onto the intersection of three revolutions. First, the revolution in video production made possible by cheap camcorders and easy-to-use video software. Second, the social revolution that pundits and analysts have dubbed Web 2.0. It’s exemplified by sites like MySpace, Wikipedia,…

The DCCC launched a cool website that visually displays the links between corrupt republicans. Have any friends or family who are Republican voters? or who might be wavering? Send them this link. In other news, last night I saw Bil Clinton stumping for Patricia Madrid for New Mexico’s First Congressional District. The man is genius.…

Catch me if you can! For one week only I am working from Albuquerque, NM!

Thanks for the tip Arthur, the article you mentioned on O’Reilly about Content Relationships is an interesting read. I’m not sure where to begin, but I did very much like this: The methods I gave earlier for advertising interests (“Did you know … Joshua Schachter also competitively whittles Persian cats”) let you learn more about…

I am a frequent reader of the blog Worldchanging. It is really a wonderful source for very detailed and informative commentary about issues of sustainability from farming to autos. I’ve been waiting for Worldchanging the book to come out, and just today I got an email from my friend Sarah Pullman over at DeSmogBlog.com. It…