Author: gregoryheller
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"These are people who are politically driven…"
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<p>The New York Times reported a quote from George Bush earlier this week (it might have been last weekend, i tore the quote out but didn't note the date). that caught my eye for the extreme absurdity of it.</p> <p>"No, these are people that are politically driven. They want to impose their vision on other…
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NPR and PRI stories worth listening too
There were to good stories on NPR and PRI about technology today. The All Things Considered bit is about back to school technology, back to school sales and what is “wanted” vs “needed”. Market Place ran a story about wireless email access and vacations.
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Going “off-site”: Amsterdam 2006
In mid September nearly the entire CivicActions team will converge in Amsterdam for our fourth Quarterly “off siteâ€?. It is an anniversary of sorts, we were in Amsterdam in October of 2005 for our first offsite. As a virtual firm, distributed across the world, we make it a point of coming together on this periodic…
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Sure has been a while…
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<p>It sure has been a while since I last blogged over here, or over at <a href="http://www.civicactions.com/blog">CivicActions</a>. I've been pretty busy with work, and catching up on things here in NY. I am getting ready to head out in about a week for Seattle, but I won't be there for long, I fly to Amseterdam…
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Calculate the CO2 pollution from your flights
TerraPass a company that allows the public to buy carbon offsets in the cap-and-trade system (you buy carbon polution that companies are selling basically) to offset CO2 polution from driving has introduced a flight calculator. Visit the
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Al Gore’s Penguin Army video paid for by Exxon PR firm?
Never mind that the penguins look like a little L:inux Penguin, or that the video is actually not funny at all, it seems that this piece of YouTube ephemera mocking Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” has an inconvenient truth of it’s own: the video seems to have been paid for by a PR firm that counts Exxon…
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Craig's List Enables Crime, Shut It Down
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<p>If newspapers running classified ads were anything like th record companies and the RIAA, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/baycitynews/archive/2006/07/17/craigslist17.DTL" target="new">reports like these</a> would be a jumping off point for a campaign to shut down the popular classifieds site, <a href="http://www.craigslist.org">CraigsList.org</a>.</p> <p>What is the connection? Well, CraigsList enables all sorts of crime, real criminal crime, not just civil infractions,…
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Riding on the Burke Gilman Trail
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Late last month I topok an afternoon to go on a bike ride with Hope. I took my camera with me and shot this little video while riding on the Burke Gilman Trail. (video after the jump) <!– break –> <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-TsJI-V-ruc" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-TsJI-V-ruc" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed></object>
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Unconferences in the news
Kaliya Hamlin pointed me to this article about Mashup Camp (not to be confused with MashPit the Mashup hackathon that Chris Messina envisioned and has been involved with.) Mashup Camp is an unconference utilizing open space strategies like the law of two feet. Apparently unconferences are becoming so popular that “Doug Gold and David Berlind,…
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CivicActions launches HightowerLowdown.org
CivicActions launched HightowerLowdown.org on Monday. This site follows on our launch, earlier this year, of JimHightower.com and last year’s Hightower Roadmap, our first project with Hightower’s team.