Author: gregoryheller
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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.
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Images in email M&RSS weighs in
M&R Strategic Services did a quick little study on the effectiveness of images in advocacy emails. Basic idea is now that so many people block images in their mail clients, or their mail clients do it for them, images may hurt, rather than help the organization. You can read the 4 page study here. From…
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Identity Open Space event in Vancouver
Kaliya Hamlin, a friend of mine from various converenences, is involved in the planning/convening of an open space conference in Vancouver about single sign on, identity related issues. What do I mean by that? Well, I think Kaliya can explain it better. I agree with her that it is important for folks from our sector…
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Drupal Camp Seattle June 28, 29
CivicActions is co-sponsoring Drupal Camp Seattle with Vancouver Drupal ASP Bryght and Rain City Studios (also based in Vancouver) on Wednesday and Thursday, June 28, 29 at the Richard Hugo House. I’ll be facilitating and co-facilitating sessions for non-coders on e-campaigning with Drupal, boot-strapping your site with Drupal as a non-coder, CiviCRM for power users…
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Wardriving with Arthur
Arthur Foelsche and I take a few minutes away from the rest of the CivicActions June Off Site in Geyserville, CA to troubleshoot and fix a mail issue for a client. Geyserville is a rather small town, no internet cafes. So we made due, after about 10 minutes of wardriving, we found an open wireless…
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More Drupal Mapping from Development Seed!
Had a quick Skype with Eric Gundersen of Development Seed. Eric and I catch up every week or three to talk about developments in drupal development. Particularly the modules that our shops are working on (and modules that other shops are workign on too!). We’ll be having a call sometime soon to talk about their…
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MeCommerce from GoodStorm
GoodStorm, the Drupal Powered on demand T-Shirt printing service, is launching a new service called “MeCommerce” (see article here which will allow bloggers (and other websites) to include an ecommerce widget which will: allow bloggers to insert product listings in a javascript and iframe box on their sites and keep 50% of the retail mark-up…