Author: gregoryheller
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Ever read the MySpace Terms?
A friend just pointed out the The MySpace Terms 6. Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace.com. 6.1 By displaying or publishing (“posting”) any Content, messages, text, files, images, photos, video, sounds, profiles, works of authorship, or any other materials (collectively, “Content”) on or through the Services, you hereby grant to MySpace.com, a non-exclusive, fully-paid and…
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Trees for the future: carbon offset programs
If you have been following my blog, you have seen that I am feeling guilty about air travel and the environmental impact. I wrote about this earlier and got some good feedback in the comments from Rolf which lead me to Trees for the Future where I just bought $100 worth of trees to offset…
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An Inconvenient Truth
Via WorldChanging: The movie An Inconvenient Truth will open at the end of May. Participant Productions is getting people to pledge to see the film when it opens in their market (at the film’s website ClimateCrisis.net). The ClimateCrisis site also has a nifty carbon footprint calculator. The Calculator got me feeling really guilty about air…
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Laptop theft and data security
Yesterday, as I was preparing for another leg of my rock star tour, I heard this segment on marketplace about data security and laptop theft. It is worth a listen. Here is the summary: Imagine someone steals a laptop from your bank or your phone company. It happens more than you might think, and that…
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Getting information to consumers about the products they buy
WorldChanging ran a great post on the GreenScanner, a public database of consumer opinions about the environmental accountability of over 600,000 products. Basically the Green Scanner is a website that allows a user to enter the UPC from the bar code label on a product and get information about the product. Green scanner focuses on…
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We’re made out of corn!!!
This is a great story from Science Friday about corn. The author of “Omnivores Dilemma”. Corn is in almost everything we eat, and our carbon is from corn. A bushel of corn is 56 pounds of 20% of oil consumption is for food growing, more than for transportation! Corn is over produced. And the government…
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Drupal Camp New York
Drupal Camp NYC will be an opportunity of people interested in Drupal and developers interested in learning to develop sites with drupal to get together and learn from each other.
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DrupalCampNYC and 3 of our sites get a plug from Micah Sifry
Deanna Zandt (who we work with on the Jim Hightower sites) pointed out that Micah Sifry referenced JimHightower.com along with a number of other Drupal sites over on the PDF Blog along with DrupalCampNYC which we are sponsoring and helping to organize along with Noel Hidalgo (the man on the ground) and some other folks.
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Jim Hightower is podcasting!
Our client Jim Hightower has been podcasting for 6 years. He just didn’t know it! For about the last 6 years, Hightower has been recording daily
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Deanna Zandt on the Lower East Side
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I had the opportunity to talk to Deanna Zandt while I was in NY. We talked about her upcoming move from the Lower East Side to the South Side of Williamsburg. (video link after the jump) <!–break–> <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cKkdlldLaNU" /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cKkdlldLaNU" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="350"></embed></object>