Author: gregoryheller
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Zunafish? I can’t see how this will work out
While I generally like the idea of “re-use” and swapping and freestore and all that, I can’t see how this company Zunafish.com will work out. Basically you have to trade items one for one with other users, and the items must be of the same category. So I have a dvd… “When We Were Soldiers”…
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15 minutes for the environment
I just took about 15 minutes to call 9 catalog companies and have them remove me from their mailing lists. Upon returning to NY from some time in Seattle i had a stack of catalogs nearly a foot high waiting for me. The 9 calls resulted in me being removed from 12 catalog mailing lists.…
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Thank You Harry Taylor
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<p>[l:http://www.civicactions.com/node/325|Fen blogged] about [l:http://www.thankyouharrytaylor.org|ThankYouHarryTaylor.org]. Dan also had a conversation with the organizer of the site and the [l:http://thankyouharrytaylor.blogspot.com/|coordinated actions this Saturday] to the "Thank Harry Taylor" for giving us all voice.</p> <p>Here is the back story: Harry Taylor said the following to George W. Bush:<br /> <cite><br /> “In my lifetime, I have never felt…
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Thing Sender: a Mass Mail Recipe for Drupal
Recently, a client of ours needed mass mailing capability. Nothing fancy, just the ability to send original messages and existing nodes to a large list of email addresses. No token replacement, no click through tracking. Just get the word out. We contracted with Allie Micka to create a suite of modules that would handle not…
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As I prepare for the Passover Holiday
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<p>I thought I would share two recent links that came across my laptop recently:</p> <p><a href="http://www.jewcy.com/" target="new">Jewcy</a> carries some kitch apparel with slogans like "Shalom Motherfucker" and "A great Miracle Happened Here" <img src="http://www.jewcy.com/images/sm_b_0202_04.jpg" align="right" /></p> <p><a href="http://jewsrock.org/" target="new">Jews Rock</a> is a website dedicated to ingformation about Jews in Rock and Roll.</p> <p>A bonus link:…
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More Video Casts from NTEN NTC
I am just now getting to uploading some more video casts I did at the NTEN NTC… Coming soon, a few more Video Casts from SpeedGeeking and Penguin Day!
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Web Technology Recommendations For Conservation Voter Leagues
Web Technology Recommendations For Conservation Voter Leagues I have written up the following document after speaking with a number of League representatives during the recent Federation Annual Conference. Included below are some ideas, best practices, links and suggestions. Some are basic and for the league that is just getting started, others are geared towards leagues…
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FEC Ruling on Blogging and the Internet in politics
Last week the FEC released a ruling on the regulation of blogging and the use of the internet in campaigns. The ruling has beeen seen as largely positive by the political blogging community. Basically it exempts political speech on the internet through blogs and podcasts from spending limits or regulations that apply to campaign spending…
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NYT: “Politics Faces Sweeping Change Via the Web”
The NYT ran a good article on how the internet (blogging, podcasting, etc) are shaking up politics. Unfortunately the piece is a bit shallow and fails to go into great detail about spending on oneline campaigning, or even the recent FEC ruling on blogging. It does owever call attention to the work of John Edwards,…
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Anti War Postage Stamps for Your Taxes
Just got an email from Andrew Hoppin over at GoodStorm (the cool custom merchandizing web fullfillment screen printing, ecommerce store thingy built on Drupal). Andrew and some others are working on a project called BringThemHomeNow.com Well, you may recall that in advance of the holidays, the USPS created a service that allowed customers to create…