Author: gregoryheller

I have been thinking about how i would improve Mozilla Thunderbird and calendar since before the GooToDo demonstration at BarcampNYC, but that really got my ideas swirling. Just yesterday, Hope and I were talking about email and productivity and the 800 messages in her inbox. So I started thinking a bit more about what I…

Why We Fight Last night I went to see the Eugene Jarecki documentary “Why We Fight” about America’s propensity towards militarization and war. The film was disturbing. People will say it is “over the topâ€? or slander it as “left wing liberal media propagandaâ€?. Those people will continue to ignore the fact that there is…

(read in booming announcer voice) “Good evening ladies and gentlement. Tonight, for your blood thirsty viewing pleasure, we have a death match of epic proportions! in one corner, hailing from the Pacific North West, ONE/Northwest’s Jon Stahl! In the other corner from Saaaaaaan Fraaaaaanciiiiisssscoooooo…. CivicSpaceLab’s ZAAAAAACKKKKKK ROSEN!!!!”

As one of our voter data experts, and being that New York is my home state, this article in the NYT is particularly… exciting? No. Disturbing? eh… maybe. Shocking? Not at all. As I said, NY is my home state! And having worked for the State Senate there is nothing surprising about the gridlock that…

We just finished the first Drupal Professionals Conference Call. The Agenda was: 1) Introductions: Rep from each shop introduces and mentions any client funded module development, or other module development that folks might not know about (please limit to 3 to 5 minutes) 2) Discussions: a) Drupal Pros Directory (15) b) Drupal Camp Training (15)…

How many times have you received an email from a sender you don’t recognize about a website that you do recognize? More specifically, how many political emails (about candidates or otherwise) have you gotten that are sent by some staffer on the campaign who’s name is generally unremarkable? Well, i get dozens of political emails…

Many organizations don’t think about how they can incorporate new types of content into their web strategies in order to compete in the “marketâ€? for their members’ or constituents’ time. The same goes for politicians and candidates. Podcasting and videocasting is really much easier that it looks and sounds. Many organizations already do plenty of…

Every few days, or at least once a week, I scroll through my World Changing feed and read a few articles, forward them to a few friends, maybe blog one. Today I am going to blog a few, because there are a bunch stored up. So here they are: Alex Steffen rights about Cameron Sinclaire’s…

Distributing the Future has podcast with a segment on “attention streams”. I have been posting on the topic here, including 2 podcasts with Fen. I declare 2006 the year of attention.