Author: gregoryheller

<p>via <a href="http://hughhewitt.com/#postid1636">HughHewitt.com:</a></p> <p><cite>If you don't like being mocked by a live audience in real time, then don't be a talking head. This innovation sure made for an interesting backdrop to the standard five microphones and a few hundred people in the audience panel.</cite></p> <p>I thought this was a great quote. For the most part…

<p>I bet all of you have been so frustrated by the fact that the email this page feature on my site did not work for the last… well for as long as it was there.</p> <p>Thanks to the good folks over at [l:http://developmentseed.org/|Development Seed] I now have a working [l:/files/emailpage.zip|emailpage.module] and you can click that…

<p>[lk:nonecknoel.com|Noel] turned me on to this blog article on tagging. It is a pretty good one.</p> <p>via <a href="http://heynorton.typepad.com/blog/2005/04/the_web_is_full.html">Hey Norton! – Ken Norton's blog – The web is full of tags:</a></p> <p><cite>Even better, the more people you ask, the more accurate it will get because the more you'll be able to identify trends and popular…

<p>Growing out of these last two conference experiences, and the NXNEI idea, what if we were to create a wednesday night virtual meeting of civicspace users. Conference call and live chat/irc.</p> <p>An opportunity for people to get questions answered in real time, to show off new sites, hacks, modules, etc…</p> <p>Proposed Agenda:</p> <ul> <li>15 minute…

<p>While listening to the interviews (in the podcasts below) I came up with an idea. I bounced it off [lk:nonecknoel.com|Noel] and this is what we came up with:</p> <p><b>North By Northeast Interactive (NXNEI) 2006:</b></p> <ul> <li>PDF </li><li>Civic Space User Summit </li><li>nTen Regional </li><li>Penguin Day </li></ul> <p>to all piggy back on each other and time them…

<p>I first met [l:http://www.prwatch.org/cmd/bios.php/Sheldon_Rampton|Sheldon Rampton] online over at [lk:civicspacelabs.org|CivicSpaceLabs] and then in person at the nTen. Sheldon has contributed some modules to drupal civicspace, my favorite being interwiki which i use ever day here on the site.</p> <p>Sheldon is the research director over at [l:http://www.prwatch.org|Center for Media and Democracy] and runs their website usign CivicSpace.</p>…

<p>I had the opportunity to spend some time during the PDF and the Civic Space user summit with [l: http://www.civicactions.com/index.php?topic=pool|Dan Robinson of CivicActions]. In [l:files/cs_danrob.mp3|this short interview, Dan comments on both conferences.]</p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://home.gregoryheller.com/sites/gregoryheller.com/files/cs_danrob.mp3">cs_danrob.mp3</a></td><td>250.6 KB</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

<p>I had the opportunity to meet Christian Crumlish yesterday and today (well monday and tuesday, at this point). Christian is a writer for [l:http://www.personaldemocracy.com/about/#crumlish|Personal Democracy Forum] and is also author of the book [l:http://x-pollen.com/many|The Power of Many].</p> <p>Christian was a panel moderator at the PDF and was a participant at the CivicSpace User Summit. </p>…

<p>Jo Lee from [lk:citizenspeak.org|Citizen Speak] just put the CitizenSpeak development project (to redevelop Citizen Speak as a CivicSpace Module) on [lk:fundable.org|Fundable.Org].</p> <p>The idea is that if lots of people give many small donations towards the budget ($7000) we will be able to pay for it.</p> <p>So you can go to [l:https://www.fundable.org/groupactions/citizenspeaktocivicspace/groupaction_view|Fundable Citizen Speak Campaign]</p> <p>and…

<p>Here is an advocacy campaign to stop global warming that is using the friend of a friend (FOAF) to spread the message. Interestingly, i got an email about this that i think was not sent through the website, but someone just sent me an email about it….</p> <p>[l:http://www.stopglobalwarming.org/campaigns/sgw/register/8b5895076e66f6363237564fc5e38e8d|You can go to my page on the…