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725 posts, 2005–2026
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December
- Using Live Video To Reach Your Audience With Google+ Or UStream
- Process Vs Knowledge
- Interesting Stats On Mobile Adoption, Smart Phones And Apps
- Unplugging and Improving Productivity As A Result
- Should Nonprofit Organizations Hire Zero-Gravity Thinkers?
- Lessons Of The Dancing Guy, When To Lead And When To Follow
January
- Augmented State Of The Union
- NTEN Webinar: Are You An Accidental Product Owner or Project Manager?
- Support The NTC Scholarship Fund, Buy A Song From Ian Rhett
- Ignite NTC 2011 Call For Proposals
- CivicActions Proud To Sponsor CiviCRM CiviCON 2011 In Chicago
- Report on Content Management Systems Powering Foundation Websites
- Scrum Visualized
- CivicActions Sponsoring D7 Release Parties
2010 42
December
- CivicActions Is Proud To Be A Silver Sponsor Of DrupalCon Chicago
- Jumo And A Dunbar Number For Organizations
- Network For Good Online Giving Study
- Two Weeks With Jumo: My First Impressions Of The Social Network For Social Change
- Using Price Sets In CiviCRM
- My Life In My Flickr Photos, By Pummelvision
- Video: SCRUM For Wedding Planning Ignite Talk
- SCRUM For Wedding Planning – Notes
- Ignite Seattle 12: SCRUM For Wedding Planning
- Comment And Vote On Our Knight News Challenge Submissions
- Kitchen Squatters? Really?
April
- CiviCon Recap: Thoughts on CiviCRM Conference 1 Week Later, Plus Videos
- CivicActions Contract Template Terms and Conditions
- CivicActions Team and Sessions At DrupalCon San Francisco
- Does your Blog Update Your Facebook & Facebook update your Twitter? You’re Doing It Wrong
- "You Don't Need A Website, You Need a Web Strategy" 2010NTC Ignite
- Ignite Video and Slide Decks From 10NTC
- CivicActions Is Going To Light Up Ignite At The #10NTC
- Getting Ready for NTEN NTC: Working With Open Source Vendors and Software
2009 34
May
- I moved, again, back to Capitol Hill in Seattle
- I'm Attending Inbound Marketing University in June
- CivicActions Recommended Directory Structure For Drupal Hosting
- Smashing Magazine on Web Design Best Practices for Non Profits: Amnesty.org Cited!
- Information and Presentation Design: Gleanings From a Course With Edward Tufte
- Creating A Basic User Profile: Tips and Tricks
- JustCause Launches Digital Magazine with Zinio
- Funding the WiserEarth API: CivicActions Offers Matching Donation
2008 79
December
- My Carbon Footprint For 2008
- How CivicActions Gives Back To The Drupal Community
- Creating An SEO Strategy, Part 5: Community
- Creating An SEO Strategy, Part 4: Code – Drupal Tips
- See You At Do It With Drupal In New Orleans
- Developing A Personal Email Management Strategy
- Creating An SEO Strategy, Part 3: Code – Your Markup
- Things shaping up around here
September
- BADCamp: CivicActions Sponsors Bay Area DrupalCamp 2008
- Tweeting the Debate With Current TV
- DrupalSouth: The New Zealand Drupal Event for 2008
- Setting Up CiviContribute Forms For Anonymous Users (ACLs and User Access)
- Aggregating Delicious Bookmarks From Multiple People
- Groundswell Fights DRM in Spore Video Game
- Creating A View To Display a Users Buddies to Other Users
- Social Networks VS Social Networking
June
- DrupalCamp Seattle Wrap Up
- DrupalCamp Seattle Underway
- Barack Obama, Al Gore and the Origins of the Internet
- DrupalCamp Seattle 2008 Fast Approaches
- Henry Poole Quoted on Web Security For Political Campaigns
- The Way We Work: Tweeting, Twining, Tumbling – Social Media and New Web Services
- Tech Tuesday: Clean URLS In CiviCRM Or How To Use Menus to Link to CiviCRM Forms
- Flying Apron got nuttin' on Baby Cakes!
January
- Thoughts On The “Super Bowl” of Politics
- The Way We Work: Gregory Works From Anywhere
- The Way We Work (Wednesdays)
- Typing On An XO (OLPC)
- WhatAreTheyWaitingFor.com: Political Reporters Fail To Ask About Climate Change
- DrupalCon Boston 2008: Offset Your Carbon Footprint
- JUSTCAUSE: Is Your Organization Ready for Online Social Networking?
- CivicActions Joins The Drupal Association
- GOOD: WITNESS Video Hub one of the Ideas for 2008
- My Carbon Footprint for 2007
- Carbon Offsetting Under Fire
- A John Doe Law Suit I can get behind!
- Fundraising Trifecta!
- Google 411 Harvesting Speech Data
- Media Consortium Links Exchange Project
- Mom, Dad, I’m an “Ecosexual”!
- GreatTurtleRace hits 5 C’s of Viral Marketing (and a Bonus C)
- On this sort of Tax Day, some information on where your money goes
- Google Earth and Darfur
2007 117
November
- Facebook in the Time of Cholera (Revisited) Facebook Succumbs to demands for user privacy
- SFLC to Assist Drupal Project on Licensing issues
- Big News: Rain City Studios Acquire’s Bryght!
- JustCauseIt.com named a “Killer Startup”
- Drupal Wins Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award
- Apple’s environmental consciousness
- Rolling Interview with Noel Hidalgo (LuckOfSeven.com)
June
- DrupalCampSeattle07 a Big Success!
- Quantifying the value of time spent blogging or commenting
- What exactly does “green business” mean?
- A suggestion for Google Feed Reader
- How much is your daily latte?
- Summer’s Coming, Time for Drupal Camp!
- Drupal Wins Webware 100
- Trouble at the Canadian Border
- Krugman on the sorry state of political reporting
- Google and Privacy
April
- A John Doe Law Suit I can get behind!
- Fundraising Trifecta!
- Google 411 Harvesting Speech Data
- Mom, Dad, I’m an “Ecosexual”!
- GreatTurtleRace hits 5 C’s of Viral Marketing (and a Bonus C)
- Edwards Campaign Goes Carbon Neutral and Helps Voters Do It Too!
- On this sort of Tax Day, some information on where your money goes
- Google Earth and Darfur
- Cell Phones Maybe Illusive Cause of Colony Collapse Disorder
- Turtles and Galapagos in the news again
- NetSquared and Witness’s Video Hub, and Genocide Intervention Network
- GreatTurtleRace.com on Stephen Colbert
- The passing of a great american writer, Kurt Vonnegut
- New Organizing Institute Summer Bootcamp Seeking Applicants
- RIP Alt.Coffee: The end of an era
- The Passing of an Internet Cafe
- Kleenex Ad Shoot Hijacked by Greenpeace Kleercut Campaigners in Times Square
- DefectiveByDesign.org Scores a Big Victory with Apple EMI Announcement
January
- Wikilobbying: Stephen Colbert on Wikipedia
- Seeing the forrest for the Albido?
- CNN on politicians domain Names
- My Favorite “PodCast”, How about yours?
- Greenpeace takes another bite at the Apple
- The Word on another type of Power
- NYT on conservation and solar energy
- We-Think: another “open source” book
- War Driving, WiFi and Packet Sniffing
- 2006: The year the FSF reached out to the community
- Trouble at the Canadian Border
- Krugman on the sorry state of political reporting
- Impeach Gonzales Video
- Totally DIY
- Obama MySpace Snafu
- Edwards Campaign Goes Carbon Neutral and Helps Voters Do It Too!
- Turtles and Galapagos in the news again
- NetSquared and Witness’s Video Hub, and Genocide Intervention Network
- GreatTurtleRace.com on Stephen Colbert
- The passing of a great american writer, Kurt Vonnegut
- Worldchanger Survey 2007
- The Passing of an Internet Cafe
- Kleenex Ad Shoot Hijacked by Greenpeace Kleercut Campaigners in Times Square
- DefectiveByDesign.org Scores a Big Victory with Apple EMI Announcement
- Report Back from the OSCMS Summit in Sunnyvale
- Continuous Partial Attention and attention.xml
- Ordering on Amazon.. too much packaging?
- Drupal Developer and Business Meetup
- Washington State moves to a statewide voter database
- Drupal Guild (A Prelude)
- What podcasts are you listening to?
- Music Industry Gets hit with the Long Tail
- An early New Years Resolution for CivicActions
- And we’re back! (just in time for the holidays)
- Washington Post makes Congressional voting records available via RSS
- Grumblings about the Do Not Call list and political solicitations
- Google and Privacy
- Donating the Advertising revenue your eyeballs generate
- A New Battelfield: Ownership of Ideas
- Sony / BMG shoot own foot with DRM
- Freecycle
- Workshop on iNames
- ActivistCash.com goes after progressive organizations
- Structured Blogging
- Psychographic voter profiling
- Friendster? Spamster?
- Burried under email? Not Me.
- Open Document Format and Open Data Formats
2006 156
November
- RootsCampNYC Recap
- RootsCampNYC, This Saturday Nov. 18
- Drupal Shop Talk Conference Call for November 14th 2006
- Via Tech Crunch: Confabb the conference website
- OOPS: AOL Exposes Search Data Of 658,000 People
- Tom Waits: Road to Peace
- YouTube Named Time’s “Invention Of The Year”
- See the connections between corrupt Republicans
- CivicAction Cast: Flying Star Cafe, Albuquerque, NM
August
- CivicActions is looking for Engineers
- Who Killed the Electric Car?
- "These are people who are politically driven…"
- NPR and PRI stories worth listening too
- Going “off-site”: Amsterdam 2006
- Sure has been a while…
- Calculate the CO2 pollution from your flights
- Al Gore’s Penguin Army video paid for by Exxon PR firm?
May
- CivicActions And FSF launch DefectiveByDesign.org
- Flickr adds Search for Creative Commons Licensed Work
- Craig’s List could be so much better
- Distributing the Future
- Face recognition on your cameraphone?
- I’m a Scrum Master!
- Henri Poole and Mike Gifford Talk About Open Business Models
- Ever read the MySpace Terms?
- Trees for the future: carbon offset programs
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Laptop theft and data security
April
- Getting information to consumers about the products they buy
- We’re made out of corn!!!
- Drupal Camp New York
- DrupalCampNYC and 3 of our sites get a plug from Micah Sifry
- Jim Hightower is podcasting!
- Deanna Zandt on the Lower East Side
- Zunafish? I can’t see how this will work out
- 15 minutes for the environment
- Thank You Harry Taylor
- Thing Sender: a Mass Mail Recipe for Drupal
- As I prepare for the Passover Holiday
- More Video Casts from NTEN NTC
- Web Technology Recommendations For Conservation Voter Leagues
- FEC Ruling on Blogging and the Internet in politics
- NYT: “Politics Faces Sweeping Change Via the Web”
March
- Anti War Postage Stamps for Your Taxes
- Make your own anti suv commercial
- SpeedGeeking: Oso from FreeGeek
- ActionCast: Kaliya Hamlin
- ActionCast: Camron Assadi of NTEN talks about NTC
- SpeedGeeking: Andrew Hoppin on Good Strom
- SpeedGeeking: Gunner on Social Source Commons
- File Under: Should be Illegal
- Zipcar and Car Sharing in the news
- Revisionist History, Political Hacks and Reporting
- God Awful Highways
- Carbon Calculator
- Drupal Convergence Dinner
- Congressional Cars
- NYT: Alive and Well in Silicon Valley
- WorldChanging: Green Building Action Plan
- Ad Council “Public Service” annoucement Discourages Activism
- Paying for Wifi?
- Seattle Drupal – CivicSpace – CiviCRM
- Seattle Drupal-Camp Planning Meeting
- Why We Fight
- It's Been a while
- Productivity: Mozilla Thunderbird and Calendar enhancement Ideas
- Why We Fight
- Web Developer Death Match: Zack Rosen vs Jon Stahl!
- More on NYS and HAVA
February
- Drupal Professionals Shop Conference Call
- Return to sender….
- Adding Audio or Video to make your site stickier
- World Changing: Open Source Design and more
- Attention Streams
- Gun’s and Airplanes
- Personal Democracy Forum
- Something Reasuring about the Space Needle
- Video Blogging!
- My Videoblogging
- Decompressing from the OSCMS Summit
- Actioncast: Rich Talks about Agile Development Sprints
- Actioncast with Sarah Pullman about Geek Yoga
- Staircast with Kaliya Hamlin
- Yet another Elevatorcast (with Allie and Moshe)
- Elevator Cast with Rich
- Elevator Cast with Eric from DevelopmentSeed
- Elevator Cast with Jarah from FresnoFamous.com
- Elevator Cast with John from CSL
- Announcing ButchrPapr
- Actioncast: Roland Tanglo at the Bryght Office
- “Empowerment” Owen Barton Video Cast
- Seattle to Vancouver with CivicActions (Part 2)
- Seattle to Vancouver with CivicActions (Part 1)
- Bush Touts renewable energy, but cuts budget for research
- Hello Seattle, Hello Sun?
- Does anyone really like black olives from a can?
January
- Giving Everything Away
- Goodbye Sunshine, hello Seattle
- Penguin Day Seattle 2006
- Riddle me this: Vonage Soft Phone
- NYC Drupal Developer / Business Meeting
- The Short Tail
- “Sneezers” Like Me
- Boing Boing: Video: Lessig slideshow on Google Print
- MashPit
- Reflecting on my Podcasting
- Bit Literacy and GooToDo
- BarCamp on Flickr, and a cool different way to view them
- Big Weekend at BarCamp
- Narcissistic use pf a Flickr Hack
- Posting with Flock
- Three Questions with Amit Gupta
- Three Questions with Jakob Lodwick (of ConnectedVentures)
- (Way More Than) Three Questions with Chris Messina at BarCampNYC
- Three Questions with Mike Goelzer and Brandon Stafford (at BarCampNYC)
- CivicActions First podcast (from BarCamp, saturday Night)
- My Presentation at BarCampNYC
- U.S. Threatens to Sue Albany Over Voting
- DrupalCON Open CMS summit and the DrupalGuild
- State of the Union: Live Back Channel
- Drupal Guild: Some Thoughts, Discussion and Resources
- Continuous Partial Attention and attention.xml
- Ordering on Amazon.. too much packaging?
- Distributing the Future
- Time Lapse Phonography, Sonic Fabric and RFID Implants
- Drupal Developer and Business Meetup
- Emergency Preparedness
2005 224
December
- Bushie… Heck of a Job!
- Socially Responsible Investing
- Washington State moves to a statewide voter database
- Drupal Guild (A Prelude)
- Unsilent Night Press
- What podcasts are you listening to?
- Gift Giving Revisited
- You know I hate Starbucks
- Music Industry Gets hit with the Long Tail
- Face recognition on your cameraphone?
- Quiet in this corner of the city
- My brother wasn't kidding
- College graduates can't read
- An early New Years Resolution for CivicActions
- Structured Blogging
- Freecycle
- I could have walked it…
- NBC Titilation
- Free parking in NYC
- Been blogging elsewhere
- Can Rocketboom Shake up broadcasting?
- Yahoo is so Web2.0
- Heavy Metal Jacket
- Corrections and comments
- "There is a virtue we believe in…"
- Washington Post makes Congressional voting records available via RSS
- Grumblings about the Do Not Call list and political solicitations
- Not a big fan of outdoor adverts, but…
- I’m a Scrum Master!
- Henri Poole and Mike Gifford Talk About Open Business Models
November
- Bush takes a page from the west wing
- Google and Privacy
- The Disutility of gift giving
- Donating the Advertising revenue your eyeballs generate
- A New Battelfield: Ownership of Ideas
- Sony / BMG shoot own foot with DRM
- Workshop on iNames
- ActivistCash.com goes after progressive organizations
- Congestion Pricing NYC
- Wanna build a house with me?
- Moose Camp
- EchoDitto on eGovernment on the cheap
- ActivistCash.com goes after progressive organizations
- "Debate" between Council Speaker Candidates
- Forget Ready Made, Make is where it is at
- PocketMOD
- Psychographic voter profiling
- The High Cost of publicly financed muni elections
- Open Document Format and Open Data Formats
- Category 7: The End of Good TV
- Thoughts on the Sifry Postmortem of the Rasiej Campaign
- Friendster? Spamster?
- Burried under email? Not Me.
- Live Blogging the Daily Show
- "The West Wing" is Brillaint
- Campaigning with Cartoons
October
- Bloombucks asks: "Do I look Obscene?"
- Death of the Bronx Machine?
- "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"
- "A Man Without a Country"
- Back from Amsterdam with some observations.
- The Deflated
- Smart Mobs: Earthquake site
- The price of victory
- Reason: Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business
- Thunderbird sunbird todo integration
- Bush: God Told Me to Invade Iraq
- The NYt on networking Networking
- Identity Workshop
- iPod Linux!
- Open Source: Now It's an Ecosystem
- "Holy Web2.0 Batman!" Next Up: Google Office?
- Hit and Run
- "It's Not Sexy Being Green (yet)"
- "More Than Business as Usual"
- Anytown, USA
September
- WOC: Kris Krug and Co. Talk about blogging
- Join the Party Party
- Bal Tekkia: Shofar Idol
- Slashdot | CA Sec. of State Panel on Open Source Elections
- Make it stop! The city noise is getting to me
- More Hallway than conference (without the hallways!)
- A different World
- Blogging from Web Of Change, Cortes Island, B.C. CA
- NYC Election Night Recap
- Berkeley Daily Planet: Doing Well By Doing Good
- Open Letter to Bush from Michael Moore
- The Most Brutal Truth (about NOLA)
- Our Government has Failed New Orlineans
- Oxygen Network Capaign for Children's Hospital Victims of Katrina
- New Orleans Relief
- Gasoline chain letter going around
August
- Paramilitary Police State: their raving not rioting
- onNYTurf : Google Map NYC-Subway Hack
- New york voters don't care for the 4th amendment
- ParaSITE: inflatable housing
- The Death of marketing as we know it
- "Trust No One"
- Go Flock Yourself
- Hell is someone blaming it on technology
- Data privacy here and abroad
- When Pigs Wi-Fi – New York Times
- Boycott Internet Explorer | RobsHouse.net
June
- Citizen Speak Fundraising campaign is almost there
- I am Not Alone: Newsday article on street fairs
- The Fall Will Be Further and Harder Than Ever Before
- More on themeing drupal civicspace
- CivicSpace Virtual Skills Share Audio: Themes
- CivicSpace Virtual Skills Share IRC Log: Themes
- Making Fundable.org better
- e-Engagement Tools That Fit
- Living in a connected age: Thinking about by telecom infrastructure
- CivicSpace Virtual Skills Shares
- Pound of Flesh: My Last MS Purchase EVER (hopefully)
May
- Thin Slicing: Ed Batista interprets Malcom Gladwell
- New Applications for Audio Blogging
- Gregory Heller to Join CivicActions
- "As Mayor, I will put an end to this scourge on our quality of life…"
- Coney Island Weekend at the NYT
- We don't need to remember: how google is changing our brains
- Rasiej publishes first VBlog of the campaign
- FUH2
- Free Press : Stop News Fraud
- Protect Online Political Speech: Principle Archives
- addyourown: Manhattan restrooms and reviews
- Polls and the National Republicans
- PDF: Getting It
- PDF: Doc Searls say the web is a place
- PDF: Marty Kearns on Network Centric Theory
- HughHewitt.com on PDF Live Chat
- Email this Page works! and other things around my site
- Hey Norton! – Ken Norton's blog – The web is full of tags
- Standing Date: a Civic Space Virtual user Group meeting
- North by Northeast Interactive (a thought before bed)
- A slightly longer interview with Sheldon Rampton
- A Short Interview with Dan Robinson
- A Short Interview with Christian Crumlish
- Citizen Speak Development project on fundable
- StopGlobalWarming.org
- PDF: Back Channel Chat Logs
- PDF: Municipal Wifi
- PDF: Andrew Rasiej
- PDF: Podcast interview with Zack Rosen
- PDF: Podcast interview with Noel Hidalgo
- PDF: Podcast Interview with Ben Geyerhan
- Multi-Tasking at the PDF
- PDF: Keynote Thoughts and Points
- Fundable
- the Delocator! Delocator.net
- The Symantics fo the debate about "blog" obsolesence
- Can Rocketboom Shake up broadcasting?
- "Tagging is easy" hear me and Amanda Hickman talk about tagging
- Daniel K Gillmore Describes "Radio Diaries" class
- Andrew Rasiej speaks to gothamist
- Defensive Domain Name Purchases
- Penguin Day: Calendar applications
- Penguin Day: On Speed Geeking
- A new Paradigm for the tech conference
- Penguin Day: Initial Reflection
- AP and CNN on Tagging
April
- Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.
- Upcoming is up and coming
- Tag! Your It!
- Got me a Technorati Profile
- On Data security and security culture
- BBC on Pols Podcasting
- OC-Tech: Reflection on Hallway conversations and afternoon
- OC-Tech: Reflection on the conference (morning)
- OC-Tech: Unlocking the doors to Political Power
- OC-Tech: Doing More With Less (CMS, Donations, etc)
- OC-Tech: Grassroots Technology and the emergin progressive movement
- OC-Tech: Micah Sifry key note
- NTEN NTC Podcast: Dan Robinson on Tagging
- More on the Stratellite
- FOAF: My Head is spinning
- More flies with honey: GreenGuide.com
- My Thoughts on The Three Pillars of Social Source
- New Paradigms in non-profit software development
- Copyright and the Grokster case
March
- Zopa: Lending and Borrowing
- Larks and Owls
- Geo-Greening
- John Edwards' First Podcast
- NTEN: NTC Wrap Up
- NTEN: Podcasts coming soon…
- More on Pols Blogging
- A method for open source software development funding
- NTEN: Webtools for Activists (How to pull it off if you are not MoveOn)
- NTEN: Watering the Grass Roots
- NTEN: Open Source CMS
- NTEN: On the Fly web tool deployment
- NTEN: The Future of Distributed Activism
- NTEN: Putting feet on the virtual (and real) street
- NTEN: Lunch at the Civic Space Table
- NTEN: Not Your Mom's Intranet
- NTEN: Mena wrap up
- NTEN: join the live chat
- NTEN: Mena Trott Keynote
- PDF Conference Pricing out those who need it
- Pols should blog
- PodCast Comments to Electeds
- NATIONAL JOURNAL: American Politics In The Networking Era
- My Thoughts on the future of NPO Technology
- Partisan Blog Traffic rising
- Why Congress Doesn't Blog…And a Few Members Who Do – by Molly Chapman Norton
- The Principles Project
February
- build software that people want to use
- On "IT is from Mars; Web Content from Venus"
- Podcasts and Me
- Open Standards – A Call To Action
- del.icio.us
- The 48 Laws of Power
- Democrats Push Voting Holiday
- Counterpoint: The Citizen and His Browser, Volunteering Alone – by Michael Turk
- Kerry Gives to DNC
- Share and Share Alike
- A school of guppies in a purple ocean…