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Webware just announced that Drupal is the winner of a Webware 100 award for in the publishing category : Drupal is a powerful publishing and content management system. Users can add all sorts of content to Web pages through a system of modules. The software itself is free and open-source; users need simply pick out which site elements they want, and then put them together.
Public Radio is reporting this morning that border agents on the US Canadian border are looking way back into people’s past to find ways to deny them entry to one country or the other. Border agents are even using Google. One case mentioned in the story was of a Canadian Psychoanalyst who was denied entry after agents found an article he wrote in 2001 about his use of LSD in the 1960s. I imagine the day is not far off when border agents use facebook or myspace!
Paul Krugman has had two great columns recently in the NYT. Unfortunately they are buried behind a pay-wall. In “Authentic?
Listening to Market Place last night, I heard a story about online privacy, and privacy in general. Seems that Privacy International issued a report recently that marks Google as the worst internet company when it comes to privacy. Stop the presses!
I guess it is video week here at CivicActions… Visit ImpeachGonzales.org .
TechPresident features a few posts from Micah Sifry on the recent Obama MySpace snafu. The short of it is this: volunteer makes a Barak Obama MySpace profile in 2004. Over time that profile grows to 160k friends. The volunteer gives freely of his time doing it (by his account 5 to 10 hours a day since the beginning of the year). The Obama campaign decides they want control, ask the volunteer how much he’d like to be compensated.
As an outspoken carbon offsetter, this past Sunday and Monday I found my inbox filling with emails from friends about the NYT Week In Review cover story on Carbon Offsets . The Times article compared carbon offsets to indulgences offered by the church and suggested that the industry needs a Martin Luther to come along and spark a reformation.
Generally I think that John Doe law suits are bad. The RIAA has used them to find out the identities of alleged illegal file sharers. I never thought I would read about one that I actually could support. But today I read about a lawsuit filed by Project Honey Pot against John Doe spammers. The class action suit seeks $1 Billion in damages.
It was a whirlwind 2 days for me on the fundraising circuit! On Tuesday morning I attended the annual Bike To Work Breakfast of the Cascade Bicycle Club in Seattle. CBC has over seven thousand members and the turnout for the breakfast was impressive with something like 400 people there including Seattle’s Mayor Greg Nichols and King County Executive Ron Sims. The bike club does some great work advocating for bike facilities in buildings and on the roads as well as educating kids about bike safety (and adults too!).