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Fen blogged about ThankYouHarryTaylor.org . Dan also had a conversation with the organizer of the site and the coordinated actions this Saturday to the "Thank Harry Taylor" for giving us all voice. Here is the back story: Harry Taylor said the following to George W. Bush: “In my lifetime, I have never felt…
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 only this discrete needs but other sending needs of this, and other clients. Ingredients: Drupal 4.7 Mime Mail http://drupal.org/node/37911 Mailing List Manager http://drupal.org/node/44580 Send http://drupal.org/project/send News http://drupal.org/node/45616
I thought I would share two recent links that came across my laptop recently: Jewcy carries some kitch apparel with slogans like "Shalom Motherfucker" and "A great Miracle Happened Here" Jews Rock is a website dedicated to ingformation about Jews in Rock and Roll. A bonus link:…
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!
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 already using the Internet I have to credit the folks I spoke with, you all have great ideas, and are
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 while regulating paid advertising. The UPI has a good article about the ruling. I’d love to point you all to the FEC’s website for more information, but 5 minutes of searching there did not turn up any good summary of the new rules.
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 , John Kerry and Mark Warner to campaign online through blogging and audio and video casting on their campaign websites.
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 legal postage with custom images… Well, BringThemHomeNow has created legal US postage with a great message.
Last night, Eric Gundersen of Development Seed sent me a link to the Chevy Tahoe / Apprentice Ad Campaign . Looks like a bunch of environmentalists are doing a little culture jamming. Check out Marty Kearns’ Network Centric Advocacy blog for links to some pro environment andti suv commercials. Be sure to make your own and post a link. Here is my first one
Oso from FreeGeek talked about the work they do to reduce eWaste and recycle computers with volunteers.