Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Oct 31st, 2008
A N I M O T O creates animated videos from your images. very neat (tags: video tools slideshow cool) Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – Platform Monetization is a Two Way Street: Lessons from Facebook and Sun Microsystems facebook's platform is turning out to be a revolution that didn't last (tags: strategy social-networking business facebook)
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2008
Stefano’s Linotype » Blog Archive » Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design good tips for novice CSS designers. (tags: css webdesign)
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2008
Ballard (and our neighbors in Fremont) get the in-depth treatment from the New York Times travel section. Very cool to see a photo of Ballard farmer’s market on the homepage of the Gray Lady!
Posted in General on Oct 29th, 2008
Hostile takeover of Open Source Project TWiki Very sad. A good object lesson in what can happen to open-source projects that don't have their trademarks and intellectual property secured in a community-governed foundation. (tags: open-source legal)
Posted in General on Oct 28th, 2008
Chris “cbcunc” Calloway has put together two great video visualizations of Plone’s community activity over the past eight (!) years.Check out:Plone core code swarm — a visual representation of the evolution of the Plone core from 2001 to 2008.Plone collective code swarm — same idea, only this time it analyzes the universe of Plone add-on [...]
Posted in General on Oct 27th, 2008
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: What Tim O'Reilly gets wrong about the cloud (tags: analysis web2.0 networks) How Environmental Activist Van Jones' Book "The Green Collar Economy" Reached The NYT Best Sellers List one way to go viral: lots of allies with big lists who think you're the cat's pajamas. hint: it helps if you [...]
Posted in General on Oct 26th, 2008
Plone Code Swarm amazing visualization of the plone codebase history (tags: plone fun)
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2008
Calliflower fairly nifty phone + web conference calling tool (tags: voip conference-calls collaboration) The Bullitt Foundation (tags: plone-site onenorthwest environment) Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough Fast Company digs into the less-than-attractive aspects of William McDonough. (tags: environment design sustainability)
Posted in General on Oct 23rd, 2008
Transactional Email and Confirmation Messages (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) (tags: email engagement) Why Platforms Are Letting Us Down – And What They Should Do About It good overview of various "platform" efforts like Facebook, Open Social, Flock, Apple's App Store (tags: social-networking analysis)
Posted in General on Oct 18th, 2008
Obama’s no socialist, but McCain and Palin are acting more and more like fascist demagogues all the time. I’ll be glad when this election ends in a blowout that sends them both scampering back to their caves with the last remanants of the revanchist right.
Failed authoritarian movements needs scapegoats the way fecal coliformbacteria need a steady supply of raw sewage, and this one has a lot offailures that need explaining.
Posted in General on Oct 6th, 2008
Keating Economics Obama takes the gloves off. (tags: politics economics)
Posted in General on Oct 4th, 2008
Clean Energy 2030 – Google's Clean Energy Plan (tags: energy google)
Posted in General on Oct 3rd, 2008
Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds a bad idea, absolutely beautifully implemented (tags: visualization words language typography) The building block of journalism is no longer the article great notion about better ways to "curate" information. (tags: writing online)
Posted in General on Oct 2nd, 2008
Michael Gilbert has an interesting notion: becoming a knowledge blogger is a good way to practice managing information overload. The experience of “information overload” has many causes, among which are these three important ones: (1) We don’t know what to do with the information we are getting. (2) We don’t know how to filter and [...]
Posted in General on Oct 2nd, 2008
Sam Dorman of the League of Young Voters just tickled my funnybone with a really nice idea for how to elegantly handle external redirects in Plone. I think this would be really easy to roll up into a nice user-friendly product that would have tremendous, wide-ranging re-usability. I’d love your thoughts on it. The problem [...]
