Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Jan 31st, 2009
I’m very excited about Products.TinyMCE, the new add-on product for Plone by Rob Gietema of Four Digits that integrates TinyMCE, the popular open-source graphical HTML, into Plone. Background: Since Plone 2.1, released in 2006, Plone has shipped with an excellent graphical HTML editor called Kupu. Kupu was a mature, capable product long before TinyMCE was [...]
Posted in General on Jan 27th, 2009
American Carbon Registry (tags: environment plone-site web-collective)
Posted in General on Jan 24th, 2009
TimeDriver – A revolutionary online personal appointment scheduler (tags: project-management calendar scheduling)
Posted in General on Jan 22nd, 2009
Is ad-supported journalism viable in a pay-for-performance age? very interesting analysis from Ethan Zuckerman (tags: journalism)
Posted in General on Jan 21st, 2009
“With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the specter of a warming planet.” – President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address Wow, he just drew a parallel between climate change and nuclear war. And you know what, he’s right. Both are fundamental, existential threats. I’m so [...]
Posted in General on Jan 21st, 2009
Limits of Volunteerism Michael Delli Carpini, a scholar of civic life and the dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, has noted, "Civic engagement has become defined as the one-on-one experience of working in a soup kitchen, clearing trash from a local river or tutoring a child once a week. What is [...]
Posted in General on Jan 20th, 2009
Nathan Van Gheem has put out a 1.0 release candidate of ImageEditor, his fantastic image editing add-on product for Plone. ImageEditor implements a slick, easy-to-use image editor inside of Plone. ImageEditor lets Plone users quickly and easily resize, crop, sharpen and compress images they’ve uploaded without Photoshop.A short screencast is worth a thousand words of [...]
Posted in General on Jan 20th, 2009
Django 2.0 things that happen when you don't have or enforce your trademarks. ouch. (tags: open-source django trademark)
Posted in General on Jan 18th, 2009
It will be very, very interesting to see how Obama’s new “Organizing For America” effort, run through the DNC, plays out. The new group, called Organizing for America, will be a “special project” of the Democratic National Committee, according to Obama transition spokesman Ben LaBolt, and it appears to be the primary vehicle for issue [...]
Posted in General on Jan 17th, 2009
Troubled Technologies: An '09 Watch List social news, microblogging, enterprise social networking, online video — companies will face tough times in 2009, say these pundits (tags: technology predictions 2009)
Posted in General on Jan 15th, 2009
iSpring Converter | Converter PowerPoint to Flash Converter (tags: flash software windows presentations powerpoint)
Posted in General on Jan 14th, 2009
Crucial Web Hosting » Blog » Ecommerce PCI Compliant Hosting great article on PCI compliance for small sites (tags: ecommerce pci) 2009 Northwest Exposure Contest Winners — Washington Trails Association fantastic nature photos from Washington state hikers! (tags: environment onenorthwest photography) Nonprofits' Most Missed Marketing Tool — Email Signatures nice guide to creating an effective [...]
Posted in General on Jan 13th, 2009
R.I.P. Enterprise RSS – ReadWriteWeb big biz hasn't adopted RSS readers much. film at 11. (tags: trends business rss)
Posted in General on Jan 12th, 2009
phpBB • View topic – [RC] Plone Authentication Module interesting… module to authenticate phpBB against Plone users (tags: plone phpbb)
Posted in General on Jan 11th, 2009
AWS Console new web-based console for Amazon Web Services. Sweet. (tags: amazon webhosting)
Posted in General on Jan 8th, 2009
SlideShowPro: The complete photo and video slideshow publishing solution (tags: slideshow)
Posted in General on Jan 6th, 2009
The internals of Plone’s user & groups system got massively upgraded in Plone 2.5 with the inclusion of PAS (Plugabble Auth System). Behind the scenes, we now have an impressively powerful, extremely flexible system for managing the entire authentication system. It’s a great foundation. But while the foundation is sound, the more external-facing parts of [...]
Posted in General on Jan 6th, 2009
Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism – Center for Citizen Media for onelist? Group uses lawsuits to help clean up Sound possibly worth onelist; it's not everyday our clients are on page A1. (tags: onenw)
Posted in General on Jan 5th, 2009
Nabble – Python – image-sig – Poor Image Quality When Resizing a GIF (tags: python images)
