Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Mar 31st, 2009
Corners, gradients and shadows with jQuery at bioneural.net (tags: jquery webdesign javascript howto) PressThink: Introducing the new Huffington Post Investigative Fund (And My Own Role in It) wherein we begin to find out if philanthrophy will be a sustainable business model for investigative journalism. my bet: nationally, perhaps — but, as usual with philanthropy, there [...]
I really enjoyed Ian Bicking’s PyCon talk, “Topics of Interest.” Light on substance perhaps, but possibly the best use of a twitter an IRC backchannel ever. Ian is indeed one of those people who is interested in interesting things.
Posted in General on Mar 30th, 2009
Beards of Python well done, Python friends! (tags: python humor)
Posted in General on Mar 29th, 2009
Open Space – PyCon 2009 – Chicago – A Conference for the Python Community how pycon ran openspace (tags: plone conferences plone-conference open-space) Dewplayer: flash mp3 player (tags: webdesign audio mp3) YouTube Allows Nonprofits to Add a Call to Action Overlay on Videos Finally! This is a big deal. Nonprofits can drive activism, fundraising, etc. [...]
Posted in General on Mar 28th, 2009
Wanted/Needed: UX Design for Collaboration 2.0 – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design "no software supports the entire process of collaboration" — amen! (tags: software collaboration design)
Posted in General on Mar 23rd, 2009
TechCoopHOWTO great guide to technology cooperatives, contributions from ONE/Northwest allies Electric Embers and Web Collective (tags: business howto) Building a successful online team | EchoDitto (tags: technology organizing social-media staffing) How much would it cost to build DCF? – Duke City Fix Estimated cost of a serious social networking site: $200k (tags: social-media)
Posted in General on Mar 21st, 2009
Foundation Center – 2009 Foundation Giving Forecast (tags: fundraising 2009 nonprofits foundations)
Posted in General on Mar 20th, 2009
McKinsey: What Matters: Building an innovation nation interesting semantic rectangle of innovative cities (tags: research innovation)
Posted in General on Mar 18th, 2009
Slow Money: investment strategies appropriate to the realities of the 21st century – Home (tags: books economics activism investing agriculture) Setting DD-WRT Cron Job Through Command Line | Romantika.name (tags: vpn howto openvpn) Michael Stein: Internet Strategy for the Nonprofit Sector: How do gift premiums impact online giving? (tags: research fundraising) The Magic Behind Amazon's [...]
Posted in General on Mar 16th, 2009
‘Practical Plone 3? review « Encolpe Degoute Even if the target of this book is beginners it was a very interesting reading for an old developer like me. If you don’t use it for yourself, you will use it to give answers to your end-users. I can only recommend everyone to buy it. Nice work [...]
Posted in General on Mar 15th, 2009
Goodbye to the Age of Newspapers (Hello to a New Era of Corruption) (tags: journalism media toread)
Posted in General on Mar 14th, 2009
Politics and new media, or “Should I really tweetspam Congress?” (tags: onelist organizing activism)
Posted in General on Mar 10th, 2009
Kim Stanley Robinson: Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme Great essay by "Mars Trilogy" author on how to start thinking about postcapitalism (tags: environment economics essays climate) How to be a program manager – Joel on Software (tags: software projectmanagement)
Posted in General on Mar 9th, 2009
Calvin Hendryx-Parker loves the ZODB. As well he should — it’s an amazing database that continues to be waaay ahead of its time. Object databases are great for content management, it’s a shame to see so many folks stuck in SQL-only modes of thinking.
Posted in General on Mar 9th, 2009
SIM Implementation Guide (tags: api ecommere) Authorize.Net – Implementation Guides (tags: ecommerce) Wondershapre PPT to Video Converts powerpoint to FLV video (tags: video powerpoint flv)
Posted in General on Mar 5th, 2009
My colleague Steve Andersen is doing some neat work to create techniques for sending email series with Salesforce. This is a pretty great “low-tech” technique for building an engagement relationship, useful in organizing, service delivery and training contexts.
Posted in General on Mar 4th, 2009
DD-WRT Forum :: View topic – OpenVPN config docs for v24 SP1? (tags: vpn howto openvpn) OpenVPN on DD-WRT v.24 SP1 doesn’t start on reboot | tolaris.com how to autorestart openvpn (tags: vpn howto) How To Use Icons To Support Content In Web Design | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine (tags: webdesign graphics)
Posted in General on Mar 3rd, 2009
Google Search Engine Ranking Factors This document represents the collective wisdom of 37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization. (tags: webdesign google search optimization) Keywords Meta Tag – Should I use it? How many keywords? Answer: No Google doesn't care about your meta keywords. (tags: webdesign google search)
Posted in General on Mar 2nd, 2009
Social Skills of Social Media Presentation by Eric Eckl (tags: presentation social-media) Write for Reuse (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) (tags: writing onelist-ideas)
