Jon Stahl's Journal

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker good, skeptical review (tags: internet business economics)

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Commenting is the building block of most “social” features on the web.  Plone has had commenting since its very early releases, and got a lot of things right the first time.  However, the web has become more sophisticated since 2004, and our “mostly good enough” commenting framework is now showing its age.  It’s time for [...]

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How the Internet helps Iran silence activists. – Slate Magazine "The crackdown in Iran shows that, for regimes bent on survival, squashing electronic dissent isn't impossible. In many ways, modern communication tools are easier to suppress than organizing methods of the past." (tags: politics technology organizing)

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Barack Obama won using 'old school' technology, says his campaign manager | Media | guardian.co.uk Email and TV ads more important than facebook and twitter. (tags: obama campaigns organizing)

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Building National Campaigns : Activists, Alliances, and How Change Happens – Oxfam Publishing (tags: campaigns strategy case-studies)

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Green Tweets: 75+ Environmentalists to Follow on Twitter (tags: green twitter)

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How to Sponsor an Open Source Sprint | ITworld "ONE/Northwest, a Seattle nonprofit that provides technology and communications strategy assistance to environmental advocacy organizations, organized a two-day sprint to focus on adding specific functionality to an add-on module for the Plone content management system. The half-dozen or so developers were local, with one exception. "We [...]

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Federated Security: The Shibboleth Approach case studies on Shibboleth (tags: shibboleth security sso)

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I’ve been brainstorming a bit about how Plone do an even better job of helping non-technical website editors manage and optimize their images for the web, and I’ve come up with what I think is a pretty clever idea.  I have neither the time nor the skill to implement it, and so I thought I’d [...]

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Google I/O – The Myth of the Genius Programmer A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully exchange personal ego for personal growth and super-charged collaboration. We'll also examine how software [...]

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My Google Maps tool draw and edit polygons on a Google map (tags: maps google gis)

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Community – Re: Cannot re-enable Outlook Add-in – Desktop Integration – Force.com Discussion Boards (tags: salesforce outlook troubleshooting)

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Growl for Windows (tags: windows utilities) Social Marketing Bullshit Bingo nicely done (tags: humor social-networking) What’s new in Zope 2.12 — Zope 2 v2.12.0 documentation Now supports Python 2.5 and 2.6. (tags: zope plone) WhoSigned.org Rapid turnaround radical transparency on people who sign to put Referendum 71, Washington State's anti-human rights initiative on the ballot [...]

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The Plone community is hard at work on some game-changing innovations that will redefine your notion of what is possible with a content management system.  One of the coolest elements of this is Deliverance, a new system for “theming” (applying a custom visual design) to a Plone site. Deliverance introduces the paradigm-shifting notion of “rules [...]

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