links for 2009-06-29
Posted in General on Jun 29th, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker good, skeptical review (tags: internet business economics)
Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Jun 29th, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker good, skeptical review (tags: internet business economics)
Posted in General on Jun 29th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2009
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)
Posted in General on Jun 26th, 2009
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)
Posted in General on Jun 24th, 2009
Building National Campaigns : Activists, Alliances, and How Change Happens – Oxfam Publishing (tags: campaigns strategy case-studies)
Posted in General on Jun 17th, 2009
Green Tweets: 75+ Environmentalists to Follow on Twitter (tags: green twitter)
Posted in General on Jun 10th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in General on Jun 8th, 2009
Federated Security: The Shibboleth Approach case studies on Shibboleth (tags: shibboleth security sso)
Posted in General on Jun 8th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in General on Jun 6th, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in General on Jun 5th, 2009
My Google Maps tool draw and edit polygons on a Google map (tags: maps google gis)
Posted in General on Jun 3rd, 2009
Community – Re: Cannot re-enable Outlook Add-in – Desktop Integration – Force.com Discussion Boards (tags: salesforce outlook troubleshooting)
Posted in General on Jun 2nd, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in General on Jun 1st, 2009
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 [...]