Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Mar 30th, 2010
I hope that when Everett grows up and remembers about his early childhood, that one of the things he’ll say is “My house was filled with music.” In other words, I’ve been spending some quality time on paternity leave rocking my Squeezebox. One of the coolest things about the Squeezebox is the fact that it’s [...]
Posted in General on Mar 27th, 2010
If anyone can explain to me the theory of change behind Earth Hour, or how it actually builds power for the climate change movement, I’d love to hear it.
Posted in General on Mar 26th, 2010
Jarn: Plone Cathedral sprint after-action report Best sprint report-out ever. Nice work, all! Apps 4 Climate Action and licenses RedTurtle: “Future is bright, future is Plone” PubliQuestion: Voters—Especially Young Voters—Shrug Off McGinn’s Bumpy Start Catholic Charity and Sprint Tangle Over Texting – NYTimes.com Sigh. And now we see the dangers of relying on non-open standards [...]
Everett Charles Stahl is fast approaching his 55th hour of life, looks like he’ll be spending most of it asleep (as will his tired-but-jubliant Mom). Here’s what we know so far: Pretty darn cute. Prefers sleep to suckling. Good set of lungs, but appears to have some sense of discretion about when to use them. [...]
Posted in General on Mar 19th, 2010
11:35am PST Friday, March 19 Boy Weight: 8 lbs even (3640 grams) Length: 19 3/4 inches Name: TBA Everett Charles Stahl Everybody doing well. More photos at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonstahl/sets/72157623527760795/
Posted in General on Mar 17th, 2010
My friends Tim Walker and Michael Silberman have been doing some thinking about the long-term problems with many of the approaches to date about social change + technology and have popped out a provocative (and very welcome!) manifesto about the need for “web thinking.” http://www.echoditto.com/insights/webthinking I was honored to contribute some thoughts on the early [...]
Posted in General on Mar 15th, 2010
No matter when you think the scheduled release date is, it’s ready when it’s ready, and there’s not much you can do about it.
Posted in General on Mar 8th, 2010
The Unpardonable Absence of a Democratic “Attack Machine” “Time to Start Taking The Internet Seriously” by David Gelernter Great read. Openness can make citizens collaborators with officials Day Traders and Campaign Plans Obama Finally Keeps His Word Darwin Foes Add Warming to Targets – NYTimes.com Alliance of know-nothings. Sigh.
Posted in General on Mar 7th, 2010
Slurm!! Originally uploaded by jonstahl Molly and I are in love with these nightlights we just bought. Slurm, anyone?
Posted in General on Mar 4th, 2010
Copenhagen was doomed to failure from the day that Obama decided to do health care in 2009 and not climate legislation. Enviros should have recognized this and responded by de-emphasizing the strategic importance of Copenhagen, and focusing their limited resources to prepare for 2010.
Posted in General on Mar 2nd, 2010
Last June, I wrote up some initial thoughts about how Plone could to more to help folks with limited experience preparing images for the web. It got quite a bit of favorable response, but then I went off on sabbatical and haven’t followed up, until now. I’m more convinced than ever that this is a [...]
