Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 30th, 2006
I got to see a few episodes of The IT Crowd this weekend. It’s a British sitcom about two basement-dwelling IT support staffers and their boss. It was hysterical. And not just ’cause I’m a nerd. Plus, it has great theme music. Highly recommended.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 27th, 2006
I don’t like to brag, but… actually sometimes I really do. I’m really proud and excited to be able to announce the launch of ONE/Northwest’s largest and most complex web project yet — www.sightline.org, the new website of Sightline Institute, the sustainability think-tank formerly known as Northwest Environment Watch. (And our downstairs […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2006
… and congrats to the crew at Grist, whose first-ever list of superlatives just got Kossed.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2006
The basic functioning of the Internet is facing a pretty serious legislative threat from Congress, and there’s a new nonpartisan coalition forming to fight to protect “net neutrality,” which is one of the bedrock principles that has alllowed the Internet to become the free and open ecosystem that we want to see it remain. For a […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 22nd, 2006
As my colleague Steve Andersen also reports, ONE/Northwest has received a $25,000 grant from the Salesforce.com Foundation to fund the integration of Plone with Salesforce.com. This will allow folks with Plone-powered websites to share data about people, organizations, etc. with the Salesforce.com database platform. You can read more details on the ONE/Northwest website. As […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 19th, 2006
…that Don Rumsfeld is doing a heckuva job. Heh.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 12th, 2006
Technology doesn’t exist in a vaccuum. It is intimately connected to the real-world organizing you’re doing, and must inform it and be informed by it. You can’t organize unless you know who you’re trying to organize, who your targets are, and how you can influence them. We need better processes for thinking holistically about modern organizing […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 6th, 2006
Or was that drool running down my chin? Running Mac OS X and Windows XP in parallel on the same box is about to become a reality. Holy cow.
There were those who said it couldn’t be done. There were more who said it shouldn’t. But we took their advice and ignored it with all the gusto we could muster. We finally flipped the switch today on the new, Plone-powered ONE/Northwest website. It’s a got a lovely new design, a bunch of new content […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2006
Ok, my brain is full. We just wrapped up an extremely successful Seattle Plone Bootcamp, and I gotta say, I’m pretty tired. I can only imagine how our interpid trainer Joel Burton must feel — he had to think, talk and answer questions for a whole week! Here’s the quick report out for those of you […]
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