Jon Stahl’s Journal

Loyal readers (assuming I have any) will doubtless recall that one of our projects this summer at ONE/Northwest has been building a product to connect websites powered by the Plone content management with user databases stored in Salesforce.com. I’m pleased to announce that Andrew, Steve and I have just finished our initial testing and review […]

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WIDE — Writing in Digital Environments (tags: plone-site education) Welcome to SAL Spatial Analysis […]

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As Sean eloquently observes, Digg is way less useful than Slashdot, because it dispenses with any editorial work whatsoever and relies soley on the alleged wisdom of the crowds.Slashdot, with a combination of old-fashioned editorial and mass-moderation, produces a higher signal-to-noise ratio.  And that ain’t sayin much.

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Video Chat — Who Has the Best Quality Picture? actually a somewhat useful post on slashdot. no foolin’ (tags: videoconferencing software)

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Why would the CEO of an explicitly progressive political tech consulting firm out himself as a “supporter” of McCain?  And then take a “leave of absence” from said firm?  Odd.  Disturbing. I don’t know what to make of this.  There must be more going on here than meets the eye.

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RyanVM’s MSFN Files Page bundled update packs to integrate into slipstream installs (tags: windows system_administration utilities)

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Writely, the web-based word processor that Google recent purchased, has re-opened to the public, for free. It’s not quite a replacement for Word, but it’s a damn handy tool for writing documents collaboratively.

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United Business Machines of Washington local kyocera-mita dealer (tags: printers purchasing kyocera) Rogue of […]

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FollowSteph.com » Overly Agressive Email Blocking comcast blocking complaints (tags: comcast-complaints) Comcast’s hidden blacklist […]

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Configuring ExternalEditor on Windows very useful. we should adapt & expand for plone.org (tags: plone howto zope) […]

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Look, it’s a Web 2.0 logo generator. Niice. (Hat tip to Nate.)

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PowerPoint to Flash Conversion Tools - The PPT2Flash Top20 good list of free and not-free tools for converting PowerPoint presentations to Flash for easy web delivery (tags: powerpoint flash […]

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Free Zipcode-to-Representative Matching Database! Tom Lee of EchoDitto delivers an important resource for online advocacy (tags: open-source online-advocacy datamining government) […]

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FusionCharts 2.3 - Animated Flash Charts flash library for doing charts (tags: flash software graphics webdesign) […]

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The crew at Environmental Working Group have baked up a simple, clever interactive viral action campaign:http://www.ronaldmchummer.com It lets you make custom “Golden Arches” signs, like so: And you can vote on your favorites!And you can write a letter to McDonald’s asking them to stop giving away Hummers in their Happy Meals!Nicely done, EWG!

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Why Nuclear Power Cannot Be A Major Energy Source Excellent debunking of pro-nuclear arguments (tags: energy environment)

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IICD - International Institute for Communication and Development (tags: plone-site)

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Ugh. I’ve long thought that Dell laptops were prone to quality problems. Read and discuss the story at NewsCloud

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Introducing Windows Live Writer Microsoft makes an offline blogging client. (tags: microsoft software windows blogging plone)

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