Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 29th, 2006
I decided to end my “year in technology” today by taking my first hands-on look at Plone 3.0, schedule for release in March 2007. Plone 3.0, as its name implies, is shaping up to be a major release for Plone, with a whole pile of big, sexy new features that you’ll notice the second you fire [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2006
Apparently, I was only a moderately-good nonprofit technology pundit in 2006. Jason’s keeping score. On the plus side, at least I made falsifiable predictions, unlike many of my peers. Jon Stahl, ONE/Northwest “The Web 2.0 bubble will burstâ€? Ruling: Since “Web 2.0″ has been famously impossible to define, this is a tough one to score. On [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 28th, 2006
My friends over at NPower Seattle are looking for database and network consultants, both staff and contract. It’s a great opportunity to do meaningful work with one of the most effective nonprofit technology outfits out there.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 27th, 2006
It’s late. I’ve been staring at the Plone Roadmap and the Collective for a while, just trying to get a picture in my head of where things are at, and where they are going. (It’s a lot of mostly good news.)One of those things that’s just been rattling around for a while is the idea [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 26th, 2006
Cascade Land Conservancy (tags: plone-site washington onenorthwest) Northwest Community Energy — Community Renewable Energy [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 25th, 2006
The Salesforce Train Keeps Rolling has a nice observation about why Salesforce is so darn interesting. (Emphasis mine.) Salesforce has developed a full function business software utility, and with it an economy or ecosystem of builders, buyers, and sellers that spans the planet. Good for them, but now the hard part starts.Up to now, the market [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 24th, 2006
World Domination 201 Eric S. Raymond’s essay on what Linux needs to do to win. Very, very interesting strategy piece (tags: open-source operating_systems linux strategy) [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 23rd, 2006
How to test HTML emails - Campaign Monitor Blog (tags: email-newsletters howto)
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 20th, 2006
Alex Steffen of WorldChanging covered Eben Moglen’s Plone Conference talk. Bruce Sterling comments skeptically.It’s great to see this speech getting out there. I’m really glad we invested in taping the Plone Conference so extensively. You never know when something amazing is going to happen.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 20th, 2006
Riva VX: Riva FLV Encoder transcode video to Flash video (tags: video encoding)
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 19th, 2006
The Daily Reel (tags: plone-site) SUPER windows video encoding tool [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2006
So, Jodie’s started a blog. World, prepare yourself!
Posted in General on Dec 18th, 2006
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2006
Jonathan Peizer offers up some skepticism about Time Magazine’s designation of “you” as Person Of The Year: I am just not ready to give into a rose-colored panacea that seemingly lulls me into a false sense of who is in charge and the life-changing benefits of a “thingâ€?. Just because a new form of interactive, networked [...]
Posted in General on Dec 14th, 2006
ffmpeg2theora converts mpeg video files to ogg theora (tags: video software) VLC media player [...]
Posted in General on Dec 14th, 2006
In The Spam Farms of the Social Web Niall Kennedy sounds the alarm about spammers targeting popular social media sites such as Digg and del.icio.us. Will we see the kind of arms race that has happened in email and blog-commenting happen in the social media space?
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 12th, 2006
Seth Gottlieb writes one of those blog posts I wish I’d written, on evaluating an open-source software community. The community will influence your experience of the software and shape the application’s future. If you are used to commercial software selection, the concept of “community” is probably alien to you. You may be used to reading analyst [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 10th, 2006
Thanks to Jeff, Eben Moglen’s keynote talk about free software, politics, social justice and more from Plone Conference 2006 got slashdotted this morning. If you haven’t watched or listened to it yet, do yourself a favor. Jeff even wrote a far better summary of it than I ever could have. Update: Also on Metafilter [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 9th, 2006
Kathy Sierra’s got another fabulous post, titled “How To Build A User Community, Part I” which draws on her experience with Java user communities. She believes (quite correctly, IMHO) that the key to a successful user community is teaching and encouraging intermediate-level users to start answering questions. Her “big six” tips for growing a user community are: [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 8th, 2006
Joshua Levy has a nice post at Personal Democracy Forum on using MySpace (and other social networking environments) for advocacy & political campaigns. Nothing radically new here, but it’s a good, concise restatement of the obvious: You have to go where the people you want to reach are already at. (Organizing 101 [...]
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