Jon Stahl’s Journal

linktally product for plone that parses logfiles to find most popular content (tags: plone add-on webstats) […]

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“If you haven’t maintained software, then you are not qualified to design or build new software.”– some guy on Slashdot Interesting notion.  Do you agree?

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As Washington Toxics Coalition’s multi-year campaign to pass a first-in-the-nation ban on toxic flame retardant chemicals (known as PDBEs) comes to a rousing finish, check out what they’re doing with user-generated content. They’ve invited members and supporters to send in photographs of them with their own “I Want To Be PDBE-Free” message. They’ve taken a smart, […]

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This sounds like a very creative and effective use of Google Earth as an environmental advocacy tool.  Environmental advocacy group Appalachian Voices has joined to Google to deliver a special interactive layer for Google Earth that tells the stories of over 470 mountains that have been destroyed from coal mining, and its impact on nearby ecosystems. I hope […]

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Cascadia Users of Geospatial Open Source | Google Groups (tags: open-source gis meeting)

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NPR’s recent hour-long special The Partisans of Ali is an concise and engaging historical overview of the long sectarian divide between Sunni and Shia Muslims.  Well worth a listen if you want to understand the deeper long term conflicts that we’ve gotten uncomfortably close to these past few years.

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SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script (tags: video javascript flash)

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Duane Raymond of Fairsay has got the first three parts of a six-part series on the state of online advocacy/e-campaigning.  Worth a read.  It’s really great to see some big-picture reflection coming from a hands-on campaigner.  I’m particularly enjoying the latest installment, Part III, in which Duane considers some of the “key campaigning gaps” that […]

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FlowPlayer open source flash video player (tags: flash video websites) Riva VX: Riva FLV […]

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Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Campos (tags: plone-site brazil) NCCSP - The National Center for Conservation Science and Policy […]

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Ok, Drew convinced me to give Flock another whirl. It seems to have improved a LOT since the last time I checked it out. Basically, Flock is Firefox plus a bunch of really nicely integrated interfaces to various collaborative services like Del.icio.us, Flickr, various blogging tools, etc.

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EPEAT: Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool “like LEED for computers” - a set of standards for evaluating green PCs (tags: computers environment energy) […]

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Adobe to launch free, online edition of Photoshop could be fairly useful, and annoyingly saturated with ads. (tags: software photos)

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