Jon Stahl’s Journal

The Google Highly Open Participation Contest - Google Code (tags: google plone contest open-source)

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Science fiction writer and commentator Cory Doctorow thinks Facebook is just as doomed as its predecessors: Keeping track of our social relationships is a serious piece of work that runs a heavy cognitive load. It’s natural to seek out some neural prosthesis for assistance in this chore. My fiancee once proposed a “social scheduling” application […]

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Dotmocracy sticky-dot based faciliation technique (tags: facilitation planning tools)

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Another inconvenient truth: Al Gore’s Web site hacked Wordpress security bug exploited. (tags: ms security wordpress) […]

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seam-carving-gui - Google Code cross-platform liquid resizing (tags: images liquid-resizing software)

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Next time one of your major outsourced communications services gets hacked, please don’t: Wait a month to notify your users Send out the notification email the day before a long holiday weekend I agree with Allan.  That’s pretty weak.

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Advocacy Progress Planner, an online “logic model” for planning your advocacy effort. | Advocacy Progress Planner (tags: advocacy planning strategy tools) […]

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Does Dunbar’s Number Apply Online opinions mixed. (tags: social-networking) Open Source Community Antipatterns […]

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Ploneability 2007 - Presentations Plone-for-education (and beyond) presentations from the Ploneability 2007 conference (tags: plone presentations)

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Beth’s note about a tool for posting photos from Flickr to Facebook, and that tool’s lack of support for Creative Commons licensing got me thinking (and researching) Facebook’s terms of service. The news is not good. Facebook’s Terms of Use state: By posting User Content to any part of the Site, you automatically grant, and you […]

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Congratulations to Brian Gershon, Bryan Wilson and the rest of the crew down the hallway at Web Collective on the recent release of their first major Plone add-on product, MetaNav! Commissioned the UW Department of Radiology, MetaNav makes it easy to build complex (or simple!) custom navigation schemes in Plone. There’s a great overview of […]

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Sakai Foundation a robust open-source project foundation, worth looking at their model for ideas (tags: open-source plone plone-foundation)

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Right this very minute, ONE/Northwest is hosting a “brain trust” event where 60+ people are gathered to talk about online social networks and their potential for powering social change. Here’s a liveblog of my notes: Gideon Rosenblatt, ONE/Northwest (http://www.onenw.org) Executive Director We are a capacity builder that helps environmental groups engage people in environmental protection. Thanks to Aron Thompson, […]

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Bookmarklets - www.docjavascript.com how to create bookmarklets (tags: code how-to javascript web)

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Software for Rent - New York Times Salesforce.com wants to become a platform like Microsoft’s Windows operating system, a product so popular that it is the foundation for a veritable ecosystem of software developers. […]

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I listened to a good chunk of Paul Krugman’s recent talk at the Commonwealth Club on the radio tonight. Damn, he’s good. History will judge him well as someone who spoke truth in the face of power.

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Green Social-ish Networks roundup from worldchanging (tags: articles social-networking)

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Developing with repoze.zope2 amazing introduction to repoze (tags: how-to plone repoze zope)

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Dare Obasanjo: Google OpenSocial: Technical Overview and Critique critique of opensocial (tags: analysis articles opensocial social-networking) […]

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Things Turn Ugly in the “Hacks vs. Flacks” War publicists vs. journalists. the next big facebook app? (tags: media)

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