Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Jul 24th, 2008
We launched our biggest Plone-powered website ever last night: High Country News. We’re still recovering from the final push, but we’ll offer a detailed technical writeup soon. In the meantime, check out how elegant and powerful a Plone-powered newspaper website can be. Send design-related love notes to HCN’s technical director Ryan Foster.
Posted in General on Jul 19th, 2008
UPDATE: OK, turns out the culprit was my dying Linksys BEFW11S4 router, which started choking as soon as I enabled WPA. iPeng is now chugging along like a champ, and I’m in iPod-Squeezebox remote control heaven. Thanks, Coolio! Molly got an iPod Touch last week, and so the first thing I tried to make it do [...]
Posted in General on Jul 16th, 2008
While several ONE/Northwest staffers (like me!) are fairly dedicated bloggers, we’ve never had an organizational blog. Thanks to our summer social media intern Daniel Bachhuber, now we do.ONE/Blog will mostly address environmental organizing and citizen engagement, with a bit of tools-and-tactics geekery thrown in, and lots of interesting links.If you’re interested in the cutting [...]
Posted in General on Jul 15th, 2008
Just a quick reminder that Plone Conference 2008 session proposals are due July 21st — six short days from now. If you’ve got a Plone-related skill to teach, a cool project to do a case study about, wisdom about project and business management, or a conversation you’d like to facilitate in the community, take 15 minutes [...]
Posted in General on Jul 12th, 2008
One of the best parts of working at ONE/Northwest is getting to sit next to Karen Uffelman. But even luckier than me is Scott Stevens, to whom she’s getting married on this beautiful, golden Seattle summer afternoon. Congratulations!
Posted in General on Jul 1st, 2008
Can you guess which ONE/Northwest staffer said, “If someone says ‘leverage resources for improved engagement collaboration’ I guarantee that nobody will be paying attention by the end of the sentence.” Hint: it wasn’t me, if you can believe that.
Posted in General on Jun 20th, 2008
The always-insightful Mark Schmitt has some interesting thoughts on the significance of internet-enabled low-transaction-cost issue organizing: Low transaction-cost organizing will present many challenges to the way we think about politics and how to regulate it. Much of the regulation of money in politics, for example, is based on limiting organized money (PACs, bundling) because some people can organize and [...]
Posted in General on Jun 19th, 2008
Reading about the floods on the Mississippi makes me think of John McPhee’s masterful 1989 book “The Control of Nature” in which he talks about New Orleans’ three hundred year battle against the Mississippi. In this age of hurricanes and floods, McPhee’s work is still visionary and clear-sighted. I can’t recommend it highly [...]
Posted in General on Jun 19th, 2008
Kevin Kelley rolls a great little neologism, “Scenius”: Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: “Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is [...]
Posted in General on Jun 13th, 2008
A few random ideas for talks I’d like to see at Plone Conference 2008. In case anybody needs some inspiration. Chime in with your ideas! Name names! Even better, propose one of these talks! (Note: there are probably lots of talks I’d love to see that aren’t on this list, I just couldn’t think of [...]
Posted in General on Jun 2nd, 2008
Gavin Clabaugh’s got a fun (and wise) new riff on the larger forces shaping our world: I see this third force everywhere. I see it hiding inside the inaccurately named thing called “social networking. I see it embedded in “American Idol.â€? It follows me to the grocery store. It wakes me up at night. It’s busy [...]
Posted in General on May 27th, 2008
I’m very excited to share the news that Joel Burton will be bringing his Plone Bootcamp classes back to Seattle for the third year. Joel will be offering a repeat performance of his basic week-long “Plone Bootcamp” class (June 16-20) suitable for folks getting started building Plone websites. Assuming his voice doesn’t give out after [...]
Posted in General on May 20th, 2008
Our old house is officially now on the market. 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, great big yard, garage and more! Loads of charm in a highly walkable area of Crown Hill. We’ve had 7 great years there; now it’s your turn! UPDATE: it’s sold! I’m excited to give someone else the chance to live in and love [...]
Posted in General on May 19th, 2008
Our awesome partners-in-crime at NPower Seattle are hiring for their fast-growing CRM consulting practice. They’ve also got a senior position open for their Director of Services, who oversees their various consulting practices. Both are great opportunities for nonprofit techies looking to make the move to Seattle! Tags: nptech, jobs
Posted in General on May 19th, 2008
What happens when an irresistible force and an immovable object team up and pull in the same direction? Triangle Bootcamp-a-rama! That’s right — Plone training legends Joel Burton and Chris Calloway have teamed up to organize two solid weeks of Plone and Python training in Chapel Hill, NC this summer. They’re delivering three classes: Customizing Plone (Joel), [...]
Posted in General on May 19th, 2008
Have you bought your plane tickets for Plone Symposium New Orleans 2008 yet? Alan Runyan, Toby Roberts and the team at Enfold Systems have put together a fantastic program that includes: 2 days of Joel Burton’s amazing Plone Bootcamp training — pretty much the best way to jumpstart yourself as [...]
Posted in General on May 14th, 2008
Could it be? Did David Brooks just write something fairly perceptive and intelligent? In their arguments with Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, the faithful have been defending the existence of God. That was the easy debate. The real challenge is going to come from people who feel the existence of the sacred, but who think [...]
Posted in General on May 12th, 2008
My amazing colleagues Drew Bernard and Shawn Kemp are burning up the internet tubes connecting Portland to Bellingham with some great thinking about how to apply “functional thinking” to environmental groups’ websites. I love to see this kind of high-powered big-picture thinking in public. Tags: websites, nptech
Posted in General on May 4th, 2008
Thomas Friedman doesn’t write much that resonates with me, but this snippet from his column in today’s New York Times caught me: Much nonsense has been written about how Hillary Clinton is “toughening upâ€? Barack Obama so he’ll be tough enough to withstand Republican attacks. Sorry, we don’t need a president who is tough enough to [...]
Posted in General on May 3rd, 2008
We need routing not aggregation. – Kellan, on social software Tags: technology
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