Politics, the environment, technology, activism. And stuff.
Posted in General on Jun 1st, 2007
Jeff’s been trying out Facebook’s Developer Platform, and so far he isn’t impressed. Jeff makes an important point: mainstream technology bloggers should quell their enthusiasm a bit … and actually try stuff out before shouting overly enthusiastically. Hmm… we’ve seen this phenomenon in the nonprofit blogosphere too. A good reminder.
Posted in General on May 30th, 2007
Fascinating, life imitates William Gibson novels. Again. That always sends a certain frission up my spine. Read story at NewsCloud.
Posted in General on May 1st, 2007
Posted in General on Apr 16th, 2007
DotMobi Mobile Web Developer’s Guide (tags: websites howto mobile)
Posted in General on Mar 21st, 2007
A Blue State Digital employee confessed, just before being outed by Huffington. Fascinating. I reckon he won’t go begging for work this election cycle. Read story at NewsCloud.
Posted in General on Feb 16th, 2007
Tate Hausman of dotOrganize, whom I am really looking forward to meeting in person next week in San Francisco, breaks out his reality spoon gives the nonprofit technology pot a good ol’ stirring. In his article “The Myth of the Bleeding Edge“, Tate draws on the results of dotOrganize’s ground-breaking research into the real-world technology needs […]
Posted in General on Jan 14th, 2007
It’s not every day that my neighborhood is coated in rime ice. Kinda pretty.
Posted in General on Dec 18th, 2006
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 General on Dec 4th, 2006
Sorry for the instability of this server over the past few days. I think the worst should be over.Moral of the story, as summarized by Chris Heald: “Once you have a linux box that works, never try to upgrade it.”Lesson learned.
Posted in General on Aug 15th, 2006
Ugh. I’ve long thought that Dell laptops were prone to quality problems. Read and discuss the story at NewsCloud
Posted in General on Jul 29th, 2006
One of our servers here at ONE/Northwest (which, among other duties, hosts this blog!) has been acting a little flaky over the past few weeks. The SCSI disk subsystem was throwing intermittent clusters of CRC errors, which seemed to be causing the filesystem to go into read-only mode to protect itself. Which would of course […]
Posted in General on Jul 6th, 2006
Nice rant (and follow up commentary) on the changing balance of power between publishers and their “former audiences” from blogger Jay Hanson. (Hat tip to Marty.) Read the full story via NewsCloud
Posted in General on Jun 11th, 2006
… even when it rains for four days straight and you don’t see the sun at all. Actually, makes it feel quite a lot like Seattle. I had forgotten just how green it can be here. Especially when the clouds are dark and the new leaves still have the last fading electricity of spring […]
Posted in General on May 3rd, 2006
Skype is about to roll out “Skypecasts”, a web-based public conference calling tool for groups of up to 100. This could be very interesting for groups that want to have conference calls with groups of supporters
There were those who said it couldn’t be done. There were more who said it shouldn’t. But we took their advice and ignored it with all the gusto we could muster. We finally flipped the switch today on the new, Plone-powered ONE/Northwest website. It’s a got a lovely new design, a bunch of new content […]
Posted in General on Mar 19th, 2006
is that spring comes early in the Puget Sound lowlands.
Posted in General on Jan 17th, 2006
I’ll be in Vermont visiting my folks for the next week. Pray for snow. If you find yourself in or around the Mad River Valley, drop me a line.
Posted in General on Jan 12th, 2006
Big time or not, a lot of eyeballs see posts on Metafilter.
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