Year: 2005

  • Take Back California is looking for a Development Director

    Take Back California is a nonprofit promoting clean-money elections. I’m on its advisory board and the Executive Director is my friend and colleague Dan Newman. They are currently searching for a part-time or full-time Development Director: The Development Director is responsible for building, leading and growing the development functions of TakeBackCA.org. Our main focus is…

  • So who's going to Blogher?

    I have to check my schedule and my budget, but I’m sticking a link to the signup page for blogher here to remind myself to go, if at all possible.

  • Basketball Practice

    I know this isn’t really a usual topic for me, but one thing I find a little bit embarrassing for the professional NBA basketball players is that you can see them out there–just minutes before the game starts–and they’re practicing! I mean, isn’t it a little late for that? They should have thought of it…

  • Sierra Summit 2005

    I’ll be speaking at the Sierra Summit on Saturday afternoon from 11:30 to 12:30 PM, on a panel in the Working Smart sequence called “Technology and Organizing: A Civics Laboratory.” The panel features Joan Blades from MoveOn and Zack Rosen from Civicspace as well as myself, so we should have a lively conversation and be…

  • What he don’t know won’t hurt him

    According to Editor and Publisher: Lawrence O’Donnell, the MSNBC analyst who first broke the Rove/Cooper link on Friday, wrote on the Huffington Post blog today, that Rove’s lawyer had “launched what sounds like an I – did – not – inhale defense. He told Newsweek that his client ‘never knowingly disclosed classified information.’ Knowingly. “Not…

  • Blog While You STATUS: Publish

    Lazy Independence Day reblogging, quoting from Blog While You Book NYT: For years, book authors have used the Internet to publicize their work and to keep in touch with readers. Several, like John Battelle, are now experimenting with maintaining blogs while still in the act of writing their books.

  • Huge improvement to Drupal's nav scheme

    Nick Lewis has unveiled a few tweaks to Drupal (which is also the basis for CivicSpace), which presents the navigation scheme as nested tabs across the top of the browser window instead of expanding and collapsing text links in a floating box in one of the margins. I’ll be adopting this improvement for all my…

  • No time to go wobbly

    Last November I voted against torture. I voted against the party that was making excuses for, defending, and facilitating torture. I’m not particularly proud of myself for this, but I did wonder how others could convince themselves that supporting the party of torture was OK or justified or necessary. Now (Setting the bar, absolutely) I’m…

  • It’s beginning to look a lot like Rovegate

    Quoting from James Wolcott: Blowback Is a Bitch: When word broke that Karl Rove’s name was the live hand grenade rolling around in Matt Cooper’s notes, I immediately flashbacked to this almost Elizabethan scenario of palace intrigue and betrayal from From the Wilderness. Its author, Michael C. Ruppert, author of Crossing the Rubicon. Its title,…

  • Microformats blog and wiki launch

    Tantek (among others?) has launched a site to promote XHTML-based microformats as a microcontent solution building on existing standards. (Boy, poking my head into Yahoo 360 sure gets me up to speed on industry buzz quickly. Then again, that’s more a function of the social network I brought with me and a bit of currentness…

  • Yahoo launches My Web 2.0 beta

    My Web 2.0 looks like some kind of taglicious social search engine.

  • Wanting to Get to the Bottom of It

    The very next Q&A in the press conference xian links to below is also a prize specimen of weasel-wordedness: Q Two questions. First, you’ve said in the past that, on the matter of Matt Cooper and Judith Miller that the President supports the investigation. What specific steps is the White House taking to support it?…

  • Schwarzenegger’s popularity down to Bush levels

    The Field poll says only 39% of respondents would vote for Schwarzenegger again. Going, going, ….

  • When to use wikis

    As the LA Times seemed to have learned, perhaps editorials aren’t the best context for publicly editable wiki-ing. Wikis seem to work best when used to build a repository of information by people who share a common goal or ethos. I wrote about this last week at Personal Democracy Forum in an article my editors…

  • Conflict, schmonflict

    Thanks to John Berger on the Well, I ended up reading this interesting exchange between administration spokesweasel John McClellan and the usually prostrate White House press: Q: When the President talks about high gasoline prices, he often cites the demand for gasoline and crude oil from China. Is the President comfortable that the company partly…

  • Get paid in iTunes to create blog buzz

    My sysadmin just pointed me to this listing at craigslist in New York: Bloggers needed – $300 per month. They pay with PayPal too. Sounds like a blend of the Marquis experiment and the Bzz Agent concept. Wonder who the payer is?

  • Karl Rove prepared for war

    I’m not sure Rove is prepared for the way these liberal soldiers and veterans are pissed at his divisive comments about how different Americans responded to 9/11: Take it to Karl

  • Public Television vs The Klan

    Full disclosure: I have a liberal viewpoint. That means primarily that I believe in taxes, free speech, and that Abraham Lincoln was right. And sometimes I wish The North had let The South secede. Then we wouldn’t have today a national leadership lording their prejudices over us from the legacy of a constitutional compromise. That’s…

  • We Shall Overcome

    Deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall overcome someday. I sang it a hundred times. But, how sure was I really? How hard did I believe? And have we overcome? A lot of us on the left would answer, almost reflexively, “No!” Because there is no cause to be satisfied or complacent about…

  • Compacter

    What makes someone park their big-ass 4×4 across two spaces clearly marked “COMPACT” in the parking lot of my office building? Probably the same thing that would make someone write ASSWIPE on a post-it and put it under their windshield wiper facing in.

  • LA Times 'wikitorials' vandalized, taken down

    It seems that the wiki got slashdotted, which lead to pr0n being posted (goatse, I wonder?), and the site being removed in response: Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: LA Times WikiTorial Update – vandalized. (via Nancy White, via Weblogsky)