Archive - 2004
December 22nd
Advent Reflection - Putting Herod back in Christmas
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 12/22/2004 - 15:19I just received an email with a great reflection entitled: Putting Herod back into Christmas.
"Herod represents the dark side of the gospel. He reminds us that Jesus didn't enter a world of sparkly Christmas cards or a world of warm spiritual sentiment. Jesus enters a world of real pain, of serious dysfunction, a world of brokenness and political oppression."
The contrast of Herod is what brings Christmas into sharp focus. Please read the whole reflection, and have a Merry Christmas.
Inside Connecticut Democratic Politics
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 12/22/2004 - 14:04The Democratic State Central Committee in Connecticut is scheduled to meet on January 19th, 2005 to elect new officers. George Jepsen is currently the state chair. He has served well, and served as majority leader of the State Senate from my hometown of Stamford.
December 21st
Assorted News
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 12/21/2004 - 17:36Click on Read More for details about blog reviews, statistics, legal cases about the RNC demonstrations in New York, the civil rights of Muslims, and MPAA v SupraNova and what it means for Bit Torrent and Blog Torrent.
December 20th
Tagging Events
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 12/20/2004 - 12:31One of the great things in DeanSpace was the ability to load events from Dean for America into DeanSpace websites via a patched RSS feed. The folks at CivicSpace, the follow on to DeanSpace, have been looking at how this can be done in a more generalized way.
With my work with the Center for Online Investigative Research, I stumbled across the the IPTC’s EventsML. On that mailing list, was a pointer to Scott McMullan’s blog where he has an entry entitled Google/Internet Archive, Meet Mr. Event
Are political parties obsolete?
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 12/20/2004 - 11:05(Originally published in Greater Democracy)
The Activist Tech group is organizing several interesting panels for the SXSW Interactive Conference is March 11-15. One is entitled, “Are Political Parties Obsolete?” and asks the questions, “If we can form and sustain coalitions around issues in a more distributed way, without centralized organization around ideology, do we really need political parties?”
