Archive - 2008
March 13th
Upcoming #secondlife related business conferences
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 17:10(Originally published at SLNN.COM)
Over the coming weeks, there will be several interesting opportunities for people interested in Second Life business opportunities to network both in world and beyond.
#hashtags and other stuff
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 11:49Well, it is Thursday, and another good chance to catch up on sites that have caught my interest recently. The first is http://hashtags.org/. One of the nonprofit technology lists was discussing hashtags. If you are a Twitter user, simply follow hashtags, and hashtags will follow you. When they follow you, they search your tweets for a hashmark (#), and if there is one in your tweat, they track your tweat based on whichever tags you’ve used. If all goes right, this post will end up on Twitter via TwitterFeed, and since it has a hashtag in the title, it should show up in hashtags. As an aside, according to Tweetvolume Hashtags has appeared in 4,720 tweats as of the writing of this blog post.
On the politics side, or perhaps more accurately, the governance side of technology, Steve Clift sent around a link to an online dialog the Toxic Release Inventory Program of the EPA from last year. He notes, “This is so rare in the U.S. (shouldn't be) I thought I should point it out.” Wouldn’t it be great if the committees of the Connecticut General Assembly had online dialogs?
In Connecticut yesterday, http://www.ctpen.org/ had a website launch party at the Capitol. I suggested that Kim attend, but I think she was too busy dealing with the Jim Hightower event coming up tomorrow. While I’m talking about Connecticut events, I want to highlight the Shoreline League of Democratic Women Green Lifestyle Fair which will take place on April 5th in the lower level of the Clinton Town Hall.
One final highlight from recent emails, the Disaster Accountability Project has a post up about the lack of diversity hampering its response to Hurricane Katrina.
Enough for this mornings mail bag and assorted websites. More soon.
Open Letter to AGPA concerning interfacing with the media
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 09:57Below is an open letter that I sent to the American Group Psychotherapy Association in response to my experiences as a blogger at their annual meeting. It has generated some interesting discussions and I look forward to the next steps.
March 12th
Wordless Wednesday
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 13:59
FreeExFest 09
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 08:35As I check out Tweats about South by SouthWest (SXSW) and hear about NPR broadcasting REM at SXSW, I wish even more that I could be there. Perhaps participating online is the best that I can do.
Yet yesterday, I stumbled across a comment about how SXSW started back in 1987 as a battle of the bands. Hmm, that is not the only thing that has cross my attention recently that started as a battle of the bands. Things clicked, gears whirred. The old phrase, “If Mohammed will not go to the mountain, the mountain must come to Mohammed” came to mind.
Years ago, when I first heard that phrase, it seemed like a good way to make a mountain come to Mohammed was to first, return the mountain to its shape as a molehill, which many mountains are made out of, then transport the molehill and make a mountain out of it again.
So, the mountain of Freedom of Expression, which was made out of the molehill about when and where a high school battle of the bands could take place might be just the way to bring the mountain to Mohammed.
Freedom of Expression Festival 2009, FreeExFest, North by Northeast, whatever you want to call it. What if we were to take the Lewis S Mills Jamfest that was the starting point for the Avery Doninger case, combine it with Poets and Writers for Avery in Litchfield, the State of Student Free Speech symposium at Quinnipiac, and perhaps add in some additional fine arts, film, or other additions?
We could have our own festival celebrating the Freedom of Expression, right here in The Constitution State. You wanna help?
