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December 20th, 2004
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?”
December 17th
Drupal and Media Wiki
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 12/17/2004 - 19:07I've been playing with both Drupal and Media Wiki quite a bit recently, and even have an installation or two where I have Drupal and Media Wiki using the same database.
In CivicSpace there is a module, dkosfilter which allows you to easily link from Drupal to dkosopedia, a popular Media Wiki based wiki. Some people had asked for a way to link to wikipedia, another very popular Media Wiki based site.
December 16th
The Holiday Concert
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 12/16/2004 - 10:30It’s coming on Christmas,. Yeah, I like to sing along to my blog posts. They’re cutting down trees We cut down our tree over the weekend. Last night we started decorating it. They’re putting up reindeer, singing songs of joy and peace Yesterday, I went to The Holiday Concert at Miranda’s school.
Songs of joy and peace…
I’ve been thinking a lot about what sort of country we live in recently, particularly about the polarization, from the famous F the south and Sorry everybody to Sorry cows. America, where are you now, don’t you care about your sons and daughters.
December 15th
Mostly Meaningless Stats
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 12/15/2004 - 09:055,000th visit from Blog Explosion. 25,000th hit registered by Google ADS.
