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.
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.
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
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.
A little levity
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 12/14/2004 - 23:15I've spent a lot of time today working on packaging an open source project. It was challenging, and a tad mind numbing at times.
So, this evening, I checked out Sigmund, Carl and Alfred to help gain some much needed perspective.
They have a wonderful entry about online quizes.
Inspired by their post, I have created my my own quiz. Take it, have fun.
