Blog Entries
Blog entries, here and from elsewhere.
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.
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
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?”
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.
