A friend of mine wrote in about my post about the RFID chips I found sewn into some new clothes I purchased at the Gap: … as a retail veteran, I wanted to tell you that they are indeed commonly used for theft protection. The Gap is too cheap to do anything else with them. […]
Democracy in Online Journalism
Now that I am semi-employed, I have had time to catch up on projects and reading that I had been neglecting. This means that not only have I been reading quite a bit more, I’ve finally got around the trying to catch up on my Bloglines subscriptions. Reading through posts from the past couple months […]
Anatomy of a Good Blog Post
This is something I wrote back in 2004. I am not sure if it ever made it up on the blog, but I found it and thought it was worth re-posting. These rules most apply to the sort of civic and news blogs I have been involved with — Arborupdate and DCist — and obviously […]
MoveOn’s ‘New Organizing Institute’
I just heard about a new effort by MoveOn called the New Organizing Institute to recruit and train online organizers for progressive candidates. I’ve written to get involved, I think it sounds like exciting idea: The Institute will select exceptionally talented trainees, provide them with intensive training, and follow up with continued support throughout their […]
U-M Library’s Books in Google Print
The University of Michigan has announced the first large collection of books from their library has been scanned and uploaded into Google Print‘s indexes.
More Educational Uses of Flickr
Apparently Robert Greenwald’s production company is using Flickr to share photos they have collected while making their documentary about Wal-Mart. Whomever is managing the account could do much to raise the visibility of the material on Flickr – by adding more tags, joining groups to submit the photos to, and commenting on anything about Wal-Mart […]
Evite for the 08 Election
I was joking around with some friends over the weekend: would the revolution have an Evite? While we decided it probably would not – some experimenting today showed me there was no reason the 2008 Presidential Election could not. Click here to RSVP for the 2008 Presidential Election