Category: Technology

The Gap: Not Big Brother … Yet

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. […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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