by gregoryheller | Apr 16, 2005 | Uncategorized
<p>So i was just taking notes on this entire session and i lost them. I am fooling and really should write in a word doc and then cut and paste into my blog. The good news is you are not going to get my near transcript like notes of the session and you will get more of my thoughts on the session. Not necessarily my thoughts on the issue at hand, but thoughts on the session.</p> <p>Bob Fertik just raised a great point: Terry Chiavo had a few dozen people outside the hospice and they were on the news for 10 days straight, but 10 Million peopl eprotesting the Iraq war got little coverage. The Republicans are organized and we are not. There is a vast right wing conspiracy, they meet in DC every week. They get together and they talk, and they know they have to play as a team because they are fewer. The progressives need to think about winning. If we have more troops, bigger numbers and count every vote. We have a database nightmare. There is no unified national voterfile and that is what we need. And we should have universal registration. The database needs to have a db that has email and contact info and clean. The progressive movement needs to work with Democratic party. We have bad data, we don't have systems in place to update the data after the calls, there is no feedback loop.</p> <p>Bob is great here. he just hit it on the head. The progressive movement was wasting so much time because of bad data. Calling supporters over and...
by gregoryheller | Apr 16, 2005 | Uncategorized
<p>Micah has started his keynote by saying that he would like this to be an anti keynote. His one requirement was that there be real time chat.</p> <p>Democracy in america is changing. Organic and federated organizations don't exist anymore.</p> <p>Politics is top down (command and control) and driven by elites (focus groups tested, mass media driven.)</p> <p>So blogs are doubling every 2 months. the posting to blogs is really a barometer on the "World Live Web" (micah's words)<br /> [lk:boingboing.net]<br /> "the most popular blog site on the web"<br /> It has thousands of incoming links.</p> <p>[dic:amateur]: amore, love, people who do things because they are passionate about something ([l:http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink|Jay Rosen] NYU professor)</p> <p>So how is blogging effecting democracy: "The Newsroom has left the building" that is what chris nollen (?) says.</p> <p>[lk:http://dangillmor.typepad.com|Dan Gillmor] says "My readers know more than me"</p> <p>Organizations need to open up the process to their members, or their members will leave them. So i wonder, what is the longterm role of organizations? Do we need organizations, or can we self organize to solve problems? The internet can be the medium for maintaining organizationsal knowledge.</p> <p>Trust and reputation becomes much more important in a word of distributed media and distributed activist. Bloggers have their reputations.<br /> Transparency is important to building the trust and reputation.</p> <p>I enjoyed the keynote anad the live chat. Much more so than the keynote at NTEN, i actually paidee pretty good attention while live chatting, and drying to blog. Just a note on how this is going to work. I will write up an overall blog post about the entire...
by gregoryheller | Apr 15, 2005 | Uncategorized
<p>So here it is. The first in the long awaited series of podcasts from the NTEN NTC conference. I'm sorry that they have taken me so long to get underway, I have some good excuses. I have been renovating my apartment and living out of my brother's house with not even a desk to rest my computer on, so it has taken me a little while to import the audio and start to get comfortable with Garage Band to start this process. </p> <p>I am still not so good at Garage Band and lost some clips, but I think this 10 Minute podcast isn't harmed to much by what was lost.</p> <p>Here is the deal. Dan Robinson from [lk:civicactions.com|CivicActions] talks about [lk:flickr.com|flickr], [lk:43things.com] [lk:del.icio.us] and [w:tagging] (the 3rd bullet on that list over at wikipedia].</p> <p>Stay tuned for more podcasts from the NTEN NTC.<br /> <a href="http://gregoryheller.com/files/NTEN1Tagging.mp3">Click here to listen</a></p> <table id="attachments" class="sticky-enabled"> <thead><tr><th>Attachment</th><th>Size</th> </tr></thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"><td><a href="http://home.gregoryheller.com/sites/gregoryheller.com/files/NTEN1Tagging.mp3">NTEN1Tagging.mp3</a></td><td>2.51 MB</td> </tr> </tbody>...
by gregoryheller | Apr 14, 2005 | Uncategorized
<p>So i have been talking about [l:http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1113368761396B232|Stratellites] since i first read about them. Aparently SansWire just unveiled their first craft. The idea behind these things (they are unmanned derrigibles that float above the jet stream in the stratosphere) is that they are way cheaper than satellites, and the that they can be launched quickly and cheaply providing broadband and wireless (celular) telephone service to a broad geographic area. </p> <p>The application for such a device is truly amayzing. Imagine<br /> "wiring" underserved parts of africa or the middle east, or disaster zones like post tsunami asia with a few of these devices ($25 to $30 mil each). They are out of reach of terrorists and natural disaster.</p> <p>Here is some more info on the [l:http://pesn.com/2005/04/16/6900084_Sanswire_One_Unveiled|Stratellite]<br /> and here [l:http://www.sanswire.com/stratellites.htm|from...
by gregoryheller | Apr 12, 2005 | Uncategorized
<p>My coworker [lk:nonecknoel.com|Noel] asked me if I knew what [del:FOAF] was. So I began to look it up. FOAF stands for Friend of a Friend and it is a machine readable language for describing identity and relationships on the web.</p> <p>My head is spinning after reading a few articles and visiting a bunch of sites. I feel like nothing I have encountered so far presented a clear and concise description/explanation with practical uses of FOAF vocabularies.</p> <p>Can anyone explain it to...
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