WOC: Kris Krug and Co. Talk about blogging

<p>In this short mp3, Kris Krug of Bryght (mostly) talks to Donna Morton, Hope Rippeon, Sarah Pulman and others about organizations blogging as a way to get message out and bring members in.<br /> <img src="http://static.flickr.com/26/47241794_97472e00f1.jpg" width="360" /></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/woc1_blogging.mp3">woc1_blogging.mp3</a></td><td>611.05 KB</td> </tr> </tbody>...

Join the Party Party

<p>My friend [lk:http://saucycowboy.com|Mark King] Just sent me this link to [l:thepartyparty.com|ThePartyParty.com] The site features about 8 amayzing mashup style tracks that remind me of [lk:http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/EBN.html|Emergency Broadcast Network (EBN)] an alternative art/media/video culture jamming group that was active in the mid 1990's, i cannot find a link directly to them ([lk:http://fusionanomaly.net/ebn.html|this seems pretty close]).</p> <p>Anyway, these tracks elegantly stitch together George Bush's words into pretty good tracks. I particularly like <i>Sunday Bloody Sunday</i> and <i>Imagine (Take a Walk on the Wild...

Bal Tekkia: Shofar Idol

<p>So, one of the more interesting things that I do every year, that usually surprises and confuses folks who know me, is blow the Shofar during the High Holidays at Pleasantville Community Synagogue. The Rabbi just sent me [l:http://www.danmeth.com/shofaridol|this link to "Shofar Idol"] which initially confused me, the whole idea of "Idols" and Judiasm, but this is a pretty funny flash animation.</p> <p>Tekkia Godola! (stay tuned for a little audio blogging of the shofar...

Slashdot | CA Sec. of State Panel on Open Source Elections

<p>[via <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/28/1955256">Slashdot | CA Sec. of State Panel on Open Source Elections</a>]:</p> <p><cite>"The Open Voting Consortium has announced that California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson is forming a panel to investigate using open source software in elections. Suggested Panel members include Security expert Bruce Perens and Python guru David Mertz who is associated with the sourceforge EVM2003 voting machine project. This is big since a favorable outcome could help fund prototypes of true open source election equipment and systems."</cite> </p><p>[l:http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=35|This (full artice on the Open Voting Consortium site)] is an exciting development, especially given my current work on the California Voter File for [lk:civicactions.com|CivicActions]. I hope that we will release and promote our voter data standard to counties and states, the formation of this body is a good sign that California, for one, might be interested in...