Sure has been a while…

<p>It sure has been a while since I last blogged over here, or over at <a href="http://www.civicactions.com/blog">CivicActions</a>. I've been pretty busy with work, and catching up on things here in NY. I am getting ready to head out in about a week for Seattle, but I won't be there for long, I fly to Amseterdam in mid September, then back to Seattle, then drive to Canada for <a href="http://www.webofchange.com">Web Of Change</a>. Then at the end of September I'll be coming back to NY for about a week, then back to Seattle. Then I'll be down in San Francisco in mid October, then back to Seattle, then off to New Orleans for the weekend before Halloween. Then to New York, then back to Seattle.</p> <p>Catch me if you...

Al Gore’s Penguin Army video paid for by Exxon PR firm?

Never mind that the penguins look like a little L:inux Penguin, or that the video is actually not funny at all, it seems that this piece of YouTube ephemera mocking Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” has an inconvenient truth of it’s own: the video seems to have been paid for by a PR firm that counts Exxon as a client. Perhaps the Republican firm, DCI, should have given the film maker a bit more direction, they could have attacked Gore on the merrits as...