Salsa Scoop

Soapbox Content Management: Affordable, Usable, Functional (Pick Three)

My original contact with DemocracyInAction, back when I was in that barber-shop quartet in Skokie, Illinois, came by way of PicNet, a great local ally who configures Joomla (nee Mambo) content management systems. That's PICNet's Ryan Ozimek on the left, staging a charming guerrilla action at NTEN which conjured a mob of inflatable penguins -- the emblem of the Linux project adopted as a general open source symbol -- Friday morning. (below)

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01:30 PM Mar 30, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

The Ennui of the 2006 N-TEN Conference

As my prolonged Northwestern sojourn wraps up in the guise of overstaying houseguest on a placid cove across the Puget Sound from Seattle, I'm a little dismayed at my inability to file a riveting dispatch from the scene.

The fact is, though the conference was the largest on record and seamlessly organized by the NTEN crew, there was a feeling of "awaiting action" about it all. Breathtaking new developments have concussed cyberspace every couple of years for a decade, but this has, perhaps, been an off-year. The "Web 2.0" meme is still the freshest thing ... and that was around this time last year. A series of "Hot in 2006" panels grappled to find things worth mentioning that are hot in 2006. Maybe more Plone vs. Drupal.

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10:00 PM Mar 27, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence: Fair Medicare

Congratulations to DIA users Fair Medicare, recognized with a fall/winter 2005 Merit Award from the World Wide Web Health Awards. These awards honor "the best health-related Web sites for consumers and professionals": anyone navigating the perilous cataracts of Medicare coverage would do well to pay a visit to the site's voluminous resource library.

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08:30 PM Mar 20, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

March Madness Is Divinest Sense

Though I'm not in particular an NCAA basketball fan, I've blundered into a couple basketball pools nonetheless and added my glassy droplets to the $3.8 billion leak in the economic pipeline that is March Madness.

(This is an economic environment where uncompensated hours are de rigueur, so it seems a touch shortsighted to get bent out of shape about a few minutes filling out brackets. Heaven knows we're not a healthy people. A red Swingline or Gonzaga in the Sweet 16 might be the thing standing between a dutiful employee and an unexplained conflagration.)

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02:00 PM Mar 18, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Helpin' the Cause

Slashdot, Global Voices, Wikinews, OhMyNews, Digg. Which one is your fave?

Participate in a survey about how people use these sites for collaborative news, or just wait for the results, coming in April.

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01:30 PM Mar 17, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

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