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E-xemplar Series (Shameless Self-Promotion Class): Wal-Mart Movie

We promised an example of someone making great use of DemocracyInAction's coding flexibility. This isn't only that. Brave New Films' web site for its flick Wal-Mart: The High Cost of a Low Price is as tightly designed a site as you'd ever want to see. And their villainous take on the Wal-Mart smiley might have you waking up in a sweat at night.

For their house party event, they're using our API to pass data from their own pages. This is something you've gotta do on your own -- it's not for everyone, but it's brilliant if you can program it.

 

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12:30 AM Oct 17, 2005 - 0 comments permalink


NTEN D.C. Wrap: Humans Not Yet Obsolete

NTEN's travelling big top rolled into D.C. yesterday for a more energetic session than the New York version a few weeks back. NTEN's shifted this year to packaging events thematically (an idea that has met lukewarm reception); D.C. had the ambitious charge of "Pulling It All Together: Data Integration's Impact on Raising Money and Fulfilling Your Mission." It's safe to say that as the sun set outside the Marriott, All had not been fully Pulled Together for most attendees. Hey, it's a journey, not a destination.

 

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11:30 PM Oct 12, 2005 - 1 comments permalink


What Becomes a Blogger Most?

Juicy Fitzgerald indictments might put Harriet the mouse on the back-burner in Washington buzz. Pending that, there's ample perplexity about how to react to this manifestly lightweight nominee, and the conservative true-believers' sense of alienation (arriving with impeccable timing as the Bush administration collapses) is sparking blogstorms.

 

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11:30 AM Oct 08, 2005 - 4 comments permalink


Fighting Blogspam

Blogspamming and how to avoid it was brought up by one of our users today. A comprehensive list of tactics is found at blogspam.org, or you could always take it up with the spurious Association of Search Engine Spammers.

 

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12:00 PM Oct 04, 2005 - 1 comments permalink


SCOTUS Nominee Blogs

Hilarious.

More substantive hilarity to be found in right-wing blogs' anguished flagellation over the pick.

 

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03:00 PM Oct 03, 2005 - 0 comments permalink


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