- Drupaln'go / DrupalCamp Paris: a community barn-raising for an anti-poverty NGO
- Please to present my new video: "What Kind of Amazing Grace?"
- Usability Basics: Help Prevent Errors
- Web Accessibility Basics
- Light Fantastic; Backporting A Great Drupal 6 Contrib Theme To Drupal 5
- Usability Basics: Keep the User Informed
- BADCamp: CivicActions Sponsors Bay Area DrupalCamp 2008
- Tweeting the Debate With Current TV
- DrupalSouth: The New Zealand Drupal Event for 2008
- Setting Up CiviContribute Forms For Anonymous Users (ACLs and User Access)
fen's blog
Democrats and the Reality of the Political Mind
I've been wondering why Sarah Palin has been such a game changer as she's really a female McCain: anti-abortion, anti-environment, the list goes on. Why would people accept her, flock to her? Then I read this article by George Lakoff and it started to all fall into place. As with Bush, gut feelings are attracting people more than rational thought.
Google's Friend Connect vs. Your Privacy
Google is announcing Friend Connect tonight, a service advertised to "help website owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features for its visitors." Friend Connect employs OpenID and oAuth which is a good start, but how it puts them together is lacking vision and, disturbingly, may raise significant privacy concerns.
Mamas For Obama in PA
Last year when we moved to Pittsburgh, PA we never thought that Pennsylvania would be so crucial in this year's democratic nomination process. We're an "Obama" family, so we decided to do what we could to help. I created a blog MamasForObama.net for my wife the writer and she's been having a great time with it.
unity08
Act Now to Restore Habeas Corpus
Internet Identity Workshop
Day one at the Internet Identity Workshop, or IIW2007, began with Eugene Kim - Chairman-elect of Identity Commons ("2.0", now with rounded corners), asking those attending their first IIW to stand up - over two-thirds of the 150 or so people in the room stood up. This is a great trend - the word is getting out!
Dreams become Reality
At the first CivicActions Offsite in Amsterdam, we created a vision for ourselves and for the world. As a new father and provider for my small family, and as someone who has unfortunately never broken into the real estate market, I was pleased that this item made the list with general consensus: "every member owns their home or has the ability to".
Money as Debt
In the wake of having our mortgage approved (today - yea!) a friend (?) sent me a movie that graphically shows how we just contributed to the economy by putting ourselves in debt.
- http://www.moneyasdebt.net/
- Google video <- click here
There's nothing in this that is new, but it's frightening to see it presented so clearly. Some key concepts:
Create more CivicActions
I asked him what it meant and he said:Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 18:50:04 -0700 From: Steven LabalmeTo: Fen Labalme Subject: CA FROM STEVEN CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA CA
"I want you to create more CivicActions, Dad. The world needs more CivicActions."We rock.





