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Solar activism meets social networking

Aside from green tech, I regularly write about practical business applications for Web 2.0 technologies and services. (Yes, there are remarkably many.) So I was quite interested to notice that a grassroots community solar organization that I wrote about last month, One Block Off the Grid, was snapped up this...

Tags: Network, California, Activism, Social Networking, Web 2.0, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-11

New LGPL should work with Java

New LGPL should work with JavaMessage has been deleted.activism .."But if you're like me and you don't care so much about the FSF's political activism in this area"ofcourse without that activism much of the rich software environment we have today would not be here ..Activism is no longer necessaryOpen source...

Tags: Programming languages, Tools & Techniques, open source, activism, Java

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Phone calls, e-mails, and now search data. Where will Bush stop?

Phone calls, e-mails, and now search data. Where will Bush stop?Would you shut up if......I pointed out that Clinton did the exact same thing?No, you wouldn't would you? Because with you people it's not about "national security issues" or even "the Constitution."It's about the fact that Mr. Bush is...

Tags: Vertical industries, activism, phone, e-mail, government, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-01-20

Additional Resources

Apple deletes the US Chamber

Is this man the only climate ally left for the US Chamber? Back in May I wrote about how the US Chamber was losing friends fast with its 'head in sand' position on climate change. Since then things have seriously  started...

Tags: Greenpeace, Apple Inc., Climate Change, Chamber, Bruce, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-10-07

What Corporate Sustainability can learn from twitter, Robert Scoble & Iran

[caption id="attachment_763" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Amanpour: A little more Davos & Friend Feed, a little less Damascus & live feed?"][/caption] The celebrated celebrity blogger, Robert Scoble, is ticked off with CNN over its weak coverage of the Iran election and aftermath. In his most recent blog post -'The day Twitter kicked...

Tags: Sustainability, Social Media, CNN, James Farrar

Blog posts 2009-06-22

H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really about

H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutDICK DURBINYou link to his page right in that top paragraph... yet you still can't get his name right?RE: H-1B legislation to watch - What it's really aboutThere are thousands of highly skilled Americans that are unemployed that are willing to take...

Tags: Obama, H-1B, H-1B legislation, worker

Discussion threads 2009-06-05

Greenpeace Cool IT: But does GP miss the point?

Greenpeace upped the ante on the IT sector by switching focus from reporting on the environmental performance of consumer electronics to looking at how the industry as a whole is performing on climate change. Yesterday they launched their inaugural Cool IT ranking of the top 12 IT firms performing on climate change. The ranking is...

Tags: Greenpeace, Information Technology, James Farrar, Management, Strategy

Blog posts 2009-05-28

Community solar adoption project expands into Los Angeles

Residential solar tech advocacy group One Block off the Grid (1BOG) is pushing south out of the San Francisco Bay area into Los Angeles. The group, which helps aggregate the interest of solar consumers in various communities, is hoping to push its concept nationwide throughout the course of this year....

Tags: Los Angeles, Social Media, Financing, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-04-06

Adobe Web Awards at SxSWi 2009

It's time for the award ceremony for SxSW Interactive. The event was held at the Hilton ballroom and hosted by Onion comedian Baratunde Thurston. The winners are listed below. I am very excited to dig though this list myself because these are the...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Web, Destination, Winner, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-15

Who's to blame for America's loss of innovation?

Who's to blame for America's loss of innovation?Mr Fuller. There are a bunch of people that can share this blame. Teacher, Unions,Students,State Gov,Federal Gov and whomever else you would like to throw in hell maybe the bus driver. Anyway the point is that all of parties need to open there...

Tags: innovation

Discussion threads 2009-02-26

Journalism vs. blogging: the present and the future

With the rise of online media, from YouTube to Facebook, WordPress to the New York Times, journalism has expanded over the course of the last decade into a new era. "Journalism" may not be guaranteed work all of the time, but it is most certainly in my eyes one of...

Tags: Journalist, Journalism, Microblogging, Blogging, Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-01-02

Don't call me a 'mommyblogger' - the Motrin brouhaha

* Jennifer Leggio is on vacation Guest editorial by Joanne Bamberger Things got a little heated in the blogosphere last week over a Motrin ad suggesting that babies were the new mommy accessory. I don't know what was going on the...

Tags: Mother, Advertisement, Network, Blog, Insult, Joanne Bamberger, Blogging, Networking, Internet, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-28

News to know: CES preview, Google tracks flu, NebuAd sued, Ad porn blocker

 Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Andrew Nusca: CES 2009 Preview: All quiet on the gadget front Sean Portnoy: Third-quarter HDTV sales pace slows, plasmas show new signs of life ...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Video, Beta, Matthew Miller, Corporate Communications, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-11-12

Marketers, stop the hate! Customers are not the enemy

Guest editorial by Susan Etlinger Back in the seventeenth century, soldiers would spend the cold winter months in towns and garrisons until the weather cleared enough for them to venture back into the field (in Italian, nella campagna) to resume fighting. And...

Tags: Technologists, Sales Strategy, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Coming soon, but not really soon enough: A certification to weed out shady electronics recyclers

Just carved out a half-hour to sit on the teleconference for the Basel Action Network BAN, which is a watchdog on the problem of toxic waste around the globe. The issue about which BAN is truly up in arms this week relates to the export of containers full of computers,...

Tags: Certification, Electronics, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-10

How to read your FBI file

How to read your FBI fileGood well-balanced articleNothing one-sided here. Those evil Bushies will stop at nothing when it comes to knowing everyone's secrets, won't they?Hey, pal, EVERYBODY thought Saddam had WMDs, even your heroes Kerry, Kennedy, and (shudder!) Pelosi. Seems that Saddam went to great lengths to convince...

Tags: Federal government, FBI

Discussion threads 2008-10-01

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customersDemocracy versus politicsThank you for discussing the difference between spectator politics and participative democracy. It seems to me that technology can definitely be put to better use for enabling the latter. At the risk of rambling, perhaps that might be a role that the newspaper...

Tags: Government, Attention Craig Newmark

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

18ò0of Obama supporters likely to sign an online petition

18ò0of Obama supporters likely to sign an online petitionObama supportersThis clearly shows that the majority of Obama suppoters have been "Charmed" by Big Media & Obama's very good oratory skills. I say: "Actions speak louder than words". Has anyone that supports Obama been to the Senate's website & checked His...

Tags: Obama, online petition

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

FSF's "Defective by Design" asks supports to mob Apple Genius Bars

FSF's "Defective by Design" asks supports to mob Apple Genius BarsThe FSF should be classified ....... as a terrorist organization. I am not a big fan of Apple but this kind of harrassment is uncalled for! If you disagree with Apple then don't buy their products. Don't...

Tags: Homeland security, Free Software Foundation, Apple Inc., terrorism

Discussion threads 2008-07-28

Attacking phishing at the source

Attacking phishing at the sourceDomainKeys--it's a startNow if mandated changes were in effect 'with teeth' that enforced usage of PGP or GnuPG or S/MIME for signed encrypted email, that would take down the spam to 0%!RE: Attacking phishing at the sourceSince phishing has cost countless pains to so many people,...

Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, inactivism, Attacking phishing, restraint

Discussion threads 2008-07-09