Category: Creative Technology & Making
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20 Ways to Resist AI’s Mind Enslavement
Big Tech & AI threaten to enslave our minds. This guide contains 20 tactics for rebels to resist overreach, protect privacy and forge tech sanctuaries – from building open source software to crypto, art & offline organizing.
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Talking About Bryght on the Lab with Leo
Here’s a recent segment of the The Lab with Leo show of me talking about Bryght. We cover Drupal, open source software, and our recently launched work on the Grateful Dead’s online community website. I’ve done 3 other segmants that haven’t aired yet and am scheduled to be in the studio to film 2 more
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Guide to the GSoC Web App for Student Applicants – Google Summer of Code Announce
Guide to the GSoC Web App for Student Applicants – Google Summer of Code Announce Looking for something fun to do this summer? All college and university students around the world are invited to apply to get paid $4,500 USD to work on your favorite open source project this summer.
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How to Geekify Your Halloween
How to Geekify Your Halloween Fanboys and girls geek up their Halloween experience with these ultra-cool projects — one constructed his own Green Lantern ring, another built a robotic Dalek out of a pumpkin (truly awesome). Love the Han Solo in Carbonite serving dish.
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Prioritized CMS Requirements for Greenpeace UK
Prioritized CMS Requirements for Greenpeace UK About a month ago, I posted the list of six activities the Greenpeace UK web team and I plan to perform by the beginning of June. So far, we’ve completed the first three. We’ve also chosen the 3 open source CMS products we plan to evaluate given our prior
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ONE/Northwest Receives Salesforce.com Foundation Grant
ONE/Northwest Receives Salesforce.com Foundation Grant We’re pleased to share the news that ONE/Northwest has been awarded a $25,000 Development Grant from the Salesforce.com Foundation to fund the integration of Plone, a powerful and user-friendly open source content management system, with the Salesforce.co
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Greenpeace UK is Looking for an Open Source CMS & Possibly a Vendor
Greenpeace UK is Looking for an Open Source CMS & Possibly a Vendor Greenpeace UK will be evaluating three open source content management systems
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My Four Things
Ok ok, DKR tagged me on this one and I gotta keep it going. Four jobs I’ve had: 1. Sandwich Maker – ToGo’s 2. Truck Driver – Capital Tent 3. Executive Producer – Form Media 4. I used to grow indian corn, pumpkins, gords and squash that I grew in my garden as a kid
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Building a website with an Open Source CMS
Building a website with an Open Source CMS I think the open source community has done an excellent job of figuring out how to create frameworks for developing web applications. But what about websites. You know, the web presence that every company wants – for minimal cost. For most companies, it’s
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Open Source CMS Evaluation – Part II: Customization
Open Source CMS Evaluation – Part II: Customization This is the third and final post in my quest to find the best open source CMS for my needs. Previous posts include Building a website with an Open Source CMS and Open Source CMS Evaluation – Part I: Installation. Based on these two posts, reader feedback
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Open Source CMS Evaluation – Part I: Installation
Open Source CMS Evaluation – Part I: Installation Today I began my journey in evaluating Open Source CMS applications. The motivation for this adventure can be found in my post titled “Building a website with an Open Source CMS”. Basically, I’d like to find a good solution to build small-to-medium size w
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SAJAX – Simple Ajax Toolkit
SAJAX – Simple Ajax Toolkit Sajax is an open source tool to make programming websites using the Ajax framework — also known as XMLHTTPRequest or remote scripting — as easy as possible. Sajax makes it easy to call PHP, Perl or Python functions from your webpages via JavaScript without performing a browser refresh. The toolkit