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  • Opening up the theyworkforyou.com development wiki – l/p in page
  • Migrating to del.icio.us – high on my list
  • Python Web Project docs – every doc site needs a PHP search equivalent
  • Mac Geekery: Random CLI Tools – /usr/sbin/screencapture is certainly the niftiest listed. Also, not mentioned there, but sips is great (but destructive, kids!)
  • Economist: The economy and the election – interesting chart
  • CivicSpace Labs – Joe Trippi swung by campus for a lunch chat, I got a chance to (very briefly) squeeze in my question to him, which was about what were the biggest tools missing, and he gave a plug on Zack’s CivicSpace (Drupal-based) project. I should probably write more about Joe’s talk, as I’ve missed his spiel at multiple conferences/events. He posits that the bottom-up, the distributed has won, and cites Napster and his campaign. While these are large ‘insurgencies,’ I think that the results of both his examples show that while things have changed dramatically that we have not won, but lost. This medium has not routed around the damage being created in the legal/social domain, and is being co-opted in a way that may ultimately corrupt its core. I think he brings up relevant points in the political domain and he’s not as rah-rah Wired 94 as his thesis might make you assume (after all, he’s a campaign manager), but still. Interesting that this wasn’t even up for discussion. Of course, almost all the dialogue was steered by the regular Annenberg crowd (hint: not students, not people remotely familiar with the techno-social landscape, but people who think the world revolves around their media power and more interested in rehashing their tired old theses than covering new ground).
  • Best of Vim Tips – some good stuff