I don't want to go to your poorly designed, ad ridden, ajax ruined websites. I want to read your news by RSS. I want to READ your news via rss, not just read the title and the first sentence.

I'm sure you do this to try and force us back to your site so you can bombard us with ads. Let me explain something to you. I, like most smart internet users, use AdBlock, so I never see your annoying ads. Second I'll use a different news source's RSS if you keep your crappy format.

See I don't need you anymore. Information is no longer in the strangle hold of the MSM. There are 1000's of news sources who will filter out your corporatist crap and present me only what I want in my news, information!

See I don't support you because, well honestly I think you suck and have long out lasted your usefulness.

In other words, change or be chastised.

Today on TechPresident The Battle to Control Obama's Myspace.

My Thoughts:
What they did is practically stealing. A supporter put in lots of his own hours to support a candidate he was passionate about and when the Obama campaign got grabby he gave a very reasonable offer. They continued to be greedy and used a loop hole to steal from Joe. Disgraceful!

Obama's campaign is arrogant to think they have any right to Joe's fan page.

First Edwards blogger nightmare, now Obama's stolen MySpace page... do any of these "populist" "netroots" candidates have any understanding or respect for the tools and the people that are making them popular?

My first blog today is from the tech for non-profits panel. Seems perfect for me.
I realized I can't attend the tech for presidents panel tomorrow cause I'll have to be at the airport : (

Question: Can an emoticon replace puntuaction or does the previous sentence still need a period?

Also I wish I had a Mac laptop.

Umm for some reason this is starting as an advertisement for the American Cancer Society.

73% of all adults in the US go online.

Fundraising Fundraising Fundraising

Advocacy, The Buzz, Blogging.

8% of US internet users keep a blog.

Wal-Mart across America, Edelman got burned for astro-turfing.

Meeting needs:
Del.icio.us - used as Web Glossary
Flickr - have volunteers post photos, with out having to deal with the legal ramifications.
MySpace - Support people who promote you on the site
Blogs - "Why Typepad?"???? "Cause it was super easy to use"
Gootube - blah blah blah I should be on this panel, these are not experts, they don't seem to have any "new" ideas
Google Labs, Cancer.org Labs

He's talking up Convio, and Kintera.

Its funny how many online communications directors don't seem to know much about the web.

LOL He just asked people to sign up to be volunteers.

Well they are using Drupal so they seem to know something. So this lady just admitted she is non-technical. So then why is she here???

RelayForLife.org is the drupal site.

Hmmm using Second Life, and now this part of the panel is virtual. They raise money on Second Life in the virtual currency and then convert it to real money.

Virtual date auctions. Wow well their second life presence seem pretty cool.

LindeX

Well this started slow but the second life thing was fun.

The guy from blog ads is here. I've been to a panel with him before and he is a complete tool. This probably means I'll never be able to use blogads on my site but I won't apologize. He is a tool, and being his pompous self today.

And he has this shitty blue and red link graphic. HE ALWAYS USES IT and its from 2004!!!

Ok he is done talking PLEASE lets not have him start again.

Who do I think the blogebrities are? Arianna Huffington, Markos, Atrois, Cliff Specter and the wingnut Michele Malkin.

So vblogs are going to take over the world.

5000 at Yearly Kos??? I won't hold my breath. I'll be going but that seems a bit insane.

Ahh this is the girl from Rocket Boom? Looks different in person. Still cute mind you.

Amanda "I'm a die hard feminist" In response to people assuming she was just the pretty face of Rocketboom.

Miss Kitka? http://www.kitkast.com/

This is a strangely set up panel... they are trying to make it like a theater production.

Dramatic readings of an email?

So tone isn't present in an email, got it. "Afectless" Email can simulate forward motion when none is really present.

People have less control of their emotions online.

plz. is better then please on email. harder to construe as being impatient.

8 deadly sins of emails:

1. Vague email
2. Insulting email
3. Cowardly email
4. Email that puts you in jail
5. Email that won't go away
6. Sarcastic Emails
7. Casual emails
8. Inappropriate email

My first live blog of the day is the panel "open source: why should I care". My goal of this panel is hopefully to find a silver bullet to convince my organization to use an open source CMS specifically Drupal, the CMS that powers this blog.

The question I hope to ask/get answered is: "I'm a web developed working for a non-profit. I'm looking to use an open source CMS, specifically drupal for our site, but I need to convince the directors, manger and content provider types that Open Source is the way to go. People that predisposed to assume that Microsoft Office is naturally better then Open Office because people are willing to pay for it. My question is, do you know a silver bullet to convince these types that Open Source is the way to go?"

We are about to start.

Interesting all ladies on this panel.

OpenSourceBlog.com

Basic open source terms and myths.

Definition: free redistribution, no restrictions.
www.opensource.org/docs/definitions.php

Licenses: GNU Public License, Mozilla Public License, BSD License

Software: Firefox, OpenOffice, Linux, BSD, WordPress, Apache, Rails, PHP.

-Updates more often because more people are working on it together. Madness or wisdom of crowds?
They are hierarchical

Leadership: Strategic Decisions
Maintainers: Direction for part of a project
Committers: Trusted community to actually modify code
Contributors: Submit to committers for review
Bug reporters
Users

There are people that have control, decided by who worked their way up from the bottom by proving them self.

Customer Support, where is it? The contributors are STILL users, they develop customer support as they go along, just like a coder will add comments into their docs. Friendly communities, cause they all started at the bottom with questions of their own. Need quality documentation.

Rules
1 - Say no to Betas
--Netscape beta were worse not better
2 - Know your Adoption Rate
IE7 will over take IE6 by the end of the month... wow.
3 - Take an Inventory
CSS 3 support is in beta still
no text shadow
4 - Keep them separated
Use conditional Comments
5 - Kick Ass
CSS2 support
something about png color shades that i didn't understand

So DoubleClick is here... how web 1.0. And the dude is lame. Jesus talking about his girlfriend? Maybe I should have gone to the opening key note.

consumating some dating site?

"tag me moderator" wow stupid.

Ok someone from flickr maybe this will be better. Any one know my favorite flickr photo?

9 millions tags on flickr... is that a good a ad thing? Would some sort of simplification and consolidation be better?

Interesting add a photo on flickr that is a grid of the tags others should use.

doyourworst flickr tag?

Taxonomy is dead, folksonomy is good, machine tagging is the hybrid of the two.

Oh here is a guy from consumating.com

Dating site "A New Web to Find People Who Don't Suck"

build on tagging, both self tagging and tagging by others. Looks like you can upload videos and a blog.

His girl friends is kinda cute, too cute for him. Its a site for geeks. I wonder what the user base is.

that makes two people on this panel that need to prove they can get laid by talking about their girlfriend.

ok last dude

Ma.gnolia is making social book marking social. With groups and discussions. I've never used the site myself.

Public Libraries??? open source card catalogs awesome. Museums as well using tags? Taking the expert out of what something is.

Twice today this wine site has been mentioned must look it up.

And now twice with last fm. Again must check it out.

So as he talks about travel, I'm going to keep "blogging" like this at the panels and when I have some spare time I'll clean these up and add some links and add more commentary

Ok this guy doesn't think you should try to consolidate tags.

Scaling of tags

A - Personal Use (solve a personal problem)
B - Serendipity (no idea what this means)
C - Social Tagging Powerful (groups, search)
D - Mature System (people using the service as more then designed or anticipated)