Lawrence Lessig(rootstrikers,creativecommons,eldrid v ashcroft, etc) Bruce Schneier(security related concerns, as well as electronic voting) Nate Silver(fivethirtyeight.com)(several people have already mentioned Tannenbaum(my favorite)) Jon Stewart(alway entertaining usually insightful) Pete Ashdown(ran against Sen. Orrin Hatch, may be doing so again(Will annouce on the Nov. 11th, also founded an ISP in 1992 and runs a non profit dedicated to repurposing computers(I have been involved in this campaign in the past and sit on the board of the non profit with him)) pashdown@pashdown.org Rick BoucherForced out in last election but always a big supporter of copyright/patent reform.
I wish I could share all of polling stuff I know(just left a job for a major pollster after six years), but about all I can share is this.
Message testing is not push polling. It is message testing. Yes, it can be hard to tell the difference, but if they are asking for statistical information, it's probably an actual poll, not a push poll or voter identification.
I did not grow up watch Star Wars. I have absolutely no nostalgia attached to them. I watched the original trilogy for the first time in college, in 1998. I watched the remastered versions. They are ok movies not bad, but not great. Same with the newer trilogy. They all have annoying character and plot holes. Get over it. If you had watched the original three for the first time as adult, you would have thought they were over hyped(which they are).
Regarding Bruce's contact information I think I have the largest claim to nerdiness. I have his cell phone number in my phone(yes I have used it), a girl I like was looking through my contact list and asked who he was. I told her he was a guy I knew in Portland. She went to school in Portland and would like to move back. So I claimed that I could use him to get a job in Portland(Don't really know him that well). So I actually did try using Bruce's contact information to get a girl. Try to beat that for nerdiness!
He didn't have a very big room. Barely enough for the reporters who showed up. Bruce's "PR Team" consisted of four volunteers. One of which read about it on Technocratti the other three of which were contacted by a Debian Developer at Bruce's request. I at first thought he wanted more people, but when I found out he didn't I waited to contact SLLUG(marc is a novell employee btw), PLUG, OALUG, and FSLC. (I didn't bother with utaug, uphp, or up because I figured most of them would be on atleast one of the LUG lists). If he ever comes to town to stage a protest we'll get the message out before hand.
unum
In his speech Peren compares the deal to a protection racket. Novell has hired MS(yes I know the money goes the other way around) to be their goon. MS is going around telling people, "pay Novell or something bad may happen to you".
I helped run a LUG (fslc.usu.edu) for four years. I want to help the spread the Free Software ideals to non-programmers and I feel like civic journalism is the most important area for those ideals to be spread. So I want to start a new group (ugotta.org) that helps people take advantage of technology to publish there views on whatever they feel they need to talk about. So my question is what is the gap? What are the sort of things that people need to know to become better civic journalists? The technology(blogs), the resources(blogger.com), advertising? What topics would bring people to that type of meeting?
Bacon? Come on what bacon do we have in Utah? Just because my family yells at me for saying bad thing about Hatch,because he gives us the air force base(which half my family works for). Doesn't mean that that influences voting at all:). Ya I live in Utah, I've met Pete. I like him. He's working hard. The article indicates people want Hatch to leave, but Utahns will not vote democrat. At least not outside of Salt Lake(I just moved to Salt Lake, I'm fitting in much better now). There are some long standing biases here in Utah. One is they think all democrats are baby killers and want to force gay marriages on everyone. I gave a presentation on civil liberties and invited my family. After my presentation my mother told me I was in the wrong party if I didn't trust the federal government. It's amazing how well the republicans have done at defining the democrats. I hoping for Pete I plan to do A LOT of campainging for his, but we are going to have push hard for him.
I once saw an analyst on Fox point out that the recently deceased Pope disagreed with the President about the war in Iraq. The "reporter" then "corrected the analyst and said that the Pope was not consistent in his views on the war. So we have a Fox reporter making statements against the recently deceased Pope in order to make President Bush look better.
I have also seen an interview on Fox with a woman who claimed that WMD were found in Iraq but the media was covering it up. Come on have you really seen stuff THAT bad on CNN. Maybe so I don't watch either. I prefer the web so I can skipp stuff I don't like.
When it comes to being biased the easiest way to do it is by what you leave out. I think CNN is pro-democrat. I think Fox is more Pro-republican. If you think CNN is pro-liberal than you have never listened to a real liberal (like Raplh Nader). Sure both stations gave him a little air time, but you need to see him on CSpan inorder to get much real exposure to a liberal. All news sources will be biased. You just need to pick which one matches your bias.
Let me explain where I disagree with her and most everyone else
"It's just software."
It's not just software. It's technology. Technology changes everything. This is revolution, one way or another. Free Software advocate are the ones fighting desperately for democracy.
In Mexico the press was controled for years by the fact that the government made all the newsprint. If you printed something the government didn't like, the government stopped giving you newsprint.
If you have to agree to a license set up by MS, IBM, or the US government before you can use the medium of the day, your rights to free speech are gone and so is your democracy. This is not just about software. This is about wheather technology will be increase freedom or destroy it.
I think you missed the in Logan, UTAH part. That's why this will work so well here. There is nothing better to do since most students don't drink here(Last survey I read said only about %15 of students here drink).
unum
ps that same paper ran a picture of me: http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2004/08/2 9/new s/news01.txt
only if there is beer provided
I think you missed the in Logan, UTAH part. That's why this will work so well here. There is nothing better to do since most students don't drink here(Last survey I read said only about %15 of students here drink).
unum
IIRC it's one of the local cheap theaters. I have been to it lately so I may have my numbers confused. But if I am thinking correctly they only charge $3 anyways.
First I would recommend you read this article by Paul Graham:http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
I used to feel like everybody else should value what I value and be like me. This lead to depression which led to other bad habbits. After a while I decided to change my life. I decided that I was sick of being alone(I had a girlfriend at the time but felt alone even with her). So I started joining clubs(including the local free software group), and gained enough confidence in what I was doing was right that I learned to accept other people who didn't see many thing like me. I'm still not good friends with a lot of people, but I am a lot happier.
I guess the short version of the story is: decide what kind of person you want to be. Be that kind of person. Feel good about it, and accept others even though they may not know as much as you.
It's funny how much of a difference it can make to have a girl in your life, but make sure you find one who makes you feel good about what you do. Not just one who's there.
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Lawrence Lessig(rootstrikers,creativecommons,eldrid v ashcroft, etc)
Bruce Schneier(security related concerns, as well as electronic voting)
Nate Silver(fivethirtyeight.com)(several people have already mentioned Tannenbaum(my favorite))
Jon Stewart(alway entertaining usually insightful)
Pete Ashdown(ran against Sen. Orrin Hatch, may be doing so again(Will annouce on the Nov. 11th, also founded an ISP in 1992 and runs a non profit dedicated to repurposing computers(I have been involved in this campaign in the past and sit on the board of the non profit with him)) pashdown@pashdown.org
Rick BoucherForced out in last election but always a big supporter of copyright/patent reform.
I wish I could share all of polling stuff I know(just left a job for a major pollster after six years), but about all I can share is this.
Message testing is not push polling. It is message testing. Yes, it can be hard to tell the difference, but if they are asking for statistical information, it's probably an actual poll, not a push poll or voter identification.
I did not grow up watch Star Wars. I have absolutely no nostalgia attached to them. I watched the original trilogy for the first time in college, in 1998. I watched the remastered versions. They are ok movies not bad, but not great. Same with the newer trilogy. They all have annoying character and plot holes. Get over it. If you had watched the original three for the first time as adult, you would have thought they were over hyped(which they are).
Maybe not the best solution for this particular job, but man am I glad we started using Dokuwiki for all our scattered documents.
Regarding Bruce's contact information I think I have the largest claim to nerdiness. I have his cell phone number in my phone(yes I have used it), a girl I like was looking through my contact list and asked who he was. I told her he was a guy I knew in Portland. She went to school in Portland and would like to move back. So I claimed that I could use him to get a job in Portland(Don't really know him that well). So I actually did try using Bruce's contact information to get a girl. Try to beat that for nerdiness!
unum
He didn't have a very big room. Barely enough for the reporters who showed up. Bruce's "PR Team" consisted of four volunteers. One of which read about it on Technocratti the other three of which were contacted by a Debian Developer at Bruce's request. I at first thought he wanted more people, but when I found out he didn't I waited to contact SLLUG(marc is a novell employee btw), PLUG, OALUG, and FSLC. (I didn't bother with utaug, uphp, or up because I figured most of them would be on atleast one of the LUG lists). If he ever comes to town to stage a protest we'll get the message out before hand. unum
In his speech Peren compares the deal to a protection racket. Novell has hired MS(yes I know the money goes the other way around) to be their goon. MS is going around telling people, "pay Novell or something bad may happen to you".
unum
I helped run a LUG (fslc.usu.edu) for four years. I want to help the spread the Free Software ideals to non-programmers and I feel like civic journalism is the most important area for those ideals to be spread. So I want to start a new group (ugotta.org) that helps people take advantage of technology to publish there views on whatever they feel they need to talk about. So my question is what is the gap? What are the sort of things that people need to know to become better civic journalists? The technology(blogs), the resources(blogger.com), advertising? What topics would bring people to that type of meeting?
Bacon? Come on what bacon do we have in Utah? Just because my family yells at me for saying bad thing about Hatch,because he gives us the air force base(which half my family works for). Doesn't mean that that influences voting at all:). Ya I live in Utah, I've met Pete. I like him. He's working hard. The article indicates people want Hatch to leave, but Utahns will not vote democrat. At least not outside of Salt Lake(I just moved to Salt Lake, I'm fitting in much better now).
There are some long standing biases here in Utah. One is they think all democrats are baby killers and want to force gay marriages on everyone. I gave a presentation on civil liberties and invited my family. After my presentation my mother told me I was in the wrong party if I didn't trust the federal government. It's amazing how well the republicans have done at defining the democrats.
I hoping for Pete I plan to do A LOT of campainging for his, but we are going to have push hard for him.
I once saw an analyst on Fox point out that the recently deceased Pope disagreed with the President about the war in Iraq. The "reporter" then "corrected the analyst and said that the Pope was not consistent in his views on the war. So we have a Fox reporter making statements against the recently deceased Pope in order to make President Bush look better.
I have also seen an interview on Fox with a woman who claimed that WMD were found in Iraq but the media was covering it up. Come on have you really seen stuff THAT bad on CNN. Maybe so I don't watch either. I prefer the web so I can skipp stuff I don't like.
When it comes to being biased the easiest way to do it is by what you leave out. I think CNN is pro-democrat. I think Fox is more Pro-republican. If you think CNN is pro-liberal than you have never listened to a real liberal (like Raplh Nader). Sure both stations gave him a little air time, but you need to see him on CSpan inorder to get much real exposure to a liberal. All news sources will be biased. You just need to pick which one matches your bias.
Let me explain where I disagree with her and most everyone else
"It's just software."
It's not just software. It's technology. Technology changes everything. This is revolution, one way or another. Free Software advocate are the ones fighting desperately for democracy.
In Mexico the press was controled for years by the fact that the government made all the newsprint. If you printed something the government didn't like, the government stopped giving you newsprint.
If you have to agree to a license set up by MS, IBM, or the US government before you can use the medium of the day, your rights to free speech are gone and so is your democracy. This is not just about software. This is about wheather technology will be increase freedom or destroy it.
only if there is beer provided
2 9/new s/news01.txt
I think you missed the in Logan, UTAH part. That's why this will work so well here. There is nothing better to do since most students don't drink here(Last survey I read said only about %15 of students here drink).
unum
ps that same paper ran a picture of me:
http://hjnews.townnews.com/articles/2004/08/
only if there is beer provided I think you missed the in Logan, UTAH part. That's why this will work so well here. There is nothing better to do since most students don't drink here(Last survey I read said only about %15 of students here drink). unum
IIRC it's one of the local cheap theaters. I have been to it lately so I may have my numbers confused. But if I am thinking correctly they only charge $3 anyways.
First I would recommend you read this article by Paul Graham:http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html I used to feel like everybody else should value what I value and be like me. This lead to depression which led to other bad habbits. After a while I decided to change my life. I decided that I was sick of being alone(I had a girlfriend at the time but felt alone even with her). So I started joining clubs(including the local free software group), and gained enough confidence in what I was doing was right that I learned to accept other people who didn't see many thing like me. I'm still not good friends with a lot of people, but I am a lot happier. I guess the short version of the story is: decide what kind of person you want to be. Be that kind of person. Feel good about it, and accept others even though they may not know as much as you. It's funny how much of a difference it can make to have a girl in your life, but make sure you find one who makes you feel good about what you do. Not just one who's there.