Gossamer Threads

I noticed that John Gotze uses Gossamer Threads for his site and checked them out. From their website:

Gossamer Threads has the solutions you're looking for! From web based email to database managers and filemanagers, we have the web applications for your personal, corporate, isp, or community needs.

11:42:54 PM    

GotzeLinked is an open content repository with thematic links. Most links are selected by John Gøtze, PhD, who also maintains the site, but anyone can submit links. There are currently 1439 links in the database.

John has a really comprehensive site, more like a portal than a blog or a website, it seems to go in a number of major directions.

11:30:50 PM    

Good article today listing the "Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism". Some of these I hadn't even heard of before (like ActionApps, completely new to me).

Open source tools are a natural fit for e-activism, since they are born of the same bootstrap, grassroots mentality as a good e-activist campaign. Plus, they're free :-) Or at least cheap -- and often far better in quality than their commercial counterparts. [Seen on Many-to-Many]

[Ant's Eye View]

Top 10 Open Source Tools for eActivism

Dan Bashaw and Mike Gifford have put together a terrific list of Open Source tools that can be used by activists to spread the message and promote interaction by enewsletters, forums, blogs, wikis and epetitions. They wrote an article for Steven Clift's excellent Democracies Online Newswire.

1. ActionApps (On-line Magazine/Content Sharing) http://www.apc.org/actionapps/
2. PostNuke (Slash Forums/Portals) http://www.postnuke.com/
3. Drupal (Blogs) http://drupal.org/
4. Active (News Posting) http://www.active.org.au/doc/
5. phpList (eNewsletters) http://www.phplist.com/
6. phpBB (Forums) http://www.phpBB.com/
7. WebCards (eCards/email2friends) http://webcards.sourceforge.net/
8. TWiki (Wiki/Group Documentation) http://www.twiki.org/
9. Back-End (eActions/ePetitions) http://www.back-end.org/
10. FPDF (eLeaflets/ePosters) (Dynamic PDF/Graphic Generation) http://www.fpdf.org/

[Designing for a Civil Society]

8:32:22 PM    

Zephr Teachout-Dean PolicSci101

I did a short article on the approaches used by Howard Dean and his Director of Internet Organization-Zephyr Teachout. I have posted the above story on WIFLblog.

1:10:29 PM