Gadgetopia

DeanSpace: He's got his own software development team. He's a shoo-in. "DeanSpace is an open development community providing powerful web-tools, quality support, and expert advice to Howard Dean's grassroots supporters. Our goal is to better interlink existing web activism, bring new citizen participants into the political process, and assist individuals ...

Dean for America: Web Community Kits: Do you support Howard Dean for president? Then you too can have your own Web site. "These kits create fully featured campaign web community sites, such as Upper Valley for Dean and Seniors for Dean and Connecticut for Dean. These kits provide their members ...

Google Search: dean: The Wesley Clark crew bought the AdWord "dean" (for Howard Dean, his competition) over at Google. Via John Robb.

Hack 4 Dean :: MX-System: How can you lose when you have a bunch of computer geeks pulling for you? "Hack4Dean working group community of developers creating content sharing web community tools to unify and empower Dr. Howard Dean's internet campaign for the presidency in 2004." They have an ambitious ...

Political parties revamp Web sites: Nothing like fear of your opponent to force a redesign. Both parties acknowledge that Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean's extraordinary success using the Internet to help raise a Democratic Party record of $40 million last year and organize tens of thousands of supporters caught their ...

Howard Dean Says Campaign Chairman Is Out: I found this sentence in a New York Times article about politics (it had nothing to do with tech). Neel also posted a message on the campaign's blog assuring supporters that Dean wasn't giving up. What's notable is that there is no apparent ...

DeanSpace: Howard Dean's presidential campaign has resulted in an open-source app to organize "grassroots" movements. "DeanSpace is based on Drupal, an open source project that makes content management and community building on the web easy. The DeanSpace team has customized Drupal to make it work even better for building online ...

General Wesley Clark for President - Official Campaign Web Site: Here's another odd trend this campaign: candidates creating organizations of computer geeks to aid their campaigns. Howard Dean has Hack4Dean and DeanSpace, and Wesley Clark has countered with this. The Clark TechCorps provides a framework for involving open source software ...

Why 'Bottom Up' is on its way up: Interesting look about how the Internet is enabling the common man to start trends, spread the word, and push agendas. What do these things have in common: the TV show American Idol, Howard Dean's presidential campaign, eBay, and the open-source Linux operating ...

The Webby Awards: 2004 Nominees: The 2004 Webby nominees have been announced. Friendster is in there, so is Wikipedia (twice). Red v. Blue and The Onion got Humor nods. Music Plasma the mind-bending Flash app got picked for Music. The only "bloggish" nom was Blog for America ...

Gotuit Media aims to reprogram radio and television habits: It doesn't exist yet, but I'd sign up for it in a second: "Just as TiVo digital recorders enable consumers to pause live television, skip ads, and easily store shows for later viewing, Gotuit Audio's product, marketed as "The Radio That ...

A New Website for Harper's Magazine: I've never heard of Harpers, but apparently it's a magazine published continuously since 1850, which makes for a lot of content. This article is from the guy who re-did their Web site. He explains how he organized all that stuff. Harper's is divided into ...

More and more, Wikipedia articles are creeping up the search results when you search for famous names. I tested this theory a bit tonight, and here's what I found when searching for nothing but the first and last name of someone famous: Bill Clinton: 3rd result Condoleezza Rice: 2nd George ...

It s been another year, so it s time to re-evaluate my theory that Wikipedia is becoming a standard reference and will soon be the number one hit for notable people in the world. Consider my two previous discussions here: The Formation of a Standard Reference from two years ago. The Formation ...

Video game crash of 1983: Here's a good Wikipedia article about an event I was only vaguely aware of. The video game crash of 1983 refers to the sudden bankruptcy of a number of companies producing home computers and video game consoles in North America in late 1983. The term ...