Ok - So this afternoon fueled by a tasty lunch of shrimp and grits and Hoppin' John, mimosas and some good company, I proposed a talk for the next Ignite Seattle in which I promised to Re-factor American Equal Protection Law. Holy hubris, Batman!

As part of the proposal I had to list my blog or website - ouch! I mean I am so busy scoping and implementing Plone websites for work at Groundwire that this sad little website gets short shrift. All the more so since my attention-span is now reduced to 140 characters thanks to twitter. (Genius idea, twitter-lite or twee in which we are all constrained to 70 characters, oh, you think it's not coming, do you use a twin blade or triple blade razor, mes amis?)

T minus 40 minutes to the ONE/Northwest World Plone Day Event.

My colleagues from ONE/Northwest, Jon Stahl, and Sam Knox will be speaking as will Andrew Burkhalter, formerly of ONE/Northwest, soon to start and exciting new gig at Fischer Communications.

The beer is cold, the cheese platters will be picked up in minutes, the chairs are out and the projector is on.

Yes, Plone goodness is about to commence.

So I signed up with Issuu today. I uploaded a test document - Lessig's the Future of Information - a big doc that I had hanging out on my desktop. There is an option to treat an upload as a public or private document. Metadata tagging is required.

After about 20 minutes of lag time, I received email notification that my document was ready. Prepping the document for html embed was dead simple. There are a bunch of embed options available:

• Facebook
• myspace
• orkut
• Blogger
• friendster
• TypePad

Web 2.0 Hot or Not
Panel
Allyson Kapin, Connie Reece, Beth Kanter and Heather Holdridge

OSN=Online Social Networking
-- Admin overhead= time, updating profile, ability to give up control, ability to develop genuine relationships, ability to accept criticism from followers
-- Competing with other messages: make it short, casual and compelling
-- Two way communication, accept, solicit and respond to feedback

Beth's cute dog theory: web 2.0 is embraced to share pics of cute cats. What prevents non-profits from sharing photos of their (or dogs?).

Panelists
Kaliya Hamlin, IdentityWoman.net
Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source, Google
Michelle Murrain, Meta Centric Technology Advising

Kaliya, Open Source, and Science background
-- LinuxChicks member
-- Open Source about equal acess to good tools regardless of resources, focus on community building, cmmunity owned and drive software

Leslie, Google Open Source Team
-- thought and discussion of ownership and contribution to software we use
-- force for good: people should be able to contribute to the tools they use, open source software empowers people

Julie Rosen - moderator

Clarissa - Color of Change
+ Jena 6 campaign 400k members
-- politicization of school lack of discipline and over discipline,based on race
-- campaign goals: unequal justice frame pushed to frame case narrative
-- centrality of narrative or story
-- local action, path to take action
-- raise $ for students' defense
-- petitions useful to help create the story frame, not so much as petitions
-- pass alongs to blogs, facebook, myspace (social apps wherecreated by others - not color of change); unaffiliated user-generated content

Question Box: the Internet for remote places, no literacy or keyboards required.

I read this super-early one morning last week, and think it bears on my discussion of web 2.0 and self-censorship. Read it here: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/05/14/070514crbo_books_....

The thing that I think we've kind of put to the back of our minds in our eagerness to embrace the new connectedness in web 2.0, is that we interact in all kinds of communities or subgroups with subtle differences in how communication is handled in each. The web 2.0 stuff holds great promise, but I think in all kinds of ways and in all kinds of virtual spaces, we are running into places in which we haven't really thought through the social expectations and norms behind this new communication.

For the past couple of weeks I've been Twittering with a small group of friends. We're all web-heads, so we've been using it only on the web, not the sms/phone stuff. Like Adam Curry (wow, can't believe I wrote that), I like my sms texting to be a clean channel.