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From the British Isles

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

18 Doughty

18 Doughty Street is a new web based internet TV channel. They won’t hide its rightwing agenda. I wonder if it will be Fox News for the UK. Discussing politics is always good for democracy in an age where civil liberties are compromised for the Anti Terror crusade. I am looking forward for the 10th of October to watch the channel. I tend to the left and currently live overseas. Good luck to the 18 Doughty Street team.

David Cameron, Conservative party leader, has launched his own (video weblog) to try to get his message across to young people. Blogging is the latest PR and marketing weapon for political parties, trying to look fresh. David Cameron shows his domestic charm in the kitchen, dining room, the car and in the office. The question is will help Cameron win the next elections.

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Who is Papadizi?

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006

played by Israeli actor Menashe Noy, a goat shepherd from Macedonia who is looking for an American wife. The short videos were released to the internet via and are part of a viral marketing campaign by producer OUri Sasson

MISTER GOOGLE FIND ME AMERICAN WOMAN
hello internet village
i am papadizi
and i will kill my self
if i dont fined
american woman

חשיפה: מי זה פאפאדיזי ?

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S5 has a future

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

Ryan King has announced that he will continue S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System. I have used S5 a few times in the last couple of years, and really enjoyed it. The web never looks good on a presentation because of the size and the detail it presents. PowerPoint on the other hand, isn’t web friendly for the same reasons the other Microsoft office products are not web-friendly using not standardized and bloating converted files. S5 gives me the liberty of enjoying both world’s files as well as hyper-linking to other sources.

I see the future where software and : A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System will be mashed up to form a tool where presentation will have s and s and really create a discussion.

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95 Theses of Geek Activism

Wednesday, August 16th, 2006

A must read:

Geek activism has not taken off yet, but it should. With the gamers recognizing the need for a louder voice, EFF gaining momentum and Linux taking on the mainstream on the one hand and recent severe losses in privacy, freedom of speech and intellectual property rights on the other, now seems to be the best time to rally around the cause.

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Wordpress as petitioning software in two stages.

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

. The war against the in and bloodshed are having their toll on the population. The majority of the Israeli general public support the war and numbers haven’t declined since it started, 3 weeks ago.

The other day Gili challenged me and asked me if I could help her with an online petition. I said that I don’t write code, but I could help her and find a solution.

Orit and Gili have been petitioning the government for a ceasefire and needed way to collect signatures in an easy way.

The Blogging software is very easy to skin. You can create and design your own theme very easily if you have basic knowledge of and ( is also usefull).

How to create a petitioning software with Wordpress?

  1. I used the default theme Kubrick and changed the commenting system and internal instruction to a form for adding names, emails and addresses. I shortened the comment field and labeled it as the place for entering the address.
  2. I added a Page template that creates a list of all the signatures collected.

Basically this is it. The first version was in Hebrew I started working on English one adding a printer friendly version and thinking of other features.

Shortly, I will post the Wordpress Petition theme \ code on the internet and share with others.

Here is the English test site and the Hebrew working version of the , calling the Israeli government for a cease-fire and the opening of negotiations with Lebanon.

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