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Rosa DeLauro addresses the crowd

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Yes we can

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I an at the election day registration forum at Dwight Hall on the Yale campus. Come join us.

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Dodd re Palin he all you do is attack, you're not doing anything new

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The crowd goes wild for Rosa deLauro

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Joe Courtney is speaking about the importance of voter registration

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Second Post

Now that I've submitted my first post successfully and set up my account, it
is time to test a few other options.

Will this post get distributed to all the appropriate places?

Some of the HTML didn't make it through last time, so I'm sending this as
plain text, and adding in HTML on the fly, like this list:

1. cat
2. dog
3. horse

Let's see what things look like on Posterous and all the places it cross
posts to.

Aldon

Posted by email from Aldon's posterous

Slowly, I'm getting things organized for moving out of Stamford, CT. I've been moving as much of my email off of Optonline, which is my Stamford ISP to Orient Lodge, which , while it is based on the name of the house in Stamford, it is also the name of my blog, and will remain that.

So, I've tweaked my blogger account so I can blog to it from my Orient Lodge ID, and this is my first post that way.

Later, I will take what is in my current layout and try to figure out how to add it into the new blogger format so I can start adding widgets remotely.

Testing MySay

I\'m at the Social Signal open house at Tech Soup space on Info Island. If you get a chance, stop by

posted by Aldon Huffhines on Info Island using a blogHUD : [permalink]

Recently, I wrote a blog post on how to add a NewsTrust link to a Drupal site. I have now spent a bit of time working on adding a NewsTrust link to Blogger based blogs. It is a bit more complicated with Blogger, since you can’t put PHP into your blogger template.

I should note that this is using the ‘old blogger’ and I haven’t updated to the new blogger. I believe it should work with new blogger as well. Anyone who tries it should let me know.

Since there PHP isn’t available, you need to find a different way of encoding the title and name into acceptable URL formatting. I used javascript to do this.

The three values that I retrieved from blogger are the URL, the Title and the Author. They are <$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>, <$BlogItemTitle$>, and <$BlogItemAuthor$>. I did not use the date variables, <$BlogDateHeaderDate$> or <$BlogItemDateTime$> since they would need to be formatted properly for NewsTrust and it may conflict with the way dates are used in the blog. I also did not use <$BlogItemBody$> which is probably the best way to set the story_quote parameter. In my case, I too often bury my lead, so using the beginning of the BlogItemBody wouldn’t make a great quote.

To make this work, I created a javascript function which I put in the head of my blogger template. Here is the function:

function newstrust(url,title, author)
{
x='http://www.newstrust.net/webx?storySubmitBookmarklet@@!'+
'url='+url+
'&title='+encodeURIComponent(title)+
'&story_type=Blog%20Post'+
'&publication_type=Blog'+
'&publication_name=Other'+
'&unlisted_publication_name=Aldons%20Blog'+
'&journalist_names='+encodeURIComponent(author);
w=window.open(x,
'newstrust',
'dependent=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,alwaysRaised=yes,status=yes,directories=yes,location=yes,menubar=yes,toolbar=yes,width=540,height=700,modal=yes');
w.focus();
}

You will note that I hard coded that it was a Blog Post, from a Blog that is not in the set of listed blogs, and that it’s name is Aldons blog. You will want to change these according to your own needs.

Then, in the Blogger section, immediately before the ItemPage section, I added the following line:

<a href="javascript:newstrust('<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>','<$BlogItemTitle$>','<$BlogItemAuthor$>')"><img src=http://www.newstrust.net/webx/Images/newstrust/buttons/buttons_gif/newstrust_small_button.gif alt="Rate on NewsTrust"></a>

So, with this, I now have a Rate on NewsTrust link. Test it out. Let me know how it works, provide any feedback you can, and let me know if you use it on your blog.

Update 11/12/2007: NewsTrust has updated their site, and I've updated this message to reflect the changes. Most importantly, you should now use http://www.newstrust.net instead of http://beta.newstrust.net

In addition, they have added server side javascript to make it easier to add the Newstrust button.


<script type='text/javascript'>
newstrust_icon = 'http://www.newstrust.net/Images/newstrust.gif';
</script>
<script id="newstrust_button_script" src="http://www.newstrust.net/js/submit_story.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

However, I could not get it to work in Blogspot. In addition, on other platforms, this is good for when the visitor has the specific story open, but isn't good for pages that list multiple stories on it.

Listening to Picker Apogee at Old Salt\'s Pub

posted by Aldon Huffhines on Kokomo using a blogHUD : [permalink]

Talking with errcheck Hicks about blogHUD, as well as progressive politics in SL, on the outskirts of the ACLU pavillion

posted by Aldon Huffhines on Commonwealth Island using a blogHUD : [permalink]

This is my first test of the Hipcast Video Blog Recorder. I hope to be posting this as a test to several blogs that I use.

This is a demo of blogging for Keith at the Media Giraffe Project Conference (MGP2006)

Fur Elise, Take 2

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This is a blog post coming from vSocial. It links to a vlog post of Mairead, Miranda and Lauren playing Fur Elise

Fur Elise, Take 1

Fur Elise, Take 1
Originally uploaded by ahynes1

Testing Daily Motion's blogger interface. See the video of my duaghters and their friend play Fur Elise

Just a quick note to encourage people to stop by the DeStefano Blog as we finish the second quarter, which is the first quarter that I've been blogmaster there.

Today, I have started as Blogmaster for Mayor John DeStefano of New Haven who is running for Governor of Connecticut. This is a paid position.

I also would love people to visit the blog at http://www.destefanoforct.com/blog.

For some of my personal thoughts on this, check out my personal blog.

Recently, I started surfing blogs on Blog Explosion. Through this, I am logging into blogger and commenting on various people's blogs. However, when blogging in with Blogger, it points people back to this blog, as opposed to the blog where I do most of my writing, Orient Lodge

If you stumble across me that way, please stop by at Orient Lodge and say hello.

Today, I just got an email from some friends about the rebirth of Democracy Forum. The new Democracy Forum is on blogger too, so people may stumble across me that way. As with Blog Explosion, if you find me through Democracy Forum, please stop by at Orient Lodge and say hello.

New thing to play with for blogger... Getting the feed syndicated.

Blogger supports atom.xml If you log into blogger, select 'Settings' and then 'Site Feed' you can turn on the site feed. It ends up being an atom file. So, as an example, the atom feed for my site is aldon.blogsport.com/atom.xml.

Unfortunately, many of the syndication tools only take RSS. So, I've played with a new tool, FeedBurner.

What FeedBurner does, amongst other things is to convert atom feeds into RSS feeds. So, in theory, http://feeds.feedburner.com/AldonsBlog should be a valid feed for either RSS or Atom.

I'm going to kick this around a bit to see how it looks in different places.


Update:Well, using FeedBurner, I am getting my Blogger blog imported into Drupal (using the RSS feed) as well as into LiveJournal. I hope it will show up on Yahoo soon as well. I did find that I have to check SmartFeed and Convert Format Burner

It has been a while since I've written in this blog, but if people look here, and not at some of my other blogs, I thought I should highlight that my wife, Kim Hynes is running for State Representative in the 149th Assembly District of Connecticut. You can get more information at Kim Hynes for State Rep (http://kimhynes.smartcampaigns.com)

Three years ago, I left a powerful position at a large hedge fund in Connecticut, in hopes of finding a more fulfilling job. Over these three years, I’ve consulted to various financial firms, mostly to keep the cash flow as positive as possible. I’ve also worked with several startups and have a few articles published on a wide array of topics from hedge fund technology to psychology of online behavior to looking at politics online. At the same time, I have dabbled in essays and fiction.

My interests have focused on financial engineering, technological engineering to social network engineering. I have moved from a strong focus on online synchronous communities to blogs.

I have worked with blogs on blogger.com, and livejournal.com, to more complicated systems like MovableType and quite a few different Drupal implementations. My writings are scattered all over the Internet in no coherent manner.

I have networked at sites like Ecademy and Ryze. I have dabbled in systems like Friendster, tribe.net. and Deanlink

I have become highly involved with the Howard Dean campaign.

This week, I found, as I have been expecting, my current consulting project to a hedge fund is coming to an end. I need to figure out what I do next.

The most important advice I have gotten so far has come from many sources. They all say: Follow your dreams. I don’t know exactly where my dreams are leading me. One person tells me to be a political consultant. Another wants to partner with me on creating politically oriented websites. A third wants to do financial engineering with me.

I feel that the most important thing right now is to try and bring as many of these threads together. One idea is to get a single website that I can organize all of this at in as accessible a manner as possible.

This brings up a few very pragmatic questions. I live in a 100-year-old house. Its name is ‘Orient Lodge’. I have wondered about naming my site Orient Lodge. However, as I did a search on this online, I found many references to Freemasonry. Should I use Orient Lodge as a name, even if it carries an overtone of Freemasonry? I also have a site, Group Mine. I could perhaps use this site as well. What does everyone think?

Also, I need to decide what software to use. Should I use Drupal, which I’ve been doing a lot with recently? I like Drupal a lot, but I don’t really like what it does to URLs. Should I use MovableType? MovableType is quite nice. Or should I move to a more sophisticated system, such as Slash or Scoop, which I haven’t really played with?

Give me your comments and I will mull them over.

I am at the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Toronto.

I'm currently sitting in another panel on blogs.

I've been blogging some of this on my MovableType blog

This is a test of the new API from the MOO.