CivicActions

One of my favorite tools in the belt is TextExpander.

TextExpander has saved me countless keystrokes with customized shortcuts for the text I type the most.

See the screencast to get a sense of how I use this amazing app.

Cheney "gets it right" in 1994 -- Warning that Iraq invasion would lead to a "quagmire" -- and so very wrong today.

"And the question for the president, in terms of whether or not we went on to Baghdad, took additional casualties in an effort to get Saddam Hussein, was how many additional dead Americans is Saddam worth?

Our judgment was, not very many, and I think we got it right."

On saturday I attended RootsCampNYC, and unconference dedicated to debriefing on the elections with a decidedly technological flavor. I shot some video with a Samsung SC-210 digital video camera (that I am returning tomorrow because it doesn't play well with Mac despite what the box says.) The video above is a short interview with Sanford Dickert. I've got a few more videos up on YouTube.

Catch me if you can! For one week only I am working from Albuquerque, NM!

This is the latest in my series of "Work From Anywhere" videos. I've been traveling a bunch, and will soon be adding some more videos. The hunt for open wifi is different wherever I go. In this video, I had just finished a training with a client over VOIP on the wifi signal provided by the Hollyhock Retreat Center at the Web Of Change conference.

I took a minute to speak with Matt Thompson, a documentary film maker and indie journalist who recently complete BEst War Evern. Matt and I met last year at Web Of Change when he was still working with Independant World Television (which became "Real News").