How excited was I to find that Guy Kawasaki interviewed Seth Godin for his blog? You may remember Seth from the 2004 NY Regional Conference and Guy, of course, keynoted the 2006 NTC in March. You can watch the video of his keynote here.

Just got an email from a contact in Chicago. The nonprofit sector there is holding a meeting this week to discuss the implications of the municipal wireless project there.

As municipal wireless projects take off across the country, it's great to see that the local nonprofit scene is there to make sure that the community is educated about the issues surrounding muni wireless, and that community access issues are addressed. I think municipal wireless can be the way to finally solve those digital divide issues - but it will take the dogged persistence of the nonprofit sector to make sure that muni wireless lives up to its potential for underserved communities.

From our Guest Writer Jo Lee of CitizenSpeak:

I'm writing from AdvocacyDev III in Oakland, CA organized by Aspiration, an organization committed to building better tools for a better world. I run CitizenSpeak - a free email advocacy service for grassroots organizations. CitizenSpeak is also available as an open source module on the Druapl/CivicSpace platform.

This is the third annual convening of developers, organizers and activists interested in open source advocacy software for online organizing. The 2004 convening was characterized by a feeling of

While continuing my (almost) futile attempt to understand the world of microformats, I ran across this nice little application that really drives home the power of this technology for me. If you've ever sent your Microsoft Outlook vCard to a non-Outlook user (or vice versa), you've probably experienced the pain of incompatible data formats. Other applications don't play nicely with teh vCard format. Well, now there's an hCard format. Learn more and create your own (just added it to my email signature!) at http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard.