Posts Tagged ‘vote’

FrontlineSMS Alerts

Posted: 6 April 2009 in Uncategorized
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My good friend Israel is currently competing in the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge, a competition that pits teams against each other to propose mobile applications that will bring about beneficial social change.  The competition is held as an internet vote where teams advertise their project and motivate people to vote on them.  The finalists with the most votes go to San Jose and vie for the top spot and the cash funding to make their project a reality.

Israel has been working for several years on various ideas with the general goal of bringing up-to-the-minute, life-saving information to people in remote and troubled spots around the world.  If you agree that this is a project worth supporting, please take a moment, register on the NetSquared site and vote for his project:  FrontlineSMS Alerts.

Instructions for voting.

The N2Y4 Mobile Challenge

From the website:

Welcome to the 2009 N2Y4 Mobile Challenge – an opportunity to develop and collaborate on Projects using mobile technology for social change, and compete for cash prizes.

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Now in its fourth year, NetSquared continues to encourage dialogue among people working at the intersection of technology and progressive change initiatives.

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About this year’s Challenge:

Unlike year’s past, N2Y4 will focus solely on the use of mobile technology.

Here are a couple of facts to consider:

  1. Mobile phones are in the hands of 2.2 billion people around the world. That’s a lot of people.
  2. Mobile technology provides every day people with unprecedented computing power and an ability to share information in real-time.

The creative possibilities for communities everywhere are tremendous.

Full disclosure:  I have worked with Israel in the past on Cell Alert.

Am I the ideal supporter?

Posted: 6 October 2007 in Uncategorized
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WonkoKevin over on WonkoBlog for — you guessed it — WonkoSphere posted a little quiz about the ideal supporter today. I figured I’d respond with what sort of supporter (of a political candidate) I am. Would anyone want me?

  1. b. I don’t even know what a straw poll is. If they had strawberries, though, I’d be there. (just kidding)
  2. a. Much closer to (a), though obsession about a candidate is something I lack.
  3. b. I don’t roll that way. Plus you get tazered 18 times by cops so the opponent isn’t forced to listen to you exercising your liberty of free speech.
  4. c. Doesn’t give money except to charity.

So the thing I will do that I think should be on the poll is VOTE. And I’ll be voting in the primary for Dennis Kucinich.

Edwards on MSNBC

Posted: 14 September 2007 in Uncategorized
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Well, I didn’t get a chance to listen to Edwards last night on MSNBC, since I apparently can’t work a TV anymore. I thought I was watching MSNBC, it was actually NBC and then after Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island made the Democratic response and there was no John Edwards, I realized my mistake. Thanks to the wonders of the giant tubes that make up the interwebs, I was able to watch his speech:

I was pretty happy about the speech, though it came off as disappointingly weak at the end. He made a convincing, fairly non-aggressive case against prolonging the war, arguing from simple practicality. It seems this approach could possibly be better at persuading conservatives and fence-sitters than saying that Bush and the military are terrorists (ala Rosie O’Donnell). And yes I know she didn’t actually say that. What was weak in Edwards’ speech was the whole “timeline” business. It annoys me whenever I hear it. It’s so open-ended. If by timeline, he means in three weeks, then I can live with that.

Another problem here is that while Edwards has come out on the side of peace, he still voted for the war: a serious failure in judgment. And I don’t even listen to Obama (aka Obomba) when he chastises other candidates for voting for the war. Based on his long history of voting to prolong W’s endless war, I have little doubt that Obama would have been right there with his “aye” raised high when called upon to vote to overthrow a sovereign nation whose leadership we installed.

It returns to the fact that there is only one choice: Dennis Kucinich. Electability is a term invented by the corporate-sponsored media. Real electability is what happens when you actually go out and vote with your mind and heart instead of voting because of what some plastic face on a TV screen tells you to do. Dennis Kucinich is the only one who has opposed this war at every turn, the only one who has a real plan to bring our troops home. Edwards was right when he said the only way to force a political solution between Shiites and Sunnis is for us to get out of there. Kucinich has been saying that all along. We should hold all of these democrats accountable and vote for the only one with the clarity of mind and morals to do what was right from the very beginning and elect Kucinich.

New NASA Slogan

Posted: 7 September 2007 in Uncategorized
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NASA is looking for a new slogan and Wired wants one of its readers to be the one who comes up with it. Vote for mine or come up with your own. My proposed slogan is “Earth is not room enough.”