Drapetomaniac

Erik Mauck and others have been working for some time on a documentary about the Austin Time Exchange.  It took a lot of the early start and showed a lot of the ups and downs, evangelists and naysayers. I’m glad to see their work.

Time is Money (Documentary about the Austin Time Exchange Network) from Erik Mauck on Vimeo.

The City of Austin recently spent several years taking input for the future of the City web page and several rounds of RFPs.

Unfortunately, at the top of every RFP was the demand that the project be Python/Plone based. I ignored every RFP and call for a meeting because Python wasn’t my area and Plone, even less.  I was curious, but not proficient.  Holding open meetings with such a specific pre-requisite isn’t really holding an open meeting.

The city is likely prepared to listen to new ideas after the recent fiasco of nearly awarding a very large contract to a California company instead of an Austin company.

Let’s see if Austin can pull together and provide truly open constructive feedback.  The City has a new CIO and is prepared for a new direction.

Go to OpenAustin.org to provide feedback on what you think the City of Austin should do for our web site.

Custom Properties is an impressive extension for Joomla that on the high level allows you to tag articles easily.  Beyond that, it has a lot of potential for organizing metadata for your content.

The one thing missing from the current version is the rel=”tag” microformat when you do choose to publish the tags.

If you want to add this, you can change the followingn file and line:

components/com_customproperties/helper.php

line 77:

if($linked_tags) $result .= “<a href=\”$link\”>”;

add

if($linked_tags) $result .= “<a rel=\”tag\” href=\”$link\”>”;