[Weblog-Artikel iv]: Lessig: Write a blog! Eric Hellweg interviews Lawrence Lessig about the Eldred case in South by Southwest. At the end of the interview, Hellweg asked what ordinary citizens could do to help the cause. Lessig replied: write to Congress and write a blog (FOS News). Lessig’s own words: ºWe’ve got to develop a rich and serious alternative mode of addressing these issues that’s sometimes outside of the control of existing media.

Open Source Moblogging Software: Email to Blog. Warning

This is a first attempt — there are some things missing, but someone w/appropriate UNIX experience should be able to succeed in installation and configuration. I may update the instructions as I get feedback.

Prerequisites

The ability to read English and follow simple instructions.

A host connected to the Internet which can receive email [1] and:

Python >= 2.2.2
MT
enabled w/ the XML-RPC interface
a blog (determine your blog id)
a blog user, the associated password [2]

Please note that this code was designed to run on the host which the blog itself is running on.

KUKU Raadio in Estonia has a tool for Manila that does mail-to-weblog. [Scripting News]

vlogging: collaborative online video blogging at t …. vlogging: collaborative online video blogging at tropisms.org
A couple of weeks ago here in LA, I met an innovative documentary filmmaker and digital artist from Holland named Luuk Bouwman whose Tropisms.org site is the subject of this story in the French newspaper Liberation.