Archive - Apr 2005
April 29th
Youth Rights Media
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 04/29/2005 - 10:03
(Originally posted on the DeStefano for CT blog)
I joined the DeStefano campaign for many reasons. I like his policies and the way he has thought them out. I like his willingness to engage in dialog about what is best for New Haven and for Connecticut. I like his willingness to explore new media to get the message across, and I like his call on all of us to expect more of ourselves and our state.
Yesterday, I received an email from Fernando J. Muñiz of the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance about the film, CJT$: At What Cost? The film was produced by Youth Rights Media.
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Rate on NewsTrustApril 28th
Swamped
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 04/28/2005 - 11:26
It has been a very busy week. I've been spending a lot of time writing blog entries for http://www.destefanoforct.com (Please stop by, read the posts and if you feel so moved, add a comment or two.)
Miranda had her first softball game this week. I've been busy with things for http://www.toomre.com, and I've been trying to get a chance to write a follow up on a few recent blog posts here.
Today, Ed Daniel contacted me about a new site, Disruptive Mice. On first glance it looks very interesting. When the dust settles, I want to spend a bunch of time exploring the site.
More soon...
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April 27th
Miranda at bat
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 04/27/2005 - 11:04
Miranda's first at bat for the KLHT Vikings
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Miranda on Second
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 04/27/2005 - 11:04
Miranda got walked. She was advanced to second on a fielder's choice. She ended up getting brought home an
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April 24th
"Love is but a song we sing..."
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 04/24/2005 - 20:14
Back when I was still married to my first wife and my eldest daughter was still a toddler, I attended a wedding in Long Island. I was at an age in my life where there was nothing unusual about attending weddings. I was going to an Episcopalian church where many people my age were getting married. As good Episcopalians we were used to boldly proclaiming the affirmation when we were asked if we would do all in our power to support the new couple.
Most of us moved on from those days in New York City and I wonder how many of my friends are still married and how well all of us have done in our support of these couples.
I had gotten married a few years earlier and like so many people my married life mirrored the married life of my parents. I don’t remember seeing much joy or tenderness in my parent’s marriage and I suspect that neither my ex nor I look back at our marriage as having much tenderness or joy. It isn’t surprising that both my marriage and my parent’s marriage ended in divorce.
The wedding on Long Island could have come straight out of the social register. Two young and extremely successful Wall Street professionals, with great lineage, were getting married at one the finest country clubs on Long Island. So, there I was, a child of Ethan Frome attending a Great Gatsby wedding.
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April 23rd
What's upcoming?
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 04/23/2005 - 08:29
Now, that Meetup has jumped the shark, we need to think about what’s Upcoming.
Upcoming is a new website, where can add events, tag events, and explore the social network of people attending events. Gregory Heller pointed me to this site via a CivicSpace mailing list. It will be interesting to see what sort of interfaces to upcoming emerge out of the CivicSpace community.
I went to Upcoming and found The Personal Democracy Forum was already set up as an event. I was pleased to see that xian had already signed up.
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April 22nd
Outcome Management
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Fri, 04/22/2005 - 16:06
One of the final sessions at The> Organizers’ Collaborative’s Grassroots Use of Technology Conference was Outcomes Mgmt. & Case Mgmt. for Human Service Organizations: Build, Buy, or Lease?. It started off with some interesting comments about output management and outcome management and went on to clearly lay out a framework for understanding the total cost of ownership (TCO) of different systems.
As an old IT guy, the idea of TCO was nothing new to me. However, the aspects about output and outcome management were particularly interesting to me. How do we know if the projects we are working on, or the technology we are using are getting us the most desirable outcome? We can measure output, the number of people cared for, the number of people who have signed up for a mailing list, or for a website, the number of visits that the website has had, but how do we get better at measuring meaningful change that has come about as a result of our efforts?
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April 20th
Blogmaster for DeStefano
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 04/20/2005 - 10:35
A year ago, my eldest daughter worked as a volunteer on Dan Malloy's gubernatorial campaign. It was part of a school project where she was supposed to get real world experience. Mayor Malloy is a good person whom I think would make a great governor.
During my wife's campaign, we often ran into Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz. Some people have warned us against her brashness while others have suggested it is exactly this what is needed to win back the Governor office. Kim and I have gotten along well with Ms. Bysiewicz and I believe she would be a great governor as well.
Meanwhile, everyone is waiting to see is Chris Dodd or Richard Blumenthal will throw their hats in the ring. Kim and I have also run into them on the campaign trail and have a lot of respect for them.
However, many of the people whom I respect politically are very excited about Mayor John DeStefano's campaign. Several have suggested that I talk with the Major, and so the other day, I drove up to New Haven to talk with him. On the way up, I was passed by a car with license plate 6; Dick Blumenthal on his way up to Hartford.
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April 18th
South Station WiFi Bubble
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 04/18/2005 - 09:11
"I'm sitting in the railway station, ticket for my destination..."
I fire up the laptop and check the WiFi connectivity. There are about half a dozen WiFi Access Points listed. Most of them are encrypted, however, there are two with strong signals that are open. The first is entitled something like publicwifi. It looks promising. I connect, to find that it isn't really all that public. It is public if you want to spend seven dollars an hour to access Wifi. I wonder how well they are doing with that. It doesn't seem to be part of any of the larger WiF vendor networks. To me, it isn't worth seven dollars. Would it have been worth two or three dollars? Maybe.
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April 16th
Blogging Workshop Originally uploaded by Aldon. Picture from the blogging workshop at Organizer's collaborative, illustr
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sat, 04/16/2005 - 22:00
Picture from the blogging workshop at Organizer's collaborative, illustrating posting to blogs via Flickr
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