sleepcamel.net : brad weikel

I'm very excited to announce the launch of my new blog. It's called "Open Culture: The Political Economy of the Commons and the Crowd," and for the next six months I'll be using it to chronicle my thesis. After that, I plan to self-publish my thesis there, and then open it up as more of a community forum with several contributing bloggers.

Just a quick plug to promote the publication of a new issue at gnovis, where I am entering my second year as Managing Editor.

I won't get into the political reasons, but I've been trying to take a very small personal stand and boycott the Olympics (*cough* *Free Tibet* *cough*). However, for a sports junkie like me this is extremely difficult. My main strategy has been to go MLB.com instead of ESPN.com for my daily fix. However, technology has conspired against me... but it has also saved me.

First, how technology conspired to make me watch the olympics...

Over the last year, as I've mulled over various thesis topics, I've often returned to two imprecise concepts, "commons-based approaches" and "open culture", which I am now faced with sorting through in order to focus my research. In particular, now that I'm locking into "open culture" as my central topic, I need to decide whether to incorporate "the commons" or discard it altogether.

Note to self. backup /sites directory before upgrading drupal.

Otherwise, your friends will laugh at you for having such an ugly website.

I forgot to point this out before, but, in addition to my series of posts on this website, I also blogged about DrupalCon on the gnovis website.

Here it is:
Lessons from DrupalCon: Twitter, RDF, OpenID, and more...

After two very exciting days of blogging on Monday and Tuesday, everything slowed down a bit for me here on Wednesday and Thursday. There are several reasons for this, some good and some bad.

1. I'm exhausted, so I haven't been as excited to blog these last two days.
2. I've had some bad luck picking sessions, including a few that were just flat out boring and poorly done.

See! There's half of my face!

Original photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/themacgeek/2313361332/

First impression: Oooh... this looks a lot like the Firefox Web Developer toolbar (which I love and depend on), but for Drupal theming. That's hawt.

[Note: Requires separate download of Krumo to get the really pretty output. See Devel readme.]

Theming Notes for Drupal 6

I'm sitting in on a birds of a feather session for education. First observation: wow, there are a lot of people in here. I actually feel bad taking up a seat, because its crowded and there are definitely people at the back who can't hear. (I'm delighted to see Evergreen represented here! Woot!)

Takeaways