Disqus - Latest Comments for Alex Steed

Re: Why I don't like 'crowd sourcing' (Scripting News)

Alex Steed — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:44:41 -0000

In response to some of the quips, though, I agree with Jay's latest converse Tweet: "When you go to vote do you say: hey, I wanted to be treated as an individual? Or treat me like everyone else?"

Re: The Hottest Party at Netroots Nation

Alex Steed — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:24:42 -0000

I look forward to this / seeing who else plans on attending. This is definitely good to know.

Re: The Hottest Party at Netroots Nation

Alex Steed — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:25:11 -0000

Kevin - Glad to know you'll be liveblogging. I'll be keeping an eye on it, for sure / linking accordingly. I look forward to meeting you while out there. I'll be the really tall guy.

Re: Netroots Nation 2008: Thursday So Far

Alex Steed — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:22:23 -0000

Kevin - I'll likely be at the mixer. I'll try to hunt you down.

.a.

Re: Things To Do At Netroots Nation

Alex Steed — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:18:00 -0000

Crawford is a great film. I reviewed it for TRACE Magazine a long while back. It's a good one.

Re: Al Gore at Netroots Nation

Alex Steed — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:19:48 -0000

"the right wing tried to have a counter-conference at the same time during NN08. Punks."

I am curious as to whether or not you think that post-Obama election, around this time next year, without anything as epic as the Bush administration to buck against, the Netroots will be as unified or if the Republicans/right are staring down the barrel of a populist revolution of their own?

Re: Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Galvanizing the Net Generation

Alex Steed — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:47:14 -0000

"The political activism in opposition to the bill is proof that the Net Generation is not as apathetic as certain critics seem to believe."

Is it any longer common knowledge that the Net Generation is apathetic? Critics who make claims like this sound ignorant, especially in the wake of all of the work that has been done paying attention to the Millennials.

Re: Lessig, Obama, and Grassroots Political Strategy

Alex Steed — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:21:26 -0000

I don't get, though, that Lessig is giving a free pass, or whatever it is that people are saying he's doing on FISA. What is the response to his final statement about acknowledgment of some limits of power in the context of compromise?

"Please, fellow liberals, or leftists, or progressives, get off your high horse(s). More on this with the next post but: it is not "compromising" to recognize that we are part of a democracy. We on the left may be right. We may be the position to which the country eventually gets. But we have not yet earned the status of a majority. And to start this chant of "principled rejection" of Obama because he is not as pure as we is, in a word, idiotic (read: Naderesque)."

Re: The Savvy Snippet: How To Avoid Criticism

Alex Steed — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 08:40:00 -0000

Don't forget to make a good project/provide a good service. I know a lot of people who stand by similar advice, but don't actually provide enough quality to back up their cocksure take on avoiding criticism.

Re: Google Maps Adds Walking Directions

Alex Steed — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:29:44 -0000

Does this mean that Hopstop will soon be dead?

Alex Steed [of Make Something Happen]'s last blog post..By: Interview with Lawrence Lessig | TakePart Blog Network

Re: 2008 So Far: 10 Things We Liked, 5 Things We Didn’t

Alex Steed — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:54:15 -0000

Nothing is more homophobic to the extent of displaying closeted tendencies as complaining about the amount of mail genitalia shown on-screen. "Hey dudes! We're so straight, we complain about dude's junk shown on screen. Bring on the boobs!" Lame.

Re: 2008 So Far: 10 Things We Liked, 5 Things We Didn’t

Alex Steed — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:19:34 -0000

Oh man.

"While Cole gave you some â€˜blah blah blah i went to collegeâ€™ bullshit."

I am just glad I didn't have to say it.

Re: First ‘Milk’ Trailer Looks Fantastic

Alex Steed — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:30:20 -0000

@Jacob I thought there was no hate speech aloud. Is this an exception?

Re: Yale Launches On-line Environmental Magazine

Alex Steed — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:13:04 -0000

Today on Make Something Happen, we feature a short interview with McKibben about his organizational efforts and about the work he is doing online to draw awareness to the 350 movement. I wonder if the new magazine can form a partnership with 350 or if they're going to step away from any of that sort of advocacy.

Re: Shipping Pallet Homes, Bathtub Tips and Guerilla Gardening

Alex Steed — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:08:08 -0000

We interviewed Erik Knutzen and it's featured on the blog today (linked above). He talks about community/guerrilla gardening for a bit. He's really, really great and the book is fantastic as well. It's well worth checking out. I bought and read it in a day and my girlfriend and I are taking on a handful of the projects in it in the next few months.