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Mar 14 2008
Focus On War: Call for Submissions
March 16-22 Docudharma is doing a week-long Focus on War. This is a pilot project – an experiment in collective blogging.
Featured Post Schedule (9 PM Eastern)
Mar 16
Mar 17 Something The Dog Said
Mar 18 dharmasyd
Mar 19 MouseOfSuburbia
Mar 20 meteoriot
Mar 21 pinche tejano
Mar 22 Militarytracy
Call for Submissions:
Anyone who wants to write an essay that has anything to do with war can participate. All you have to do is include the “Focus On War” tag in your essay. Essays with Action are particularly encouraged: give us some reasons to write LTEs, contact Congress, or to support an anti-war candidate or your favorite charity. Yell Louder!!!
Here are some more ways to contribute:
To submit war-related artwork, YouTubes, blogs & websites, and causes that are worthy of donations, please go to one of the following.
Thanks to all for participating!
Mar 14 2008
War Blogs & Websites
This is the place to recommend blogs that are specifically related to war. Links to other war websites and resources are welcome too.
- No limit on submissions. Post as many as you want.
- Please include the name and URL of the site.
Compiled List:
Mar 14 2008
Worthy Causes
This is the place to post charities, organizations and other causes that are anti-war or that provide support for troops, veterans, and military families. Refugee relief agencies and anti-war political candidates are some other ideas.
- Provide a link to the Donation page for the charity or organization.
- Vouch for the donee – explain why you think people should give money to them.
Mar 14 2008
Art Gallery
This is the place to post art, poetry, photography, or audio recordings about war.
- No limit on submissions! Post as many as you want.
- Artwork should be original, fair use, creative commons, or public domain. Or expressly permitted by artist.
- If not original, an attribute and/or link to the artist is best practice.
- Do not link directly to images on other sites. Save pictures and upload them to your own image host.
- For bandwidth sake, please no YouTubes here. There is a separate Gallery for video.
- Images should be max. 500 pixels in width.
Mar 14 2008
YouTube Gallery
This is the place to post YouTubes about war.
- One video per comment please.
- Indicate the title of the video in the subject line and the artist in the text.
- Include a statement of why you chose the video if you wish.
Mar 12 2008
Focus On… War (March 16-22)
First, let me say that this is kj’s brainchild. She has been talking about doing week-long collaborative projects on our blog – to focus on key issues and actions we can all take part in.
Buhdy, what about an action a week? simple stuff… NENA, Iraq Moratorium, we’ll need two more…. a big pot with a big label on it for anyone to toss something in on their way through, or for others to stop and and form a circle around, or for others to create art or essays or, you know, just walk by and say, “Yeah, gotta do that!” and then promptly forget because their life sucks that very moment, but maybe they’ll remember next week or next month. ~ kj
I enthusiastically support the idea/experiment and have been thinking about ways to implement it within the framework of Soapblox … at least to start with. Tonight I’m just here to throw out some ideas to start the organization efforts and facilitate whatever needs to happen behind the scenes on the blog.
Mar 12 2008
Focus On … War
This is the Center Post for War
Featured post schedule: (all posts 9PM)
Sun 3/16 _______
Mon 3/17 _______
Tue 3/18 _______
Wed 3/19 _______
Thu 3/20 _______
Fri 3/21 _______
Sat 3/22 _______
Links to:
Action Items
Artwork
Blogroll & Resources
YouTube Gallery
Feb 22 2008
Happy Birthday Peace
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The Peace sign is 50 years old today!
This icon was designed by Gerald Holtom, a professional designer and artist in Britain. It was originally an anti-nuclear emblem for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament adopted it as their logo and thereafter it became an international icon for the 1960s anti-war movement. More about the history…
Happy Birthday Peace.com has a peace sign gallery to celebrate the occasion. Anyone can upload their own art.
My submission: Dharma Peace
Feb 20 2008
Tag Project I: Cleanup & Rules
When I began this project we had 3,622 tags, of which more than two-thirds are singletons (2,666). In sorting through our existing list to see what’s what, I have already pared it down to about 3,560.
I make a living working with databases and am somewhat fanatic about having a clean dataset. The banes of my existence are duplicates and ambiguous or incomplete information. Keeping database size down is also a concern. Size can affect speed and performance. The first phase of the Tag project will be to clean up duplicates and ambiguous info. The second phase we’ll look at the singletons and see where we can consolidate tags to keep the numbers and size down.
Before we go any further, meet our Official Tag Team mascots:
Feb 06 2008
SOTB: State of the Blog
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My fellow Dharmericans….
I am here tonight to report on the state of the blog.
The state of the blog is strong!
Under the leadership of Zen Dictator buhdydharma, and with the hard werk of the Administration (ek hornbeck, Turkana, OPOL, Nightprowlkitty, Armando [in name only], kestrel9000, On The Bus), Guest Bloggers (clammyc, hekebolos, Jerome a Paris, News Corpse, Rusty1776, stormchaser, takebackthehouse, thereisnospoon, TocqueDeville) and Editors (73rd virgin, breathingstill, Cronesense, exmearden, GreyHawk, ksh01, LithiumCola, LoE, Magnifico, mishima, NLinStPaul, notlightnessofbeing, noweasels, occams hatchet, pfiore8, pico, plf515, pyrrho, Robyn, srkp23, theevolutionarysieve, TiaRachel, undercovercalico, Unitary Moonbat, winter rabbit, Zwoof) (whew!) we have made good progress and are empowered to change the future.
In our short time in the blogosphere we have achieved some significant milestones (see below). We continue to stand against the forces of darkness and Repuglicans. We fight for the principles of the common good and speak for the pompetous of love.
As candidate war refugees continue to stream in from Daily Kos, we welcome them and continue to provide substantive food for thought with a healthy snark at least once a day. Give us your pooties, your mojo, and your pie!
This blog of The People, by The People, for The People, shall not perish from the internets.
Blogging is the future and Docudharma will be there with peace, love, and ponies for all!
Jan 25 2008
Kucinich Bows Out
I just saw the news – Kucinich is dropping out of the presidential race to focus on saving his seat in Congress. He will make a formal announcement tomorrow. (In the video he says it will be a lengthy speech – so stay tuned for that. I hope he kicks butt on the war and Impeachment.) He doesn’t plan to endorse any of the other candidates in the primary.