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Coding a WordPress Theme from HTML / CSS in 26 Minutes

In this video I demonstrate the first steps of coding a WordPress theme from HTML / CSS. I also show how you can speed up the process by using Dreamweaver snippets. To create the basic foundation of this theme only took me 26 Minutes. Second video will cover more advanced development

Firefox, Mozilla, & Open Source: Software Design at Scale

(April 3, 2009) John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, and Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox, share their backgrounds and perspectives on how the Mozilla project produces Firefox and other products: what works, what could be better, and what issues they’ve found themselves thinking about most recently. Stanford University: www.stanford.edu Stanford Center for Professional Development: scpd.stanford.edu Stanford University Channel on YouTube: www.youtube.com

Douglas Rushkoff – Open Source Democracy

PUNKCAST1467 – Nov 5 2008. In the fifth lecture in Evan Korth’s NYU Computers and Society course featured author, thinker and professor Douglas Rushkoff. His topic:”Open Source Democracy.” Following is the foreword, by Douglas Alexander, to Rushkoff’s paper on the same topic: “The internet has become an integral part of our lives because it is interactive. That means people are senders of information, rather than simply passive receivers of ‘old’ media. Most importantly of all, we can talk to each other without gatekeepers or editors. This offers exciting possibilities for new social networks, which are enabled – but not determined – by digital technology. In the software industry, the open source movement emphasises collective cooperation over private ownership. This radical idea may provide the biggest challenge to the dominance of Microsoft. Open source enthusiasts have found a more efficient way of working by pooling their knowledge to encourage innovation. All this is happening at a time when participation in mainstream electoral politics is declining in many Western countries, including the US and Britain. Our democracies are increasingly resembling old media, with fewer real opportunities for interaction. What, asks Douglas Rushkoff in this original essay for Demos, would happen if the ‘source code’ of our democratic systems was opened up to the people they are meant to serve? ‘An open source model for participatory, bottom-up and emergent policy will force us to