content management

We're talking about calendar management at work so I got to looking around at the iCalendar standard and its use. What I learned is that I am way behind the curve on this topic and that people have put some fantastic tools in place already.

Over at netvibes.com they offer a little portlet through which you can subscribe to different calendars offered in iCal format.

Google Calendars offers the ability to subscribe to external calendars in addition to those of other google users.

Outlook can handle individual iCal files, but using an extension called Remote Calendars I read about over at Wikipedia's article on iCalendar, you can subscribe to calendar feeds as well.

This site is built using Drupal, a powerful, flexible, and free system aptly described in this discussion as a web content management system toolkit. Architecturally sound, highly flexible, well-supported, and accompanied by a rich collection of available modules, you can do just about anything with it!

CivicSpace and Politics

Is the following a fair characterization?

What this means is that conservatives like to have power concentrated in the hands of a few, trusted “people like us� who give orders to an obedient mass. They like it when things are expensive because they have more money, and they like to keep things expensive by quashing competiton, securing an ever-larger slice of an ever-shrinking pie. Progressives like to empower everyone to send messages to the leadership and value a diverse range of opinions. They like it when things are cheap or free, allowing everyone a sufficient slice of an ever-growing pie.