The GovTrack site has a map of congressional districts and you can even add the layer to your existing Google Maps mashup.

You can try out the iCal feeds

I'm working on getting Activism Network to export the events into several iCal feeds so that they can be imported into your personal calendar or that of your website. For instance, Drupal and Google Calendar both support iCal. I think all the major calendar applications do so. Hopefully this will make it easier for IMC and other activist sites to include events from the calendar!

Note: Activism Network also has RSS feeds for the calendar and other things (new people, new groups, new resources) - though they are kind of hidden/buried.

I'm using iCalcreator to do this (a php library that lets you create iCal files).

I have an idea for a tactic to build power and end the war in Iraq: create a website to coordinate the most extensive picketing that US military recruitment offices have ever seen. The US military is already having trouble recruiting, and a website could be a powerful spark that could reduce recruitment and otherwise exert enough pressure to be a major factor in causing the US to leave Iraq.

I'm not talking about a day of action. I'm talking about round the clock picketing of hundreds of military recruitment offices.

The website would include a database of military recruitment offices and a schedule. Users would sign-up to picket their local office and to mobilize the people in their community to do the same. The goal would be to picket the office for as many hours that it is open as possible. It might be best to try and get two people doing it (having someone with you makes it easier). Each recruiting office would have a picketing schedule that would be publicly displayed online.

You can download the latest version of Activism Network
3.2.1. The release primarily includes a number of bug fixes that were present in the 3.2.0 beta release.

I'm involved in the Alternatives-IMC project.

“The goal of the Alternatives is to open a vibrant, inspiring, and multilingual Indymedia site through which users will both share information about current efforts toward creating fundamental change and work collaboratively on projects to make change happen in their communities.

We intend this site to become an indispensable resource for those interested in the basic fundamentals of fundamental change -- the who/what/where/when/why of what people are doing to better the world -- as well as a living laboratory for those who want to make change happen NOW.”

For a long time I've been interested in the idea of a distributed database. While it would be hard to do, one way that would make it easier is to for the local sites that were part of the decentralized database network to store the data in two parts. The first part would be data that came from that location and could be edited. The second part would be global data that would be updated based on a regular time schedule. Thus things could only be edited/deleted in one spot. Updating the local read-only database would still be messy.

I wrote this for IndyMedia Centers (www.indymedia.org type groups).

What is the website?
www.CampusActivism.org – campus version.
www.ActivismNetwork.org – general version.
www.ActivismNetwork.org/developers/ - developers site. Code download.

Who is behind it?
Aaron Kreider. A former student activist who left grad school to work on this, and has done over 90% of the work. It isn’t directly linked to any specific organization, though we’re happy to work with fellow travelers.

Who funds it?
Currently it is funded by some very small ad-revenues and Aaron is paying the rest (and is looking for part-time consulting jobs in php/mysql).

This is an old link, but I just saw it.

Counter Cartographies Collective UNC 2006 Disorientation Guide

Ouch! My website traffic is down by 50-70%. Now I'm getting around 1200-1500 visits/day. Google has put many of this site's pages in the supplemental results, which means they appear very low in the search engine rankings and will generally get you zero google search traffic.

I could understand Google putting the school pages or silly zip codes pages in supplementals - but they put many of the group pages in supplementals. That doesn't make sense because those pages have a lot of unique content (group descriptions and names differ a lot).

It's possible that having both the activismnetwork.org and campusactivism.org site with the same content is causing trouble.