December 31, 2003
Added Recent Comments Tracking
Added a "recent comments" section to the sidebar so non-item-owners can easily spot whether a new comment has been added that might warrant attention/feedback without having to check down the length of the page. Holler if it offends and I'll pluck it back out.
Oh.
Happy New Year!
Posted by mph at 06:11 PM | Comments (4)
December 28, 2003
Nickname test
The purpose of this post is to test whether or not my messages are now appended with "posted by sven".
Posted by Sven at 05:54 PM | Comments (0)
ghost writers
sven, i need you to change a setting in your account so your name is attached to posts (right now your posts read "posted by at 11:46 PM" as opposed to "posted by sven at 11:46 PM" :).
go to the Main Menu, Edit Profile, and change your Nickname to "sven" or whatever. i suspect it's blank now. :)
Posted by gretchin at 03:24 PM | Comments (1)
December 26, 2003
Tweak some Movable Type settings?
A couple of tweaks I'd like done to both Notepad and Youthlib Dev:
1. Change settings so that the last seven postings are always visible. I don't think that postings should disappear after a set period... It's embarassing to go to one of these sites and see it totally blank.
2. Change the color of the postings' titles to red, or something that stands out better. Right now the postings' titles are slate gray, which blends in too much with the posts themselves. On a day when I make multiple postings, it's difficult to see where one ends and the next begins. [Especially if I have bold sub-headings within those posts!]
Posted by Sven at 11:59 PM | Comments (9)
Draft homepage for youthlib.com
NOTE: I already posted this text to Notepad. Gretchin asked that I post it here as well...
[This is a first draft of what the youthlib.com homepage might look like.]
YOUTHLIB.COM
tools for youth liberation activists
This website contains original essays about Adultism and Youth Liberation. Youth activists and adult allies are the intended audience. My hope is to inspire readers to start new direct action groups based on the Youth Liberation model -- and to help existing groups thrive.
About youthlib.com
ESSAYS:
1. How to Fight Adultism [read this first]
A short introduction to "adultism" and "youth liberation" activism.
2. Youth or Adult?
Who counts as a "young person"? Who as an "adult"?
3. Adultism - The Oppression of Young People
What is "adultism"? What does it look like? What is its cause?
4. Youth Liberation Movement
Criteria for deciding if a group is an example of Youth Liberation.
5. Adults as Allies
How can adults help the Youth Liberation movement?
6. Relating Adultism to Other Oppressions
How is adultism similar to racism, sexism, classism, etc.?
NEW MATERIAL:
Notepad
Short entries. A frequently updated journal about my thoughts on Youth Liberation.
The Generator
Long semi-polished essays. This is where rough drafts first get posted -- including ones that don't make it onto youthlib.com.
Posted by Sven at 11:49 PM | Comments (0)
Intro to youthlib.com
NOTE: I already posted this text to Notepad. Gretchin asked that I post it here as well...
[Here is some text I've just composed for the youthlib.com homepage.]
About youthlib.com:
This website is about Adultism and Youth Liberation.
"Adultism" is an oppression -- like racism, sexism, or classism (etc.). It is the oppression of young people by adults. The root cause of adultism is the belief that "adults should command, youth should obey". This belief shapes how adults and youth relate in nearly all of our society's institutions: family, school, church, government, policing, criminal justice, child protection...
The norm of total adult control is harmful because it encourages petty tyranny and abuse of power.
"Youth Liberation" is a method of working for the welfare of young people. It is activism led by youth, for youth interests, that challenges adult power. This method stands in contrast with traditional child protection methods, which have depended solely upon the voice of adult advocates.
The movement of people using Youth Liberation theory is diverse. However, some of its distinguishing goals include:
- winning the right to vote in elections
- democratizing public schools and promoting school alternatives such as "unschooling"
- ending the practice of spanking / corporal punishment
- eliminating laws based upon arbitrary age lines (e.g. curfews, drinking age)
- challenging defamation of young people in the media
The goal of this website is to support the Youth Liberation movement. My focus here is on providing original content: essays that analyze adultism, and essays that describe how to do effective anti-adultist organizing. The intended audience is youth activists and their adult allies.
My hope is that these essays will inspire readers to start new direct action groups based on the Youth Liberation model -- and help existing groups to thrive.
Sven Bonnichsen
"I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
--Lord Acton
"We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (Letter from Birmingham Jail).
Posted by Sven at 11:46 PM | Comments (0)
Workflow v1.0
So, I want to develop a workflow for the youthlib.com / notepad / generator project. We brainstormed a little at dinner tonight. Here's the prioritized list of what I should be doing:
1. Respond to emails
2. Write new posts to Notepad
3. Respond to comments on Notepad
4. Write new material for Generator
The philosophy behind this is that I should focus foremost upon making connections with other people -- creating a repository of essays really comes second.
Posted by Sven at 11:38 PM | Comments (3)
December 15, 2003
future site goals
next round:
* ada
* css
things which do not have to be done immediately, but which might make a nice "round x" projects:
* glossary
* quote generator
* essay abstracts
* paypal (why?)
Posted by gretchin at 03:34 AM | Comments (0)
December 10, 2003
What Sven's got done...
* 12.10.03 Posted notifications on Generator and Notepad, telling people to change their bookmarks to the new "youtlib.com/" nomenclature.
[Included a link to the youthlib.com site-to-be, thinking that if folks look back later, it should be there... Bad choice? To even let them know that youthlib.com exists yet?]
Posted by Sven at 11:09 PM | Comments (1)
December 09, 2003
still solidifying
time:
today: about .5 hour writing round 1 ideas, tweaking
total: 3.5 hours
questions:
* why is refresh so weird? :( (is it just safari? i wouldn't be surprised.)
todo
* reply to mph's mail(s)
* check w/ mph about his content management idea
* vague timeline, set priorities
* check email notifications
* assign sven specific tasks
Posted by gretchin at 03:49 PM | Comments (0)
round 1 site goals
things which need to get done for the first round of site creation, in no particular order:
* youthlib.com "about this site" (1 or 2 sentences for main page, +longer if sven finds useful)
[update: sven has written this.]
* sven bio (but how to integrate? is yl.com all about sven? could this be the start of "all yl activist bios/contact info" we discusses earlier? if so, decide on standard format which could then be applied to other activists like adam/tonia)
* "no dogs or minors"
* helvetica bold for "youthlib.com" (or is it YouthLib.com? or Youthlib.com?)
* colors=green, fresh, like leaves
* links & explanations to notepad, generator
* tweak notepad, generator to integrate w/ main yl site (make sure comments are appropriate)
* contact form (first figure out what addresses to have, then determine filtering mechanism. some possibilities: sven@, gl@, info@, notepad@ & generator@ & dev@ [for update mailings],)
also, options for the form:
* comment on an essay
* request to republish / re-post an essay
* request for speaking engagement
* report problem with site
* add to notepad notification list
* add to generator notification list
* other
* link to "5 best" or "read me first" essays, with a sentence about why
* decide on headers/topics (essays, tools, quotes, pix, links?)
* terms of use or caveats for generator essays and/or notepad entries
* creative commons license
* links to other sites
Posted by gretchin at 03:11 PM | Comments (1)
December 02, 2003
hello & welcome to the show
time:
last night: about 1 hour responding to mph & exploring the new digs
this morning: about 2 hours responding to mph, experimenting w/ a development post, packetwarp's mt blog (redirect, pw, mv, broken graphics)
total: 3 hours
things of interest:
* squirrel mail & webdav!
requested:
* development blog so i don't make changes to a live site
questions:
* youthlib.com active yet?
* is apache set to allow config changes via individual .htaccess files?
* imap/pop?
* ftp/sftp?
* quota?
* extra email identities
Posted by gretchin at 10:11 AM | Comments (0)