Coyote Gulch

Thursday, July 3, 2003

2004 Presidential Election
Hey all you political junkies check out this weblog. Vince? Dennis? Ron? I just ran across it tonight. Warning: The writer is not a fan of the Bush administration. Here's the Daily Kos look at the fundraising numbers from this week and a peek at the subject of Netroots.
8:47:57 PM

Philip Greenspun - On Taunting Terrorists
Philip Greenspun: "It wouldn't bother me to hear that an American foot soldier in Iraq was challenging the local ruffians. But to hear a guy sitting at a desk 6000 miles away doing it?" Thanks to the Scripting News for the link.
5:56:47 PM

Lawrence Lessig - Creative Commons
Lawrence Lessig writes about a musician that realeased some work under a creative commons license who is now collaborating with a violinist who wrote a complimentary track:
how cc works. There's a great example of how Creative Commons works on its blog. A clip: "About a month after submitting a few acoustic guitar tracks to Opsound's sound pool [and thus releasing the song under an Attribution-ShareAlike license], I got an email from a violinist named Cora Beth, who had added a violin track to one of the guitar tracks..."
This is getting very cool. [Lessig Blog]
5:48:40 PM

2003 Denver Municipal Election
Campaign finance disclosures are due today according to the Rocky Mountain News. From the article, "Denver Auditor Don Mares raised $956,000 for his failed mayoral bid, according to a campaign finance report filed Wednesday. Mares pulled in roughly $46,000 from late May through June and spent all but $2,700 of his overall total, the financial disclosure form shows. Mares fell short of Mayor-elect John Hickenlooper, who raised more than $2 million for his mayoral run, and Ari Zavaras, who lost a preliminary election in May despite raising $1.06 million."
6:01:34 AM

2003 Denver Mayoral Transition
Mayor-elect Hickenlooper is planning 3 inaugural picnics around Denver on July 20th and and a garden party on the 21st according to the Denver Post. The event expenses will be covered by donations to the Denver Public Schools Foundation. From the article, "Hickenlooper expects the inaugural events to cost $50,000, but he hopes to raise as much as $250,000 in donations. The foundation could then use the extra money for athletic, arts and after-school programs." Here's the coverage from the Rocky Mountain News.
5:55:09 AM

e-mail John: