Monday, November 3, 2003

Denver Post - Coyote Gulch The Denver Post has a link on Bloghouse to Coyote Gulch. Thanks! 7:22:32 PM

2004 Presidential Election Doc Searls is thinking about Open Source Politics. Says Doc, "Metaphors are never 1:1 meaning mappings. That's their irony. We understand things in terms of other things that are in fact quite different. (Example: We understand time in terms of money. That's why we "save," "waste," "invest" and "spend" it.)" Dave Winer: "Thanks Doc for looking into the Dean campaign's use of the term open source to describe their campaign. We seem to agree that it's not an accurate use of the term, that what they really mean is "open," which of course, is very very cool. Now maybe the next step is, in an open way, to throw this over the fence to Dean's Internet advisory board, which is staffed by many of our friends in BlogLand." NHPrimary.com: "Democratic presidential contenders returned to California en masse last week - trolling the state for endorsements, volunteers and, especially, cash." 7:01:49 PM

Colorado Software Summit 2003 - Wrap-up Simon Phipps has a weblog and mentions Coyote Gulch in a post today. He links to another CSS attendee and lecturer, Bill Dudney and attendee and lecturer dIon Gillard. I see a weblogging Birds of Feather session brewing next year. Heh. 6:52:43 AM

Denver November 2003 Election Here's today's On Point from the Rocky Mountain News. They're talking about mail-in ballots and mail-in only elections. They also remind you that it is too late to mail your ballot for tomorrow's election. Instead take it to a drop off location. Here's a summary of the voting recommendations from the Denver Post editorial staff, from yesterday's edition. 6:21:01 AM

Denver Charter Changes for the November 2003 Ballot Mayor Hickenlooper and Councilwoman Kathleen MacKenzie are trying to get voters to pass Referred Question 1A on tomorrow's ballot. Here's a story about the Career Service Authority and employee evaluations from the Rocky Mountain News [November 3, 2003, "Making the grade"]. The methods used in evaluating employees are not part of the charter, as the article makes it sound, but are written into Career Service rules which are set by the Career Service Board. The mechanism for annual reviews is in the Charter and will be removed by the amendment, along with a similar mechanism for elected officials. Charter language that establishes the Career Service and it's governing board will be largely unchanged. This confusion has dogged the issue since the Mayor began asking for reform. 5:55:31 AM

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