Netroots Wisconsin is the Wisconsin regional conference of Netroots Nation.  It will take place on Sept. 25, 2010 in Madison, Wisconsin. Netroots Wisconsin is the gathering place for Netroots and others in Wisconsin using the Internet to improve life in the Dairy State.  Unite the Cheddarsphere!

Details and on-line registration are available at the web site.

For the last several months I've been involved in a project called RootsWire.  The project was initially started as a means to pull together content from the different blogs and web sites covering the Democratic Convention in Denver.  We are growing (at least conceptually) in scope to be an aggregation and cooperation site for bloggers and hyperlocal sites across the US.

Our intention is to build tools for sharing of content between sites in geographic areas, and to have local editors throughout the country who will build a human-edited daily digest of news generated by grassroots sites and organizations. 

I thought I'd write a short entry about a new site that we've put up pretty quickly for the Democratic Convention. We're building a joint blogging platform that aggregates in the different bloggers who are covering the Democratic Convention.

It's a Drupal site that aggregates different bloggers. It filters the blogs by keywords, and automatically assigns appropriate tags to the blogs, and then builds different pages based on those taxonomies.

At the moment we have 31 of the 124 bloggers at the convention aggregating their streams (including me). We're also pulling in some pictures, videos, and other content from the Internet.

After the convention we intend to expand this model to cover political and placeblogger sites from around the country.

Come visit us at http://www.rootswire.org

We had the first Net Tuesday meeting in the Twin Cities last night.  It was great, had quite a few attendees, and a lot of us got to meet each other and talk about what we're doing.  I'm looking forward to many more.

After quite a lot of work,my consulting company, working with The Cedar Cultural Center, just released a revamped web site. (August 23) The new site features music and video, a searchable calendar, and quite a lot more.

The Cedar is a well-established nonprofit music venue in Minneapolis, and features world music, roots music, and lots of other entertainers who are not supported by the major music industry. 

The site is based on Drupal with quite a few stock and custom modules.  There was a lot of collaborative work involved between my company and The Cedar.