Ahh Google, what would the lazy do without you? (In my case, probably learn php) Anyway, I searched and searched for WordPress RSVP widget to no avail. There is an excellent one for weddings, but I didn’t feel like going under the hood and tweaking it for my very simple soccer poll. It just seemed like too much work.
Then, all of a sudden, I thought, if they could use Google Docs for their spreadsheet, I could do that too. A few quick searches to see how others had implemented the form and spreadsheet, and I was halfway done! Yay Google!
If you want to take a look at the poll in action, please do!
I was listening to NPR this morning and they had an interesting piece on Shepard Fairey’s Obama Posters. Fairey created the posters to raise money for the Obama campaign, and they have been a wild success. However, there is a roaring aftermarket trade on ebay for the posters (with none of the money raised going to the artist or the campaign) and also a lot of piracy-including by Republican groups who co-opted Fairey’s design by changing the “Hope” emblazoned across the bottom to “Nope”.
It is interesting to see how the commodification of art affects artists whose work plays with ideas of ownership. Listen to the podcast for the full story.
Lynea Lattanzio founded The Cat House on the Kings as a no-kill shelter in 1992. Now her property has 700 cats! This video is an inspiring story about how one person can change so many lives!
