Inside LabourStart

Eric will be travelling with very limited Internet access from Thursday, 25 July through Sunday, 11 August, and again from Thursday 22 August through Tuesday 27 August.

For all LabourStart matters, please write to eddmustill@labourstart.org.

All requests for new campaigns will be received by him.

This banner now appears on the top right column on LabourStart’s global home page in English.

Why?

I’ll go into much greater detail when I tell you about our next book, but basically we’ve always supported open source software, and in the past have helped promote alternative software to the labour movement and so this fits into that long history.

Firefox is part of the broader non-profit, free Mozilla project and is very worthy of our support.

As part of my general de-Googling of my life, I thought I’d look into alternatives to Google Analytics — not that we’ve been using that all that much.

Clicky got some good reviews so I’m experimenting with its use on our site.  After a day or two, I’ll tell you what it tells us — and how it compares to what 1&1 Internet’s stats program tells us.

At the moment, it’s just fun to watch …

Look at the difference – DuckDuckGo and Google – search for “LabourStart”.

I thought comrades might be interested in reading this piece, written for Canada’s independent labour magazine Our Times.

… if the weather is good (like today), you can join me for a walk along the Lee Valley.  Here’s a sample, just 10 minutes walk from the office:

See here.

We’ve had to change the PHP version for our website to 5.4 (don’t ask) and there is a slim possibility that something, somewhere might break.  If anything on the site doesn’t work as it should, please let me know as soon as possible.  Thanks.

Update: This broke the home page in all languages except English – this is now fixed.

Update 2: English was broken too.  Now fixed.

PCS Euston Tower Branch has endorsed us and is encouraging their members to sign-on with LabourStart. They’re using their Twitter feed (amongst other things) to get the word out:

http://pcseuston.org.uk/labourstart-have-a-little-international-solidarity-with-your-breakfast/#