CCN - Collaborative Campaign News-flasher
The widget on the left, is similar to the one we use for an Israeli campaign against the proposal for a biometric database that is already in the process of legistlation and might be passed within weeks. Public opinion is "only criminals and terrorist would oppose such a blessing". Tough. If you can read Hebrew, see http://No2Bio.org for links to more information, and of course - the content of the widget itself.
The idea behind the widget is to give something more dynamic and informative than a banner to people who want to support the campaign via their blog/site/profile-page/whadevr.
Here are some [Hebrew] sites that embed the No2Bio CCN widget: הבלוג של אורלי בראון, החיים כנמשל, הפילוסופיה של מרפי, השב"כ אורג, וובסטר, טכנולוגיה אנושית, עונג שבת, פוסט אופיס, Everything counts, Just a thought
Playing in the sand box
You can add information to the widget on this page (which implies - of course - that we have no responsibility for its content).
A CCN widget takes its informatiom from a FriendFeed room. In a real campaign, the room is private, and only a small, trusted group of contributors can post or comment there. The widget we see on this page gets its information from the ccn-sand-box FriendFeed room. Feel free to post there. It is recommended to try out the FriendFeed bookmarklet. Note that posting more than one image will make the item's thumbnail run as a miniature slide-show, and pages from Youtube get such a thumbnail automatically.
How do I get a CCN for my own campaign?
Two ways:
Install it yourself
Talk to the dod at http://zzzen.com/whatmail
How do I embed a CCN widget in my blog?
Essentially, you put it in an iframe (view source of this page). It's also quite easy to create an "install this" page like the [Hebrew] one at http://turl.ca/NoBio
If you need static screenshots, you can find some here.