with all this social networking and blogging, are forums and mailing lists used less? SNs and blogs don’t seem to do ‘virtual community discourse’ like a good old flame war on a BB or a mailing list.

blogs and “be-my-friend” sites are all about the me meme or me,me,me. Where as lists and forums, notwithstanding their more vocal contributors, were to me, all about reaching a public consensus on the topic or thread, to a point where all the points were made or the topic goes cold due to exhaustion.

a quick fire of comments to a blog post might do more for the ego than it will ever do for a topics full on agenda.

has anyone any ideas on how web 1.0 affected the BBS’s etc. of yester-year. or on how web 2.0 is hitting the community driven forums we all hung out on.?
While no one would shut down a forum just because web minutes are being spent elsewhere more (nowadays), as people, and forget tech for a moment, if we fail to use our community forums we are in danger of ending up in gated apartment blocks owned by newSINternational and gooogle. iWarn. Slán.

[cross posted on OPEN list]

model Glenda Gilson holds a TWIG as seen at siliconrepublic.com blog

this is to launch the toplocate services from top security

do you think that if you lost your phone it could TWIG where you left it?
would you mess with Glenda? she has a TWIG.

the local council wouldn’t like a rash of applications for private radar installations. so enjoy the functions of a black box that listens to beacons of commercial airliners, sent on 1090MHZ that converts this data to a private radar on the screen of your PC. It has a range of 2000 miles but that is all dependant of the signals you can receive.

I caught this on Dr. Dish TV where they showed how CIA rendition flights were exposed with this method. Dr Dish is on 24 hours a day for the holidays.

So this home radar kit will set you back €750 plus you will need a computer. its called the sbs-1 and is available from these guys. (PLEASE NOTE. THE SBS-1 IS NOT UK CAA APPROVED FOR THESE USES.) Anyone in the Irish Anti War Movement should look into one on these near every air field in ireland. Log all movements and share the data with amnesty international et al. Until mine arrives its aertel 575 & Shannon Tower: 118.70.

When I’m feeling lonely and I’m sure I’ve had enough
She sends the comfort coming in from above
Don’t need no radio at all
We got a thing that’s called radar love
We got a line in the sky
We got a thing that’s called radar love
radar love - golden earring - 1973

it was pointed out to me by an rss developer that was testing against my feed that my briangreene.com domain had no favicon.ico — I hated IE for making the requests on my server for a file I did not have and did not want, and for a crime I did not commit. But I have decided to add a favicon. And in the spirit of it being a favourite icon I have chosen a favourite icon of the silver screen and a favourite of mine grace kelly

Imagine…
BBC ONE Tue 5 Dec, 10:35 pm - 11:25 pm 50mins

www.herecomeseverybody.co.uk

Alan Yentob journeys into the world wide web to find out how it began, who’s hanging out there, and where it’s taking us. Along the way he meets Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the web - and goes on to explore how this man’s creativity has fuelled the creativity of millions of others.

Dandy blogger Dickon Edwards and sex blogger Abby Lee; the hardcore members of the Arctic Monkeys message board; masked animator David Firth - whose cartoons have been watched by millions on the web - and Ewan Macdonald, the young Scot who wrote the millionth entry in the web phenomenon known as the Wikipedia - all feature in the film, alongside figures such as veteran director Ken Russell - currently making a film to upload to YouTube - and web pioneer Daniel Myrick, director of the Blair Witch Project. With some strong language.

~ i hope to record this - and be at at live gig in Dublin 1 to see Rebecca Hart

I moved a less used blog from plain old blogger to beta blogger,. Fine, I’ll check out the functions later, in doing so, the blogger account comes in under the wing of a new or existing google account, I choose existing.

then to my surprise i was on some blogger looking blog a few minutes ago and was leaving a comment, and it wanted my google/gmail user:pass… eh oh. NO. I wont give. Now I have to think is this a blogger page or a phishing page for gmail user:pass ?? is my reaction normal? has google stepped on a land mine here?

after a short illness the doop server died gracefully [or not so] on monday morning at 09.10am. doopy started out life as a PC and was re-specked to be a web server. It out lived its use by date and to think its twin 60GB hard disks hold as much as an old iPod now. doopy as it became known was first called cuba but the doopy name stuck. It served doopdesign well, at its peak it had 260 accounts 80+ domains 1000 seat realaudio and served our 60 hosted clients well. In August we began moving out clients to doopy’s (ne cuba) replacement a 2U dell raid-10 server called habana (doopy2) and by Monday 9am all but 10% remained. Mail lists clients were last to move and monday night was the time scheduled to move them, but back ups on habana were required as doopy fried with monday a.m. traffic. thanks to the dooponians and dojo admins for the helping hand in the busiest week Ive had since ever. Thanks to other admins that remain nameless and the staff at blacknight for their service and support. doop choose blacknight for colo, coz they are really nice people on top of everything else. now if C&W would only callback I would be chuffed. it seems a colo cancellation is not big deal to C&W but when I got two calls within 15 mins from belfast about cancellation of ‘fibre’ in coolock i knew they crossed their cables again. oops nearly forgot, thanks to rory & mark in nevada for all the hands eyes and help over the years…… viva habana

on a seperate note, never try to fix a WP install with a zone alarm pro running,,, to much session killing activity… yuk.

[first posted to wavelinks 7 in May 2001]

15 Billion Text messages a month are clocked by the world’s 600+ network
operators.

SMS - Short Messaging Service or Text (aka ‘Txt’ in the classrooms of
Ireland) has come of age.

It really took off with the arrival of pre-paid mobiles in Europe. Cost conscious teenagers (and adults) are happily thumbing away 160 character messages (msgs) to each other. 10P per message for the sender - no cost for receiving.

Txt allows you to keep it short in a busy world, the awkward keypad entry is less of a discomfort because the message length is a maximum 160 characters. This has aided the evolution of a new sub language of ‘txt speak’, i.e. ‘R U able 2 C me now?’ = ‘are you able to see me now?’

TV networks and radio stations are beginning to opt for Txt as the preferred medium of interaction while the telex, fax, phone and even e-mail fade to the background.

News delivery and m-commerce are making their way on to mobiles with text services, bypassing the less preferred WAP technology that lacks Text’s low cost, e.g. a IEP10 pre-paid card will buy 100 txts, but the same IEP10 lasts only 50 minutes on WAP. Plus, Txt is more interactive: with the send and receive function, the end user can enjoy 200+ messages before top up, while a WAP user rarely interacts with anything more than a dumb Web server. Expect to see more B2B and field use of Txt by Irish businesses in the coming years.

Put those shades on - the future of Txt is very bright. Read more …..
http://www.smspress.com/ | http://www.gsmworld.com/technology/sms.html

from wavelinks#6 april 2001

WAP, SMS and PDAs are discreet; voice calls on mobiles in public places are not. In fact, they are becoming more intrusive socially than smoking ever was.

Over the past five years (1996-2001) I have carried out a personal non-scientific study into mobile phone usage on the Dublin Area Rapid Transit (DART). The focus of the study: the number of incoming calls, outgoing calls and phone configuration (including address book, SMS & WAP). Usage peaked in late 1999 with up to 40 calls a carriage on a 20 minute journey. The most annoying statistic is that no more than eight users would be involved. Sit beside one of these phone-aholics and you will be treated to every graphic detail of business or social activity a one-sided conversation has to offer.

The right to own a mobile and use it just about anywhere seems to regarded as an inalienable right. Social etiquette regarding its usage has lagged behind this fast moving technology. The early adopters, the younger demographics of our population, have set no boundaries of usage. Where once we learned social graces from our elders, young upwardly ‘mobile’ morons are stepping outside the boundaries of excitability and SCREAMING “HELLO I’M ON THETRAINNN, 2 HOWTH, LUV”.

Just as smoking has been banned in many public areas, it may be prudent for legislators to limit the spaces where intrusive calls can happen, or phone rage could become a phenomenon we could do without.

Failing legislation, the gap in the market might be filled by the ‘vigilante phone jammer’. C-Guard Cellular FireWall is a jammer device that transmits low power radio signals, which cut-off communications between cellular handsets and cellular base stations. The jamming effect can be digitally controlled to form quiet zones in confined places. Source http://www.cguard.com/

Armed with one of these I could disconnect an entire carriage of mobile users, and generate income for the poor unfortunate phone user from dropped calls. The only downside of jamming is what follows, a chorus of “hello? HeLLO HELLLO? Are you there?” Watch for the news headline - ‘Mobile Morons Zapped By Jammers’

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looks like the yummies in the SUVs have yet to be forced hands free, perhaps the law should enshirne that yummies can multi task and young drivers speed the rest of us have low insurance - sure aren’t yis all right then..