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…
Category: technology
greener than greene
stick insect
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.
radar love
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…
fav icon
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…
4PVR: herecomeseverybody.co.uk
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…
beta blogger not better blocker
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…
doopy is dead viva habana
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.…
‘Txt’ is the word.
[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…