DailyBuzz/Archive6
- Today, I ran a workshop at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. It was well attended with 20- 25 people. We created a WikiPage on walls with paper / markers / and masking tape. See some of the work at PeaceOrganizing. More there. ~~ MarkDilley
- Sometimes RevertsHurt. If you care ... please work on the page and help us learn to be kinder when we revert :-) Brandon
- WorkingOutLoud is a great way to invite collaboration. It can also help a team avoid feelings of isolation and short circuit conflicts that stem from working at cross purposes. Brandon
Contents
- 1 Thursday, 28-Jun-2007
- 2 Wednesday, 27-Jun-2007
- 3 Tuesday, 26-Jun-2007
- 4 Monday, 25-Jun-2007
- 5 Sunday, 24-Jun-2007
- 6 Friday, 22-Jun-2007
- 7 Thursday, 21-Jun-2007
- 8 Wednesday, 20-Jun-2007
- 9 Tuesday, 19-Jun-2007
- 10 Monday, 18-Jun-2007
- 11 Sunday, 17-Jun-2007
- 12 Saturday, 16-Jun-2007
- 13 Friday, 15-Jun-2007
- 14 Thursday, 14-Jun-2007
- 15 Wednesday, 13-Jun-2007
- 16 Tuesday, 12-Jun-2007
- 17 Monday, 11-Jun-2007
- 18 Saturday, 09-Jun-2007
- 19 Friday, 08-Jun-2007
- 20 Thursday, 07-Jun-2007
- 21 Wednesday, 06-Jun-2007
- 22 Tuesday, 05-Jun-2007
- 23 04-Jun-2007
- 24 03-Jun-2007
- 25 02-Jun-2007
- 26 01-Jun-2007
Thursday, 28-Jun-2007
- FoxNews.com is reporting that 12 hours before WWE star Chris Benoit, his wife and his son were found murdered by police an anonymous user posted it on his Wikipedia page. Read the story here.
- WikiTag Launches a Technorati for Wikis - Nathan
- "Mac or PC" Rap Music Video Pantless Knights Productions brings you its debut project "Mac or PC". - Nathan
Wednesday, 27-Jun-2007
- We've begun a discussion on how the IRC Bot should create automatic links. Check out the discussion as well as instructions for use on ABotUs
- We had our weekly planning game meeting today. Here are the meeting notes for those not in attendance.
- The New York Times reviews the iPhone
Tuesday, 26-Jun-2007
- Apple has released the price plans for the iPhone. Looks like $80/mo is the only way to go. - Scott Keeler
- U.S. Net access not all that speedy - Nathan (talk) / 18:37, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Monday, 25-Jun-2007
- Blogger Ethics Questioned Over Microsoft Ad - Nathan (talk) / 23:28, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
Sunday, 24-Jun-2007
- Georgia Brown has become the youngest girl admitted into Mensa after scoring 152 on an IQ test at two years of age. Read the DailyMail.co.uk story here. - Scott Keeler
- Interesting NYTimes.com / article on human powered search - Ray | talk
Friday, 22-Jun-2007
- Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to earth today. Read about it here. ChrisBabson
- A new Indiana Jones movie starring 55 year-old Harrison Ford is slated for release. Check out the official website IndianaJones.com [1]. Blake Hinckley
Thursday, 21-Jun-2007
- Just created a Template:ClearLeft that works much the same as the regular Template:Clear, except it only clear it for images that are left justified. This allows for the text to still float around the DomainBox instead what many have discovered happens when using the Template:Clear in the description. -- TakKendrick
- Another friend sent this gem from Breitbart.tv - Michael Moore Approves of Movie Sharing. ~~ MarkDilley
- From a friend:
- “Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.”
- --Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby
- “Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.”
- For the third year in a row, I write to remind us of what I call Daisy Buchanan Day. Let’s see if we can stop for a moment today so that we don’t miss it. Take care and stay free, they write. Good sentiments. ~~ MarkDilley
- John Battelle has an interesting weblog post calling FaceBook the new anti-portal: FaceBook as the New Google ~~ MarkDilley
- Silicon.com has this interesting article: Second Life - outsourcing's next frontier? ~~ MarkDilley
Wednesday, 20-Jun-2007
- DigitalAccessAlliance.org was an AboutUs featured wiki page back in 25 March 2007, and they have some exciting news from the (Chicago) Mayor's Advisory Council. Check it out! TedErnst
Tuesday, 19-Jun-2007
- Tired of Wikipedia's 'liberal bias'? Not sure if we agree that this even exists, but if you're curious for an alternative perspective check out Conservapedia for the conservative turn on the facts. Read an article on Conservapedia here. ChrisBabson
Monday, 18-Jun-2007
- There is a new article in the WSJ about "Wikis at Work". It's a movement people. The revolution will be publicized: Wikis at Work
- Today is the first ever birthday celebration at the Lahore office. Obed's birthday was yesterday but the office will have a birthday lunch bash today. I hope this is the first of many birthday celebrations at the Lahore Office. Happy Birthday Obed and may you have many more. Oh, the Portland gang is invited too, if you can make it. Tanwir Shah
- Piece of cake on its way to you! Wasim Sajid | :::talk:::
I felt like I was there. Thank you for posting the photos, but not the calories. Ward Cunningham | :::talk:::
- Awesome! Looks like fun :) I'll try to make the next one in person.
Brandon CS Sanders
- A new bar has been set :-)
Sunday, 17-Jun-2007
- This post from OnTheCommons.org, about the emerging iCommons organization working on building FreeCulture, seems somewhat related to what we're doing here at AboutUs.org TedErnst
Saturday, 16-Jun-2007
- Interested in joining the AboutUsStaff for a weekly bike ride in Portland, OR, USA? Check out AboutUsGroupRides and add your name to the list. - Scott Keeler
Friday, 15-Jun-2007
- New ways for AboutUs to use consensus polling. -- MartinPfahler
- Wiki-blogging is an issue that has been with me since this whole crazy wiki trip began, or nearly. After many months of not being able to describe wiki in a way that people understood, I turned to the weblogs. Weblogs are good because they are a one to many communication. That is pretty counter to wiki, unless you are trying to do what Brian Kerr describes in his weblog post (that was posted here on Friday, 08-Jun-2007). Window dressing. DeveloperTesting.com posts about this and it looks as if Alistar Cockburn.us [2] is getting traction with the whole wiki weblog idea. His is a MediaWiki and it the form looks and feels good. I will be watching it. ~~ MarkDilley
- The Yes Men succeed again, this time with Oil Executives via their Vivoleum.com project. The GO-EXPO statement - (this is part of Category:Culture Jamming) ~~ MarkDilley
Thursday, 14-Jun-2007
- Some thoughts after listening in on today’s stake holder meeting. MartinPfahler
- Obama Girl via BarelyPolitical.com
Wednesday, 13-Jun-2007
- Agenda for 2nd Quarter Stakeholder Meeting - Ray | talk
- Also see the IRC chat summary - ScottKeeler
- Also see the IRC chat summary - ScottKeeler
- Heya'll. I've added a slightly modified famfamfam icon for use in signatures. In your Preferences, under UserProfile -> NickName add the following:
- [[YourName]] {{SUBST: Clickpic|User_talk:YourName|http://images.aboutus.org/images/1/1a/Comment_green.gif}}
Make sure to mark the Raw signatures (without automatic link) box. In the end, when you're done and want to sign off, the three tildes (~~~) will show something like this - Vinh NguyenAlso make sure you replace "YourName" with your AboutUs user name.
- The downside of this, of course, is the lengthy bit of text added to the page. If only image links were easier! In fact, I really have a problem with the lengthy text now. I'd say, don't use it yet.
- via CommonCause.org - Keep the Internet Open to All: Protect Net Neutrality ~~ MarkDilley
Tuesday, 12-Jun-2007
- via BrandBoggler.com - Collaborative Virtual Branding has a couple gems here, a link to open source Free Beer and Wikibrand. ~~ MarkDilley
- via Digg, I saw this from GodsArmor.com - Wiki Based Documentation Sucks and thought, well when you have a wiki that is in need of love because it isn't part of a vibrant community, that is a bummer, and I love wikis. So how can we help make wiki communities thrive? ~~ MarkDilley
- We worked on this page a little and would like folks to express interest in a meeting. Projects:AdultContentImplementation - MarkDilley, John Stanton
- YouTube to experiment with video ID technology. ~~ ChrisBabson
Monday, 11-Jun-2007
- Evan Prodromou's talk on WikiCommercialization ~~ MarkDilley
- Michael Lamb has a lot to say on his PersonalPage. Check it out. ~~ MarkDilley
- Some brilliantly done retro computer modifications: Steampunk Flat-Panel LCD Mod & Datamancer.net -- Brushed Aluminum "Von Slatt Keyboard" - Nathan
Saturday, 09-Jun-2007
- Nathan, Drew and I worked a little more on the Category and CategorySpam sections of the InternalLinkingGuide - please check them out. ~~ MarkDilley
- http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english --Simon | talk
- Wow! we got Simon by like 10 days :-) (30-May-2007) ~~ MarkDilley
- Crap, I searched the page, I guess I should of done a search of the page source. --Simon | talk
- Brilliant marketing / business idea. Watch at least the first 2 minutes: FourEyedMonsters.com (VIA Marshall Kirkpatrick). ~~ MarkDilley
- Wiki White Board from the great webcomic xkcd.com ~~ MarkDilley
- Another new template for bloggers - see {{Technorati}}. Nathan (talk) / 04:07, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
Friday, 08-Jun-2007
- Interesting how a Wikipedia person understands/experiences InterWiki - Interwiki jungle ~~ MarkDilley
- Long time wiki walker, PeterMerel weighs in and pulls together the words and ideas beautifully with WikiProcess. ~~ MarkDilley
- via the always fabulous Brian Kerr - Weblogs as Display Windows for Social Software ~~ MarkDilley
- peer-to-peer society -Paul Hartzog talks about the transparent society, a conversation that is very relevent to our work at AboutUs. ~~ MarkDilley
Thursday, 07-Jun-2007
- Please check out the buttons for the beginning of the WikiAnatomy tour. here. Which one do you like? MarkDilley
- DreamHost leaks 3,500 ftp passwords! ChrisBabson
- Folks, I am noticing some Category:BadBotScrapes - mostly in the form of un-uploaded logos. Sometimes in garbled descriptions. Anyone else seeing this? MarkDilley
- I haven't noticed it, but it seems like a bad idea to keep a page in Category:BadBotScrape if it's been fixed. ScottKeeler | :::talk:::
- I see lots of scrapes with un-uploaded logos. Nathan (talk) / 19:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
- Yea, that was the point, they are not fixed. MarkDilley
- "WashingtonWatch.com now allows public editing of information about the bills pending in Congress." via the fabulous Stewart Mader
- The New York Times reports that because of the President's potty mouth, the FCC can no longer fine television stations for broadcasting vulgar language. "If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts." ScottKeeler | :::talk:::
- The purpose of this survey is to gather quantative data identifying how buinesses adopt and manage wikis. Please read the explanatory note regarding this survey on the Survey page in this wiki. Thank you for your participation. - Survey via PennyEdwards.net -- MarkDilley
Wednesday, 06-Jun-2007
- Late notice, hopefully this will kick off a better next month... WikiWednesday. Today in Portland at the Lucky Lab on Hawthorne at 6:30pm. Hope to see you there. MarkDilley
- I've created Found on Google Maps to keep a record of interesting images found on Google Maps. ScottKeeler | :::talk:::
Tuesday, 05-Jun-2007
- OpenOffice.org has released an alpha version of their popular open source office suite for OSX. You can download it [3], but be warned "THIS SOFTWARE MAY CRASH AND MAY DESTROY YOUR DATA DO NOT USE THIS SOFTWARE FOR REAL WORK IN A PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT" Hmm... I think I'll pass on this one. ScottKeeler | :::talk:::
- Sounds like it's time to get a PC! -Vinh Nguyen
- Actually NeoOffice.org is already available for the Mac. It's an OO.o port. TedErnst
- Sounds like it's time to get a PC! -Vinh Nguyen
- Camino 1.5 was released today. Download it here.
- Am wanting to re-gather support for the FeatureMePotentials list, which lists pages that have been nominated to be featured WikiPages. Generally, I'm leaving notes for improvements and encouragement on each nominated page and would love it if others would check in every once in a while and provide their own thoughts (so it's doesn't seem like it's just all coming from me). I'm trying to get the list caught up, so now's a great time to weigh-in on pages you like. -- TakKendrick
- Also, check out the SocialDeviancy.com/FeatureDiscussion, I've left a note there concerning a page and a question I have about what types of websites we should and shouldn't spotlight. -- TK
- The AboutUsLogo Consensus Poll has been updated with a new logo version. Please check it out! --Vinh Nguyen
- There is a new template called {{RSS}} which will help indicate RSS newsfeeds on pages. Examples of usage: nathanr.ca & Gearoid.ca. Nathan (talk) / 19:17, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
- Apple released new Macbook Pros today with Intel's new Santa Rosa chipset, mercury-free and battery saving LED backlighting and a major upgrade to an NVIDIA graphics card, which is sure to excite the Linux nerds. ScottKeeler | :::talk:::
04-Jun-2007
- Please pitch in to help with CategoriesToCull MarkDilley
A few interesting links to share: - Nathan
- Check out the WikiAnatomy tour page where the first in the series of informational tours about wiki and AboutUs.org is ready for the public: TheWikiWay:WhatIsWiki. Perhaps a useful tool for WelcomingPeople...? -KristinaWeis
03-Jun-2007
- Tip-o-the-Hat to Nathan for finding this TechNewsWorld.com article on wiki. MarkDilley
02-Jun-2007
- For Pornographers, Internet’s Virtues Turn to Vices MarkDilley
- There's some good work going on at the PageNameBestPractices page. Join us! TedErnst
- Good weblog post - A Wiki As An Open Point Of View On The World MarkDilley
01-Jun-2007
- Ok folks, the WikiAnatomy first tour is in alpha, please go through and make changes and suggestions. Isabel, John Stanton and MarkDilley
- For the vegitarians/vegans amoung us, check out ThePPK.com. MarkDilley
- I've started a consensus poll to decide the outcome of the proposed AboutUs logo. Please participate, as I think we would like to move onwards with this decision. Also, if you have any suggestions about the GoThresholds for this poll please feel free to change them or discuss with me. I'm not entirely confident about the numbers and percentages proposed. --Vinh Nguyen
- There was a cool little post about advertising when you have registration and repeat users, might be something to think about for AboutUs. Simon | talk
- Simon, that was a great article. MarkDilley
- Does anyone know if this SitePoint.com forum post is accurate? MarkDilley
- I'm highly guessing #1, Aboutus.org dosen't usually pick up the domain after 3 days of it being up. Google became a domain registrar about 6-8 months ago so they could have access to the registration logs. --Simon | talk 10:42, 1 June 2007 (PDT)
- In fact, the AboutUsBot doesn't currently add any pages on it's own. Someone has to type in the name or click on a redlink. TedErnst
- Tip of the hat to Scott for this video series of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at AllThingsD.com. I would like to draw particular attention to the comment of Steve Jobs late in the last video, the Q and A session, where he talks about Apple.com stores One On One training. They started a year ago and have done a million one hour trainings. This is very exciting and telling to the kind of work I believe we need to do here at AboutUs. MarkDilley