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Welcome to the Daily Buzz, the logbook for this wiki. Use this as a general place for members of the active AboutUs community to share conversation about what's happening here at AboutUs. If you're looking for a place to make suggestions, comments, ask questions, go to the ContactUs page.

What defines "community"? Well, if you're here then you're part of the community; go ahead and share your thoughts. It would be great if you created an account, and here are 5 Great Reasons to Make a Personal Page.

Please add items that are interesting and fun, but not AboutUs or Wiki related to DailyFun!

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Saturday, 21-Jul-2007

  • When I put lists of links to organisations online I often worry that I am only offering one point of view about that organisation. It would be great if AboutUs had a small but easily readable icon then people could visit the AboutUs page by clicking on the small logo. I know that a small icon appears in the address bar but this is not quite what I had in mind.

John Cross 03:13, 21 July 2007 (PDT)

Friday, 20-Jul-2007

Thursday, 19-Jul-2007

  • The Consensus Polling Tour could use some help. If you're interested, please visit Portal:ConsensusPolls and click on the first page of the tour (left column). If you see changes to be made, please go ahead and make them, or create a discussion section on the page itself, or use Projects:ConsensusPollTour. Thanks! TedErnst, Obed Suhail and MartinPfahler
  • Check out the way this wiki system introduces themselves via a [[1]] - the simple graphic on the first page about how pages get created is interesting as well. ~~ MarkDilley
That's really good; in addition to the video, I really like the "spread the word" picture. - Ray | talk

Tuesday, 17-Jul-2007

Monday, 16-Jul-2007

  • WikiVille.org.uk is closing its doors, it looks like it lost the fight against wiki spam bots. This is one of the reasons I am excited about our wiki AboutUs. We have lots of people here to revert test edits and we have a technology staff to fight spam robots. ~~ MarkDilley
  • Had a great conversation with Howard Rheingold this morning, introduced him to AboutUs and other things I care about. ~~ MarkDilley
  • WikiYou.com impressively joins the wiki evolution. WikiYou is the unauthorized biography of every person on earth. It allows everyone to openly and freely write about each other, and records the stories of their lives. ~~ MarkDilley
  • Heads up to Brandon Sanders and other AboutUs Techies. Might want to get hold of the “Scientific American” August 2007 issue and read the “Data Center in a Box” article on page 90. This has relevance to radically reducing aboutus infrastructure cost. Sun Microsystem’s gurus (previously with super computer “Thinking Machines Inc”) have enabled massive “cheap” computing power delivered to anyone’s doorstep inside a 20 foot shipping container. the article also mentions its application to social networking, cloud computing, etc. Sun claims it can provide an operational turnkey system for one-hundredth the cost of building traditional data centers. Found the online article link: Scientific America article

MartinPfahler

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Sunday, 15-Jul-2007

Saturday, 14-Jul-2007

Friday, 13-Jul-2007

  • Here is a great article about current Wikipedia culture, by Andrew Lih. MarkDilley
  • Suggestion -- we separate this page into two pages:
    • DailyBuzz for AboutUs and Wiki Related news and items of interest
    • DailyFun for stuff that anyone has found which is just fun
The idea would be to make the DailyBuzz page more valuable and at the same time keep the fun stuff for those with extra time, but put it somewhere else. Does that work for everyone? - Ray | talk

Thursday, 12-Jul-2007

  • Chinese food made from cardboard: [2]

Monday, 09-Jul-2007

Sunday, 08-Jul-2007

Friday, 06-Jul-2007

Thursday, 05-Jul-2007

Wednesday, 04-Jul-2007

  • Tanwir with Mariam, an intern for a day

  • An after fiesta siesta

  • Having fun!

  • This is getting to be a habit (see previous birthday photos)

  • The man from AboutUs says yes. Food tasting the LahoriWay

  • Preparations are afoot and ahand

  • After Eight but it's only 2pm

Good to know why there's always fireworks on this day!

Tuesday, 03-Jul-2007

Monday, 02-Jul-2007

Sunday, 01-Jul-2007

  • God Bless Oregon! KPTV reports on a Marion County court ruling stating lap dances are protected by the Constitution.

Friday, 29-Jun-2007

  • 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

Thursday, 28-Jun-2007

Wednesday, 27-Jun-2007

Tuesday, 26-Jun-2007

Monday, 25-Jun-2007

Sunday, 24-Jun-2007

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 [4]. Blake Hinckley
    That page returns a 404 :( Nathan (talk) / 01:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Thursday, 21-Jun-2007

“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
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

Wednesday, 20-Jun-2007

Tuesday, 19-Jun-2007

Monday, 18-Jun-2007

  • 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
Save us a piece of cake! - Ray | talk

  • Ray can have his cake but he can't eat it

    • Piece of cake on its way to you! Wasim Sajid | :::talk:::

    • A Chocolate Fudge Cake from Coffee Tea and Company

    • The traditional cutting of the cake and clapping of the hands

    • Obed is so overcome that friends are holding him up

    • Give us a piece of cake, or else!

    • Getting stuck in

    • The stand up (m)eating

    • Quiet reflection

    • And a word from our sponsor

    • Fed and watered

    • The birthday board

    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 Caricature.jpg Brandon CS Sanders
    A new bar has been set :-)

    Sunday, 17-Jun-2007

    Saturday, 16-Jun-2007

    Friday, 15-Jun-2007

    • 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 [5] 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

    Thursday, 14-Jun-2007

    Wednesday, 13-Jun-2007

    • Agenda for 2nd Quarter Stakeholder Meeting - Ray | talk
    • 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 Nguyen Comment_green.gif Also 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

    Monday, 11-Jun-2007

    Saturday, 09-Jun-2007

    Friday, 08-Jun-2007

    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
    • "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

    • Thanks anyways mark, found out they do one in Vancouver too! --Simon | talk 15:15, 6 June 2007 (PDT)

    Tuesday, 05-Jun-2007

    • OpenOffice.org has released an alpha version of their popular open source office suite for OSX. You can download it [6], 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:::
    • 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

    A few interesting links to share:

    - Nathan

    03-Jun-2007

    02-Jun-2007

    01-Jun-2007

    • 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


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