Archive for March, 2008

7 days, 1M signatures: petition supporting human rights and dialogue in Tibet

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

From the team at Avaaz:
Dear friends,
In just 7 days over 1 million of us have signed the petition supporting human rights and dialogue in Tibet - the fastest growing internet petition in history! After decades of injustice, the Tibetan people are crying out to the world for change, and the world is answering.
As China’s leaders […]

Collusion from Canada’s Internet Service Providers?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

In the same week, Bell and Rogers have hit the Canadian public hard, imposing limits on how we use the internet.
DSL: Not only has Bell imposed this on their own customers but also on their wholesale resellers, organisations such as Teksavvy, who they have started traffic-shaping, cutting off many of the newest services […]

Forums and Wikis: Providing conversation-knowledge linkage for Wordpress MU

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Below is a copy of an email I sent to Wordpress Pro mailing list addressing the dynamic between information stored in a wiki and knowledge spurred on by conversations in a forum. In it I make recommendations as to why and how to link the two assuming that the community won’t shift to a pure […]

Feedwordpress wiki for users contributions

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

I know Charles is really busy, so I’ve set up a wiki for Feedwordpress at http://feedwordpress.pbwiki.com/ ; it would be better if Charles put a wiki for Feedwordpress at radgeek.com, but until he does, at least people who need to use his software can collaborate with one another.

WikiSym2008 - I’m Chair for Demos and Posters

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

A bit of news - I’ve been asked to be on committee to hold the position of Chair for Demos and Posters at WikiSym 2008 in Portugal this September.
This is great as I’ll not only see breaking ideas as they happen around the world, but also be responsible to evaluate them and help them […]

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays: March, April and onward, 2008

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Some of you may have noticed on the upcoming page that March’s date for Toronto Wiki Tuesday was preliminary, due to a schedule clash on my diary. I’m settling on the 2nd Tuesday of the month whereever possible, making Toronto Wiki Tuesday on the 2nd weekday of the 2nd week of each month.

This month only, […]