Squirrel on tree stump

Squirrel on tree stump
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

Went for a walk in Wanstead Park yesterday because the air was clear and crisp coming in from the arctic.

No more squirrel pictures!

Hovis Street

Hovis Street
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

A timeless photo to intrigue my readers. Where and when was this?

identi.ca

I've been trying out identi.ca which is a microblogging platform like twitter that runs on open source software and has a potential for federating the servers to become a decentralised peer to peer system.


Here's the Friendfeed room for identi.ca

and here's my screenshot of a minor problem with camino as posted to Flickr

Information

Information wants to be free.

Smithereens: All 331 Entries to Copyblogger's TwitLit Contest in One (Better) Place [aka How to Go Insane in Ten Simple Steps]

Smithereens: All 331 Entries to Copyblogger's TwitLit Contest in One (Better) Place [aka How to Go Insane in Ten Simple Steps]

I even found mine in there somewhere.

Friendfeed 3 - Four tips

Another video tutorial about using Friendfeed

Friendfeed for microblogging

Clay Shirky's "Here comes Everybody" mention

Flickr photo reference in "Here comes Everybody"
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

My picture of a notice that said "please do not inform children of the explosions" mentioned in Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky

Should you forward that email?

Should you forward that email?
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

Should you forward that email.

Well should you?

Why Human Cloning is bad or good by Frankie Roberto

He seems to have made this quickly in a visit to Centre Des Science de Montreal.



I like the way the rest of the team falls about when he says "I think cloning is really good"

Social Media Cafe 14/3/2008

Social Media Cafe 14/3/2008
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

I seem to get there roughly each alternate week these days.

Normans Coach and Horses

Normans Coach and Horses
Originally uploaded by Andyrob

This is where the Social Media Cafe events are held currently.

Blog and viewer influence on BBC news agenda

Blog and viewer influence on BBC news agenda: "The BBC's The Editors blog continues to be one of the most interesting and useful media blogs around.

...

He also discusses the strange case of someone being surprised when they discovered that Newsnight editors were reading about them, he sense that people somehow feel that what they write on blogs is somehow, sometimes a private conversation, and not exposed to the all-seeing eyes of Google and Technorati.

Solved

I was researching this problem in a drupal community forum and it turns out that there is a security module which some hosting providers turn on which blocks execution of anything with the string “xmlrpc” in it!

The real solution is to persuade them to unblock it but the temporary answer is to rename that file to something else and use that as the api endpoint

See more progress on: Find out why xmlrpc.php isn't working on my Wordpress Blog

Whitechapel made easier

With Shoreditch station now closed forever, the transfer at Whitechapel is easy in both directions. No longer is it necessary to arrive half way along one platform, walk along then up and over the bridge to cross to the other side since the inward bound train is now the same as the outward. Whitechapel is the terminus, and the key connection between norh east and south east London. Much more so than the mainline terminals of Liverpool Street and London Bridge stations, with an erratic bus journey between the two. I don’t miss the crowds and bothersome departure noticeboards at either of those bottlenecks but I do miss the view of the Thames with the opportunity to walk across the bridge when I feel like it, enjoying a cool(ish) breeze, and watching out for river traffic and cormorants below.

See more progress on: London: avoid travelcard zone one for a month

Day 6 of avoiding zone 1

Yesterday afternoon I caught myself standing absent mindedly on the wrong platform just about to get on the wrong train. I think that means I’ve reached the transition point where the novelty of a changed situation has to some extent worn off, with the tendency to act very consciously waning, while a new habit has not yet established itself deeply enough. This is a dangerous period in some circumstance, like when, after carefully driving around in a foreign country on the ‘wrong’ side of the road, feeling more and more confident, suddenly after a week or so, you might just pull out from a parked spot and set off on the left. Or go round a roundabout anticlockwise.
The lesson here is that takes more than a week to establish new habits deeply, or rather to change old well established ones.

So I had to go back up the steps and cross over to the other side. Only after I had taken my place on the tube train did I discover that some anti social person had discarded half a bag of fish and chips under the seat. That smells horrible, so I got off at Canada Water and experimented with the Jubilee line instead.

The trouble with Jubilee line journeys to the east is that not all of the trains continue all the way to Stratford. Because of Murphy’s law, no matter when I arrive, the first train is always to North Greenwich only – that’s the station which was specially built for the hapless Millenium Dome which is of course long closed, so who would want to get off there? Changing there is not a good idea either, since the terminating train pulls into a different platform to the next onging one, so if you’re going to do that sort of thing, better to do it at Canary Wharf. Once at Canary Wharf, however, I decided to surface and take advantage of the range of goodies available at Waitrose. Back on the jubilee line platform, still well before the full rush hour, but the first train onwards was busy, so I had to stand most of the way. Then at Stratford there was problem with overhead line failure at Brentwood or something so I gave up and caught a bus.

The bus was crowded and had a drunk christian proselytising nutter annoying everybody, and by the time we got to Forest Gate some of the passengers had given up ignoring him and resorted to shouting back. So that was a pretty normal day then, really.

See more progress on: London: avoid travelcard zone one for a month

Hay

Hay
Originally uploaded by Andyrob.

Scattered evidence

In order to gather the feedback from my exhibitions I need to go to many sources.

1) wiki wednesday

• Own notes to be typed up.
• photos, wiki and blogs about the event.

2) Online Exhibition

• comments on the blog page
• direct emails
• responses on mailing lists
• responses in learning set

3) Barn Raising

• edits to the Wiki
• irc
• mailing list
• discussion on other wikis
• blogs
• CP

I’ve probably forgotten something as well.

See more progress on: gather feedback from my exhibitions

Draft 1 of 100word topic proposal

Develop better online communities and improve facilitation through Distributed Action Research (DAR).

The term DAR has been coined to describe the application of Action Research methodology to the facilitation of distributed Communities of Practice. The traditions and power of reflective, cyclical, systematic yet flexible positive action and qualitative research methods are harnessed and adapted to evolve alongside the rapidly changing landscape of internet communications. In this topic we may discuss:

• Theoretical background
• New thinking, methods and practice
• Implications for the practitioner/researcher
• Online ethics
• Building a pattern repository
• Online research tools for qualitative data analysis
• Fostering a culture of shared findings

See more progress on: Write a 100 word topic proposal on distributed action research

pbwiki

Peanut butter wiki is free, and password protected so you can use it as a prviate space for jotting things down, or share the password with a group for further granularity.