Read on Maura McHugh’s blog that she and Tom Raftery will be talking at an event entitled “Blogging for Business” in Cork on June 9th. It will be held at the National Software Centre, Mahon, Cork at 6 PM.
Edit: I’ll also be speaking at this event.
From http://www.itcork.ie/index.cfm?page=events&eventId=47:
Heard of blogging and blogs but not sure what a blog is or how they could impact on your business?
According to Business Week, Blogging is ’simply the most explosive outbreak in the information world since the Internet itself. And they’re going to shake up just about every business — including yours’.
The presenters for this event are Tom Raftery, of Tom Raftery I.T., Dr. John Breslin of UCG and Maura McHugh.
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Just testing this Gnome blog utility out, XML RPC is handy 
Here are some interesting TV and radio programmes on this week.
08-May-2005: 21:00: BBC Radio 4: In Business: “Radio Me”: Focus on podcasting. Archive at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/index.shtml.
09-May-2005: 11:35: Channel 4 TV: Cinema Iran: Two films by Abbas Kiarostami. More Iranian films on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
10-May-2005: 23:30: BBC Radio 4: Taking the Mick: “Planet Ireland”: Having the last laugh.
11-May-2005: 23:20: BBC2 TV: Before the Flood - Tuvalu: Story of the nation that sold the .tv domain.
12-May-2005: 16:30: BBC Radio 4: The Material World: Bill Bryson and Henry Gee discuss science.
12-May-2005: 22:00: BBC2 TV: Kath and Kim: Australian hit alternative sitcom.
12-May-2005: 23:00: BBC4 TV: Arrested Development. Re-run of the comedy series, the best since Curb and Scrubs?
Read that Maura (Babblogue Blog) has done exactly the same as I - converted from Pegasus Mail to Mozilla Thunderbird - and in the same week, it’s some coincidence. I commented on her blog that I used a mail system converter (mailconv) [1] and a folder renamer (PegasusRen) [2] to do the job and it all went smoothly…
[1] http://www.dragon-it.co.uk/pegasus.htm#mailconv_heading
[2] http://www.holzl.it/
As requested on the irishblogs mailing list, here are the statistics on the software systems being used by Irish bloggers that I’ve gathered from the Planet Of The Blogs database (total count of 407).
I’m sure others will have more meaningful observations than I but here’s some things I noticed… Blogger is the biggest system in use. vBJournal (using my RSS 1.0 exporter :)) is the next biggest, due to the large number of journals at boards.ie. Moveable Type and WordPress are third and fourth, and I expect WP will pass out MT during the year. Detailed stats now follow…
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I like Thunderbird’s RSS functionality, especially the way you can forward interesting snippets from blogs to your friends via e-mail without copying from one news reader application to your mail client. I’ve only set up a few blogs and news sources in it so far but here’s a screenshot of Thunderbird’s RSS reader. There’s probably something similar in Outlook, but I haven’t used Outlook so can’t confirm…
I’ve been busy with my Debian changeover, but at the weekend (and with help from Uldis Bojars), a local browse facility was added for cached blogs at Planet Of The Blogs. In the blogroll on the right of the POTB site, there’s a “Local” link for each blog, e.g. here is the IrishEyes cache at POTB (I might add a mod_rewrite for this later to make the URLs prettier).
At work, I’m writing a SIOC exporter for phpBB. Interlinking blogs is currently limited to static links between posts and users, lacking the semantics needed for interpretation by computers. The SIOC ontology has been developed to connect online communities, and has particular applicability to blog sites. It enables the semantic linking of blogs, posts, and forums through terms such as topic, creator, and sibling. Exporters of SIOC data instances are currently being written for a number of open source blog systems (e.g. SIOC for WP 1.2 by Uldis). There has been some discussion about blog connections and structured blogging on the Yahoo! Groups irishblogs mailing list: POTB Request Ping Server and New Member Introduction and 2 Ideas (for POTB I Think).
To keep track of progress and to help others who may be doing the same, here are some useful resources if you are installing Debian on a Thinkpad R40:
- http://www.geocities.com/tivarsson/linux.html - I used this guide to partition my default Windows XP installation (with Partition Magic) into four partitions, one for XP, and one each for Linux /, swap and /home (you can also boot a Knoppix distro and use parted to do much the same). Since my HD was smaller, I proportioned the partitions using similar ratios (5.5/7/.5/12.5).
- http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ - I downloaded the netinst CD image from here; actually I downloaded the full seven CD 3.0 r5 set before this, but because it seemed to install under a 2.2 kernel the drivers for the onboard ethernet device (e100) was missing and I gave up on that…
- http://www.thomasmarquart.net/?q=node/17 - This is a very useful page written by someone doing the same, and copying his XF86Config-4 file into my /etc/X11 directory has given me the best configuration so far for X.
- http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/ and http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public/ - The IBM ACPI driver and Debian packaged versions, useful for getting suspend functions to work.
- http://www.marlow.dk/site.php/tech/madwifi - I have a PCMCIA Netgear WAG511 card, so this guide on installing the madwifi module was clear and worked first time.
- http://p3scan.sourceforge.net/readme.html - I use Thunderbird for my e-mail, so I set up P3Scan as a POP3 proxy which interfaces with spamassassin / razor / pyzor / dcc-client (all packages installed with apt-get). But the key part is that if you are running it on your localhost, you need the iptables lines from the end of the readme:
# iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp –dport pop3 -m owner –uid-owner <uid> \
# -j ACCEPT
and the redirection:
# iptables -t nat -A OUTPUT -p tcp –dport pop3 -j REDIRECT –to 8110
change <uid> to the userid of the user p3scan runs.
I’ve switched from Windows XP to Debian Linux. So far so good; converted mail from Pegasus Mail to Thunderbird, and imported IE bookmarks to Firefox. Looking at the stuff I used to use on Windows, the main thing I’ll miss will be my trusty CorelDRAW, but I can either find the Linux version or give WINE a try… I’ve left a stub install of Windows anyway for those applications you just can’t get.
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