Stefan showed me this interesting metaweb picture from Nova Spivak’s blog last week. While the metaweb name may not accurately describe the concept, I’ll be adopting this picture for part of my talk at TechCamp: “The Future of Social Software”.
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
Cyberscribe thought it might be cool to have an Irish Blogs Shoutbox that could be added to any Irish bloggers who wanted it.
I set up a JavaScript block that works off the comments RSS feed from blogs.boards.ie/irishblogs. To use it, just post a comment on any of the blog entries there. To implement it, visit the blog as the first entry has the required JavaScript.
I’ve been nominated in the “Social Contribution” category for this year’s IIA Net Visionary Awards.
The voting page is now live, and there’s plenty more people to choose from apart from myself 
Good luck to all the nominees.
Just noticed today that you can now log in to Flickr with a Yahoo! ID, although it seems that even Flickr aren’t recommending this fully just yet as there may be some integration issues with upload helper applications for Macs and so on.
While uploading some recent pictures from Lorient, my latest photos JavaScript snippet showed some before, during and after shots of me eating a mille feuille which I thought was funny
World of Warcraft plague ’swamps servers’ | The Register
When Blizzard introduced the God of Blood - Hakkar to his mates - in a new World of Warcraft scenario called Zul’Gurub, little did it know it was summoning up the online equivalent of Ebola or AIDS.
Thanks Brendan. Enjoyed that
Over the weekend we’ve had two channels added to the new boards.ie Podcasts area: the Entertainment Review and the Current Affairs Review. Enjoy!
Lorient Tourisme, Site de l’Office de Tourisme du Pays de Lorient - Bretagne Sud - France (b0rked)
Went to Lorient for a flying visit at the weekend. The direct flight from Galway is excellent; there is the alternate one with a Waterford stopover which isn’t too bad either.
Stayed at the Mercure Hotel in the town centre which was very convenient and good value. They also gave us some good restaurant recommendations: Creperie St. Georges (serves delicious Breton “galettes”) and Le Bistrot Entre Terre et Mer (top-class food at an amazing price: €19.50 for three courses).
The art director from California’s Ventura County Reporter contacted me last week to ask if they could adopt my Planet Of The Blogs imagery for this week’s cover. I like their version better!
Digital Spy Forums - NDS trying to destroy Dream Multimedia
Yet another reason to hate News Corporation. This snippet apparently put out by Dream Multimedia:
NDS, manufacturer of encryption systems for DVB services are thwarting Dream Multimedia, manufacturer of Linux set-top-boxes
End of last year NDS have requested Dream Multimedia to close up their open-source operating software and remove the Ethernet network connection from all their products.
Now NDS in their role as president of ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute)have taken an even more drastic step. ETSI are refusing to grant a CSA (Common Scrambling Algorythm) license to Dream Multimedia. NDS have an unhealthy large say in ETSI and consequently have the power to stop a license being granted without any valid reason whatsoever.
Unfortunately, a manufacturer needs an ETSI license to be allowed to inplement CSA encryption. This implementation is a requirement for a set-top-box to comply with and work according to the DVB standard. Without ETSI license a manufacturer cannot legally use and implement CSA.
IBM, manufacturer of the CPU(central processing unit) in the set-top-boxes DM7000, DM5620, DM500 and DM7020 have been put under great pressure by NDS not to sell CPUs to Dream Multimedia anymore. This has been done by using the argument of Dream Multimedia not having a valid license.
The same pressure has been put on the (new) manufacturer of CPUs’ that Dream Multimedia intends to use in their new models DM7025 and DM8000.Ofcourse this is an outrageous development and a heavy blow to the open source community. NDS apparently have the power to make an organisation like ETSI refuse a license to any manufacturer without any valid reason.
ETSI, which is a non-profit organisation which’ major goal is standardisation should not refuse a license to Dream Multimedia, since the company complies with all conditions required to obtain a license.
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