The circle of friends graph view on boards.ie appeared today, showing a person’s friends and friends of friends (buddies of buddies!) on the site. There are 14201 links from 3810 users to 4533 other users.
Here are a few pictures of the overall network, but since my user ID is the lowest the first one centres around me. Everyone isn’t connected; there are some bunches of people (clustered in the top left of the first picture) that aren’t interlinked with the rest.
The last images are zooming in on the force-directed version of the overall network graph, where the hubs or nodes with the most links will gravitate towards the centre of the universe.
Better late than never, I was supposed to upload this radio clip of Tom Murphy and Oliver Boyce being interviewed about online poker and boards.ie last month (20060316a.mp3).
Here’s the boards.ie thread about the interview and the official show page has a link to some site called boardsup.ie?! 
Bebo is now attracting press for all the wrong reasons; on the RTÉ2 news last night there was a snippet about the use of Bebo for bullying and obtaining pornographic images. There was little mention of yesterday’s Irish Independent article (Teen student’s tragic hanging link on ‘cyber-bullying’ website), but some notes of caution were issued by Jerome Morrissey from the National Centre for Technology in Education.
You can download the news clip here (20060419a.avi, 2 minutes, 5 megabytes, XviD AVI).
Thought you might like this little collage of images from the Irish blogosphere, a sneak preview of the forthcoming gallery section at Planet Journals.ie. Can you find yourself in this picture? I think I’m 11th along the top…
I broadcast my last Ambient Zone show on Flirt FM last Wednesday; it was a sad day but I have lots of good memories including “shows that worked” and interviews, etc. over the past 9 or 10 years. I started off the show with the same 35 minutes of music from my first show in 1997, and then had some of the “most played” songs from the show (I cheated a bit by performing an SQL “group by name” on the tracks database table to see what those top tracks were!).
I finished off the show with 8:07 from the seminal ambient electronica album 76:14 by Global Communication; a fitting end I think to the current run. Who knows, I may be back someday, and if not live on air there’s always podcasting… Thanks to my audience for their support over the years and of course for listening.
I’m happy to say that the old style has returned at Planet Journals.ie, but with a few enhancements. “More information on this post” will show details of what blog the post is from, along with any details of any blogs and posts linking back to that blog…
Unfortunately there still seems to be some problems with our XML-RPC interface, but Martin will be looking into this soon. Our log file shows that updates are happening, but the Irish Ping Proxy maintainer (Keith Gaughan) reports some problems with timeouts which we hope to sort out very shortly.
As you may know, Planet of the Blogs rebranded as Planet Journals.ie on its first birthday (1st April 2006).
Since then, we’ve upgraded MySQL from 4.0 to 4.1 to allow for nested queries (hence the downtime during the week while we dumped, upgraded MySQL and reimported the database), and we are now using the latest version of the Planet PHP aggregator by chregu.
Some of the nifty new features on the site include:
- Top Talk, a nice little search option which shows all recent blog posts linking to the top linked URLs from the past 7 days
- The aforementioned top 7 links from blogs
- Top tags from the past 3 days
- Browsing by tags (at last!)
- More information on blogs (will have a facility for language detection, geographic locations, and website thumbnails soon)
- What blog entries link to the current blog
- Advanced search (by tag, link, etc.) and combined searches (see our search options page for more)
- Feeds of not only tags (as provided in WordPress) but also of searches, e.g. the
Galway tag in RSS and a government search in Atom (just prepend the URL with atom, rss or rdf)
Of course, there are still some things to fix: allow an “old style” view of the site, check the XML-RPC ping mechanism (I think it works!), re-add the clickthrough counter, etc. At first, I wasn’t sure about not being able to see the post content without clicking on the + symbols, but it does give a good overview of who is posting what, when, and who follows on from who very quickly. I still think it would be nice to have both view styles available, so will look at that next…
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