From horror news site Bloody-Disgusting.com on Sunday, Irishman Ruairi Robinson is being touted as the director for a forthcoming live-action version of the classic manga (and anime) Akira.
Robinson, who was Oscar-nominated for 50 Percent Grey (one of my favourite computer-animated shorts), also directed Silent City (starring Don Wycherley and Cillian Murphy). He has not commented on the news as of yet.
The next OpenCoffee Galway meetup will be held at the DERI Café, in the Digital Enterprise Research Institute on Friday, 2nd November 2007 at 11 AM.
Fuair mé ríomhphost ó Paddy C. Courtney inniu le ceangal go réamhbhlas den chlár seo chugainn “Paddywhackery“. Bhain mé an-taitneamh as an chéad cheann agus mar sin táim ag súil go mór le clár a dó, dé Céadaoin ag 9:30 IN ar TG4.
As Béarla (in English):
Had a message from Paddy C. Courtney today with a link to a sneak preview of the next episode of “Paddywhackery“. I enjoyed the first one so looking forward to episode two, Wednesday at 9:30 PM on TG4.
Had an interesting evening chatting about Web 2.0, the Semantic Web and Fortune 500 consultancy with Brendan Lally (a Galway-born IT and Web consultant currently based in Colorado) during a night out with a few other web heads including James Cooley and Ina O’Murchu from DERI, and Richard Garsthagen, Technical Marketing Manager EMEA for VMware. We started off in the Kashmir Indian restaurant and gradually made our way to Sheridan’s on the Dock for some organic colas and Erdingers. As Brendan mentioned, Richard helped me to get my Nokia 770 talking to my 6234 (*99# was news to me) so that he could show us Autostitch (a fully-automatic 2D image stitcher). It was good to meet you Brendan; I hope the rest of your round-Ireland trip goes well.
Brendan Lally is visiting Galway at the moment; do any Web 2.0 heads want to meet up for dinner in Galway tomorrow evening (7:30 PM on 27th October 2007)?
If so, drop me an e-mail.
Spent a few hours today trying to make a “wiki farm” on Debian using MediaWiki. I already had six wikis using separate code directories on the one server, so when I needed to update them all it was a real pain. Having to create a seventh standalone wiki today pushed me to doing this. I documented it here. Not sure if my notes will be helpful to others but I hope so… Took a little longer as I wanted to be to lock down each wiki with htpasswd (I know you can lock down parts of MoinMoin, but MediaWiki isn’t so partitionable).
Had a very interesting and I think productive two days at the Fidelity Investments / TerraNua / Information Technology Association of Galway (ITAG) conference on “Enriching the Internet Experience” here in Galway.
The conference was chaired by Dr. Chris Horn, and the speakers were yours truly, talking about social networking and Web 2.0 for enterprise, Ajit Jaokar, the CEO of FutureText who spoke about Mobile Web 2.0 (he is the foremost authority and author of a book on the subject), David Burden, founder of Daden Limited and an expert on virtual worlds for e-business, and Richard Mooney, product manager for Vordel Ireland who presented on the topic of security for Web 2.0 sites and applications.
I am embedding my slides below (also viewable on SlideShare).
Evert Bopp is looking for a new name for his service 802.eu. 802.eu is a “captive portal solution for use with wireless hotspots, hot-zones, municipal wireless networks and wisps”. The closing date for your entries is October 17th, and you can do so via e-mail.
What a stressful but productive afternoon / evening. We migrated boards.ie’s MySQL databases to our new database server, and took the opportunity to upgrade the site to the latest version of vBulletin.
Our new server is a bit of a beast - it has two 1.86GHz quad-core Xeons (eight processor cores), 16GB of RAM, and six 146GB SAS 15k rpm hard drives in RAID 1+0.
Thanks to regi and all at boards.ie for their support and patience today.
Again, here are the links to and summaries of my most recent 10 posts on SocialMedia.net:
The Microsoft and NBC Universal News joint venture MSNBC has acquired the Newsvine community of citizen journalists for an undisclosed sum. Newsvine, based in Seattle, publishes stories from both the mainstream media and a community of users together on the site. Users can vote on their news stories of interest, similar to the Digg […]
Six civil servants in the agriculture ministry of the Japanese government have been reprimanded for their combined 408 edits to the Wikipedia. The most prolific of the six made 260 changes to pages related to “Mobile Suit Gundam”, a Japanese animation show (or “anime”) about giant robots. A representative for the ministry, Tsutomu Shimomura, said: “The agriculture […]
Nova Spivack’s “best official” definition of Web 3.0 was posted today in response to Jason Calacanis’ “official” definition of Web 3.0. You can also read Tim O’Reilly’s reply to Nova’s Web 3.0 definition. The picture on the right is Nova’s graph of the current and envisaged evolution of the Web (with versions). As […]
The event “Graphing Social Patterns: The Business and Technology of Facebook” is being held this weekend (October 7th to 9th) in San Jose, California. This is a conference for both technology and business people on how to build and distribute applications for the social networking platform Facebook. There will be some interesting speakers at the […]
Via Computerworld, I’ve been reading up on a forthcoming social semantic website called Baagz. As presented recently at DEMOfall, Baagz is a new service from French company Exalead that aims to bring together semantic search and social networking. How does it work? Users gather their interests into a bag (called a Baag, hence […]
There have been a variety of figures bandied about for the ratio of content contributors to browsers / lurkers on social media sites. From CNET News.com: A recent Hitwise study indicates that as few as 4 percent of Internet users actually contribute to sites like YouTube and Flickr, and more than 55 percent are men. […] To […]
From the Houston Chronicle, we read of a case in Paris, Texas where a defamation lawsuit has been filed by a hospital there to reveal the identity of a blogger who has been severely critical of the hospital and their practices: A state district judge has told lawyers for the hospital and the blogger that he […]
Jessica Zenner, an employee of Parker Services (a technical recruitment contractor for Nintendo) was fired on the 31st of August by her employer following concerns expressed by Nintendo about posts on her blog “Inexcusable Behavior“. On the blog, where she talks about herself, her friends and co-workers (none of whom are mentioned by name), Zenner […]
Sun has launched a social (and organisational) networking service called OpenEco.org, which is aimed at helping companies and organisations to improve their environmental footprint through best practice sharing. The site was launched at a New York event attended by members of the Carbon Disclosure Project, and a presentation was given by former US President Bill […]
Here are two news stories of note related to social networks during the past few days. Firstly, rumour has it that Microsoft is cosying up to Facebook and wants to negotiate some small stake in the site for around $400 million. Secondly, and certainly more exciting from my POV is the story that Google is thinking about […]
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