October 2007

Citizen Logistics

Together, Joe Edelman and I were the dynamic duo of the CouchSurfing Collective in New Zealand. Joe came with fantastic ideas, that were unfortunately not realized in Nelson. Fortunately he also improved the infrastructure of CS in such a profound way that his work there is probably the main reason that the website is still up.

tag:

Read more about Citizen Logistics

Utubiquity

I had a dream. I woke up. It's 22:03. I think, I was in China in my dream. It's the same dream I had over the weekend. People were valking around with little devices. Recording reality. Broadcasting reality. A blind man was walking around, seeing. With this device. He had no eyes. We were losing control though. China, or I think it was rather BigCorps combined, were taking away our power to record and registrate what was going on.

tag:

Read more about Utubiquity

languages

Native speaker

Advanced level of speaking, reading and writing

English
French
German

Intermediate

Spanish
Italian

Basic knowledge

Russian and bits of other Slavic languages
Swedish, and some Danish and Norwegian
Read more about languages

The Wiki Party - closer to reality

Last year I did a BoF at Wikimania 2006 about The Wiki Party, the idea to start a political party. Today Anu sent me a link to a Facebook group with this same title. I jokingly told people "when I'm 40 years old I will start this party if no one else did before then". Fortunately I won't have to, anymore. Of course, it's happenning in Finland. Olli Sirén was considering to run a campaign to the Helsinki City Council.

tag:

Read more about The Wiki Party - closer to reality

It's good to have local friends!

Thanks to Fabrizia, who put an ad in a local weekly, I have a new place. She and Davide have been very helpful.Unfortunately amylin hasn't come back from New York yet, but that gives me the opportunity to make our place look good. There's a garden, roses, a garden table, a bath tub and a lot of beds! I think the 72 year old landlady used to rent it to 4 students.

tag:

Read more about It's good to have local friends!

no more ads on my screen

Today Paolo was wearing his delogofied Adidas sweater. Maybe that's why I just finally got rid of all ads on my screen. I feel a bit silly for not having delved into this before, but better late than never. If you want to do the same: the EasyList and EasyElement subscriptions for the Adblock Plus for Firefox even block the ads inside Google Mail.

tag:

Read more about no more ads on my screen

Google's issue tracker is not great

We're using Google Code for our trust metrics project, out of sheer convenience, and because of lack of political correctness. Well, I've given up on worrying about privacy a while ago anyway. I just tried to use the issue tracker that comes with Google Code, but first I got a time-out, there were two identical issues because I refreshed.

tag:

coding

Google Code

google issue tracking

Read more about Google's issue tracker is not great

Hitchhiking Planet

Yay, two Planets in one weekend. After having set up Planet Hospitality I decided to also set up Hitchhiking Planet. It still needs some tinkering, and probably a new location, but at least it's up and running. Check this Hitchwiki page if you want to add your blog (or just contact me directly, that's fine too).

tag:

blogs

hitchhiking

planet

Read more about Hitchhiking Planet

Civil engagement on social networks

Looking for some candidate blogs to add to Planet Hospitality I stumbled upon Spurring civic engagement on Facebook, Myspace and SixDegrees.org.

For the moment, while Facebook’s Causes and Myspace’s Impact seem a welcome change in allowing some use of these networks for more civic purposes, it seems as though they’ve hobbled their tools enough and created a weak-enough attachment that we’re skeptical that a

tag:

Read more about Civil engagement on social networks

Planet Hospitality

A Planet is a website that aggregates a lot of other blogs. Tonight I set up Planet Hospitality. This specific planet should obviously mostly be about hospitality exchange. Posts can be philosophical, personal, political, scientific, or just funny. Check the Crash at Mine Wiki if you want your blog to be aggregated on Planet as well.

tag: