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Posted
14 June 2007 @ 8pm

Categories
Books

Bookmooch

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Heard of BookMooch? I was recently introduced to it via the London Perl Mongers mailing list. It’s one of several book-sharing services around, the best-known of which, I guess, is BookCrossing. But unlike BookCrossing, which [...]


Posted
14 June 2007 @ 5pm

Categories
Work

I want this office.

Via O’Reilly Radar, check out Three Rings’ cool pirate-themed office!

We’re going through an office re-decoration at the moment. Wonder if I can talk the boss into this? And hammocks instead of desks — I hear the Royal Navy could fit each person into 18″ of space that way, which sounds like about [...]


Posted
11 June 2007 @ 1am

Categories
Fandom, Tech

Why Fanfic, Open Source, and Creative Commons Belong Together

In my head this post had the newspaper-style title: Fan archive must use GPL, Creative Commons, says Skud. Please feel free to mentally substitute it, if you prefer.

Anyway, I’ve been letting this tumble around in my brain since Astolat’s request for volunteers the other day. First, I’d better explain some [...]


Posted
7 June 2007 @ 4pm

Categories
Tech

Yet another 5 uses for a wiki at work

I just can’t stop.

  1. Induction materials

We’ve got one wiki page called “NewDeveloperInduction”, and on the day a new hire starts, they quickly learn that that page contains — or links to — all the basic information they’re going to need to know in their first week or two. We also have a policy [...]


Posted
7 June 2007 @ 3pm

Categories
Tech

5 more uses for a wiki at work

In followup to Lifehack’s 5 uses for a wiki at work, via Social Media in Australia, here are another five:

  1. Technical documentation

Funny this wasn’t in the original five, but perhaps it’s just too obvious. Most places I’ve worked, the wiki’s been installed by the techies and has taken off in that group first. [...]


Posted
6 June 2007 @ 11pm

Categories
Blogging, Fandom

Weaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!

Table of contents for Weaning yourself off LJ: a guide for fansWeaning yourself off LJ: Why you might want toWeaning yourself off LJ: First stepsWeaning yourself off LJ: CustomisationWeaning yourself off LJ: More customisationsWeaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and videoWeaning yourself off LiveJournal: RSS feeds OK, you’re up and running with [...]


Posted
6 June 2007 @ 6pm

Categories
Blogging, Fandom

Weaning yourself off LJ: More customisations

Table of contents for Weaning yourself off LJ: a guide for fansWeaning yourself off LJ: Why you might want toWeaning yourself off LJ: First stepsWeaning yourself off LJ: CustomisationWeaning yourself off LJ: More customisationsWeaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and videoWeaning yourself off LiveJournal: RSS feeds I have to admit, I meant [...]


Posted
6 June 2007 @ 6pm

Categories
Fandom

EMI approves of fanvids?

Via Google Operating System, this news from MediaPost:

EMI HAS JOINED THE OTHER three major record labels in distributing music videos on YouTube, the companies announced today. In addition to making available clips from acts like Coldplay and Norah Jones, EMI and YouTube plan to develop a system that provides for consumer-created content [...]


Posted
6 June 2007 @ 9am

Categories
Blogging, Fandom

Weaning yourself off LJ: Customisation

Table of contents for Weaning yourself off LJ: a guide for fansWeaning yourself off LJ: Why you might want toWeaning yourself off LJ: First stepsWeaning yourself off LJ: CustomisationWeaning yourself off LJ: More customisationsWeaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and videoWeaning yourself off LiveJournal: RSS feeds In the previous article I showed [...]


Posted
5 June 2007 @ 6am

Categories
Blogging, Fandom

Weaning yourself off LJ: First steps

Table of contents for Weaning yourself off LJ: a guide for fansWeaning yourself off LJ: Why you might want toWeaning yourself off LJ: First stepsWeaning yourself off LJ: CustomisationWeaning yourself off LJ: More customisationsWeaning yourself off LJ: Plugin-o-rama!Weaning yourself off LJ: Images and videoWeaning yourself off LiveJournal: RSS feeds This is part of a series [...]


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