I may have to modify my new years resolutions to include hacking together one of these things for my desk at work.
Aaaaaw.
Using the Guardian’s recently launched Open Platform, this little guy monitors your Twitter feed for “happy” and “sad” posts of those you follow and alerts you to the need to respond to people.
Via The Guardian Open Platform
According to TweetPsych, I often use twitter to tweet about my various senses, discuss positive sensations and feelings, talk about various cognitive processes like learning, thinking, knowing, etc., talk a lot about jobs and work, and often tweet about the future. My Social behavior rating is much higher than my moral imerative rating. Some people who think like me include drapetomaniac, werner, Phil_Adams, nickflare and renn.
Somewhat of an interesting web toy, but it analyzes your last 1,000 tweets, a number I’m no where close to yet. Still, the concept of analizing people based on their public content has potential. I doesn’t include a narcissism rating, which I guess must just be a given considering you have to be using Twitter in the first place in order for it to work, and thus think you can distill your Wisdom Tooth like insights into 140 characters to the eternal delight of your impending masses of followers.
According to it’s new site profiler, drew3000.net spends a lot of time talking in the present tense (case in point here) and often makes “references to physically upward movement, Like upstairs, climb, etc.” Hardly Freud, but it’s interesting that psychological analysis is entering the automated stage. Once the web really analizes what people are thinking about based on what we all put online, I think we’ll see a Skynet style response, which you could hardly consider unjustified.
This post is being donated to Danny O’Brien, and his very cool ideas using Opera Unite. I add my name to this challenge. Come up with this and I’ll set up and run any needed server space and find the people to promote, disseminate and otherwise flog this in farsi.
Now, over to Brian:
The demo services that Opera offers are great, but they really are just demonstrations. It’s generating a lot of excitement and “wuh?” in equal measure on the discussions I’ve seen, which is something I recognise from my attempts to proselytize the edge to those already excited by the cloud.
It occurred to me (encouraged by Stef) that a great and timely Opera Unite application, just for the next few days, would be a web proxy for Iranians. Run it on your Opera service, post your machine’s Unite URL onto twitter with a tag #spartacus, and Iran would be drowning in potential proxies to use.
Three triscuits and some spinach is a group-themed blog I’m trying out at wordpress.com. If you’re of the activist/open source/tech mind, I’m looking for you to become a blogger here. I’m particularly interested in people looking at ways to use or create online tools in unique ways in the service of social justice type work, or at least entertaining ways.
A snarky tone of voice is also welcome, and other commentary about science, politics, religion, current events, etc, are not outside the scope of the site’s content. Anyway, let me know by dropping me a line via the contact page, on this site or through the comment area here or at Three triscuits and some spinach. Include links to your other writings online.
The site is new and is still going under some work, but I’d like to turn it into a readable, visit-worthy blog for lefty tech types working for The Cause.
The name, by and by, pulls from a throw-away line from Rachel Corrie’s journals that has always reminded me about the common plight of those who learn a lot of otherwise marketable skills, but use them for the good fight:
“…. I’m steadfastly pursuing a track that guarantees I’ll never get paid more than three Triscuits and some spinach”
— Rachel Corrie
It sort of reminds me of another side, from the film Casablanca, when Captain Renault reminds Rick, “The winning side would have paid you much better.”
So, in summery, if you’re the person who likes this sort of thing, then this may be the sort of thing you like. Drop me a line here or here.
The G20 protest was a pagent nearly as vacant in substance as the summit upon which it was based
Welcome to my G20 blog entry. As someone with a keen interest in the crossroads where activism, technology and ideology meet Weeks like this one, in which the 20 countries identified as the global economic drivers (and their various hangers on) weeks like this are what I have instead of Christmas. Demonstrators are everywhere about everything and using all sorts of different means to get their points across. I took Thursday to check it all out in person and followed the rest via emails, text and avid news reading. I blogged most of this in morning or evening commutes.
Monday, March 30 / 10:14 pm / Blackfriers Station
These are interesting times for big ideas. The air in The City has an electric current of fear. There’s no real frenzy, but you can feel the occasional tingle. The G20 economic summit hits the ExCeL Exhibition centre in the Docklands on Thursday and presidents and anarchists are swarming in, attracted to the scent of an open wound, both hoping to feed off it, all of them using it as an opportunity to float grand schemes, new world orders or at least quick fixes.
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Essentially, buying a Windows server means you’re purchasing hours upon hours on support lines trying to get what should be very small things sorted out because, essentially, the marketing scheme behind Windows products appeals to sellers who focus on providing technical support rather than simple, reliable and user-controlled tools. By maintainting what should be easy maintenance tasks as complicated, multi-step projects, you’ll end up spending more time, more money and more energy dealing with “expert” to handle your “problems.” Current time spent working with UKfast support staff for what should be an almost automatic install of a simple php content management system: 3 days. I think they need a new slogan: “UKfast: Oooh the Irony!”
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Each of you hungry tramps who read these lines, avail yourselves of those little methods of warfare which Science has placed in the hands of the poor man, and you will become a power in this or any other land.
Interview with Gaza Flotilla participants
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