TECH SERVICE:Testing WORDPRESSDOTCOM — test #1
April 30th, 2007
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TECH SERVICE:Testing WORDPRESSDOTCOM — test #1
Monday, April 30, 2007Try to get data for the WordPress support staff. (They’re the best.)
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LINKEDIN: Why some people conceal their connections
Monday, April 30, 2007>the underlying theory behind the concealment of connections to invitees.
Here’s a swag:
I believe I have seen (can’t prove it) a recruiter create “strawmen”. A fake online identity in LinkedIn. The profile was relatively complete. But, when you ping the person, you get no response. Since this particular “strawmen” and I were relative tight when we worked together. And, I’m kind of distinctive (gobble gobble big fat old turkey are easily identified), I’d have expected a response. There was no other introduction path to him other than thru this recruiter, the recruiter had contacts cloaked (so I couldn’t confirm others), and nobody responded to an inmail. Eventually the profile was deleted. So there’s one reason, “fraud”.
My lawyer has a LinkedIn persona, but cloaks his clients for fear of violating privilege.
A VC I know cloaks lest he give away anything accidentally
>It seems that the purpose of networking is to get and give contacts.
I don’t agree with the premise.
My purpose in networking is to “learn stuff”. That maybe to give and receive contacts, but not necessarily.
I believe that the PRIME DIRECTIVE of networking is to first seek to understand “stuff” (i.e., what can I do that others value; wisdom in using it to achieve my goals; how to establish the “weak ties” that are so valuable), then to be understood (i.e., let me tell you what I think I need).
The law of weak ties says something like “people are generally good; if they can help you, then they will; sometimes you need a spider’s web of “listening posts” around the globe that when trigger get you the needed information; that gets you a new job”. So, if I know what you want, say via a networking profile, (mine is at http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/DATA/Reinke_2005_networking_profile.htm), and I hear something that “fits”, then I’ll contact you.
So for example, when I am networking with a newly axed turkey, I get his networking profile and put it on my wall by the phone at work and my home office. (I use it as a reminder that I too will soon be out of a job and to pay attention to what is important!) We may never talk again, but as long as that profile is on my wall, that turkey has a chance of hearing from me.
That’s what I think networking is about.
Now some people will do nothing, but most will try to help. (In all the time I have been doing this, I have only had 4 people tell me to “buzz off”. Of course, I have put them on my “S” list. … … “S” is for “Special”!)
As long as you’re “easy to do business with”.
In terms of LinkedIn, even the Zero Help people, by the fact that they connect, even if those connects are hidden, they have made their contacts findable by you in search. You can connect to them with an InMail for a few bucks. So, unlike the old days, where Zero Help could frustrate you from looking their rolodex. With LinkedIn, that can’t happen. So Zero Help IS valuable, in that, his network is in LinkedIn!!!
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TECHNOLOGY: My “ftl” idea
Monday, April 30, 2007It’s no secret that http://www.freetalklive.com is may favorite podcast. It’s the number one podcast on podcastalley. At least it was last month.
And, we don’t get their radio broadcast here in Central Jersey. It would be a good libertarian outreach and may we could change some minds about big Gooferment.
As a EE, I know that the FCC allows low power local radio. So I had a vision of FTL everywhere on low power boxes.
When FTL was live, the inet feed would be passed to the transmitter. Other times, it would play a loop of the weeks shows.
6 nights a week times 3 hours = 18 hours of live content.
7 days per week times 24 hours equals 168 hours. Minus the 18 live hours. Equals 150 hours of rebroadcast. So about 8 rebroadcasts in a week.
You’d have to figure the schedule so that each time block played a different section:
So, now I need an appliance that will, given a stream, transmit it at a low power. I’m assuming that a pc properly setup could either pass along the live feed or create a stream from the downloaded mp3 files.
Maybe FTL could put some “special commercials” in the feed. Like, “You are listening to a (live / recorded) broadcast of FTL over low power community radio from your neighbor who thought this was entertaining.”
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TECH SERVICE: WORDPRESS DOT COM comments off
Monday, April 30, 2007It’s come to my attention that for some reason “comments are off”. I don’t think I did anything to close off communication. This has turned into a real “monologue” I just thought no one had anything to say back. The last comment was entered 21 April 07. I have feedback into the operators. It’s free so one cna’t complain. Argh!
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TECH SOFTWARE: Joomla is content management that covers a lot of ground
Monday, April 30, 2007http://www.joomla.org/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
Cutting Edge Content Management
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Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
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I think the blogging metaphor was a good first step.
But when one thinks of the web as a personal tool, you need more. Sometimes you need a simple blog, sometimes forums, maybe a wiki, and of course there are always websites and webpages.
What attracts me to “content management” is that it is sort of the web version of the “unified field theory”. You can pull all you ever create into it, never lose a bit or a byte, and reuse it as you see fit. You can’t be held hostage to an ISP by free space (space is now so cheap), a WSP (that induces you to use its free tool that locks your data, or any number of lesser lockins by client-side software (i.e., Publisher, FrontPage).
It’s more work than a free blog at WordPress. But, as I am learning, free can be very very expensive.
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TECHNOLOGY: What do you do without power?
Sunday, April 29, 2007http://south-brunswick.blogspot.com/2007/04/power-glitch-in-kendall-park-again.html
Power glitch in Kendall Park again
We had some off and on power this morning.
Lessons learned:
(1) Inet router and stuff needs ups.
(2) Other upses didn’t work.
(3) No news coverage.
(4) Need account and phone numbers.
(5) Cordless phones won’t work.
(6) Need a plan.
(7) Mark local radio stations on the handheld radio.
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TECH SOFTWARE: DRUPAL a true content management system
Saturday, April 28, 2007About Drupal
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Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including
* Community web portals
* Discussion sites
* Corporate web sites
* Intranet applications
* Personal web sites or blogs
* Aficionado sites
* E-commerce applications
* Resource directories
* Social Networking sites
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Maybe I’ve outgrown blogging. It doesn’t wow me like it once did. It hasn’t engendered or created the cooperative conversation I was hoping it would.
I know I am disillusioned with websites. They are static snapshots of the past. They don’t integrate of play nice with other uses.
Wikis are a content system of sorts but hmmm they don’t seem to jump up and create conversations.
Perhaps, I need more?
TECH SERVICE: YAHOO is responding very poorly today now
Friday, April 27, 2007FWIW, it usually is snappy. Today it feels like it is timing out. Sigh!
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TECH HARDWARE: My USR wireless access point settings
Thursday, April 26, 2007LUGGABLE’s Windows Networking errors out on permissions. I plugged in the @HOME in the simple network setup. Doesn’t show anything.
Could the problem be that the router has a blank for a domain name?
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