Diva de Jour's blog

WordPress 1, Vox 0

2007-04-08T17:45:48Z

This blog now lives at http://davidgerard.co.uk/notes/. Post later.

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You are the weakest blog host.

2007-04-04T09:35:32Z

Vox is not merely the Milton Keynes of blog sites, but the walled estate of blog sites. That nonmembers can't comment at all sorta misses the point of this blog existing. I probably have a Wikimedia-related post to come but I'm not going to waste...

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Hanging on the telephone

2007-03-14T13:18:26Z

Why it's a bad idea to cut and paste from Wikipedia. And I bet they didn't even include the full text of the GFDL! WMF is getting rid of the internal Ventrilo server. Ahem. Brion, Kelly Martin and Greg Maxwell are working on an Asterisk soluti...

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UnNews updates

2007-03-12T21:32:01Z

UnNews: (RED) campaign announces first-year results IKEA chief optimistic on North Korea visit A nice cup of tea and a sit down proven to cure all human ills. You can guess what photo I put with this one. Uncyclopedia: Ajax-keithp.jpg: "Dawes ...

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Wikimedia UK

2007-03-12T15:27:12Z

Never use the word "crowdsourcing." (courtesy Angela)I spent Thursday evening and the weekend on Wikimedia UK stuff. Alison Wheeler, the chair, tendered her resignation on Thursday, in the hope of unsticking things. We had an emergency gene...

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PlanetPlanetPlanet and video

2007-03-09T12:59:25Z

Why have one when you can have three? Planet Wikimedia (you currently get on this by asking Brion; something more distributed to come); Wiki Blog Planet (you currently get on this by asking Nick Jenkins); Open Wiki Blog Planet (you get on thi...

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The Ubuntu Feisty alpha-testing experience

2007-03-07T15:22:21Z

No B-Movie this Friday. Bugger! I’ve been on Ubuntu since Hoary. And I don’t even like Linux — I far prefer FreeBSD, which is actually nice to run. Administering Linux (the kernel) gives me a raging headache. But the Ubuntu environment on top...

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While Wikimedia committees ...

2007-03-07T14:37:43Z

http://wikiblogplanet.com/ Completely unofficial, run by Nick Jenkins, announced in this post. Also: I have grievously slandered Vox. You can in fact post HTML here - you blithely enter it, hit "save" and it converts it. So far. Too stupid to...

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For Planet Wikimedia's gaping maw

2007-03-06T17:36:02Z

Wikimedia is setting up PlanetPlanet, so I'm reactivating this thing for that. The main LiveJournal deals with stalkers by boring them to death, so I'll be pitching this one at the ardent wikiviolinist audience. I shall probably include my greates...

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Vox: the Milton Keynes of social network sites.

2006-07-21T22:31:27Z

I'm sure I'll use this even more than my DeadJournal. Rather than LiveJournal for grownups (with ads), it appears to want to be MySpace for grownups (with as many ads; here's to FlashBlock). The median age of paid users on LiveJournal is thirty,...

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