Archive - 2007
September 20th
DIGG: New Digg Profiles Launch
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Thu, 09/20/2007 - 09:07The Digg team is excited to launch new Digg user profiles later tonight, the first of many cool new features rolling out this year.
I've gone in and tweaked my profile, which I'll probably add a link to in the sidebar, as well as changed my settings so that I can (hopefully) blog from Digg.
Update: Digg dropped the <blockquote> tags when I submitted the entry, and it doesn't add categories, so I'm tweaking the post a little. Nonetheless, it is neat to see how it works. I'll see how often I use this as opposed to cutting and pasting.
September 19th
Wordless Wednesday
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 17:57
September 18th
Random afternoon notes
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 09/18/2007 - 14:01I’ve been fairly sick the past few days, so my blogging has been sparser than I would have liked. When I haven’t been sleeping, I have been trying to get through some of my pile of unread emails. In that pile, I found a few things I would like to highlight.
If you think it is bad being banned from running for class office because of a blog post you wrote, consider this:
Nguyen Vu Binh was jailed in Vietnam in 2002 for writing and posting articles about democracy on the Internet and campaigning for human rights
That’s from a fundraising email from Amnesty International. Some people may ask why I’m so concerned about the Avery Doninger case. The abuse of her rights was small compared to what Nguyen Vu Binh encountered. Yet for me, it is part of the same continuum and we must fight for the basic rights of all people, at home, and abroad, no matter how small the abuse is.
Another request I gut was from JubileeUSA. People around the country are fasting right now to draw attention to the issues of third world debt and the role it plays in world hunger. Please, watch this video:
Then, contact your elected officials to urge them to support Debt Cancellation legislation.
Bringing in back home, the Shoreline League of Democratic Women is having a follow up to its State Government 101 forum, State Government 102: Legislation & the Budget Process featuring Reps. Deborah Heinrich, Brian O'Connor, James Spallone. If you live on the shoreline, you should check out this forum.
As I recuperate from my cold, I’ll return to my regularly scheduled rants, reports and other writings.
September 17th
Second Life as your next browser
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Mon, 09/17/2007 - 14:15Over on a mailing list of educators in Second Life, there is a raging discussion about the pros and cons of ‘web on a prim’. A prim is a basic building block of Second Life and people worry about all kinds of horrible things that could happen is Linden Labs enabled some sort of Web on a Prim technology. Obviously, there are all kinds of issues that could come up with griefers messing around with web-enabled prims. Yet the bigger issue is what this would do to Second Life as a space for innovation. People would be lazy and simply embed webpages into their Second Life spaces. Second Life would simply become your next browser.
Actually, I kind of like that idea. I hate clicking on a link in Second Life and having Firefox pop up as an external unconnected window. I would like Second Life to be my browser. I would love to see the next iteration of the web be three dimensional, immersive, real time and with a viable microcurrency.
September 16th
Second Life Trading on 9/16
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Sun, 09/16/2007 - 23:12Yesterday, on the Second Life Capital Exchange (SlCapEx) forums, Kailen Juran asked if anyone knew why Second Life Media Specialties (SLMS)’s “land in Soul has been repossessed by BCX Bank”. A representative from BCX bank simply noted that they had fallen behind in their payments, but would not speculate why.
Dezmond Martinek, who has been trading out of SLMS into Zhenya Zoning Real Estate Co (ZEN) commented on the thread about being glad to be out of the stock. He is now longer listed as a major holder of SLMS, and his position in ZEN has climbed by another 76,000 shares.
