I found out from Damien that BarCamp Ireland now has it’s own blog. Their press release gives a quick overview, but if you want to know who’s going and talking you should take a look at the BarCamp wiki where you can signup to attend. There are twelve speakers so far with topics ranging from running a start-up, Web 2.0, OPML, Ruby and more.
Should be fun and interesting, and it’ll be great to meet up with some of the folk I met at the Web 2.0 Conference again. See you there!
| -ChanServ- | [#wordpress] Welcome to the WordPress IRC Channel |
| wpbot | donncha is someone who blogs on the Internet |
| ketsugi | o rly! |
| ketsugi | as opposed to blogging on paper? |
| donncha | yup |
| Kamigoroshi | i tried blogging on paper once.. |
| Kamigoroshi | but no one commented.. |
| donncha | Kamigoroshi: lol. the good ol’ days? |
| ketsugi | teehee |
| * | ketsugi leaves a trackback on Kamigoroshi’s paper log |
| donncha | actually, so did I, and I expect that blog will survive for a lot longer than my virtual one |
Who will take care of your weblog after you’re gone?
mod_gzip, zlib.output_compression or whatever way you compress your web pages is a great way of reducing your network traffic costs but comes at the cost of increased CPU usage. Despite what you might think, it can be more expensive to send data over the network, especially to slow clients than compress it first of all and send a smaller burst.
Unfortunately this little server may not be up to the task of gzipping content at an acceptable rate to make it worthwhile. I’ll leave it run for another few hours and check the stats tomorrow.
Wow, Flock is fast! I wonder if it chews memory like FF 1.5 too?
It’s also a lot more polished than when I tried it a few months back while debugging their sign up page on WordPress.com: preferences, cookies and form data were all imported from Firefox. The little Greasemonkey face isn’t showing in the status bar so I’ll have to install that again.
Oh, and it doesn’t spew out a ton of debug messages to the console any more! 🙂
A very cute monkey from Cute Overload!
I’m going to the dinner on June 7th being organised by Damien Mulley. Should be a good crowd there, including Britt Blaser.
I may even make it to the infamous Web 2.0 Conference the next day.
kick.ie is a site like digg.com but for Irish news and sites.
They linked to my photoblog which is how I became aware of it.
Tim O’Reilly’s attack on IT@Cork for using the term “Web 2.0” as their conference name is shocking. They have a trademark on the phrase “Web 2.0” so be careful about labeling your website or blog posts!
The thing about being away is that stuff collects.. My bloglines aggregator is now chock a block with feeds containing 20 or more posts. A few sites such as /. and el register have hit the max of 200. I shall probably do the equivalent of mark all as read for many of them. I already did that several times in Thunderbird!
Life’s too short..
I listened to one podcast, no, maybe two podcasts in their entirety. One promised a keyword for a competition to win a camera or some prize, and the other was Mark and Ciaran’s Nightsight, a videocast which I enjoyed despite not mentioning Web 2.0 anywhere! Maybe that was a good thing, considering the objective of the movie..
In a similar vein, all the videos on blogs thanks to youtube are great! Even though Pomme and Kelly were among the most popular bloggers on WordPress.com for the past few weeks I only saw their version of Respect this morning. They are the very first Google Idols apparently. They’re a little mad aren’t they? 🙂