Two more people wanted from Aberdare…
If two more people sign up for the free Hear From Your MP service, Aberdare’s MP will receive an invitation to contact her constituents via the service.
The Hear From Your MP service is free and it enables MPs to communicate with their constituents.
In the words of Tom Steinberg and the MySociety crew : “HearFromYourMP is a site which allows you, the constituent, to sign up to get emails from your local MP about local issues. When your MP writes to you and other constituents, we give you the chance to discuss what has been said in a simple online forum.”
Here’s the link to Aberdare’s MP Ann Clwyd (Labour) on Hear From Your......
Turning to another Chapter in the Adventures of Leanne Wood in Cyberspace …
In January, Leanne Wood’s blog disappeared from the Internet.
This happened shortly after her last blog posting attacking Queen Elizabeth II at Christmas.
And shortly before the Welsh Assembly Standards Committee issued ‘blogging guidance’ to all Assembly Members.
Did Leanne Wood take a Vow of Silence ?
Did the spin doctors from Ty Gwynfor make her an offer she couldn’t refuse ?
It appears that some one else is to blame for the disappearance of Leanne Wood’s blog.......
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Oh, hallelluia. The Welsh Assembly Gets Tough on Bloggers this week.
We noted some weeks ago the sudden disappearance of a Plaid Cymru Assembly Member’s blog in mysterious circumstances.
We called for Guidelines on the use of the Internet by Assembly Members, especially after dastardly projects like Natwatch - an anonymous blog - apparently funded by a Labour Party Assembly Member and his young researcher.
Today, leading Assembly Member bloggers Peter Black AM (in Blogging AMs) and Glyn Davies AM (in Bloggers Beware) discuss a Guidance Note sent to all Assembly Members via the Welsh Assembly’s Standards Committee.
Although parts of this missive are being discussed online, there is no copy available in the Transcript of the Standards Committee meeting of 29 January 2008 on the...
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Leanne Wood seems to have disappeared down a virtual rabbit hole in cyberspace.
This week the Plaid Cymru Assembly Member’s blog disappeared off the face of the Net.
It is like a Lewis Carroll story with the eponymous heroine disappearing into another world.
So therefore we dub this news story, Leanne Wood’s Adventures in Cyberspace.......
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Representing data in different forms is one of the ways we increase our understanding of what might otherwise just pass us by. Now that every GCSE student has access to a spreadsheet they pie chart their results (from a dataset of maybe 3!) just to impress and take up half a page of their assignment.
Once we get beyond that though we may find surprises galore. ......
Story about a mayoress in Llantwit Major getting a tad upset.THE ceremony installing Robert and Dorothy Hutchinson as Mayor and Mayoress of an historic town should have been their proudest hour.But their appointment as the first couple of Llantwit Major this Sunday has been overshadowed by a video posted on the internet showing the soon-to-be Mayoress losing her temper and threatening to kill a pub landlady.The clip was taken three years ago at the height of a bitter row between the couple and the owners of a pub next door to their home – but it has now been posted onto the YouTube video-sharing website.On the mobile phone recording, pensioner Dorothy Hutchinson screams at landlord Pedro Gemecho and his wife Kerry and at one point is seen being physically pulled away from the other...
Childish, but I laughed at her misfortune.Tags:Humourlive...
I responded to Michael Gorman's Siren Song of the Internet comments in Gorman and the missing Good; now - following a conversation with Andrew Keen - Many-to-Many has posted Andrew Keen: Rescuing 'Luddite' from the Luddites, which responds to both Luddite views.In e-Books: first e-ink and now e-paper, I reported on a new e-book variation. Print is Dead: Books in our Digital Age has an interview with Manolis Kelaidis following his keynote presentation at the O'Reilly TOC conference, “bLink: Completing the Connection Between the Analog and Digital Worlds: bLink Tank: a conversation with Manolis Kelaidis.>>Technorati tags: Internet; web2; ebooks; eInk; ePaper>>IceRocket tags: Internet; web2; ebooks; eInk;...
As someone who has responded to Michael Gorman's postings on the Britannica Blog concerning web2.0, I have watched other responses with interest. Some few were formally asked to respond to the postings, and the last of these - by danah boyd (an ee cummings-like persona) - was Knowledge Access as a Public Good. I suppose that, in general, I agreed with Ms Boyd (a doctoral candidate in the School of Information at the University of California-Berkeley and a fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communications) expressing as she does the thought that you shouldn't blame the medium for the message (you read it here first!), although much of what she says is generalisation rather than response. She does say that:The society that he laments has lost faith in the public good. Elitism and...
Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age reports that O'Reilly's editor of Craft and Make magazines, Dale Dougherty, spoke at their TOC Conference on “The Beauty of Print in a Digital Age”: In terms of the encroaching tidal wave of online experiences and digital products (what Chris Anderson yesterday called a “relentless march”), Dougherty talked about print and digital co-existing. Or, as he put it, “The old and the new are interwoven, and the art of our day is to figure out how these two pieces fit together.” Which sounds pretty good - very Web 2.0, and pretty much what you would expect from a publisher which is "a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption" and has an...
Many-to-Many points to one of two new Michael Gorman postings: Siren Song of the Internet contains a curious omission and a basic misunderstanding. The omission is part of his defense of the Luddites; the misunderstanding is about the value of paper and the nature of e-books. This statement does not go far enough. Read Gorman and you cannot help but agree with some of the more obvious statements that he makes..."the Internet in particular and the digital resources available to us in general are ineluctable forces that are shaping our lives, in many ways for the better" or "we must exercise judgment, use digital resources intelligently, and import into the digital world the values that have pervaded scholarship in Western societies for many centuries" You are lulled into a false sense of...
No sooner has it started - and grown to one of the phenomina of our time - than the party's over. US Internet radio is being killed in its tracks. ......
So, sex offenders are to be required to supply their email addresses and chatroom names now when signing the register. Let’s think about this for a moment…
Obviously this is a PR stunt from the Home Office, trying to look like they are doing something to curb the crisis that is currently engulfing their department, but it also goes to show how out of touch the Home Office really is. If they think that having paedophiles, rapists and the like let them know what their email address is will stamp out these crimes, they are living in a dream world.
Addresses and aliases can be changed in a matter minutes, everybody knows this, how come Mr Reid and his department clearly do not?
Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Lycos Mail, the list goes on. Free e-mail is everywhere and who says that you...
In one of her occasional Welsh posts, Suw Charman lists 10 things to do in Welsh on the web. If you're reading this blog instead of this one, then chances are you can't read Welsh and there fore the list isn't very useful to you, but in case you're interested, here's a tranlation of Sue's list and some extra bits I've thrown in (in green):1. Watch telly through S4CThere's now lots of programms available on S4C's website. 4 Wal, Chez Duley and Natur Anghyfreithlon are streamed, and lots of others. Unfortunately, there's no subtitles, which is a pain in the arse for me (because I can't understand anything Dudley says)If you're into farming Sue, certain items on Ffermio.tv are shown again with subtitles.2. Search the web with GoogleDach chi'n teimlo'n lwcus? ("Are you feeling lucky?")3....
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There is a new geneology site opening, called My Heritage . No, its not a new MySpace. Its based around (from what I can gather) using photographs to identify family members. Basically, it works like this. You upload a photo of yourself, and label it as you. You upload a photo of your mum, and label it with her name. Etc etc.
Then if someone has an old family photo, the site will analyse the faces in the photo, and see if they match any of the other people on the site, living or dead. Tracing relatives using visual, physical matches, as well as traditional geneology.
This looks fascinating, although its still in beta at the moment. I would have thought it would need millions of correctly tagged photos to start to make accurate matches, but thats down to the users of the site. At the...
I switched on Yahoo Messenger earlier ( Beta 8 ) on my PC, and lo-and-behold there is a huge fecking banner ad at the bottom of it! WTF? We never had that before! Arghghghgh… now that Yahoo have joined forces with Microsoft, YIM is turning into bloody Messenger. Grrrr… I’ve been using YIM for six or seven years. But unless Yahoo switch off those ads I’m never launching the thing again. Customer lost.
Anyone have a hack so we can turn off those banner ads?
Thank god for Adium and Trillian, thats all I’m saying…..
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EDIT: fortunely, there is a fix to remove the banners. still, I’m not happy about them suddenly appearing in the first place...
The Register reported yesterday that, despite being: the internet's instigator and, since 1998, its voluntary taskmaster, the US government finally agreed to transition its control over not-for-profit internet overseeing organisation ICANN, making the organisation a more international body. In an unintentional irony it noted that:Ultimately, what came out of a gathering of the (English-speaking) great and the good regarding the internet was two things: That the US government recognises it has to transition its role if it wants to keep the internet in one piece (and it then has to sell that decision to a mindlessly patriotic electorate)That ICANN has to open up and allow more people to decide its course if it is going to be allowed to become the internet's main overseeing organisationI...
One thing I didn't mention yesterday in my book review is actually how much the book affected my perceptions on things: it's nothing special, they generally do. Don't Eat This Book, for example, put me off McDonalds for a very long time (still to this day), and Millions of Women.... is having a similar effect, though not putting me off something.
Oh no, it's making me more open minded to meeting people off the internet. Before, this is the only place when I've been truly open, but - if you've ever spoken to me on Msn/Yahoo, I'm quite reserved even to you lot (unless when I'm pissed. Me and Jake had this period of about 2 weeks of randomly speaking to each other at 3 am. I was hammered, I wouldn't like to say whether he was). Now, I've been spending the last few days trawling through...
When is a bilingual website not a bilingual website?Well there are two main types: Static sites that have Welsh/English options (or any other two languages) on pages but in reality most pages are only available in one language. Dynamic sites which can be viewed in either language, but where the search facility can only be used in one language. This post is inspired by a recent comment left on this blog by Bronkichat who was surprised that when using Traveline Cymru’s website for planning a visit to Wales, it didn’t recognise the Welsh placenames she was inputting. I’d noticed this myself while using that site in the past and also Arriva Train Wales’ site (looking for Caerdydd (Cardiff) to Abertawe (Swansea) on the Welsh interface give's this result). Dafydd, who works in...
Webcam Tracker is a video capture software with capabilities of saving captured clips and images and broadcasting them via internet. You can use this software for various purposes such as your own home observation (security tasks) or live web show.
Webcam Tracker can work with any video capture device supported by Microsoft(r) DirectShow technology. DirectShow is [...]...
To get ideas of what to include in Google Guide, Nancy Blachman gives free seminars on searching with Google. Nancy has been using Google since the spring of 1999, when Google was less than one year old. She has written over a half dozen tutorial and reference books, including How to Do Everything with Google, [...]...
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The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is dedicated to finding and fighting the causes of insecure software. Our open source projects and local chapters produce free, unbiased, open-source documentation, tools, and standards. The OWASP community also facilitates conferences, local chapters, articles, papers, and message forums. The OWASP Foundation, a not-for-profit charitable organization, ensures the [...]...
VoIP is here to stay. In fact many incumbent telecommunication carriers have started offering VoIP service for sometime and several new VoIP service providers have emerged. Aside from issues such as quality of service, the aspect of security, or lack thereof, is misunderstood by some of the VoIP service providers.
This purpose of this article is [...]...
Three U.S. academics have published research into why phishing scams are still finding success, years after widespread public warnings first appeared.
Most people have received an e-mail purporting to be from a bank or other online service that asks for personal and financial details. Occasionally, it has been for a bank or service for which the [...]...
In 1993, a crack commando unit was sent to prison for a crime they didn’t commit. These men probably escaped by drinking maximum strength Lucozade and fled to the CS1.6 underground. Today, still wanted by the government, these brave men survive as CSS soldiers of misfortune. If you have a problem, and your doctor can’t [...]...
mod_cband is an Apache 2 module provided to solve the problem of limiting users’ and virtualhosts’ bandwidth usage. The current versions can set virtualhosts’ and users’ bandwidth quotas, maximal download speed (like in mod_bandwidth), requests-per-second speed and the maximal number of simultanous IP connections (like in mod_limitipconn)
I advise using mod_cband by hosting companies, which would [...]...
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* Restrict the number of simultaneous connections per vhost/dir
* Limit the bandwidth for files on vhost/dir
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So, the news that BT are upgrading all their DSL subscribers to 4-8 meg speeds for free by the end of March has had people (quite rightly) jumping for joy.
Don’t get too excited yet though. According to BT retail:
“For its part, BT Retail will be making its 8Mb service available to “some of its customers” from 4 April before rolling it out to all users over the following months. It also says it won’t be charging extra for these higher speeds, “making it a free upgrade for our customers similar to when we introduced 2Mb speeds nationally”.
(source: the register)
So, lets face it, its going to be months before you’ll notice any difference on your line. Oh well, don’t look a gift-horse in the mouth I suppose….....
