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Entries from September 2007

HTTP Client Error Codes in Cartoon Form

September 28th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/88.html
This is incredibly geeky but I couldn’t resist posting it on a Friday afternoon (via Stephen Downes).

The poster is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike license.
My personal favourite was Expectation Failed - but then that is the story of my life.

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Tags: Fun

Women in Open Source - Call for Papers

September 11th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/81.html
Southern California - where else?
How about submitting a paper to this?
The Southern California Linux Expo is proud to announce their Second
Women in Open Source Conference. The conference will be held on February
8th, 2008 at the Westin Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport.
Widespread acceptance and participation by the user community has
established SCALE as a premiere Open […]

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Tags: Research

Good advice on maintaining an online identity

September 10th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/78.html
Danah Boyd has blogged some good advice on online identities.

“Create a public Internet identity. I strongly recommend blogging, but even a homepage will do. Have a genuine all-accessible identity online that you’re cool with grandma and your boss reading. Don’t make it uber drab, but do provide context for who you are, what you do, […]

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Tags: Information Systems

Damsels in Success - beta

September 8th, 2007 · No Comments

http://www.knowandnetwork.org/francesbell/weblog/77.html
I came across this interesting site last week - Damsels in Success.
Like Knowandnetwork, you can build a  profile and link to friends. There are also links to jobs and recruitment services.  I am wondering if that is something that might be of interest to Know and Network members.

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Tags: People · gender

Friendswheel on Facebook

September 7th, 2007 · No Comments

The latest Facebook application to home into my view is Friendswheel, that shows connections between your friends.  This seems to be genuinely useful (unlike some FB apps) and I had a bit of fun annotating my wheel as it is today (link to current version of my wheel).
I  could pick out some clear subnets and […]

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Tags: ALT · ALT-C 2007