User: jpmcc Date: 2009-06-21 23:00:14+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Mon Jun 22 00:00:14 BST 2009 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.2019&r2=1.2020 Delta lines: +49 -49 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2009-06-21 17:00:13+0000 1.2019 +++ atom.xml 2009-06-21 23:00:09+0000 1.2020 @@ -5,10 +5,50 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2009-06-21T17:00:30+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:26+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> <entry> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org 3.1 released</title> + <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/openofficeorg-31-released.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-1717840200492303771</id> + <updated>2009-06-21T20:56:05+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just been released! Get more information on the new features at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/">http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-1717840200492303771?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com" /></div></content> + <author> + <name>floeff</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + <uri>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> + <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:24+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> + <title type="html">Open Source Meeting in Munich</title> + <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-source-meeting-in-munich.html"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9080686528103355681</id> + <updated>2009-06-21T20:55:36+00:00</updated> + <content type="html">If you are living near Munich, don't miss this event and meet your mentor: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Floeff/OpenSourceUnplugged">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Floeff/OpenSourceUnplugged</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-9080686528103355681?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com" /></div></content> + <author> + <name>floeff</name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + <uri>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> + <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> + <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:24+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + + <entry> <title type="html">Prototyping Towards a New OOo User Interface</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/prototyping_towards_a_new_ooo"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/951b9958ff1c0fc2</id> @@ -27,7 +67,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-21T17:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -87,7 +127,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2009-06-17T11:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:24+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -107,7 +147,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2009-06-17T11:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:24+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -131,7 +171,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-21T17:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -155,7 +195,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-21T17:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -247,7 +287,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-21T17:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -310,7 +350,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">News and interesting stories about OpenOffice.org and other open source solutions.</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2009-06-17T11:00:23+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:24+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -380,7 +420,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2009-06-21T17:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2009-06-21T23:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -435,44 +475,4 @@ </source> </entry> - <entry> - <title type="html">Topsy</title> - <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/topsy.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3644086454305576909</id> - <updated>2009-05-28T00:52:20+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">My friend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishab_Aiyer_Ghosh">Rishab&#x2019;s</a> company, Topsy Labs, Inc., received the accolade of recognition by none other than the WSJ. See, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/05/27/topsy-bets-on-real-time-twitter-search-with-15m-backing/">http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/05/27/topsy-bets-on-real-time-twitter-search-with-15m-backing/</a><br /><br />What is <a href="http://topsy.com/">Topsy</a>? I like the homepage description: &#x201c;A search engine powered by tweets,&#x201d; and its <a href="http://topsy.com/about">About</a> page states,<br /><br />&#x201c;Topsy is a new kind of search engine, with a new way of looking at the Internet. Topsy doesn't think the Internet is a collection of documents. Or even a web of documents. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy treats people differently from the webpages they create and the things they say. And Topsy sees that people in every community are connected in a web of relationships, where each person influences other people to read, talk and think about things.<br /><br />&#x201c;Topsy listens to the conversations taking place all the time on the living, social web. This is the rapidly growing, exciting world of Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Digg, Yelp, Identica and many other communities. People use these communities to share reviews, opinions, messages, comments and discussions about things. Topsy indexes those things. Topsy indexes what people are talking about.<br /><br />&#x201c;Because of how Topsy works, Topsy can do things other search engines don't usually do. Topsy results are fresh, because they're based on what you're talking about right now. Or this week. Or the past month. Topsy has "trackback" pages for everything in its index, showing what everyone is saying about that thing. Conversations are about people, and Topsy has pages for every person it listens to - listing the things you've been talking about.&#x201d;<br /><br />Google tracks blogs but not comments and it does not, far as I know, track tweets. I&#x2019;m sure it will. But for now, as the the zeitgeist is increasingly carried by tweets (sigh...), not to surf this wave is to come close to sinking in a sea of sharks. Oh, I doubt Google will disappear and expect it to evolve, to grow ever larger, and to do this fast. But I also have to wonder if it&#x2019;s losing its agility, if it&#x2019;s not increasingly beholden to legacy mechanisms of revenue generation. Sure, it&#x2019;s famous for experimenting and issuing novelty items not enough people liked. (Though I confess I rather liked many.) it tries to be different from itself, to stay young. But it&#x2019;s not about to sacrifice, and it can&#x2019;t, the machine that&#x2019;s made it so rich. Meanwhile, there is now Topsy. And it&#x2019;s fun.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3644086454305576909?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></content> - <author> - <name>oulipo</name> - <email>[email protected]</email> - <uri>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> - <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:17+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">Foss, elections, politics</title> - <link href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/foss-elections-politics.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4201241808110432115</id> - <updated>2009-05-28T00:02:01+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">I&#x2019;m debating submitting an abstract to the Web 2.0 conference in New York this November. My tentative title is some version of &#x201c;Community Works or How Participatory Communities Are Changing The World.&#x201d; Other options were along the lines of, &#x201c;Politics and Community In the Age of Web 2.0&#x201d; and so on. I guess what I&#x2019;m interested in pursuing is the relation of community organization and community work as seen in Foss. I don&#x2019;t see that much of a difference: in each case, people work on a joint endeavour, sharing their work, their results to build something that is new and frequently remarkable. It worked for Obama, whose deserved victory has made &#x201c;community organizing&#x201d; a more respected term, for he clearly won in great part because of his skill in organizing communities.<br /><br />But what is a community here? A participatory community, the sort I find interesting and am writing about, is approximately rhizomatic in structure, meaning that like grass, mushrooms and so on, there is no single central node; there are rather many. In the case of something like the Obama&#x2019;s campaign, there was of course a specific focus, and there were certainly marching orders, agenda items that the Obama community was asked to abide by. But if I understand correctly, there was still a lot of room for local independence, provided it fell within the campaign&#x2019;s general focus, to educate and to get the vote out. Thus, there were lots of local parties and though there ware guidelines for these, the actual implementation was up to the hosts.<br /><br />But why did they participate at all? Why so many, too? Well, for the same reason that Foss is taking the world by storm: because the classic hierarchical and top-down systems of authority and value frustrate people. It&#x2019;s easy to sit there a consumer to what is given and to grumble at most but not to effectively question, content with the idea that you have no power at all, or just the power to complain. But no one really likes that, for it&#x2019;s really not fun to be told again and again that fear and uselessness and boredom are your appointed lot and that you can only look upon the doings of those who can via the glass of the tv.<br /><br />And it&#x2019;s quite another to be given the chance to make a difference. A <em>real</em> difference. Like electing a president; like changing the course of history. Like creating something new that disrupts the very way we do things, make things, distribute things. Sure, not everyone wants this; tv can be fun, and participation is not for everyone. But say that only 1 percent do find it rewarding. That&#x2019;s a lot of people. And they have friends.and family. These others will be influenced, will see that this is simply not bizarre behaviour; that being a citizen doesn&#x2019;t mean you can buy the best things cheapest but that you can make something with others. <br /><br />I tend to believe that bling consumerism is dead or at least dying. And that participatory communities are coming to the fore, rising. I&#x2019;m by no means alone. It&#x2019;s the zeitgeist and one that has been gaining momentum for the last couple of years. Foss is a profoundly important node, for ultimately it is not really about software but about a way of making and distributing what you make; and of working with those near and far, connected by a technology that is changing so fast the present is dulled by the future we can hardly wait to arrive. But we have to make sure that what we get allows us the freedom of participation. Otherwise, it&#x2019;ll be so very last century.<br /><br />Some cool links:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/05/27/brazil-ecuador-paraguay/">Knowledge Ecology Notes &#x00bb; Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay submit proposal on a WIPO Treaty for Reading Disabled Persons</a><br /> <br />(in my capacity in ODF campaigns, I&#x2019;m increasingly involved in Accessibility issues. Accessibility is key; more on this later.)<br /><br />And,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.freesoftwarepact.eu/">The Free Software Pact</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4201241808110432115?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></content> - <author> - <name>oulipo</name> - <email>[email protected]</email> - <uri>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">ooo-speak</title> - <subtitle type="html">Mostly on OpenOffice.org, FOSS, and everything else.</subtitle> - <link rel="self" href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564</id> - <updated>2009-06-18T05:00:17+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - </feed> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.2026&r2=1.2027 Delta lines: +30 -29 --------------------- --- index.html 2009-06-21 17:00:13+0000 1.2026 +++ index.html 2009-06-21 23:00:10+0000 1.2027 @@ -36,8 +36,37 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: June 21, 2009 05:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: June 21, 2009 11:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<h2>June 21, 2009</h2> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> +OOo Marketeers</a> : +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/openofficeorg-31-released.html";> +OpenOffice.org 3.1 released</a> +</h3> +<p> +OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just been released! Get more information on the new features at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/";>http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-1717840200492303771?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com"; /></div></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/openofficeorg-31-released.html";>by floeff ([email protected]) at June 21, 2009 08:56 PM BST</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> +OOo Marketeers</a> : +<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-source-meeting-in-munich.html";> +Open Source Meeting in Munich</a> +</h3> +<p> +If you are living near Munich, don't miss this event and meet your mentor: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Floeff/OpenSourceUnplugged";>http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Floeff/OpenSourceUnplugged</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-9080686528103355681?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com"; /></div></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-source-meeting-in-munich.html";>by floeff ([email protected]) at June 21, 2009 08:55 PM BST</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>June 18, 2009</h2> <h3> <a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> @@ -388,34 +417,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> -Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : -<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/topsy.html";> -Topsy</a> -</h3> -<p> -My friend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishab_Aiyer_Ghosh";>Rishab’s</a> company, Topsy Labs, Inc., received the accolade of recognition by none other than the WSJ. See, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/05/27/topsy-bets-on-real-time-twitter-search-with-15m-backing/";>http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/05/27/topsy-bets-on-real-time-twitter-search-with-15m-backing/</a><br /><br />What is <a href="http://topsy.com/";>Topsy</a>? I like the homepage description: “A search engine powered by tweets,” and its <a href="http://topsy.com/about";>About</a> page states,<br /><br />“Topsy is a new kind of search engine, with a new way of looking at the Internet. Topsy doesn't think the Internet is a collection of documents. Or even a web of documents. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy treats people differently from the webpages they create and the things they say. And Topsy sees that people in every community are connected in a web of relationships, where each person influences other people to read, talk and think about things.<br /><br />“Topsy listens to the conversations taking place all the time on the living, social web. This is the rapidly growing, exciting world of Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Digg, Yelp, Identica and many other communities. People use these communities to share reviews, opinions, messages, comments and discussions about things. Topsy indexes those things. Topsy indexes what people are talking about.<br /><br />“Because of how Topsy works, Topsy can do things other search engines don't usually do. Topsy results are fresh, because they're based on what you're talking about right now. Or this week. Or the past month. Topsy has "trackback" pages for everything in its index, showing what everyone is saying about that thing. Conversations are about people, and Topsy has pages for every person it listens to - listing the things you've been talking about.”<br /><br />Google tracks blogs but not comments and it does not, far as I know, track tweets. I’m sure it will. But for now, as the the zeitgeist is increasingly carried by tweets (sigh...), not to surf this wave is to come close to sinking in a sea of sharks. Oh, I doubt Google will disappear and expect it to evolve, to grow ever larger, and to do this fast. But I also have to wonder if it’s losing its agility, if it’s not increasingly beholden to legacy mechanisms of revenue generation. Sure, it’s famous for experimenting and issuing novelty items not enough people liked. (Though I confess I rather liked many.) it tries to be different from itself, to stay young. But it’s not about to sacrifice, and it can’t, the machine that’s made it so rich. Meanwhile, there is now Topsy. And it’s fun.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3644086454305576909?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; /></div></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/topsy.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at May 28, 2009 12:52 AM BST</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/"; title="ooo-speak"> -Louis Suarez-Potts</a> : -<a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/foss-elections-politics.html";> -Foss, elections, politics</a> -</h3> -<p> -I’m debating submitting an abstract to the Web 2.0 conference in New York this November. My tentative title is some version of “Community Works or How Participatory Communities Are Changing The World.” Other options were along the lines of, “Politics and Community In the Age of Web 2.0” and so on. I guess what I’m interested in pursuing is the relation of community organization and community work as seen in Foss. I don’t see that much of a difference: in each case, people work on a joint endeavour, sharing their work, their results to build something that is new and frequently remarkable. It worked for Obama, whose deserved victory has made “community organizing” a more respected term, for he clearly won in great part because of his skill in organizing communities.<br /><br />But what is a community here? A participatory community, the sort I find interesting and am writing about, is approximately rhizomatic in structure, meaning that like grass, mushrooms and so on, there is no single central node; there are rather many. In the case of something like the Obama’s campaign, there was of course a specific focus, and there were certainly marching orders, agenda items that the Obama community was asked to abide by. But if I understand correctly, there was still a lot of room for local independence, provided it fell within the campaign’s general focus, to educate and to get the vote out. Thus, there were lots of local parties and though there ware guidelines for these, the actual implementation was up to the hosts.<br /><br />But why did they participate at all? Why so many, too? Well, for the same reason that Foss is taking the world by storm: because the classic hierarchical and top-down systems of authority and value frustrate people. It’s easy to sit there a consumer to what is given and to grumble at most but not to effectively question, content with the idea that you have no power at all, or just the power to complain. But no one really likes that, for it’s really not fun to be told again and again that fear and uselessness and boredom are your appointed lot and that you can only look upon the doings of those who can via the glass of the tv.<br /><br />And it’s quite another to be given the chance to make a difference. A <em>real</em> difference. Like electing a president; like changing the course of history. Like creating something new that disrupts the very way we do things, make things, distribute things. Sure, not everyone wants this; tv can be fun, and participation is not for everyone. But say that only 1 percent do find it rewarding. That’s a lot of people. And they have friends.and family. These others will be influenced, will see that this is simply not bizarre behaviour; that being a citizen doesn’t mean you can buy the best things cheapest but that you can make something with others. <br /><br />I tend to believe that bling consumerism is dead or at least dying. And that participatory communities are coming to the fore, rising. I’m by no means alone. It’s the zeitgeist and one that has been gaining momentum for the last couple of years. Foss is a profoundly important node, for ultimately it is not really about software but about a way of making and distributing what you make; and of working with those near and far, connected by a technology that is changing so fast the present is dulled by the future we can hardly wait to arrive. But we have to make sure that what we get allows us the freedom of participation. Otherwise, it’ll be so very last century.<br /><br />Some cool links:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/05/27/brazil-ecuador-paraguay/";>Knowledge Ecology Notes » Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay submit proposal on a WIPO Treaty for Reading Disabled Persons</a><br /> <br />(in my capacity in ODF campaigns, I’m increasingly involved in Accessibility issues. Accessibility is key; more on this later.)<br /><br />And,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.freesoftwarepact.eu/";>The Free Software Pact</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4201241808110432115?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com"; /></div></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/foss-elections-politics.html";>by oulipo ([email protected]) at May 28, 2009 12:02 AM BST</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.2019&r2=1.2020 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2009-06-21 17:00:13+0000 1.2019 +++ opml.xml 2009-06-21 23:00:10+0000 1.2020 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:00:30 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:00:26 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[email protected]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.772&r2=1.773 Delta lines: +16 -16 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2009-06-18 23:00:11+0000 1.772 +++ rss10.xml 2009-06-21 23:00:10+0000 1.773 @@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-1717840200492303771" /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9080686528103355681" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/951b9958ff1c0fc2" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=720"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3131720890077326755" /> @@ -31,12 +33,24 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/d358eea0e573c0e4" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/06/01/standards-for-change/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=1157"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3644086454305576909" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4201241808110432115" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-1717840200492303771"> + <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org 3.1 released</title> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/openofficeorg-31-released.html</link> + <content:encoded>OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just been released! Get more information on the new features at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/">http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-1717840200492303771?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com" /></div></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-06-21T20:56:05+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> +</item> +<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9080686528103355681"> + <title>OOo Marketeers: Open Source Meeting in Munich</title> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-source-meeting-in-munich.html</link> + <content:encoded>If you are living near Munich, don't miss this event and meet your mentor: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Floeff/OpenSourceUnplugged">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Floeff/OpenSourceUnplugged</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-9080686528103355681?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com" /></div></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2009-06-21T20:55:36+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/951b9958ff1c0fc2"> <title>GullFOSS: Prototyping Towards a New OOo User Interface</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/prototyping_towards_a_new_ooo</link> @@ -240,19 +254,5 @@ <p>The trainings are meant for all those in public administration, local businesses and citizens of the Ogre region. The courses will be hosted by the PVIS Centre. This is located next to the public library and provides cheap Internet access.</p></blockquote></content:encoded> <dc:date>2009-05-28T20:10:59+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3644086454305576909"> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Topsy</title> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/topsy.html</link> - <content:encoded>My friend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishab_Aiyer_Ghosh">Rishab&#x2019;s</a> company, Topsy Labs, Inc., received the accolade of recognition by none other than the WSJ. See, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/05/27/topsy-bets-on-real-time-twitter-search-with-15m-backing/">http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/05/27/topsy-bets-on-real-time-twitter-search-with-15m-backing/</a><br /><br />What is <a href="http://topsy.com/">Topsy</a>? I like the homepage description: &#x201c;A search engine powered by tweets,&#x201d; and its <a href="http://topsy.com/about">About</a> page states,<br /><br />&#x201c;Topsy is a new kind of search engine, with a new way of looking at the Internet. Topsy doesn't think the Internet is a collection of documents. Or even a web of documents. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy treats people differently from the webpages they create and the things they say. And Topsy sees that people in every community are connected in a web of relationships, where each person influences other people to read, talk and think about things.<br /><br />&#x201c;Topsy listens to the conversations taking place all the time on the living, social web. This is the rapidly growing, exciting world of Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Digg, Yelp, Identica and many other communities. People use these communities to share reviews, opinions, messages, comments and discussions about things. Topsy indexes those things. Topsy indexes what people are talking about.<br /><br />&#x201c;Because of how Topsy works, Topsy can do things other search engines don't usually do. Topsy results are fresh, because they're based on what you're talking about right now. Or this week. Or the past month. Topsy has "trackback" pages for everything in its index, showing what everyone is saying about that thing. Conversations are about people, and Topsy has pages for every person it listens to - listing the things you've been talking about.&#x201d;<br /><br />Google tracks blogs but not comments and it does not, far as I know, track tweets. I&#x2019;m sure it will. But for now, as the the zeitgeist is increasingly carried by tweets (sigh...), not to surf this wave is to come close to sinking in a sea of sharks. Oh, I doubt Google will disappear and expect it to evolve, to grow ever larger, and to do this fast. But I also have to wonder if it&#x2019;s losing its agility, if it&#x2019;s not increasingly beholden to legacy mechanisms of revenue generation. Sure, it&#x2019;s famous for experimenting and issuing novelty items not enough people liked. (Though I confess I rather liked many.) it tries to be different from itself, to stay young. But it&#x2019;s not about to sacrifice, and it can&#x2019;t, the machine that&#x2019;s made it so rich. Meanwhile, there is now Topsy. And it&#x2019;s fun.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3644086454305576909?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-05-28T00:52:20+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4201241808110432115"> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Foss, elections, politics</title> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/foss-elections-politics.html</link> - <content:encoded>I&#x2019;m debating submitting an abstract to the Web 2.0 conference in New York this November. My tentative title is some version of &#x201c;Community Works or How Participatory Communities Are Changing The World.&#x201d; Other options were along the lines of, &#x201c;Politics and Community In the Age of Web 2.0&#x201d; and so on. I guess what I&#x2019;m interested in pursuing is the relation of community organization and community work as seen in Foss. I don&#x2019;t see that much of a difference: in each case, people work on a joint endeavour, sharing their work, their results to build something that is new and frequently remarkable. It worked for Obama, whose deserved victory has made &#x201c;community organizing&#x201d; a more respected term, for he clearly won in great part because of his skill in organizing communities.<br /><br />But what is a community here? A participatory community, the sort I find interesting and am writing about, is approximately rhizomatic in structure, meaning that like grass, mushrooms and so on, there is no single central node; there are rather many. In the case of something like the Obama&#x2019;s campaign, there was of course a specific focus, and there were certainly marching orders, agenda items that the Obama community was asked to abide by. But if I understand correctly, there was still a lot of room for local independence, provided it fell within the campaign&#x2019;s general focus, to educate and to get the vote out. Thus, there were lots of local parties and though there ware guidelines for these, the actual implementation was up to the hosts.<br /><br />But why did they participate at all? Why so many, too? Well, for the same reason that Foss is taking the world by storm: because the classic hierarchical and top-down systems of authority and value frustrate people. It&#x2019;s easy to sit there a consumer to what is given and to grumble at most but not to effectively question, content with the idea that you have no power at all, or just the power to complain. But no one really likes that, for it&#x2019;s really not fun to be told again and again that fear and uselessness and boredom are your appointed lot and that you can only look upon the doings of those who can via the glass of the tv.<br /><br />And it&#x2019;s quite another to be given the chance to make a difference. A <em>real</em> difference. Like electing a president; like changing the course of history. Like creating something new that disrupts the very way we do things, make things, distribute things. Sure, not everyone wants this; tv can be fun, and participation is not for everyone. But say that only 1 percent do find it rewarding. That&#x2019;s a lot of people. And they have friends.and family. These others will be influenced, will see that this is simply not bizarre behaviour; that being a citizen doesn&#x2019;t mean you can buy the best things cheapest but that you can make something with others. <br /><br />I tend to believe that bling consumerism is dead or at least dying. And that participatory communities are coming to the fore, rising. I&#x2019;m by no means alone. It&#x2019;s the zeitgeist and one that has been gaining momentum for the last couple of years. Foss is a profoundly important node, for ultimately it is not really about software but about a way of making and distributing what you make; and of working with those near and far, connected by a technology that is changing so fast the present is dulled by the future we can hardly wait to arrive. But we have to make sure that what we get allows us the freedom of participation. Otherwise, it&#x2019;ll be so very last century.<br /><br />Some cool links:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/05/27/brazil-ecuador-paraguay/">Knowledge Ecology Notes &#x00bb; Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay submit proposal on a WIPO Treaty for Reading Disabled Persons</a><br /> <br />(in my capacity in ODF campaigns, I&#x2019;m increasingly involved in Accessibility issues. Accessibility is key; more on this later.)<br /><br />And,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.freesoftwarepact.eu/">The Free Software Pact</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4201241808110432115?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2009-05-28T00:02:01+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>oulipo</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.772&r2=1.773 Delta lines: +16 -16 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2009-06-18 23:00:15+0000 1.772 +++ rss20.xml 2009-06-21 23:00:11+0000 1.773 @@ -8,6 +8,22 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org 3.1 released</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-1717840200492303771</guid> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/05/openofficeorg-31-released.html</link> + <description>OpenOffice.org 3.1 has just been released! Get more information on the new features at <a href="http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/">http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.1/</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-1717840200492303771?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com" /></div></description> + <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:56:05 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (floeff)</author> +</item> +<item> + <title>OOo Marketeers: Open Source Meeting in Munich</title> + <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-9080686528103355681</guid> + <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2009/06/open-source-meeting-in-munich.html</link> + <description>If you are living near Munich, don't miss this event and meet your mentor: <a href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Floeff/OpenSourceUnplugged">http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Floeff/OpenSourceUnplugged</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4887643299605448632-9080686528103355681?l=ooomarketing.blogspot.com" /></div></description> + <pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:55:36 +0000</pubDate> + <author>[email protected] (floeff)</author> +</item> +<item> <title>GullFOSS: Prototyping Towards a New OOo User Interface</title> <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/951b9958ff1c0fc2</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/prototyping_towards_a_new_ooo</link> @@ -223,22 +239,6 @@ <p>The trainings are meant for all those in public administration, local businesses and citizens of the Ogre region. The courses will be hosted by the PVIS Centre. This is located next to the public library and provides cheap Internet access.</p></blockquote></description> <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 20:10:59 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Topsy</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-3644086454305576909</guid> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/topsy.html</link> - <description>My friend <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishab_Aiyer_Ghosh">Rishab&#x2019;s</a> company, Topsy Labs, Inc., received the accolade of recognition by none other than the WSJ. See, <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/05/27/topsy-bets-on-real-time-twitter-search-with-15m-backing/">http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/05/27/topsy-bets-on-real-time-twitter-search-with-15m-backing/</a><br /><br />What is <a href="http://topsy.com/">Topsy</a>? I like the homepage description: &#x201c;A search engine powered by tweets,&#x201d; and its <a href="http://topsy.com/about">About</a> page states,<br /><br />&#x201c;Topsy is a new kind of search engine, with a new way of looking at the Internet. Topsy doesn't think the Internet is a collection of documents. Or even a web of documents. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations. Topsy treats people differently from the webpages they create and the things they say. And Topsy sees that people in every community are connected in a web of relationships, where each person influences other people to read, talk and think about things.<br /><br />&#x201c;Topsy listens to the conversations taking place all the time on the living, social web. This is the rapidly growing, exciting world of Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Digg, Yelp, Identica and many other communities. People use these communities to share reviews, opinions, messages, comments and discussions about things. Topsy indexes those things. Topsy indexes what people are talking about.<br /><br />&#x201c;Because of how Topsy works, Topsy can do things other search engines don't usually do. Topsy results are fresh, because they're based on what you're talking about right now. Or this week. Or the past month. Topsy has "trackback" pages for everything in its index, showing what everyone is saying about that thing. Conversations are about people, and Topsy has pages for every person it listens to - listing the things you've been talking about.&#x201d;<br /><br />Google tracks blogs but not comments and it does not, far as I know, track tweets. I&#x2019;m sure it will. But for now, as the the zeitgeist is increasingly carried by tweets (sigh...), not to surf this wave is to come close to sinking in a sea of sharks. Oh, I doubt Google will disappear and expect it to evolve, to grow ever larger, and to do this fast. But I also have to wonder if it&#x2019;s losing its agility, if it&#x2019;s not increasingly beholden to legacy mechanisms of revenue generation. Sure, it&#x2019;s famous for experimenting and issuing novelty items not enough people liked. (Though I confess I rather liked many.) it tries to be different from itself, to stay young. But it&#x2019;s not about to sacrifice, and it can&#x2019;t, the machine that&#x2019;s made it so rich. Meanwhile, there is now Topsy. And it&#x2019;s fun.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-3644086454305576909?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:52:20 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> -</item> -<item> - <title>Louis Suarez-Potts: Foss, elections, politics</title> - <guid>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4649039904546083564.post-4201241808110432115</guid> - <link>http://ooo-speak.blogspot.com/2009/05/foss-elections-politics.html</link> - <description>I&#x2019;m debating submitting an abstract to the Web 2.0 conference in New York this November. My tentative title is some version of &#x201c;Community Works or How Participatory Communities Are Changing The World.&#x201d; Other options were along the lines of, &#x201c;Politics and Community In the Age of Web 2.0&#x201d; and so on. I guess what I&#x2019;m interested in pursuing is the relation of community organization and community work as seen in Foss. I don&#x2019;t see that much of a difference: in each case, people work on a joint endeavour, sharing their work, their results to build something that is new and frequently remarkable. It worked for Obama, whose deserved victory has made &#x201c;community organizing&#x201d; a more respected term, for he clearly won in great part because of his skill in organizing communities.<br /><br />But what is a community here? A participatory community, the sort I find interesting and am writing about, is approximately rhizomatic in structure, meaning that like grass, mushrooms and so on, there is no single central node; there are rather many. In the case of something like the Obama&#x2019;s campaign, there was of course a specific focus, and there were certainly marching orders, agenda items that the Obama community was asked to abide by. But if I understand correctly, there was still a lot of room for local independence, provided it fell within the campaign&#x2019;s general focus, to educate and to get the vote out. Thus, there were lots of local parties and though there ware guidelines for these, the actual implementation was up to the hosts.<br /><br />But why did they participate at all? Why so many, too? Well, for the same reason that Foss is taking the world by storm: because the classic hierarchical and top-down systems of authority and value frustrate people. It&#x2019;s easy to sit there a consumer to what is given and to grumble at most but not to effectively question, content with the idea that you have no power at all, or just the power to complain. But no one really likes that, for it&#x2019;s really not fun to be told again and again that fear and uselessness and boredom are your appointed lot and that you can only look upon the doings of those who can via the glass of the tv.<br /><br />And it&#x2019;s quite another to be given the chance to make a difference. A <em>real</em> difference. Like electing a president; like changing the course of history. Like creating something new that disrupts the very way we do things, make things, distribute things. Sure, not everyone wants this; tv can be fun, and participation is not for everyone. But say that only 1 percent do find it rewarding. That&#x2019;s a lot of people. And they have friends.and family. These others will be influenced, will see that this is simply not bizarre behaviour; that being a citizen doesn&#x2019;t mean you can buy the best things cheapest but that you can make something with others. <br /><br />I tend to believe that bling consumerism is dead or at least dying. And that participatory communities are coming to the fore, rising. I&#x2019;m by no means alone. It&#x2019;s the zeitgeist and one that has been gaining momentum for the last couple of years. Foss is a profoundly important node, for ultimately it is not really about software but about a way of making and distributing what you make; and of working with those near and far, connected by a technology that is changing so fast the present is dulled by the future we can hardly wait to arrive. But we have to make sure that what we get allows us the freedom of participation. Otherwise, it&#x2019;ll be so very last century.<br /><br />Some cool links:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.keionline.org/blogs/2009/05/27/brazil-ecuador-paraguay/">Knowledge Ecology Notes &#x00bb; Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay submit proposal on a WIPO Treaty for Reading Disabled Persons</a><br /> <br />(in my capacity in ODF campaigns, I&#x2019;m increasingly involved in Accessibility issues. Accessibility is key; more on this later.)<br /><br />And,<br /><br /><a href="http://www.freesoftwarepact.eu/">The Free Software Pact</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width="1" height="1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4649039904546083564-4201241808110432115?l=ooo-speak.blogspot.com" /></div></description> - <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:02:01 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[email protected] (oulipo)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
