I finally got round to adding a few more photos from my trip to London last August. I know they’re a little late, but some of these I took are rather nice. Hopefully I’ll be a bit more organised with future photoshoots 
I took about 150 photos then, and although I won’t put them all up on Flickr, I’ll try and get quite a few. Hope you like them.
Jordan
The first Preston Tweetup (organised by the folks at the Preston Blog) has been dated for Tuesday 17th March at the New Continental pub. You can buy tickets via Eventbrite and the first 50 people get a free drink!
The event should be really good, as Preston is alive with ‘twitterers’ and there will be quite a few more there than at GeekUp Preston, so it will be interesting to see the non-technical peoples’ take on the web. There’s going to be a discussion about how the web can be used during the 2012 Preston Guild. It will be really interesting.
See you there!
Every day people are raving about “web 2.0″ – how we’re moving all of our data to the “cloud” and how we can access anything, anywhere. We’re also being a lot more open about what we do online – especially when it comes to social networking. Only the other day TechCrunch suggested that Last.fm might be sharing user data with the RIAA, but when many users responded in uproar, other users came to the defence repeating that the users should have had common sense in the first place.
Why are we so open about sharing all of our data online? Is it the ease of use of sharing pictures on Facebook or Flickr – or is it the speed at which we can share them with friends, compared to the old days of sending them as file attatchments in emails? How much can we trust that our data will not be deleted, and not shown to advertisers or other third-parties?
When Facebook recently changed their privacy policies to remove a provision which stated that users could remove their data whenever they like, users responded with uproar. Eventually, Facebook backed down on their stance and re-added the clause to their privacy policy, but the question still remained as to what they could do with your data.
So how far can we go until everything that is ours is hosted in the cloud? How much of a risk to our privacy does this represent? Is the cloud really the best place?
For the short-term, I think that the cloud is beneficial to the growth of the internet, and is certainly the best solution for now, but in the future, we may look to another solution.
It seems a long time since I last posted on my blog – too long in fact. So I’ve decided to get a new design for my blog, make it my own (a bit) and start blogging regularly again. In the spirit of refreshing, I’ve removed a lot of redundant posts from a long while ago, and I’ve also removed the asides. There will probably be quite a few dead links left around the place, but they should be cleared up pretty quickly.
What do you think of the new design and the new logo? Feel free to leave a comment with your opinions!
The open source movement is spreading quickly – there are better scripts, dedicated users, and the spirit of OS is overwhelming. You can practically find decent software for anything. However, the one thing I have never been able to find is an open source script as feature-filled and as easy to use as Basecamp.
Now, that’s not surprising when you consider that Basecamp is created by a company who invests thousands of dollars into development of it each year – but the prices to use it are extortionately high for personal developers and non-profits. In the usual case, you could Google for a bit and find some great solution which you can host yourself and is being actively maintained by the developers. But in the case of project management, there is only really ActiveCollab – and that went commercial a few years ago.
There was a fork of it – ProjectPier – however it appears that development is running slow and is nowhere as developed as it’s original software – never mind Basecamp. The only other software packages for this are outdated and have poor user interfaces. I’m sure that with a bit of inspiration, the open source community can start something which is just as good as Basecamp, but comes with no price.
Any thoughts on this idea?