Everyone
Richard Akerman
>> Now it's http://tinyurl.com/6xl2l4 "Photosynth is a little overwhelmed." that I saw briefly before
Richard Akerman
>> @percept is right, inspection shows photosynth.net indeed redirecting to default.aspx - must be hard to make changes with world watching
Richard Akerman
>> MS jiggering with Photosynth DNS? Got brief error page, now no DNS lookup for photosynth.com or photosynth.net at all
Richard Akerman
>> Photosynth "Uploading file 7 of 7, 0 minutes remaining" oh wait now it's "experiencing a network problem". Fantastic.
Richard Akerman
>> To my surprise, Photosynth accepts my upload on 5th try. Now "Extracting image features".
Richard Akerman
>> Photosynth FAIL 2: "There's a lot of synthing going on. We've suspended uploading until the load dies down a little. Please try again later
Richard Akerman
>> Photosynth FAIL: "Oops... the leaves fell off and we're temporarily unable to load that page."
Richard Akerman
>> this is probably the wrong community to ask, but I would be interested in feedback on CISTI Discover http://tinyurl.com/6kqmgs
Richard Akerman
>> we had an interesting presentation on our IT carbon footprint today. server rooms + servers + desktops = 289 tons CO2/y. Goal = -10% next yr
Richard Akerman
>> Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth = Information Services. Now if I just knew how to pronounce it, I could work it into conversation.
Richard Akerman
>> both Twitter and FriendFeed create a unique info environment - I have to keep reminding myself that the people in stream don't see all I see
Richard Akerman
>> Seriously losing ability to spell things correctly when I type, keep typing homonyms, similar-sounding words, or errors identify->ind ...
Richard Akerman
>> if our wonderful new antivirus software made things any slower, I'd be travelling backwards through time
Richard Akerman
>> do any of you actively participate in Facebook groups? I mostly forget they even exist, the FB interface doesn't really promote them.
Richard Akerman
>> wired: urban farming. tired: leaf blowers. Dear Chris Anderson, please decide whether you're trying to save planet, or destroy it. kthxbye
Richard Akerman
>> my FB News Feed is beginning to fill with people's FriendFeed postings, but FB provides no way to filter one specific app
Richard Akerman
>> rules for conferences: 2. If speakers (particularly keynote speakers) can't commit to staying for the entire conference, find someone else.
Richard Akerman
>> rules for conferences: 1. Post all the presentations within 24 hours. (easyif get all presentations on a USB stick before presenters leave)
Richard Akerman
>> @briankelly I have to say I just assumed this foundational piece of infrastructure would be in place for our own news, events, etc. Fail :(
Richard Akerman
>> discovering my organisation's website provides almost no RSS feeds. hello, web 1.0
Richard Akerman
>> @ostephens CLIR Report "Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century" http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub142abst.html
Richard Akerman
>> wondering why our clever computers don't do that intelligent agent cross-timezone meeting arrangement stuff people said they would long ago
sshreeves
>> @jennybento I tend to agree with @kgroetsch and @Musebrarian - depends on type of meeting and culture of your workplace. I like having mine.
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