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Monthly Archives: December 2009
2009 Top 10 Software Cooperative News
Amazon Kindle Un-selling Books was the most-viewed news item on my blog this year. Once again, a lock-out/bad-business story takes the top spot. I don’t think that one got as much coverage in the mainstream media as they usually do, … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, Koha, SPI, Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged #ukgovOSS, amazon, apache, authentication, board, Cooperatives, foundation, httpd, j2me, kindle, midp, pam, richard, rothwell, security, SPI, ssh, top 10, windows 7
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A Christmas Present From Spammers
Contained in the recent billionth-spam report from Project Honeypot is the revelation that “The volume of spam drops approximately 21% on Christmas Day and 32% on New Year’s Day.” (Thanks to Raphael for the pointer.) Happy Christmas to those of … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Training and Information
Tagged christmas, email, holiday, honeypot, new year, spam
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Moved Home
My personal site’s copy of this blog and some of my other sites moved servers last week. A few differences in Apache configuration between 1.3 on the old server and 2.2 on the new server tripped me up and it … Continue reading
Posted in Web Development
Tagged apache, configuration, greener, migration, move, power, server
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Similarities between the co-op and Google
This is a bit of a silly note for a Saturday while I’m currently working on translating the co-op’s web pages into Esperanto. The old site was translated, but the new site launched as English-only. I’d like to have other … Continue reading
Posted in Web Development
Tagged esperanto, i18n, internationalisation, localisation, translation, web
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WordCamp UK, 17-18 July 2010 in Manchester
Advance notice of WordCamp UK 2010 on 17-18 July 2010 in Manchester. Ticket sales expected in early April 2010. I voted for the Portsmouth bid, so of course Manchester won(!) I’ve passed the event details to our co-op for consideration. … Continue reading
Posted in Wordpress and Blogs
Tagged 2010, conference, event, july, manchester, uk, wordcamp, wordcampuk, wordpress
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Do you think Directgov Delivers?
Directgov is the Government’s official website for the general public. As both a member of the public and a parish councillor, I use it fairly often to look things up. Sometimes it’s surprisingly good, but much of the time, it’s a frustrating page-hunt and leaves me going around … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives, SPI
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Funding Networking, Coops and SocEnt
As an aside to yesterday’s Another Network Begins note, I should mention that one of the challenges of running any inter-business project is paying for it. It surprises some people that many great cooperative projects are running on very small … Continue reading
Posted in Cooperatives
Tagged cabinet office, cooperatives, enterprise, funding, government, networking, social enterprise
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On The Road, #online09 and #koha
It was great to meet the newest member of our co-op yesterday and discuss a new ethical business referral network, but I’ve barely spent any time back at home and I’m heading out again, partly to visit online09 and IMS, … Continue reading