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Day 8268 - "The Best Things" by Filter
My tongue is killing me. This stupid rash is being a pain in the ass. No, my tongue is not in my ass... could've been a bit better though cause then people will actually listen to me and admit it's bullshit. No, I'm not a bull...
From Filter and their album Title of Record, this is the song of the day.
You know the best things in life aren't for me.
Twitter Lists Are Blowing My Mind
Twitter Lists are easily the best thing to happen to Twitter since Twitter.
For those of you who haven't tried, you basically pick and choose which people you want to follow and identify them under certain lists.
For example, I lumped all my Chicago news, sports, weather and social scene under the list http://twitter.com/Four_O/chicago.
Yes, I am well aware you can create groups on TweetDeck and I will continue to use that feature.
But having the option to access groups away from your personal computer (read: I don't have a smartphone yet so back off) is a real bonus.
Congrats Twitter.
Untitled
Spam Reader 3.0: An Outlook plugin that uses a Bayesian algorithm to filter spam. http://bit.ly/PpOKM
via Ping.fm
My Filter For News Is Not A Robot
A lot of people ask me how and what aggregators I use to sift through the news to find the “good stuff”, otherwise known as tech news outside the bubble of Twitter and Facebook. Many people are surprised by my answer, I don’t use filters or fancy aggregation services that are supposed to magically find me relevant news, rather, I use the best filter of all, everyone else.
If you are an aggregation nut you probably already use the best RSS reader out on the market, Google Reader (if not, go use it). If you do, then you are aware of its sharing capabilities and that you can follow people who are sharing articles within Google Reader. Use this to your advantage. There are many people who are excellent at going through blog feeds and sharing great tech news that is outside the bubble.
Here’s a good start to finding great tech content without all the work:
Mahendra: http://www.google.com/profiles/mahendrap
Louis Gray: http://www.google.com/profiles/louisgray
Mark Nielsen: http://www.google.com/profiles/manielse
Ziad “Zee” M Kane: http://www.google.com/profiles/zeedotme
Tac Anderson: http://www.google.com/profiles/tacanderson
All these people I mentioned above are avid Google Reader sharers who are great at finding tech content that is mostly outside the bubble. So far, no automated aggregator can even come close that list.
A good list there. I have subscribed to all of them and they do share some great tech/social media articles.
Filtering works - like tripping over old ladies at the intersection!
RESULTS of a federal government trial show that live ISP-level content filtering does not have a negative impact on network performance and can work in a real-time environment.
However, a highly anticipated report based on the pilot is still weeks away and the federal Opposition says the government can not be trusted to deliver on the $43 billion national broadband network when the goalpost keeps shifting for a mere $300,000 filtering trial."The trial shows that filtering does work and that the gear stops identified IP addresses without major degradation to network speed," sources close to the trial said. "We can stop individual URLs, IP addresses, but we can't stop peer-to-peer nor virtual private network-type traffic."
Trials concluded last month and Enex has submitted the test results to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
Opposition communications spokesman Nick Minchin slammed the government for the delay and said it had produced "nothing" since the filtering policy was first announced in the run up to the 2007 federal election. "This procrastination is unbelievable," Senator Minchin said. “They should release the report now. There seems to be a systemic problem with Senator Conroy and deadlines," he said. "Until today, we still don't even know what the criteria for the trials are."
"Senator Conroy doesn't seem to be able to handle a small trial. How on earth can we expect him to handle a $43bn broadband project? This incompetence doesn't bode well for taxpayers," Senator Minchin said.
Originally the government wanted to bar every web page listed on a secret blacklist managed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). The list contains a wide array of URLs that contain both illegal and prohibited content.
Senator Conroy has always stated that ISP filtering is no silver bullet and was not the only answer in tackling child pornography. He has pledged to make the report public in "due course".
Senator Minchin said the Coalition did not support mandatory internet filtering, but if legislation was the chosen route, it would study it carefully before making a decision.
The controversial filtering plan has been slammed by several quarters including privacy advocates, child protection groups and advocacy organisation GetUp.
Their main concern is the mandatory nature of the program which forces ISPs to play ball. Most argue that a voluntary approach by industry is the way to go.
Related link: Internet filtering a farce: Minchin - Sept 2, 2009
It wasn't as if it wouldn't work. And blocking IPs/URLs at the point of entry is sure to work without harming network performance substantially. But. If it takes a year, $300,000 and a lot of too'ing and fro'ing to just get preliminary test results, I think the patient is not looking at a very healthy life.
If their arguments are true to be believed. Its only about blocking extreme nasties. Not that there are many just those considered too nasty for Aussie's to visit. Who knows what those sites my do to us!?!
If that is the case, with $300,000 already spent (that a few years of my salary wasted!), the actual investment for what they say is a small percentage of nasties out there, is going to be a very very costly exercise.
Please don't waste my money Senator Conroy. I work hard for it. I would rather see it go toward an old-age pension increase; or a new dining table for The Lodge - seriously - at least they would have more purpose and use!
Thanks but no thanks Senator Conroy - but I have a mummy already :) I don't need someone watching over me while I browse the WWW. And, it doesn't really matter, we will just work around your silly notions.
Sylvestor
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Innholdsleverandører og filterleverandører
Tidligere kunne man få tilsendt Twitter-meldinger direkte til mobilen i Norge. Den funksjonen ble skrudd av for et år siden. Ikke overraskende så ble det for dyrt da antall brukere av tjenesten begynte øke i høyt tempo.
Tidligere idag la jeg merke til en funksjon hos Twitter (om jeg har fulgt dårlig med og den ikke er ny, vær så snill å tilgi meg) som lar brukere i de landene hvor SMS-tjeneste fortsatt er aktiv filtrere hvem de hvem de ønsker å motta meldinger på SMS fra. Ikke noe revolusjonerende i det, enten funksjonen er ny eller ei, men det fikk meg til å tenke.
Informasjonsstrømmen vi utsettes for blir større og større, det blir flere kanaler og informasjonen kommer raskere en tidligere. Det fører til at mediebrukere må lære seg å filtrere informasjonen som strømmer ut mot dem i større grad en før, eller at de utstyrer med verktøy som gjør jobben for dem.
Før så fulgte jeg med på massevis av nettsider og abonnerte på haugevis av RSS-strømmer. Det gjør jeg fortsatt, men ikke i like stor grad. Jeg har overlatt en del av filtreringsarbeidet (kvalitetskontrollen) til de jeg følger på Twitter. Jeg satser på at de jeg følger plukker opp mye av det som jeg mener er interessant og nyttig, og deler det på tjenesten.
Men etterhvert som jeg har begynt å følge hundrevis av folk på Twitter så har støynivået økt. Jeg må sette meg ned å luke ut de som sender ut mye støy med jevne mellomrom. Jeg klarer denne jobben selv, og litt støy er bra, for det kan være nyttig informasjon i støyen også. For "vanlige" nettbrukere tror jeg det kan bli i overkant mye å forlange at de skal bruke mye tid på filtrere vekk alle informasjonskilder som ikke tilfører kvalitet.
Jeg ser for meg at det vil komme flere tjenester som "automagisk" vil kunne hjelpe til med å dempe støynivået og finne "riktig" informasjon . En veldig enkel tjeneste som gjør dette er for eksempel alltop.com, som har som mål å tilby kvalitetskilder innenfor en rekke definerte områder.
Det igjen får meg til å tenke på en av norges eldste nettjenester, og som tilfeldigvis også er min arbeidsgiver, startsiden.no. Det er ikke meningen å drive reklame her, men jeg synes det er relevant å nevne siden, for den gjør en tilsvarende jobb som den alltop.com gjør. Startsidens ansatte systematiserer og kvalitetssikrer informasjonen, og gjør den lett tilgjengelig for "folk flest".
Nå har man innholdsleverandører, men jeg ser også for meg at det engang (kanskje) vil finnes filterleverandører som folk kan koble seg til.
Det var de første tankene rundt dette. Ikke veldig gjennomtenkt eller systematisert. Får komme tilbake til temaet siden.
Oppdatering:
Jeg bruker mange filtere for å sortere innholdet i informasjonsstrømene. Gmail luker bort søppelpost og manuelle regler luker bort og sorterer resten av eposten f.eks. Men det finnes et produkt som er noe i nærhetene av et slags automatisert informasjonsfilter som gir meg relevant og sortert informasjon. Tjenesten baserer seg på Google Reader (RSS-leser), men pakker inn og sorterer nyhetsstrømmene jeg abonnerer på. Tjenesten heter Feedly og slik beskriver de produktet:
feedly organizes your favorite sites into a fun, magazine-like start page. based on Google Reader and Twitter.
Har du ikke testet Feedly så anbefaler jeg at du gjør det.
Oppdatering 2:
Anbefaler denne artikkelen: How Filter Failure Contributes To Business Failure
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Cleaned out the external filter
I have been somewhat negligent in not cleaning out the external filter on my aquarium for a long time. It is very overrated for the tank though, so probably didn't threaten the health of the fish.
The external filter consists of a large round canister with a pump in the head, and many thick filters stacked in the base. Water is drawn in at the bottom, through the filters and pumped out to a sprinkler bar from the top of head unit. I should have splitter valves at the top and bottom of the pipes running between the filter and the tank, but have not got enough of the right kind of valves so have to plumb them directly to the filter. This makes it tricky to remove the filter. I have a tap at the top of the two tubes running from the tank, so with them in the off position the pipes do not run free when I remove them from the filter BUT the bottom connection of the filter does of course want to empty the filter of the head of water it contains, so I have disconnect the pipes and move it to a bucket very quickly. Cleaning was quick and easy. I had been running the external filter in tandem with the original internal filter for some months. The sprinkler bar was located outside the filter bed for the internal filter and made a lot of noise and agitated the water a lot. I decided it was time to stop using the internal filter and just use the external filter. I decided to fit the external filter's spray bar to empty into the internal filter's filter tray (with a reduced number of filters). The original spray bar fitted on top of the filter pump centrally but the external filter fitted its spray bar at one end. I was unable to connect the external filter to the internal filter's spray bar, so I had to cut a notch in the side of the internal filter's filter tray to allow the pipe for the spray bar to come in from the side rather than from behind (or underneath) as the pipe would have kinked. I had to protect the pipe as it run over the rough edges of the notch I had cut crudely. All seems to have worked. Fish seem happy and fed the moment I added food to the tank. We shall see if all is well in a few days.Cleaned out the external filter
I have been somewhat negligent in not cleaning out the external filter on my aquarium for a long time. It is very overrated for the tank though, so probably didn't threaten the health of the fish.
The external filter consists of a large round canister with a pump in the head, and many thick filters stacked in the base. Water is drawn in at the bottom, through the filters and pumped out to a sprinkler bar from the top of head unit. I should have splitter valves at the top and bottom of the pipes running between the filter and the tank, but have not got enough of the right kind of valves so have to plumb them directly to the filter. This makes it tricky to remove the filter. I have a tap at the top of the two tubes running from the tank, so with them in the off position the pipes do not run free when I remove them from the filter BUT the bottom connection of the filter does of course want to empty the filter of the head of water it contains, so I have disconnect the pipes and move it to a bucket very quickly. Cleaning was quick and easy. I had been running the external filter in tandem with the original internal filter for some months. The sprinkler bar was located outside the filter bed for the internal filter and made a lot of noise and agitated the water a lot. I decided it was time to stop using the internal filter and just use the external filter. I decided to fit the external filter's spray bar to empty into the internal filter's filter tray (with a reduced number of filters). The original spray bar fitted on top of the filter pump centrally but the external filter fitted its spray bar at one end. I was unable to connect the external filter to the internal filter's spray bar, so I had to cut a notch in the side of the internal filter's filter tray to allow the pipe for the spray bar to come in from the side rather than from behind (or underneath) as the pipe would have kinked. I had to protect the pipe as it run over the rough edges of the notch I had cut crudely. All seems to have worked. Fish seem happy and fed the moment I added food to the tank. We shall see if all is well in a few days.Day 8188 (Minus 1) - "One" by Filter
I love singing this song in the car. People think I'm a maniac. Great, great feeling.
Originally by Harry Nilsson and later covered by Filter for the soundtrack to the movie The X-Files: Fight The Future, this is the 5th of the half-a-dozen.
Now I spend my time just making up rhymes of yesterday!
