Joe's Jottings

Tagged: online-communities

Twitter hacked - not the end of the world, no surprise, and a badge of honour.

· censorship, civil-disobedience, routing-failure, blogs-and-blogging, online-communities, politics, technology, the-media

There's a scene in the movie 'Blazing Saddles' where the Waco Kid, being asked why he's ended up in prison for drunkenness, bewails the fact that when he was the well known gun-slinger everyone wanted…

Iframes in phpBB

· adding-html-code, online-communities, personal-stuff, software-development, technology

I am currently tinkering with a phpBB3 installation for a forum I ran until the summer of this year – Coffeehouse Chat. I shut the site down in the summer, but am now contemplating opening it up again…

WPMU Installation to support sub-domain blogs

· wordpress-mu, online-communities, software-development, technology, wordpress

I'm currently renovating a site of mine -Coffeehouse Chat- with a possible view to re-opening the Forum side of it with new and improved features - including better integration with Social Media and U…

Am I a twit not to Twitter?

· online-communities, personal-and-group-networking, software-development, technology

OK....I remember a year or so ago saying i'd never join Facebook, and then making myself look a pudding within a month or so when i started using Facebook to keep me in touch with friends after I stop…

Attrition vs Shock and Awe in the Online World

· abuse, discipline, harassment, online-community-rules, trolls, community-building, online-communities, psychology

Anyone who's spent time in any online communities will be aware of the feuds and fights that take place between users of those communities.  Whilst some degree of conflict is inevitable, there always …

Facebook - fool if you think it's over?

· facebook, social-networks, viral-marketing, online-communities, personal-and-group-networking

I came across two articles today which are related - one informing us that Facebook had finally made it to number 1 in a league of social networking sites: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/0…

Salad Bowl or Melting Pot?

· community-building, online-communities, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff

The other day I was reading an old favourite of mine 'The Networking Book', by Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps http://www.netage.com/pub/books/NetBook/netbook.html In one chapter an interesting obs…

Online Culture and the Law of Two Feet

· community-building, online-communities, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff

Well, after 4 years I recently left an Internet Forum which I'd grown very attached to.  The reason I left was pretty straightforward to me, and in my 'Bye Bye' post I simply commented that I was leav…