Ask K5: Meeting locals when travelling

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Locals face online onslaught from BBC

Locals face online onslaught from BBC 07/04/2004 06:00 AM
Observer.guardian.co.uk - Sun Jul 4, 12:09 am GMT

Yahoo, Ask Jeeves out to lure locals

Yahoo, Ask Jeeves out to lure locals 08/02/2004 11:59 PM
ZDNet Aug 3 2004 4:06AM GMT

Thanks to cable and internet, locals get
new telephony offerings

Thanks to cable and internet, locals get
new telephony offerings 09/09/2004 02:00 AM
Budapest Business Journal Sep 9 2004 5:50AM GMT

Locals-only rule stalls house sale

Locals-only rule stalls house sale 09/17/2004 04:49 AM
A woman's attempt to sell her rural Wales home to a couple from England is blocked by a rule to make housing affordable for locals.

Satellite Radio Makes the Locals Sweat

Satellite Radio Makes the Locals Sweat 04/19/2004 12:35 PM
Are Sirius and XM out to replace local radio? In some cases, you bet they are.

Travelling light

Travelling light 09/14/2004 03:55 AM
Computer Weekly Sep 14 2004 8:08AM GMT

Travelling Shoes

Travelling Shoes 03/21/2003 09:13 AM
it was Uday in the bunker .. Uday Out of the Picture? .. travellingshoes

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Some Thoughts on Travelling for Work

Some Thoughts on Travelling for Work 03/17/2005 03:49 AM
We have all been there. Well, maybe not all of us, but I am sure that the majority of readers have considered a job travelling (full travel, I'm not talking about you wussies who drive to the next city once a month for a meeting). There are, however, many issues with travelling full time, some obvious, some not. Here are some thoughts to keep in mind if you ever travel for work.

US Chopper Raid Kills 3 Afghans, Angry
Locals Say (Reuters)

US Chopper Raid Kills 3 Afghans, Angry
Locals Say (Reuters) 05/21/2004 03:39 AM
Reuters - Three Afghan civilians were killed and two wounded in a pre-dawn swoop by U.S. helicopter gunships in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Khost on Friday, angry villagers said.

Diary of aunt travelling Magica

Diary of aunt travelling Magica 03/13/2003 10:22 AM
Tomorrow I am going to the big city of Ålesund! :) I am visiting my friends Mounir and Sandras baby...

Police stop 'fans' travelling

Police stop 'fans' travelling 02/18/2004 01:30 PM
British police stop at least 10 people from travelling to Portugal for England's friendly on Wednesday.

UK Bobbies Save Parliament from Time
Travelling Robot

UK Bobbies Save Parliament from Time
Travelling Robot 03/28/2005 10:30 AM

In a telling remnant of iron-fisteded imperial tendencies, armed police took down a friendly robot who was taking a lovely stroll near the UK's Parliament building. The Dalek, hand-built and operated by one Ken Meikle, was built as a project for his brother, who has Down's Syndrome. Apparently the remote control robots are fun to drive on the sauce:

'They are quite difficult to operate, and the huge dents in our living room wall are proof you should never get behind the controls of a Dalek with a drink in you.'

WHO THE HELL ARE YOU, PAL [SundayMail via TheInquirer]

Xantrex power inverter makes travelling
with electronics a breeze

Xantrex power inverter makes travelling
with electronics a breeze 07/11/2004 12:10 AM
National Post Jul 11 2004 4:30AM GMT

3WTel’s Superior VoIP Adds Newest
Features Including Call Transfer to Cell
Phones/Telephones Plus Accessibility to
Personal VoIP Account Anywhere in World
When Travelling

3WTel’s Superior VoIP Adds Newest
Features Including Call Transfer to Cell
Phones/Telephones Plus Accessibility to
Personal VoIP Account Anywhere in World
When Travelling 02/05/2005 09:23 PM
Lightyears ahead in VoIP security and ability to be used on dial-up, broadband, wireless or satellite connections, 3WTel’s Superior VoIP now rocks the VoIP industry by offering its customers additional free features such as call transfer, worldwide login capability, group folders, audio devices, and proxy support. [PRWEB Feb 3, 2005]

U vant Video meeting? Chav I got video
meeting for U!

U vant Video meeting? Chav I got video
meeting for U! 08/17/2004 03:24 PM

Marc Eisenstadt shows off his new baby....

If FlashMeeting 2 isn't the bee's knees, then I don't know what is. The replay capability, shown on the right, is actually described separately on the CNM Memo page, but is part of the same technology family.



Other super-cool features, not yet widely available, include the ability for me to 'quick-book' just-in-time meetings directly via a chatbot, handily available on my Jabber buddy list... neato! One-line command (indeed one-word command) does the trick, and then I've got a URL I can broadcast to my buddies to join the meeting with one click: no downloads, no installation, no setup, and way simpler than Breeze-y stuff, though based on the same underlying technology.



Congrats to Jon Linney and Kevin Quick on Peter Scott's awesome team!





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Live Meeting 2005 Add-in: Live Meeting
Add-in for PowerPoint

Live Meeting 2005 Add-in: Live Meeting
Add-in for PowerPoint 04/13/2005 01:55 AM
With the Microsoft® Office Live Meeting Add-In for PowerPoint, you can create Live Meeting presentations directly in the Microsoft PowerPoint® presentation graphics program.

Live Meeting 2005 Document: Live Meeting
2005 API Reference Guide

Live Meeting 2005 Document: Live Meeting
2005 API Reference Guide 04/11/2005 11:08 AM

"It sounds like the plot of a fanciful
Hollywood disaster movie. A dangerous
volcano in the Canary Islands erupts,
sends a giant tsunami travelling faster
than a jet aircraft into the major
population centres of America's east
coast, killing tens of..."

"It sounds like the plot of a fanciful
Hollywood disaster movie. A dangerous
volcano in the Canary Islands erupts,
sends a giant tsunami travelling faster
than a jet aircraft into the major
population centres of America's east
coast, killing tens of..." 08/12/2004 03:24 PM

Where are we meeting?

Where are we meeting? 06/05/2005 11:21 PM
Hmm. This day has not begun well. I tried taking a new route to work today. It turns out to be far slower than anticipated. So I arrived at about 9:27am for my 9:30am meeting. The meeting that was marked "Location: TBD" in the invitation. I dock the laptop (twice--the first time it decided not to see my USB mouse, as it often does). Check mail. Nothing from the person organizing the meeting. I look him up on our Intranet....

Tax Advisor Meeting

Tax Advisor Meeting 01/22/2004 02:42 AM
[This is part of a series of posts on the home buying process I'm going thru. To see the full set, visit the house category archives.] This morning I met with my new tax advisor to discuss things related to home buying and stock option related taxes. I brought the previously mentioned spreadsheet with me to get a sanity check on my thinking. Ken suggested a minor adjustment to the "tax benefit" calculation, namely pegging it at 33%, but said...

Meeting up in Stockholm?

Meeting up in Stockholm? 06/09/2004 10:39 AM

I'm thinking about getting together with a few bloggers in Stockholm on Sunday. Maybe for lunch, maybe in the afternoon. Please take a look at the wiki page if you are interested.

Sorry about the short notice.

Atom Meeting

Atom Meeting 06/03/2004 06:29 PM

I was at the Atom Community Meeting all day.  I had only two hours of sleep so my brain pretty much stopped working by late afternoon.  There were some good moments but, overall, it was another reminder of how a meeting can turn smart people, including me, into babbling tiredsome geeks.  Communication wasn't clear and instant understandings were rare.  Of course, my brain's capacity diminishing by the hour didn't help.

Re W3C and IETF, W3C clearly lost their bid for Atom although they made good efforts at the meeting.  I thought what W3C reps said were a bit on the cheesy side but I wasn't entirely happy with the IETF process either, like IETF WG having to use WG mailinglist for all communique and how IETF WG chairs are chosen by a IETF director.  As amazing as it sounds, IETF stunk of bureucracy, albeit one with a geeky twist.

Having to choose between techno-bureacrats and cheesy geeks financed by companies doesn't make me happy but I gave my IETF 'humm' to techno-bureacrats.  I sure hope they don't evolve into techno-rats.

I encouraged formalizing of the Atom 'group' to streamline the syndicated data standard extension approval process, but I don't think it will happen.  Neither IETF nor W3C handles extension approval process well IMHO.

BTW, Tim's post has a nice group photo he somehow managed without his glasses.

Oulu meeting

Oulu meeting 07/28/2004 04:59 PM
Yup. The Oulu meeting is over, and - if you do some creative maths, and have a very strong sense of denial - it was an enormous success. We had 67% more people coming than we were aiming for!

Well, okay, there were five in total, out of which only three actually lived in Oulu. But the original target was just to meet pnuk, so we were positively surprised to see Falmawen arrive with a very large backpack and a short-haired companion, which had apparently tagged along from Turku. But he was a blogger, so it was okay :-).

The discussion ranged from blogs to movies, from certain bloggers to some other bloggers (wouldn't you all like to know who they were...), from food to beer, and a few mentions of the upcoming Finnish Blog Awards... The evil scheming and plotting is afoot.

All in all, good fun. There are still so few bloggers over here (and the Pinseri Top-list being the combining factor) that we can still - to some degree - speak about a Finnish blog community. This will obviously wane away as more and more bloggers join in (and I am sure some would already argue against it), but so far, from my personal experience, it seems that there is a connection between bloggers. It may be because many of the bloggers share things like common interests, similar education, or just the fact that if you're a blogger, your friends stand a better chance of catching the illness as well.

However, my hope is that in the future we get far more varied blogs - senior blogs, junior blogs, activity blogs, journalistic blogs, publicist blogs, celebrity blogs... And this will eventually mean the disappearance of that feeling. Oh well. I think I'll still have variety over a blogistanic feel-good hug-o-sphere anyway ;-).

Blogger meeting

Blogger meeting 08/27/2004 05:23 PM
Yet again, a horde of drunken Finnish bloggers are gathered together, and they want to greet the world in their own words. So who am I to stop them? Here goes: Finnish bloggers say hi:

Hmmm... Taidan taas ensimmäisenä poistua. Pitää lähteä kuuntelemaan musaa muualle. Uusia kasvoja, uusia blogeja. Ei täältä voi olla poissakaan.... Seuraavalla kerralla lisää. --KatjaW

Iltaan kuului ennenaikaisia siideripullollisia, paikallisen baariolohuoneen pehmeitä sohvia, paljon kasvoiltaan tuntemattomia tuttuja ja tietenkin myös nopeahko Trivial Pruisuit, joka taas osoitti ylivertaisuuteni kyseisessä pelissä. Epäilen myös Kysyn Vaanin saapuneen paikalle oluttuopiksi naamioituneena. Taas. Cheers! -- http://www.visukinttu.com

sedis tervehtii maailman hienoimman vehkeen välityksellä. one linerit ovat vähissä, sillä retromaailman vahvin sissiliike on valtaamassa blogiuniversumin. monikulttuurinen sanomamme on: kaikkien maailmojen blogistit, yhtykää. tässä suuruudenhullussa imaginaarisyydessä muistakaa pientä ihmistä, joka on nähnyt kaiken, eikä silti mitään sillä hän on jäänyt internetin ulkopuolelle. poliittinen blogihuumorini on kuollut, joten luovutan koneen matkatoimiston väelle. turisti, ole hyvä:

Turisti toteaa: Äiti, lähetä tyttärellesi rahaa tai laita mummi lihoiksi. Perintöä odotellessa.... Ei mut kivaa on, eikä selkäänkään satu kun juo tarpeeksi korpikuusen kyyneliä... lähetä edes ruisleipää... niisk... Niin ja Savo-Pohjanmaa maaottelu on käynnissä. Minä ja Aika jatkaa...

Tsalo jatkaa sisäistä kamppailuaan: kognitiivisilla valituilla on kaikki argumentit puolellaan; täällä on vain tupakka, viina ja villit naiset...

pni från skrubu.net (ja och lokala MMS blog också), hej. Tog mig till Berghäll för en kväll i stil med blind date, för att se vad hur människorna som skriver bloggar ser ut som. Hmm... ja. Det är ju helt vanliga typer faktsikt. Nu skall jag ta mig en öl till.

Julius, kobaia.net: Ensimmäistä kertaa Kallion blogimiitissä, edellinen meni sairastaessa kotona. Olen jo nyt juonut yli rajojeni, onneksi palkankorotus on luvassa mahdollisimman pian. Paljon uusia ihmisiä, muutamia vanhempia tuttavuuksia. Eikä Kysyn vaan uskaltanut tulla paikalle. TIEDÄN KYLLÄ KUKA OLET!

Vähänks meil on ihkui kaveriqvii Minyan kaa!!1 Nii ja minä Kobaïan Neahan olen vanha konkari täällä blogimiitissä. Jos tisseistä tai kalukukkaroista on keskusteltu, olen missannut. Pitääkin tästä mennä Skitso-Jannen kanssa aloittamaan keskustelu edes jostain sukupuolielimiin liittyvästä.

Saavuin sittenkin paikalle uuden ystäväni Rajatapauksen ja ja punaviinilasillesen rohkaisemana. Oikeasti en juonut punaviinilasillista rohkaisuksi, vaan terveydeksi ja järkytyksen poistamiseksi. Jatkan edelleen punaisella juomalla.. päänsärky johtuu savusta. Silti on kivaa nähdä uusia ja vanhoja naamoja. Kuvamateriaali löytyy osoitteesta http://www.minyaweb.net. Terkuin, Minya

Tapasin tänään uuden tuttavuuden, Minyan. Minut saatiin houkuteltua parin tunnin keskustelun jälkeen, tähän mielenkiintoiseen tapaamiseen. Jonkinlaista nettipäiväkirjaa olen pitänyt aikaisemminkin, tosin hieman suppeasta aiheesta...Nyt uskon jo jääneeni koukkuun tähän uuteen yhteisöön ;) (ennen edes nimimerkin rekisteröimistä). Nimimerkiksi taidan valita Rajatapauksen, jonkun paidasta innostuneena. Koen olevani jonkin sortin rajatapaus, selitys löytyy tulevasta päiväkirjastani. Oli tosi kivaa tavatata teidät kaikki, vaikutitte oikein värikkäältä ja mukavalta porukalta. Terveisin, Rajatapaus.

Hang-around-bloggaajien tapaaminen äityi sittenkin suureksi bloggaajamiitiksi, jossa jälleen virtasi vesi ja terveelliset elämän tavat olivat kunniassa. Vatsalihasliikkeitä tehtiin, venyteltiin äänijänteitä ja harjoitimme itseruoskintaa. Aah.

Osanottajien lukumäärä ä

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First Realtor Meeting

First Realtor Meeting 01/16/2004 11:32 AM
[This is part of a series of posts on the home buying process I'm going thru. To see the full set, visit the house category archives.] I headed over to Los Altos on Tuesday morning to meet my realtor for the first time. What I expected to be a 40 minute "get to know each other" meeting ended up being 2 hours and 15 minutes of productivity. We started with the basics of home buying in California and Santa Clara...

AVP: Fancy Meeting You Here

AVP: Fancy Meeting You Here 08/14/2004 04:34 AM
Halfway through this movie you realize that the title monsters, the Alien and the Predator, have no reason to be in the same place at the same time. This ridiculousness ruins whatever else may be cool about the movie. Jason Silverman reviews Alien vs. Predator.

Meeting up in the UK June 6?

Meeting up in the UK June 6? 05/26/2004 04:43 PM

Planning on arriving in the UK on June 6th. Anyone want to get together in the evening?

I've set up a wiki page to plan this.

First TUG meeting tonight in SF!

First TUG meeting tonight in SF! 12/22/2004 01:12 AM
Tonight is the first meeting of Techorati's first User Group, the San Francisco Techorati User Group (SFTUG!). The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at 21st Amendment (in the loft area) in San Francisco. Niall Kennedy, the TUG...

What did the G7 meeting achieve?

What did the G7 meeting achieve? 02/05/2005 09:52 PM
G7 finance ministers have agreed in principle to provide 100% debt relief for the poorest countries. What do you think the meeting achieved?

UAE e-government meeting

UAE e-government meeting 01/19/2004 04:17 PM
AME Info Jan 19 2004 6:38PM GMT

More on Amsterdam Meeting

More on Amsterdam Meeting 03/23/2005 07:40 PM

I just noticed this cool photo on the CC Netherlands blog. Not cool 'cause I'm in it -- I've seen myself before -- but rather 'cause of the room of European Commoners shown in it. Was a great event. More photos to share soon, I hope.

WEF meeting in Davos

WEF meeting in Davos 02/01/2005 09:19 PM

People have been pinging me about this, so I guess I should post something about it. I'm not going to Davos this year. I wasn't invited this year. Not sure exactly why... But I'm in pretty good company... Anyway, I posted some thoughts on the Forum over on Omidyar Network which I'll post here as well.

Joi Ito

This may sound like sour grapes, but I didn't get invited to Davos this year, but after going for 4 years, I was also planning on possibly not going. It's great fun meeting old friends, but I'm finding many of the smaller conferences more interesting these days. A number of people I know are going to the World Social Forum this year instead. Having said that, I'm sure something will happen this year that makes me wish that I was there. Please say hi to everyone for me.

Lars

Joi, thanks for your insight. I'd be curious about your thoughts in terms of collective: has the WEF been a mechanism that enables actors to work more intelligently and in partnership across sectors? this is something i've been longing to understand better; there is a sense among participants at places like the World Social Forum that the WEF is exclusionary and serves only the interests of the multinationals. What seems most vital about the forum is the capacity to pool intelligence and coordinate action in a way that reduces global risk. is this happening?

Joi Ito

I think that a lot of the good things that happen at the forum on not intentional and not visible. It's bridge building across sectors. Although the forum has tried to be more and more inclusive, I think it has shifted away from its humble, somewhat academic roots to a conference where there is more participation by powerful people. Also, there is the official program, then there are special groups (like the Media Leaders group I spoke to last year) and then there are secret meetings. In many ways, it is more of a meeting place than a "movement" with something concrete to accomplish such as the WTO or G8, although I've never been to either.

I would disagree that it "only serves the interests of the multinationals" but it does have sponsors that allow it to exist and they obviously get special treatment and access. Having said that, the social entrepreneurs, for instance, include many legitimate social entrepreneurs who are doing a lot of great things that the forum enables in many ways.

So net-net, I would say the forum is a good thing, but I think your mileage may vary.

Finally, I would add... looking at the various lists of people who get invited and un-invited... the process, from my perspective, is close to random, athough there are clear biases. If you've never been invited, don't worry about it. Many many important and interesting people have never been invited. If you get invited and you've never been, give it a go, especially if you don't have to pay. If you go for a few years and get tired of it, you're not the only one.

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BAMF meeting

BAMF meeting 09/26/2004 03:16 PM

I went to my first Bay Area Mobile Forum meeting yesterday - as I consider it crucial to have mobile devices part of the digital lifestyle aggregation scenario.

It's ugly.

It's fucked up.

Lord help us if it gets any worse. Verizon (despite their Cory Doctorow look alike campaign) are stone fascists. This is gonna catch up with them soon enough.

Ray Rischpater from a company called Rocket Mobile was there to fill us in on the gory details fo something called BREW. STAY AWAY! is all I can say.

Meanwhile Russel Beattie and other experienced mobile nerds grokked what they needed so that they could understand the motivations and issues surrounding BREW.

As bad as it is - Verizon alone has 40M BREW phone subscribers and that means money. There's lots of money to be made out there with BREW.

And Oil, and the military industrial complex. And slavery - too.

But I met some coolio peeps too. One who's got a coolio new aggregator coming - who didn't want me to say anything about it so.....

Hurry up Dan!

U.S. Pushes for U.N. Meeting With Iran
(AP)

U.S. Pushes for U.N. Meeting With Iran
(AP) 09/13/2004 04:53 PM
AP - Buoyed by growing European support, the United States lobbied the U.N. atomic watchdog agency Monday to send Iran before the U.N. Security Council for refusing to freeze work that can produce nuclear weapons.

Itanium not meeting Inte

Itanium not meeting Inte 09/08/2004 08:57 AM
Techzonez Sep 8 2004 1:26PM GMT

Blogger meeting bl0gging

Blogger meeting bl0gging 06/11/2004 04:10 PM
OK, so I am at this blogger meeting. So far the discussion has ranged from sex to tool purses (?). And especially tits. To be specific, the left boob of a particular blogger (who shall remain anonymous until she confesses.) I guess this is fairly typical then :). Well, as long as the beer keeps flowing, and the discussion keeps become more interesting - what do I care?

The turnaround is about 10 bloggers, which is about expected. At least the following blogs are represented: SchizoBlog, Pala maailmaani, MitVit, Shrike's Time Tomblog, Kari Haakana, KatjaW, Nea, Haltia, Luksus, and ButtUgly.

(Well, to be truthful, we've also talked politics, some US politics (a favourite among bloggers all around the world, I'm sure, but mostly about the topical European parliament election and about the forthcoming city council election), some local blog politics, literature... I have to say that I love this crowd: they are as twisted as me.)

Butt Ugly weblog now gives you something new (well, over here anyway): Guestblogging! Over to you!

Christmas at the CSD meeting [Flickr]

Christmas at the CSD meeting [Flickr] 12/17/2004 06:42 PM

D/FW Perl Mongers' Meeting

D/FW Perl Mongers' Meeting 01/26/2004 12:34 PM
Mr. Muskrat writes "The next meeting of the D/FW Perl Mongers will not be held on the normal night due to scheduling conflicts. Instead, it will be held on Thursday, January 29, 2004 at 6:30pm. This month's speaker is Tommy Butler. He will be discussing ...

Detroit PUG Meeting - Thursday, May 13
at 7:00 PM

Detroit PUG Meeting - Thursday, May 13
at 7:00 PM 05/04/2004 05:03 AM

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