Category: social-hardware

Very interesting look at the Microsoft greenwich project, and presence in general. All Present and Accounted For?
And a very revealing look at the protocals themselves,
XMPP vs SIMPLE: The race for messaging standards

I and many around me have been thinking this out for over a year now.
Ravensbourne (my college) should be more like a isp. We will supply a few services which students will get as standard as being part of the college. We have talked about the kinda of services, but not really wrote it down as far as i know? Even my students are now coming to me and saying, wouldt this and that be great to have.
Recent example some 2nd years were experienmenting with a wiki and saying we shoul dhave one in college for students. I first said theres no reason why you cant run it off your own laptop for internal use only. No thats not good enough they replied. We want outide access too.

Anyway, heres the list as it stands at the moment I would be safe in saying.

Blogging via blojsom 1.9 with a established set of metadata.
So studnets can fill in there simple text files but also add semantic meaning to items they talk about. This directory will also be webdav'ed, so students can also use other desktop blogging tools and access there blogs from any computer which has a webdav client.

We might think about intergrating blojsim support, so students can blog via there instant messager client too. There will be another directory just for webpages, so each student can have a website too. Maybe there will be a pre generated version already when they first log in which uses there information from ldap. Then they can mess around with the css and html if there confident with them?
Not finished…

Interesting story about how instant messaging is making inroads into commercial areas of work. IT week feature

Ok, ok… After dancing around my computer screen lit living room for 3 mins flat.
I had to write this blog.

What on earth was I on? $marklus$ offered me help and I replied with my configuration files for http://blojsim.sf.net and http://blojsom.sf.net. There were two problems.
First one simple, the smack library does not like full jabber user ids. So drop your something@jabber.org for just the user id something. Easily solved.
Number two shows the problem non programming people like me, get involved in new areas like this.
I put the http://blojsim.sf.net war file inside of the webapps folder and it unpacked as usual, but I never moved it to the http://blojsom.sf.net folder! Major stupidness, even i gave myself a slap for that afterwards. For the last few days I've been wondering why there file systems were so simular? Unknown to me that the http://blojsim.sf.net items should have been in the http://blojsom.sf.net folder all along! I even wondered why the web.xml file wasnt included in the http://blojsim.sf.net install, and how http://blojsom.sf.net knew http://blojsim.sf.net was actually there.
Slapped back to reality, after looking at the entry of the web.xml again for the n'th time it came to me that they should actually be in the same folder. Yes ladies and gentlemen, i am a idiot…

Anyway now its working and I can see my http://blojsim.sf.net user on my own jabber list.
Next problem comes along… How on earth do you make entries? Hence what are the codes or commands i need to tell http://blojsim.sf.net before I can start posting?
It would seem just from my mindless tapping that just typing isnt correct and you need to do lots more beforehand, which makes perfect sense. I just need to know how to start?

Havent got the time to really try it out because its now 4am here in the uk and if I turn the light on, my eyes are going to implode.
Lets hope tomorrow, today, i can be blogging from a wireless pocketpc.

Oh yeah I've also worked out the plugin controller, so now you will see my posts are restricted to about 600 characters before a little thing says click for full text. I'm still unsure about this plugin and am trying it out for a few days. Its damm ignoying when your writing a comment not to see the whole text. But I remember someone found a solution for the problem?
Hopefully, trying it now, the macro plugin should be working. Which me and $flashharry$ talked about on thursday afternoon.
Yeah it will replace any text i put within two dollar symbols with something i put in the macro file. So at this moment I have most of my friends websites and weblogs. Noticed a couple of things, it doesnt like capitals or spaces? but it does support html, so i can make links with titles like you noticed on the page already. Cool.

I see others have got blojsim working too. Good stuff hopefully I can ask them how there getting on with using it. And i'm really looking forward to spending time learning about adding my own metadata to each post.Metadata in the new blojsom and metadata entry via jabber. You can just imagine the possibilities… Maybe your profile and/or presence will be reflected in your post? Then there so many clever things you could do server side, like how long you took to write it, from where, blah blah blah.

Anyway you can tell i'm tired…goodnight…:p

Ok I still can not get blojsim working. How on earth does it work? I swear it should be easy as pie to setup but I have no idea if its working let alone running. Well to tell the truth the setup user doesnt show in my jabber list, so somethings not quite right. Help anyone!

Ok I've now installed blojsim on my tablet pc and its all set to go. I think I need to wait for the next release of blojsom to make it work, because it seems to be working but I cant actually tell.

I know the creator Mark Lussier is working on docs and help files for blojsim. And Mark when you do I'll be first to download them for sure.