Month: December 2006

Experimentally, I’ve made myself available for support calls via the Bitwine service. If this is successful, I’ll keep it up; it seems like a good way to provide live help with Elgg to people that need it while leaving time for developments and other commitments. Incidentally, Grockit sounds like an interesting service. Business students who […]

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve let loose a new release: Elgg 0.67 is available, as always, to download from Elgg.org. There’s a lot in this new release, and particularly if you’re running on 0.65 or below, we strongly encourage you to upgrade. Please note that we’ve also changed our file provider from Eduforge back […]

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/01/youtubes-year/ I love Youtube. The site has become more and more integrated into our culture over the past year. Here are some important moments that might not have reached the international consciousness had the site not existed: Iraqi kid runs for water. Soldiers giving out drinking water in Iraq made children run for miles in […]

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/01/facebook-abuse/ A little while ago I discovered that my Facebook account had been disabled. Logging in with my email address revealed the stark message: Your account has been disabled by an administrator. Please contact info@facebook.com for more information. So far, so unfriendly. I don’t use Facebook much, so it didn’t really bother me much. But […]