September 2, 2005

london wifi needed september 7th

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The good news is, Ross May­field of Social­text is thro­wing a party in Lon­don next Wed­nes­day.
The bad news is, he needs to find a venue. One that has WiFi. I called the Texas Embassy (my usual geek din­ner venue), but no dice.
Can any­body sug­gest somewhere? Please leave a com­ment either here or over on Ross’ wiki. Thanks.
Sarah, can you bring some girl geeks along?
[Evelyn’s post got me thin­king:] Maybe Katrina is for wiki’s what 9/11 was for blogs.

2 Responses to “london wifi needed september 7th”

  1. Evelyn Rodriguez says:
    September 3, 2005 at 12:52 am

    Hugh: BTW, thanks for all your wiki efforts too. You may be right. I think that was evi­dent after the tsu­nami too. The blog for­mat wasn’t wor­king for The South-East Asia Earth­quake and Tsu­nami Blog imme­dia­tely in the after­math. And then Cons­tan­tin (http://blog.basturea.com/) hel­ped them set up a wiki asap.
    Wikis are great for coor­di­na­ted colla­bao­ra­tive efforts and pro­jects. Whe­reas I like blogs for sin­gle thought-streams.
    I think the sim­pli­city of SMS and ubi­quity of cellpho­nes should also be tied into some kind of always avai­la­ble via Red Cross or someone “emer­gency wiki” mobile wiki sys­tem — with moblogging’s ease. Inter­net access and power wasn’t that ubi­qui­tous (BEFORE and) after the tsu­nami, but cellpho­nes were.
    Howe­ver, blogs are sim­pler than wikis thus far. The user inter­face is still a bit on the rough side (i.e. my mom would never figure out how to edit a wiki as they are today even if it was an emer­gency; she could post to a blog). Sim­ple WYSIWIG wikis like SocialText’s new Wikiwyg are nee­ded.
    And even I’m too lame to figure out how to host a wiki (and I need one for the upco­ming tsu­nami anni­ver­sary project).

  2. Tim Kitchin says:
    September 6, 2005 at 9:04 pm

    Abso­lu­tely nothing to do with yr post.
    But a res­ponse to the car­toon.
    Reminds me of one of my all time favou­rite moments form lite­ra­ture.
    The lead cha­rac­ter in Camus’ ‘La Peste’ spends all book/plague/war long trying to write the first line of his great novel.
    End­less per­mu­ta­tions follow in a metapho­ri­cal strug­gle to achieve the per­fect first line (a metaphor for a bla­me­less exis­tence).
    His final com­ment at ‘the end’, is deli­ve­red with resig­ned triumph of having made pro­gress: ‘J’ai sup­prime tous les adjec­tifs’.
    (I’ve dele­ted all the adjec­ti­ves).
    I think your pic­tu­res are really great at remo­ving the ‘clut­ter’ from com­mu­ni­ca­tion.
    It’s a talent I envy.
    ‘The mar­ket for something to believe in is infi­nite.’ Love that.
    Yr a funny fella.