Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-01-30

  • Picture of @geo_melb next to the building wr are working on for floods cleanup today, see water lvl? :/ http://t.co/QpisXcK #lca2011 #
  • I want to see gps maps for how ppl get to Ballarat for #lca2012 I'm really excited about this! 🙂 http://t.co/8bRzZTJ #lca2011 #
  • Update, won 50 to 47 😀 Playing my 3rd game of go with @aguidodavis, I'm the black stones 🙂 http://t.co/5UL4nLQ #lca2011 #
  • Playing my 3rd game of go with @aguidodavis, I'm the black stones 🙂 http://t.co/5UL4nLQ #lca2011 #
  • I'm in n518 to play go (board game), got a good group 🙂 #lca2011 #
  • Is influencing market a strawman? A customer has limited influence but what about a citizen? Can't gov be tool for freedom? #lca2011 @mpesce #
  • I get @mpesce's points about protecting oneself, but it's really through communities that we establish & maintain change. #lca2011 #
  • RT @Jerub:RFC822 is broken in a bunch of ways so you can't use it <- Can you extrapolate? A blog post would be interesting 🙂 #lca2011 #
  • "The IPocalypse: I blame Vint" @mpesce #lca2011 #
  • .@mpesce talking about Plexus (RFC2822) as a way to disaggregate social networks and restore privacy to users. Interesting. #lca2011 #
  • .@mpesce's freedom guide 1) distribute everything 2) transport independence 3) secure everything 4) open everything 5) resilience #lca2011 #
  • .@mpesce says you can encourage market to do right thing. I think market not so easy influenced, also need direct incentives #lca2011 #
  • .@mpesce's guide for freedom/anarchists: 1) distribute everything 2) transport independence 3) secure everything 4) open everything #lca2011 #
  • "The price of efficiency is incredible vulnerability." (@mpesce) I think this applies to everything, inc procurement policy. #lca2011 #
  • .@mpesce's answer to the issues of freedom is anarchy? #
  • .@mpesce: "Without privacy there is no liberty" #lca2011 #
  • .@mpesce: The Wikileaks saga has demonstrated that the Internet is fundamentally not free. This is why we need to fix the prob #lca2011 #
  • .mpesce on wikileaks: info released was "inconsequential" yet resulted in major changes (eg Tunisia) Wikileaks were then checkmated #lca2011 #
  • .@mpesce talking about how easy it to manipulate people when they voluntarily give up info about themselves (eg Facebook) #lca2011 #
  • "People around you are not just friends, you should choose them carefully because they are epidemiological vectors" Heh 🙂 #lca2011 #
  • .mpesce looking at how peer learning can be for good (reading, weight loss) or evil (fast food, smoking) and relating this to tech #lca2011 #
  • "A resource shared is a resource squared" Cute overview of the value of openness by @mpesce #lca2011 #
  • .@mpesce bought into the whole IP protection spiel when he started & got burnt. With VRML he realised sharing openly was better #lca2011 #
  • Haha! 🙂 sleep(); RT @RancidBacon: @piawaugh Awww, cute. Made a slight edit: http://t.co/KsiVW0F 🙂 #lca2011 #
  • Had some contributions for the #lca2011 music compilation, great stuff! http://conf.linux.org.au/wiki/Miniconfs/Music Anyone else? 🙂 #
  • Haha! 🙂 Cute photo of @jdub and I utterly exhasted on day 4 of #lca2011 Thanks for the soft lighting too 😉 @f3ew http://bit.ly/fzNaak #
  • Listening to Sridhar on OLPC Australia. Been a while since I was involved, they seem to have matured. Great work Sridhar! 🙂 #lca2011 #
  • Congrats to Minister Gray, AGIMO & Open Source working group for a sensible & practical Aus gov FOSS policy! http://ow.ly/1s0gJ1 #lca2011 #
  • Holy moly! "Aus Gov agencies will actively participate in open source software communities and contribute back where appropriate." #lca2011 #
  • "purpose… is to inform agencies of requirement to consider open source software in all software procurements" http://ow.ly/1s0gJ1 #lca2011 #
  • Good timing 🙂 RT @AT_too: Government's Open Source Software policy released by Special Minister of State http://ow.ly/1s0gJ1#agimo #lca2011 #
  • Haaaahaha! Best. Photo. Ever. RT @t3rmin4t0r: At the PDNS – http://t.co/N0ya3ME #lca2011 #
  • Wow, amazing! *Everyone* should watch Vint Cerf & Geoff Huston RT @Ycros #lca2011 videos starting to go online http://linuxconfau.blip.tv/ #
  • Twitter is suggesting I follow Shane Warne. What have I done wrong!?! #
  • Awesome! RT @digiphile: do you have questions for US #gov20 ppl on #Gov20 Radio? Pls ask/vote http://t.co/6snGj7p #gov2au #lca2011 #
  • Yay! They were really hot! (No Srsly, my hands got burned) RT @mattyhope: @xrobau: http://t.co/wTDZy4i #
  • Yay, yet another #lca2011 perk is the availability of cool cars 🙂 http://t.co/cOrwuaR #
  • Why does "what about companies that own ipv4 addressing" feel like the fossil fuel vs green energy commercial interests debate? #lca2011 #
  • Geoff Huston throws us a lifeboat of what can be done. Write software that supports v6 because right now using v6 sucks #lca2011 #
  • Geoff Huston gave kudos to Aus fed gov actually procuring ipv6 capability, but questions internal vs public facing services #lca2011 #
  • RT @dwmw2: US DoD is apparently refusing to buy certain network/software products from companies not deploying #IPv6 internally. #lca2011 #
  • For those interested, Aus gov ipv6 strategy by AGIMO along with preso on progress (Oct 2010) is linked at http://t.co/SavWlyw #lca2011 #
  • Vint Cerf and Geoff Huston: playing good and bad cop in the world interrogation on ipv6 #lca2011 #IPocalypse #
  • Geoff Huston's talk is making me very sad. Just realised light at the end is the v4 to v6 tunnel is a raging fire :/ #lca2011 #IPocalypse #
  • Haha! Geoff Huston: "when you out it in PowerPoint its all so plausible". He says only ~15% 6to4 implementations really work #lca2011 #
  • Geez, IANA will run out of addresses in Feb 2011. Holy cow! http://t.co/JL7l1Aa #lca2011 Hope AGIMO ipv6 plan is implemented (gov) :/ #
  • Geoff discussing challenges to openness in networking inc openinternet debate "If you don't have open address we can't communicate" #lca2011 #
  • Listening to Geoff Huston on the challenges of preserving time in network design, how open=good but staying open is really hard #lca2011 #
  • Interesting project to check out – End Software Patents: http://t.co/TzYwBmC #lca2011 /VIA email to conf list #
  • Awesome photo of Vint Cerf by @andypiper http://t.co/N0hbzMv #lca2011 #
  • 10.30pm and I'm exhausted.#lca2011 is extremely tiring but amazingly inspiring 🙂 #
  • Great call from @purserj, obviously my meal consults of some slaughtered Wiggles 🙂 http://t.co/omIFFFD #lca2011 #
  • I wish ppl would learn that gov is not binary. There is a lot of complexity & many smart ppl. Want to fix stuff? Be constructive #lca2011 #
  • Martial Arts BOF info updated: meeting tmrw morning at 0730 at building F for those interested 🙂 #lca2011 http://bit.ly/euDTKV #
  • Schmid giving eg of gov dept wanting to roll ubuntu out to desktop, but not knowing where to start. OTF can provide support to gov #lca2011 #
  • Schmid: gov needs to better share knowledge to work together, to get unbiased fit for purpose intelligence on IT procurement #lca2011 #
  • RT to #lca2011 @govfresh: @Danjite Might want to look into govhub (http://t.co/YEQSugr) and Civic Commons (http://t.co/8kr3GSZ) #opendata #
  • Stephen Schmid talking about the Open Technology Foundation. Awesome stuff to support #opengov http://t.co/Xf8nakV #lca2011 #
  • Great comment from attendee at #opengov miniconf about how long term benefits of open tech is what will win procurement argument #lca2011 #
  • Lisa Harvey: perhaps don't assume you know what is best for a person with a disability (wrt website design) #lca2011 #
  • Listening to Lisa Harvey talk about NBN as an "innovation multiplier", #opendata challenger & opps for local councils & #opengov #lca2011 #
  • Listening to catalyst talk about their work in nz gov/education, awesome stuff with Drupal and Moodle 🙂 #lca2011 #
  • #lca2011 ppl interested in the AGIMO coe stuff should read all of http://t.co/gYtAOd8 including the comment responses from @sherro58 #
  • Whitehouse.gov is a Drupal site, and everyone in congress has a Drupal site too. Woot! 🙂 #lca2011 #
  • Brisbane city council just rang & shield have something substantial to do on Sat for floods cleanup, yay! #lca2011 http://t.co/oP3qH8H #
  • Hooper: "we need the flow of information, we need globally open approach. We need law, technology & policy to be aligned" #lca2011 <- yes! #
  • Hooper in #opendata copyright can be for commercial good, but can also be springboard for innovation (eg, copyleft) #lca2011 #
  • Hooper: Cc-by good for gov but also good for unis, gave anu ip policy which embraces cc & open source for researchers #lca2011 #
  • Reading Jim Gettys blogpost on #bufferbloat http://bit.ly/hXSEI1 #lca2011 #
  • Cerf: InterPlaNetary Internet – current space comms point to point, looking at how to improve space networking – see IPN #lca2011 Wow… #
  • Those coming to Martial Arts BOF, we're doing it at 0730 tomorrow morning at bld F. Unless someone comes up with a better idea 🙂 #lca2011 #
  • Cerf: Privacy is not a technical issue, it is a decision made by people, so companies/gov have big responsibility #lca2011 #
  • Heh 🙂 Vint was a bit "embarrassed" about IPV4 as he was the person who thought 32 bits was enough 🙂 "It was an experiment" #lca2011 #
  • Listening to Vint Cerf discuss the design concepts and evolution of the Internet. Awesome & funny 🙂 #lca2011 "Openness is really important" #
  • New blog post: #lca2011 talk: Applying martial arts in real life http://bit.ly/gCcehe Comments welcome 🙂 Will post video when available #
  • This is why I love both #lca2011 and Matthew Garrett 🙂 http://twitpic.com/3sygfx #
  • Check out the latest Blender movie, it is *awesome* & beautiful although sad. Sintel http://www.sintel.org/ #lca2011 /via @silviapfeiffer 🙂 #
  • Brianna "The problem w theories that reinforce gender stereotypes is power is usually left in hands of men, I want some of that!" #lca2011 #
  • Listening to "neurosexism" talk by Brianna Laugher – throwing around nature vs nurture & assumptions vs reality of gender diffs #lca2011 #
  • "Apache: changing the world by proxy" from @noirins Heh 🙂 #lca2011 #
  • Listening to amazing & inspiring talk by @noirins about using tech to help deal with disasters and poverty. Def check out recording #lca2011 #
  • About to give a talk about martial arts in the workplace, applying combat theory to everyday life 🙂 #

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