Saturday, August 27, 2011
Sitting on a plane editing documentation for Drupal.org #lastgaspofdrupalcon #drupalcon
Friday, August 26, 2011
Sitting at the Fairfield at #drupalcon London working on Drupalcon Denver efforts. Want to volunteer? Seek me out. #drupal
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Next European Drupalcon will be Aug 20 - 23 in Munich Germany. #drupal
Groups are no longer nodes in D7. #drupalcon london
Blocks are dumb items - they have no idea of what page they are on. #drupalcon london
2) Leverage Entity and Terms 3) merfago - merlin of chaos and fago's API #drupalcon london
There were three main concepts in the fashion show. 1 roles and permissions - per group. #drupalcon london
an Entity is something and nothing at the same time. There is now a fieldable dress on the stage. #drupalcon london
and suddenly it is the second Drupal fashion show suddenly. #drupalcon london
OMG - open gizra is code named Middle East because it is as stable at the region itself. #LOL #drupalcon london
Drupal is Mass Customization. #drupalcon london
Development is like making clothes. Custom work will fit perfectly but will take time and it is expensive. #drupalcon london
Or you can get a mass produced pair of pants - cheap, but it won't fit right. #drupalcon london
at the D7 Organic Groups session #drupalcon london and it is pretty amusing so far.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Internet could well encourage a new religion to "spread the world". #drupalconkeynote
The Internet will stimulate more experimentation and social media will encourage innovation. #drupalconkeynote
Governments are scared by the Internet as it topples them. Social media is going to continue making change in politics. #drupalconkeynote
The mass media model has been upended by the Internet and reinvigorating horizontal media. A return to before 1833. #drupalconkeynote
All media became one way push - mass media put the control in a few sets of hands. #drupalconkeynote
The Sun changed the model by increasing circulation - but it was no longer citizen journalists. Pro's decide what goes in. #drupalconkeynote
The Sun caused things to fall apart. It was 6 times cheaper than other newspapers. It was a switch of funding by subscribers to ads.
There have been many social media cultures over history sharing, liking, distributing etc. #drupalconkeynote
The British lost because all the supplies needed to come by ship as they couldn't live off the land. #drupalconkeynote
Paine had 1000 copies of a pamphlet printed (Common Sense). Washington got a copy. It ended up hitting 250,000 colonists. #drupalconkeynote
The stamp tax ultimately led to the American Revolution. #drupalconkeynote
The government would tax paper and a stamp tax in America to make it hard for the poor to get information. #drupalconkeynote
Now to America - America embraced the notion of the Freedom of the Press. #drupalconkeynote
Open-ness and sharing made it easier to work on each other's work. #drupalconkeynote
Coffeehouse discussions were reprinted in magazines. The Coffeehouse Internet. #drupalconkeynote
Scientists printed results of experiments, then they would build on each other's work - OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT in the 1660's #drupalconkeynote
This allowed for open conversations where folks could figure things out for themselves by looking at different ideas. #drupalconkeynote
Parliament tried to regain control of the press. Things were printed as speeches, even though they were never spoken. #drupalconkeynote
There was a HuffPo model of creating pamphlets for free to gain influence. #drupalconkeynote
A WAR of pamphlets. #drupalconkeynote
Battles were written up in different versions, and those versions had refutes from opponents. Flame wars occurred. #drupalconkeynote
The Bible was then changed to English - and folks had literacy increase. #drupalconkeynote
When the English went into civil war - the crown lost control of the printing press and people experienced free press. #drupalconkeynote
Printers were killed for printing - so many folks moved to the Netherlands. #drupalconkeynote
Flame wars during the English Civil War. #drupalconkeynote
Is it right to dignify a criticism from the people? The church had a hard time figuring out what to do, because it wasn't "correct"
Luther composed hymns in German so the regular person could participate in the service. #drupalconkeynote
Buying a pamphlet was a social badge in 1580. #drupalconkeynote
Quantcast didn't exist in 1500's but it turns out you can extrapolate his "traffic stats". Awesome slide at #drupalconkeynote
There was a debate that ended up 21 additional posts. He responded to critics - he HAD to respond. #drupalconkeynote
Printers in other towns would ask about whether Luther's pamphlet was available to be copied. #drupalconkeynote
Martin Luther thought indulgences were outrageous. He wrote to the leadership - and his friends copied them and they spread in 2 weeks.
Leap Forward - the reformation - Martin Luther was a "blogger". #drupalconkeynote
These epistles had very much interest in churches that they weren't meant for. The epistles are still read today. #drupalconkeynote
St Paul used social media. He used open letters known as Epistles. #drupalconkeynote
Folks would comment on each other's "posts" on the walls in Roman home. #drupalconkeynote
Roman Graffiti would show up inside peoples houses. You would be showing how literate your friends are. #drupalconkeynote
Cicero complains that he is getting too much information - for example, he didn't need to know gladiator results. #drupalconkeynote
Scribes were like broadband made copies for you. Cicero's scribe invented shorthand - means higher bandwidth. #drupalconkeynote
Speeches and books were going along the social networks, there was liking - recommending - forwarding, etc. #drupalconkeynote
Books and speeches would have a couple of copies, then friends would make copies, that is how publishing occurred. #drupalconkeynote
Romans had semi public letters - they had attachments. News was flitting back and forth. #drupalconkeynote
In the Roman era - it was sprawling - and it was centralized. Letters went back and forth. #drupalconkeynote
The Romans had "laptops" and "tablets" and many of them looked like an iPad. They would be covered in black wax. #drupalconkeynote
Standage believes that "new media" is very similar to "old media". #drupalconkeynote
In the old days - before the rise of mass media, all media was social media. However, it was MORE social then. #drupalconkeynote
Tom Standage - Digital Editor from the Economist is on stage. #drupalcon london
Wow, the Economist has managed to kill Cold Fusion this past month. #drupalcon london CONGRATS!
at the morning Keynote at #drupalcon london
#drupacon Londoners - just a wee reminder, there is time to participate in the Examiner.com XOOM give away! http://exm.nr/r8Cm7r
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
#DriesNote panorama at #drupalcon London this morning. #drupal
#driesnote #drupal - lets work on D8 and clean up more usability issues.
Wrapping up #driesnote - lets think better. There is opportunity. Need to be tech strong, ease of use, well marketed. #drupal
Drupal is not well marketed enough. #drupacon #driesnote
We need to embrace the tension between usability and functionality. It is just a fact of life. #drupalcon #driesnote
Drupal has a challenge - number of modules available. Drupal is awesome because of - number of modules available. #drupalcon #driesnote
Trade off of ease of use vs superior technologies is palpable. #drupalcon #driesnote
Lets investigate other systems - know our competition, look for opportunities. #drupalcon #driesnote
Number 1 term used to describe Drupal in survey? "Flexible" #drupal #drupalconlondon #driesnote
Organizations are deciding to standardize on #drupal save money. No license fees and a single knowledge base for support. #drupalcon #dries
Come out to the Examiner.com XOOM BOF ( http://bit.ly/opdGHO ) - meet with @Creech and @Cyberswat - find out how to nab it. #drupal #london
and here we go with Dries #drupalcon keynote! #drupal
The spirit of Drupalcon Future is on the stage... on a snowboard. #drupalcon london
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Just spent a delightful few hours with an Uncle and Aunt in #London #jetlagged.
