The Pinged Hobbit

I’ve spoken before about how the ease with which the Internet can be both a blessing and a curse, so I felt it was only fair to highlight another instance of it doing good for the community. Earlier this week there was a lot of outrage provoked by a vidoe posted on You Tube which showed a youth dressed in pyjama’s and a balaclava. This youth referred to himself asn Timmy and showed the camera into his ‘laboratory’, once inside he picked up a cat and proceeded to slam it against the wall as well as delivering several blows to it with his fists in what was over a minute of sustained abuse. Continue reading »

Project management is a task encountered daily by the majority of people in their life. Be that in work or in their home life. There are always times when you require someone else to complete a task for you, it can be a bit hard to keep track of the various tasks you have people doing for you. You have to remember who is doing what, who has finished what and what else is left to do. You have all the hassle of remembering to check with them each day about how much they have done on the task as well. It can be a real annoyance. Thats where Please Notify Me comes into play Continue reading »

The changing face of the Internet is have wide reaching effects on the social and economic make up of our way of life, as I’ve have mentioned before these can be very good. The using of Online Collaboration and easy channels of communications like Instant Messaging, Forums and Emails can allow groups of people to come together from all over the world. These groups can then work together on a single project/aim, using the communication channels to keep each other informed of their progress, where they are struggling and talking about where the project is heading next. This distributed workforce is already being widely used by projects such as Linux, Mozilla and IBM. Companies are realising that the old concept that you had to have all the best minds working directly for you in one of your offices no longer works as more and more people over the globe acquire the skills and knowledge to compete.
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For as long as there has been a society, humans have worked together to achieve goals, the internet is changing the way we collaborate, affecting the way we work together. Making it easier for a larger group of people to co-ordinate their efforts on a project and achieve their goals.

It’s no secret that people like to customise their property some times to improve the product or sometimes to personalise it, look at cars as an example. People customise their cars, they modify the engines in an attempt to increase power. They apply custom paint jobs to make it stand out from the crowd. This same ingenuity is also applied to electronics, there are a lot of people that take electronics as a hobby. They spend their spare time working with different components to build circuits of their own design, not for profit but just for personal interest or the hopes of finding something unique. Continue reading »