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London bombings: ABC News Map. 08/07/2005. ABC News Online

This is remarkably effective!

ABC News Online has created an interactive map of the scene of the London bombings for the Google Earth software.

Grid Thinking

My friend Maarten has had this project going for some time now, I didnt even know about it

Its kinda hard to summorize what he is trying to do, i think it can be best described as a particapatory collaboration and data disssemenation platform.

Can you tell he was enspired by EPIC?

Some quotes from his Grid Thinking blog, which he seems to be using as a scratchpad for his thoughts more than anything else at the moment:

For the past year i'm loaded with thoughts due to what’s happening with internet standards and innovations. It seems that the most important standards are in place. We got webservices, RSS and applications that can publish and subscribe to rss Feeds like blogging tools and podcasting studio's to publish feeds with content and RSS Aggregators and podcasting clients to subscripe to content.

Two big parts

• The first part is creating new methods to realize efficient ways to share ideas and have realtime brainstorming sessions with large amounts of people.
  We than would also need better (structured) ways to connect publications and comments. This can be done by tags and topics, but also based on a ‘Mindmaps way’ of connecting items. 

• This second part of the idea basically comes down to realizing new ways for connecting and sorting publications, but now based on a combination of 'social tagging and rating' and using algorithms in software (business intelligence) to do the tagging and rating. This system could also be used form monitoring the topics and trends in a (corporate) blogosphere.

Gridthinking  is about the key technology behind the first version of a Computer Network that realizes Collective Thinking between the community of internet connected people who wish to share information and

thoughts on all kind of subjects and interests. (related blogs, more links to come)

Gridthinking could be about the Google Grid. But NOT ONLY THIS..  Yes it's about recorded media (EPIC?), but it's also about people and the possibility to real-time share thoughts no matter where you are (items) .

GrindThink is about the web 2.0 and beyond....

» Blog Archive » Money for Nothing

So I was listening to the latest Gillmore gang and what they where talking about struck a chord.

They where discussing how Live8 was consumed by about 5 million people via AOL’s streams, and how the consumption of such media was shifting from the broadcast model to the remix model, especially in the under-35 age group. Do-it-your-self content provisioning. Customize what you consume!

Well I have to admit, it was the only time I had actually considdered that I already do it naturally.

Example: I watched most of Live8 on my laptop, wirelessly, which was purched next to my game pc, and I was swithing between the global feed, the London feed, the German feed etc, while playing World of Warcraft, while scrolling blogs on Live8 and WoW and reading my rss Bandit. I didn’t even considder watching Live8 on TV…  until my lodger stated that he needed the network bandwidth to play CS:S , hehe.

From: BlogJet weblog :: MSN Spaces API

Carnage4Life, of the MSN Spaces team, posts on his blog, that MSN Spaces will be supporting the Metaweblog API soon. Or at least, a version of it

Our current plan is to provide an implementation of the MetaWeblog API with some methods from the Blogger API while using HTTPS/SSL for security. These APIs are widely supported by various weblog applications and already have a vibrant developer ecosystem around them. The API will enable people to create, edit and delete posts on the blog in their space. One of our goals is to ensure that bloggers who are already using blog posting tools such Blogjet or w.bloggar can use them to interact with MSN Spaces when we launch the API without having to upgrade or switch clients. Similarly web sites which allow users to post to their blogs such as Flickr and Zoto should be able to support our API without making significant changes

This is exellent news, it will allow tools like Blogjet or other online services to interact with MSN Spaces and opens up it up to the rest of the blog-management arena.

I am starting to see a need for some kinds of blog-routing. For instance: I can now post from Flickr to most of my blogs. I can post from Blogjet to all of my blogs simultainiously. I can email my MSN Spaces blog with SMTP, I can moblog directly to Flickr.

But… 

I cannot email any of my other blogs, nor can I post to a blogging service while simultaniously uploading to Flickr (Dmitry, are you paying attention?). And I cannot use a web interface anywhere to post to all my blogs simultaniously. I would also like to be able to have all my blogs automaticly draw their content, via rss perhaps, from any of my other blogs.. or any other content I specify.

Think of it…   I save a bookmark in Del.icio.us or a picture in Flickr, my MSN Spaces blog picks it up automaticly, whereafter my other blogs or sites, or whatever, either pick it up via rss, or are posted to from MSN Spaces, or whatever other blog or content source.

We need some kind of web-service that does all of this. An rss router of sorts. Hmm.. could Bizztalk do this?  (this is the bit where I hope other people at GWB read my posts!)

I am a little late to the Flickr crowd..

See how much of a Warcraft or Battletech fan I am

Speaking of Warcraft, I actually went and ordered the Collectors Edition on Ebay… 

Now I have to go an decide which account I wanna use.. my old one with my lvl 52 (soon to be 60) character, or my Collectors edition one with the cool Pet, cause using both might be a little expensive…    

First week on the new job, problem nr1 solved.

(hostnames changed to generic names)

We where getting continuous Sync errors like follows:

Update for Windows Server 2003 (KB898792): Failed to download from URL 'http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3-19990518/cabpool/WindowsServer2003-KB898792-v2-x86-enu_ca965b3c805f48f2fe8ee1a420ddbf4.exe'. (Error 0x80072F78: Invalid server response.) - WindowsServer2003-KB898792-v2-x86-enu_ca965b3c805f48f2fe8ee1a420ddbf4.exe


Here is a copy paste of what happens on the ISA side:



10.31.129.254 anonymous - N 2005-07-10 03:00:23 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - www.msus.windowsupdate.com - 80 - 150 2798 http TCP GET http://www.msus.windowsupdate.com/msus/v1/aucatalog1.cab - - 407
10.31.129.254 anonymous - N 2005-07-10 03:00:23 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - www.msus.windowsupdate.com - 80 - - 738 http TCP GET http://www.msus.windowsupdate.com/msus/v1/aucatalog1.cab - - 407
10.31.129.254 DOMAIN1\ - Y 2005-07-10 03:00:32 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - www.msus.windowsupdate.com 207.46.197.119 80 9281 286 75921 http TCP GET http://www.msus.windowsupdate.com/msus/v1/aucatalog1.cab application/octet-stream Inet 64
10.31.129.254 anonymous - N 2005-07-10 03:01:33 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - www.msus.windowsupdate.com - 80 - 147 421 http TCP HEAD http://www.msus.windowsupdate.com/msus/v1/aurtf1.cab - - 407
10.31.129.254 anonymous - N 2005-07-10 03:01:33 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - www.msus.windowsupdate.com - 80 - - 754 http TCP HEAD http://www.msus.windowsupdate.com/msus/v1/aurtf1.cab - - 407
10.31.129.254 DOMAIN1\ - Y 2005-07-10 03:01:34 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - www.msus.windowsupdate.com 207.46.197.119 80 344 302 334 http TCP HEAD http://www.msus.windowsupdate.com/msus/v1/aurtf1.cab application/octet-stream Inet 200
10.31.129.254 anonymous - N 2005-07-10 03:02:20 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - download.windowsupdate.com - 80 - 239 2798 http TCP GET http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownlo...e1a420ddbf4.exe - - 407
10.31.129.254 anonymous - N 2005-07-10 03:02:20 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - download.windowsupdate.com - 80 - - 827 http TCP GET http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownlo...e1a420ddbf4.exe - - 407
10.31.129.254 DOMAIN1\ - Y 2005-07-10 03:02:21 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - download.windowsupdate.com 195.22.198.151 80 438 375 - http TCP GET http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownlo...e1a420ddbf4.exe application/x-msdownload Inet 12210
10.31.129.254 anonymous - N 2005-07-10 03:03:07 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - download.windowsupdate.com - 80 - 239 2798 http TCP GET http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownlo...e1a420ddbf4.exe - - 407
10.31.129.254 anonymous - N 2005-07-10 03:03:07 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - download.windowsupdate.com - 80 - - 827 http TCP GET http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownlo...e1a420ddbf4.exe - - 407
10.31.129.254 DOMAIN1\ - Y 2005-07-10 03:03:07 w3proxy SRV-ISA01 - download.windowsupdate.com 195.22.198.151 80 94 375 - http TCP GET http://download.windowsupdate.com/msdownlo...e1a420ddbf4.exe application/x-msdownload Inet 12210


Now the purely annonymous connections that result in the 407 are normal I assume, as you need an initial 407 from the proxy in order to initiate authentication information being sent from the client.

But after 2 x 407, ISA itself comes with its 12210 error, which MS states as: An Internet Server API (ISAPI) filter caused an error or terminated with an error

Well that is intereting!

Guess what we use on the ISA server aswell? Surfcontrol!
Surfcontrol is a web-content filter, used to stop people surfing porn or downloading crap.. its plugged into ISA server as a custom ASAPI filter.

We had the SUS server in there, attached to our "unrestriced internet' rule (guess who else uses that rule?

Anyway... the SUS server was defined in Surtcontrol by FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name).

It turns out, the way our ISA server is set up, is that its not doign any kind of resolving on incoming client requests.. the ISA logs show this; all clients identified by IP adress, no hostnames at all.

Because of this, Surfcontrol was unable to apply the rule, and was sending back 502 errors to SUS (Internally 12210)... which SUS translates as [b]Error 0x80072F78: Invalid server response[b]

Though changing the definition is Surfcontrol solved the issue, I am left wondering if this ISA behavior is by design or not. It might simply be the way we have it set up, I will have to look into this further.