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This guy is the brother of Monica Bicking, one of the RNC 8

http://mugshot.org/visit?post=yBnDZHTk35dZWx

Violence?

Reports have come out about violent protest. First, I want to talk about the facts related to this:

Actual incidents are often exaggerated or fabricated. For instance, in the case of the home raids things like paint, bottles, and rags were labeled as "the ingredients for making Molotov cocktails". Iâ(TM)m sure every reader of this post has sufficient ingredients to make a Molotov cocktail. Also, many people have hatchets, bricks, and other materials. Buckets of urine were particularly attention-grabbing, but the only reason for these was that one of the houses had a broken toilet. The police interpretation of the confiscated material is not credible.

There have also been reports of violence at the protests themselves. First it should be noted that there are no reports of police or bystanders being injured. I personally find it is hard to classify property damage as "violence". If you don't include property damage then there doesn't seem to be much evidence of violence.

Protest is confrontational. Some will suggest that protesters should obey police in all situations. They suggest that protesters should obey all laws and only protest where permitted. They suggest protesters should not be disruptive of anyone else. The result would not be protest. In cases like the RNC, where extensive planning was in place to counter protest, non-confrontational protest means protesting according to someone elseâ(TM)s plans, someone who has no desire for the protest to succeed in any way. Once you confront the police, there will be violence â" usually by the police. And sure, you can stand with a flower in your hand and get a face full of pepper spray, and of course many people choose that course. Itâ(TM)s a noble choice, but I canâ(TM)t fault people for making other tactical decisions.

Another protesting tactic is the "black bloq", typically a group of people who try to attract the attention of the police, often through property damage. If the police have nothing better to do, then why not pin down the peaceful protesters and direct them where they can make the least impact? People in the black bloq will try to keep this from happening. Itâ(TM)s unlikely they were at all successful at the RNC as it was so thoroughly militarized. You could debate whether this is a good strategy (and there is lots of debate about this), but probably few people outside activists have any idea that there even is any underlying strategy.

Also, if you wonder why protesters, especially the anarchists, dress the way they do, it is primarily defensive. If you are going to get teargassed and peppersprayed does wearing a handkerchief seem so odd? And if they are tracking people to preemptively arrest, all the more reason to be as anonymous as possible.

So he says the police did find buckets of urine and Molotov cocktail components but they were there for legitimate reasons. And he admits "black bloq" anarchists damage property, which is true.

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He denies that police were attacked

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or bystanders

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which is not. You can't make Molotovs out of paint either. But amongst all the spin and lies to get his sister off the hook he does admit the police found the stuff your affidavit says they were searching for.

The Mugshot application by Redhat uses XMPP for communication with clients. Its a good example of scalability of JavaEE and XMPP as transport .

http://mugshot.org/main

Red Hat is doing something close to this through their Mugshot project. It has progressed quite a bit since that Ars Technica write up and is an important component of GNOME's Online Desktop project.

Isn't Mugshot an Open Source social networking endeavour?
I haven't used it but it looks like it makes sharing the sort of the stuff that gets shared on facebook fairly easy (perhaps with a little less crack).

I'm not sure if it tell you when it's someone you know's birthday. That's just about the only useful feature I've seen on Facebook.

Isn't Mugshot an Open Source social networking endeavour?
I haven't used it but it looks like it makes sharing the sort of the stuff that gets shared on facebook fairly easy (perhaps with a little less crack).

I'm not sure if it tell you when it's someone you know's birthday. That's just about the only useful feature I've seen on Facebook.

14. How does Mugshot relate to Red Hat?
Two of Red Hat's core values are collaboration and freedom. Mugshot is an experiment in applying Red Hat's philosophy of collaboration and freedom to new types of content, beyond software and source code.

15. How does Mugshot benefit Red Hat?
Technology developed in the Mugshot project may be incorporated into current and future Red Hat products and services. For example, Red Hat may incorporate live social experiences into Red Hat's client products, or offer commercial services around future versions of the Mugshot software.
There are not yet any formal plans to incorporate Mugshot into the Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core distributions.

.... which means RedHat gets lots and lots of useful data about who talks to who, how often, and what tools they use.

Mugshot seem to be what he's looking for. It is an open, free software, community, meta site. It tries to create a interconnect all different community sites and place them under one roof so to say. With one centralized user management system. Seems like a very, very ambitious project because it is damn hard to anticipate human behaviour and social patterns. In the broad sense, an internet community is everything from mailing lists to MySpace to Slashdot to various forums and even BitTorrent trackers.

Of course you can get the content to people outside FB by other means, but that means a duplication of effort. Otherwise they have to join FB.

I think that the reason that FB and some other social sites can claim such high membership numbers is that people are joining just to see their friends' pictures, but then never post anything themselves.

I have a blog, but my pictures go on http://multiply.com./ I happen to like the degree of control they give me over who can see what I post. I'm also on Facebook, but only because some friends were there. I quite like the look of http://mugshot.org/ as it seems to be closer to what the author is suggesting.

What I would like to see is something I can host myself that combines a blog with FOAF and OpenID. FOAF would list the people who I want to allow access and they would log in with OpenID. It could also include XFN. I don't really want to run a full CMS.

Just scroll bit down to GNOME Online Desktop. Open Source desktop guys are talking about this idea for a long time. They want to build interface with contacts list as central place. People (online presences) are to become major pivot point. Telepathy, Galago, Decibel, KIMProxy gave application access to uniform online connectivity and presence information.
Additionally, projects like Stateless Linux break ties between user's documents and his computer. User's desktop moves with him when changing laptops etc.
They even built ,,aggregator for popular online sites and social notworking websites'' -- check Mugshot.

Appleseed looks really interesting. I'm concerned about how to convince others of the importance of not being locked in to closed networks. MugShot is also pretty interesting - not distributed, but free software, and can link stuff from facebook, myspace etc into your mugshot page...

Twitter lets you turn off phone notification completely, or just between certain hours of the day. I personally just check the updates online, or through IM.

Also, Red Hat's Mugshot service lets you aggregate disparate social networking services and get them from a single interface. Makes it much less of a hassle to keep track of friends in various networks.

Check your facts

We're trying to do a variety of things that might appeal to people who aren't using Linux or open source already.

Such as? What does it do?

There isn't necessarily a strong connection between all of them (though there is some "platform" that we've been sharing among features so far, such as an XMPP server connecting everyone's desktop, friend lists, groups, etc.)

What's XMPP? What does it do?

There are two very specific features we already started on:
http://mugshot.org/links-learnmore
http://mugshot.org/radar-learnmore

Oh, so you're copying delicious and last.fm. Why?

So those are very specific, but the project is open to all kinds of stuff, no need to artificially limit it.

This is the vaguest response I've ever seen. Do you even want me to use this? Tell me, what does it do?

We're trying to do a variety of things that might appeal to people who aren't using Linux or open source already.

Such as? What does it do?

There isn't necessarily a strong connection between all of them (though there is some "platform" that we've been sharing among features so far, such as an XMPP server connecting everyone's desktop, friend lists, groups, etc.)

What's XMPP? What does it do?

There are two very specific features we already started on:
http://mugshot.org/links-learnmore
http://mugshot.org/radar-learnmore

Oh, so you're copying delicious and last.fm. Why?

So those are very specific, but the project is open to all kinds of stuff, no need to artificially limit it.

This is the vaguest response I've ever seen. Do you even want me to use this? Tell me, what does it do?

We're trying to do a variety of things that might appeal to people who aren't using Linux or open source already. There isn't necessarily a strong connection between all of them (though there is some "platform" that we've been sharing among features so far, such as an XMPP server connecting everyone's desktop, friend lists, groups, etc.)

There are two very specific features we already started on:
http://mugshot.org/links-learnmore
http://mugshot.org/radar-learnmore

So those are very specific, but the project is open to all kinds of stuff, no need to artificially limit it.

We're trying to do a variety of things that might appeal to people who aren't using Linux or open source already. There isn't necessarily a strong connection between all of them (though there is some "platform" that we've been sharing among features so far, such as an XMPP server connecting everyone's desktop, friend lists, groups, etc.)

There are two very specific features we already started on:
http://mugshot.org/links-learnmore
http://mugshot.org/radar-learnmore

So those are very specific, but the project is open to all kinds of stuff, no need to artificially limit it.

Does the Slashvertisment tell me what it does? Nope.

Does the website tell me what it is? Nope.

Does the developer site tell me what it is? Nope.

Does the FAQ entitled "What is Mugshot?" tell me what it is? Nope.

If you want to know what it is, you have to read the FAQ entitled What does it do?, in which it explains:

Mugshot currently offers two activities:

• Link Swarm - Share web links with individuals or groups in real time, and get live feedback when people visit those links
• Music Radar - Show off the music you listen to using services like iTunes, Yahoo! Music, and others on your web site, blog or MySpace page

Mugshot works with mainstream applications like iTunes, Yahoo! Music Engine, Firefox and Internet Explorer and currently supports Windows XP and Linux platforms, with limited support for Apple's OS X.

So basically it's like del.icio.us with added media specialisation. Timothy, isn't it your job to make sure writeups include enough information to make sense?