Ok, further to my initial Panopticon/Jabber experiments, I’ve extended the panpush.pl script to respond to jabber:iq:browse requests. As the script starts, and receives the initial gush of data from the Panopticon port, and as it receives further pushes, it stores the data on the avatar icons, and makes this data available as results [...]
I was just chatting to Morbus in the Emerging Tech. Conference IRC channel (#etcon on irc.openprojects.net) and he mentioned his Amphetadesk news aggregator had a ’subscribe to this’ feature for RSS URLs similar to the Radio Userland coffee-cup feature I’ve already included in the My Feeds section.
So Morbus told me what the links [...]
I’ve just updated the ‘jabberconf‘ Blaggplug from 0+1 to 0+1b. This new version escapes the entities transferred as text to the Jabber conference room, stopping any XML-related chundering on Jabber’s part.
Everything that goes around, comes around. What thing links my old University (UCL), Jeremy Bentham, (whose preserved figure sits in UCL’s South Cloisters), and this year’s Emerging Technology Conference?
Why, the Panopticon, of course. An architectural figure, envisioned by Bentham, which allows one to see but not be seen. “The Panopticon” is [...]