Re: [silk] then and now....

2008-04-19 Thread Biju Chacko
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My favorite statistics to watch are (a) The life expectancy in China and India, (b) Economic indicators for China and India, (c) Life expectancy for sub-Saharan African countries, esp. South Africa and Botswana (Anyone

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Friday 18 April 2008, Tea BeeDi wrote: [snip] Several reasons for sharing. First like ss indicated kind of: its sharing. I have a feeling Silk can do a longer list of 'why share', than I can imagine. Maybe its a generational thing :) ss got it! like sharing when computer was not an

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread ss
On Saturday 19 Apr 2008 9:38:49 pm Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: when posts are not attributed to a single person, is the average of all its contributing identities. A sort of chaotic hive mind, simultaneously intelligent, decent, insightful and an anonymous troll. Also deceitful. Many people

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Thursday 17 April 2008, Hassath wrote: [snip] been many friends reading the posts using that subscription. (Of course, like it was pointed out, since it's a publicly archived list, access to the posts is not difficult. Not only publically archived, but with demonstrably high Google juice

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Saturday 19 April 2008, ss wrote: [snip] The implication of those examples may be far more serious than that of a group posting as one on silk - but the deceit, combined with evasion of individual responsibility makes it comparable IMO. I will agree with that. This is no different from

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On a tangent, I have a seven-year-old, and I can fairly quickly spot attention-seeking behaviour. TBD is just that - interesting math, though, several presumably teenage and twenty-somethings averaging to seven - so the best thing to do is to ignore it. Them. Whatever. Ram

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a tangent, I have a seven-year-old, and I can fairly quickly spot On another tangent, why does gmail keep asking me to invite silk-list to gmail? Googlers, can't you identify a list? Perhaps this is not a

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:40 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 10:38 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a tangent, I have a seven-year-old, and I can fairly quickly spot On another tangent, why does gmail keep asking me to

[silk] anyone coming for tomorrows barcamp at IIMB ?

2008-04-19 Thread Mayank Dhingra
Hi Friends, Attended barcampbangalore 6 at IIMB today. It was the best barcamp i've ever attended. From startups to citizen matters(education issues,ecological issues) everything was covered. list of sessions: http://barcampbangalore.org/wiki/BCB6_Sessions Anyone coming for the last day of

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Madhu M. Kurup
Hmm: ss wrote: Also deceitful. For some strange reason (perhaps I'm just contrarian today), I feel that this has gone on a bit much. From http://silk.arachnis.com/, -- Since then, a Rule Zero has emerged, in addition to the two above: Assume Goodwill. -- Since tbd@ hasn't trolled or

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Madhu Menon
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: On another tangent, why does gmail keep asking me to invite silk-list to gmail? Googlers, can't you identify a list? GMail sometimes marks messages from Google's own services as spam sometimes. Calendar reminders, Google group membership messages have all been

Re: [silk] anyone coming for tomorrows barcamp at IIMB ?

2008-04-19 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:14 AM, Mayank Dhingra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Friends, Attended barcampbangalore 6 at IIMB today. It was the best barcamp i've ever attended. From startups to citizen matters(education issues,ecological issues) everything was covered. list of sessions:

Re: [silk] anyone coming for tomorrows barcamp at IIMB ?

2008-04-19 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 20-Apr-08, at 9:34 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: Also, I think that keeping casual visitors out is not logical..the casual visitor of today might be the committed contributor of tomorrow. Since the whole Barcamp premise is based on freewheeling, impromptu discussions and presentations as well as

Re: [silk] anyone coming for tomorrows barcamp at IIMB ?

2008-04-19 Thread Deepa Mohan
There's no easy way to deal with this. BCB1 explicitly stated no spectators, only participants, and missed out a lot of people with interesting opinions. BCB3 dropped that line and saw a flood come in. BCB6 is attempting to calibrate that dial again. I agree Kiran. It's a tough balance to

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-19 Thread Biju Chacko
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Madhu M. Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm: ss wrote: Also deceitful. For some strange reason (perhaps I'm just contrarian today), I feel that this has gone on a bit much. From http://silk.arachnis.com/, -- Since then, a Rule Zero has emerged,