February 3, 2010 by jerome
This might sound trivial to a lot of us – but i find it so useful so often… Maybe you have other practice for such use – just let me know!
Zip let’s you archive a whole directory wiht many subdirectories and files inside in one convenient file. It’s usually done trough the OS UI by simply right clicking on a directory and selecting compress or archive this from the contextual menu.
When you want to download an archive of a website or any files online it is sometimes a lot more effective and convenient to just use the same zip archive. Unfortunately FTP programms wont let you do any such thing – so you have to bypass – if you are the lucky user of a server with an SSH access nothing is simpler:
connect to the server using the terminal:
ssh username@myserver.com
insert the password
navigate to the top of the directory you want to archive
type:
zip -r archiveFileName directoryName
* this will archive the content of directoryName into a zip file called archiveFileName; -r stands for recursive
** according to the number and size of the files in your archive, the compressing can take very long – i like to have it running on a second screen exactly like an activity monitoring device of the server life – sort of an electronic presence of the machine.
*** you can then move the zip file around, transfert it to another ftp or use it locally – unzip command will let you un pack the archive and access the files.
**** if you are using fuse – don’t think the conextual menu is the best solution: you would be using zip on your computer and would download each files to be compressed on your local machine, and doing the compression on the distant disk. Latency time for read and write access will be HUGE. Chances are your are going to kill a couple of processes on your own machine, at best this will take ages (like in days). Just use the ssh via the terminal and all the compression task will happen on the distant server, leaving your computer free of sluggish clogging.
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December 5, 2009 by jerome
* the idea of this logging application is to gather in one single place all activities around a website and represent them so that it highlights positive and negative relationships: publishing of post/page, use of twitter, facebook, mailinglist, etc. in order to be able to monitor and analyse an electronic presence, the traffic influence online activities are having – what are the other aspects that could be monitored? Beside the AdminLog plugin being developped, a few notes and interesting thing found during researches:
Realtime Monitoring seems to be essential – that’s one of the downside of using Google Analytics. At the same time, the realtime aspects might create a curtain in front of the bigger picture of a larger time scale for monitoring activities.
Google Analytics has an API
most certainly useful to gather more data beside the realtime echniques we are already using.
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataLibraries.html
Google Analytics released Intelligence; their new automatic alert system.
the system automatically draw attention to unexpected events, based on re-occurences of values. If the bounce rate suddenly is sky rocketting, the system will notice the alteration in the pattern and trigger an alert. Their custom alerting system lets admins set custom alerts parameters; but i haven’t been succesful so far with it…
Conversion rate
conversion rate is the ratio of visitors who convert casual content views or website visits into desired actions based on subtle or direct requests (Wikipedia: Conversion Rate)
Wat are the relevant actions? So far, for DMO i have been considering the following actions as being relevant:
Add to cart, Checkout, Mailinglist subscription, Twitter follow
The new facebook privacy system seems to introduce stats f consultation – ?
Flickr has a nice but limited statistics tool; interesting to monitor and glue with the Google data on referrer to monitor the conversion from Flickr. API?
http://www.flickr.com/services/api/flickr.activity.userPhotos.html
Tags: electronic presence, tool, usability, user | Comments (0)
November 13, 2009 by jerome
The Go Programming Language.
* this is big; if you are into programming languages or at least keen on discovering new languages. This is the latest addition by Google rooted into Plan9 via Inferno. I am really keen on discovering more about it – even if just by curiosity and no particular projects. I think Plan 9 conception of computers as communication hub is brilliant and perfectly fit our no-yet-so current conception of the internet (read: electronci presence) – and thus any grand children of this very conception helps things happen/evolve a bit faster…
** give to Mike what “belongs” to him: Mike found out about the Plan 9 familly roots.
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March 28, 2008 by jerome
Yesterday we all went to the launch of Disclosures, a series of event organised by Gasworks. Disclosures purpose is to scrutinise the notion of openness across fields of cultural production at large..
Electronest is part of the event as commissioned artist/designer for the Pipeline website and we also designed the printed communication.
This morning, like almost every morning, I was looking at the statistics of our various websites; I started to consider the leaflet in which we had the chance to have an extended colophon as an extension of our Electronic Presence – yesterday, on Assembling we released a short report about the re-launch of Electronest’s “home page” and I remembered an idea Pierre explored a little while ago: Generic Business Card.
This morning, the idea of considering those bits of paper which I always neglected (or more exactly which I always tried to neglect) as an extension of our Electronic Presence started to be quite attractive.
Attractive enough for me, to have my own go at it.
Reading WikiPedia, Business Cards evolved from a fusion of traditional trade cards and visiting cards; they are bearing business information about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid.
It is funny to then read and figure out the similitude with the definition of what a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is: In computing, a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), is a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource. The main purpose of this identification is to enable interaction with representations of the resource over a network, typically the World Wide Web, using specific protocols.
∗ Business Cards on WikiPedia
∗ URI on WikiPedia
∗ by the way, the program which has a few mistakes and bugs, should be corrected in a future PDF, a sort RC2
∗ Pipeline |* is not yet launched but it should get some content and go live soon
Tags: ambient, beacon, electronic presence, print, tangible, typography, uri | Comments (0)
March 18, 2008 by pierre
http://rooreynolds.com/2008/03/12/ambient-skype/
made me think of our discussion about the different uses of the (sometime broken) computers, and the meaning of “electronic presence”.
A previous email from Jérôme:
- when there was those bombing in London in July 05, the Cellphone Network Carriers were quickly crushed: too many people were inquiring about the safety of their relatives. A simple alternative i read about at that time (i forgot where and from whom) was to have mobile phone with an IP system that would then reply to a simple ping
- Yesterday, Pierre’s computer crashed – all the data are safe, he does backup everything vital all the time. Despite this fact, I was worried by the loss of its hardware: he couldn’t make sure Martine who stayed in France was alright and couldn’t let her know he was since he was not connected to the AIM network; not that he needed to talk to her – there always is the phone – but he couldn’t see her in the corner of his screen.
That’s typically an exemple of what I’m referring to when I am speaking about Electronic Presence, a networked extension of the self.
- Then we started our rants and 2 pences about a personnal IP which would allow others to _ping_ someone – which means they can know you’re safe/alive. one could setup an auto reply status to the ping, like: “Hospital”, “I’m fine”, “sleeping”, “meeting”. Auto status could enabled in advance using calendar applications
- It really does sounds like FaceBook status; there is some Twitter too, under the hood.
- OpenID could be a nice receptacle for this kind of development.
To wich I replied:
Makes me think as well of an interesting interface that there is in the operating system plan 9 (a new more “perfect” unix that never really took off by some of the makers of unix), it is a sort of “distributed” os and there is a part of the UI that shows who’s connected to a machine with small icons like this (on the top left corner):
it is very similar to ichat buddies icons, but I like how it is built deep in to the system and UI, and linked to the idea that our personal machines could be seen as mere entry points in a more global distributed space, where our friends and loved ones are allowed to enter a common space.
and Jérôme quoted:
“Plan 9 is based on UNIX but was developed to demonstrate the concept of making communication the central function of the computing system.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
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