April 21st, 2008

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Recording an IRC channel on Linux/Ubuntu

There are a ton of Interney Relay Chat (IRC) clients for Linux/Ubuntu, e.g. Gaim (now called Pidgin). One IRC client that makes recording an IRC conversation pretty easy is Irssi. Install Irssi on Ubuntu with a simple command:

sudo apt-get install irssi

Then run the program “irssi” from the command line.
Now suppose you want to record what’s going on in the #iphone channel, which runs on the IRC server irc.osx86.hu. Pick a nickname for yourself such as “notanewbie” and run the following commands:

irssi
/set nick notanewbie
/set autolog on
/connect irc.osx86.hu
/list
/join #iphone

Then just leave the terminal running or type “/quit” when you’re ready to exit. The IRC chat log will automatically be placed in ~/irclogs/osx86/#iphone.log . The chat log includes messages when people join/leave the channel, so you can use this command to peruse what people are actually saying:

cat \#iphone.log | egrep -v ‘has quit|has left|has joined’ | less

That should get you recording an IRC […]

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Groundswell Interview with Charlene Li

This week might as well be called “social media week” with the NewComm Forum, SMX Social Media and the Web 2.0 Expo all happening at pretty much the same time. Companies worldwide are trying their best to make sense of the emerging landscape of social technologies and the new book, Groundswell, from Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li of Forrester does a fantastic job at just that.

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Charlene Li is Vice President & Principal Analyst at Forrester Research covering social computing and technologies. She is undoubtedly one of the most often quoted analysts on all things dealing with social computing and commerce on the web. After reading a review copy of “Groundswell - Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies” I’ve been referring every chance I get. Following is an interview with Charlene about the book and her insights into key questions for companies trying to demystify the […]

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