The software running LiveJournal is open source and primarily written in Perl. Because of this, many other communities have been designed using the LiveJournal software, and have very similar features and formats to LiveJournal itself. However, these sites often have different terms of service than LiveJournal's, making them attractive to users who have become disenchanted with LiveJournal's rules and wish to move their journals to other hosts. the server code of which had just been made open source. Precissi accepted the dare and promptly set up the server code, which was running by the end of the month. DeadJournal immediately adopted a completely contrasting attitude to that of LiveJournal, proclaiming itself as the darker, less friendly alternative, and catering specifically to angry and/or depressed individuals. After LiveJournal, DeadJournal was the second site to use the LiveJournal server code. In its early years, the site often suffered technical errors due to hardware or software failures, resulting in downtime and even data loss. Later, upgrades frequently placed DeadJournal on new equipment, such as larger and faster web slaves and load balancers. Today, DeadJournal is stable, experiencing unplanned downtime only very rarely. After experiencing rapid, uncontrolled growth in its first few months of operation, DeadJournal followed suit with LiveJournal, instituting an invite code system. Unlike LiveJournal, DeadJournal still maintains its invite code system. Though many users see this as an inconvenience, DeadJournal owner and administrator Frank Precissi, among other users, believes it helps maintain the integrity of the service. As of December 14, 2007, DeadJournal had 495,569 users.
* was founded on September 2, 2003 under the url unlimitedrpg.com, offering a journal site for role-playing. It later changed its name to greatestjournal.com and opened to anyone, as an alternative to LiveJournal, offering for free many of the features which LiveJournal offers only to paying users, such as extra icons, voice posts, unlimited styles, and syndication of RSS feeds from other sources. In February 2005 one of the biggest ISPs in the world, ThePlanet, started sponsoring the site's hosting. On June 4, 2005, the site surpassed 1,000,000 users. In August 2005 a new video section was launched. As of December 7, 2007, there were 1.9 million users and communities, , which have eventually led to overload and difficulties.
* : As of December 21, 2007, Blurty had 966,688 members. Blurty also runs on the open-source LiveJournal code and was created in 2002. Users must be 18 or older to join.
* : opened its doors on October 30, 2001 with the URL journal.insanityspeaks.com. Though it was one of the first sites running the LiveJournal engine, for many years InsaneJournal was considered a niche journal site for those who wanted to host their journals at a small relatively unknown site. Then on May 30th, 2007 the same news.com article that told the story of LiveJournal suspending five hundred of their journals listed InsaneJournal, along with GreatestJournal and JournalFen, a possible alternative to LiveJournal. On December 5, 2007 GreatestJournal stopped accepting new accounts and began redirecting their users to InsaneJournal to create new accounts. For a one week period of time, Greatest Journal re-enabled account creation, but then on December 17, 2007 GreatestJournal once again began referring its users to InsaneJournal via their . With the level of publicity that it has received, InsaneJournal has added over 50,000 new accounts and now has over 87,00 user and asylum accounts.
* , founded in March 2003, is only for fans of books, movies, television, music and other forms of entertainment; like Blurty, Journalfen requires its users to be 18 or older. As of November 17, 2007, Journalfen had 14,418 members.
* , founded in September 2007, requires that all users be 18 years of age or older. As of December 21, 2007, Commiejournal had 14,334 members.
LiveJournal, DeadJournal, and InsaneJournal support OpenID, allowing users with accounts on one site to leave signed comments on other sites.
* was founded on September 2, 2003 under the url unlimitedrpg.com, offering a journal site for role-playing. It later changed its name to greatestjournal.com and opened to anyone, as an alternative to LiveJournal, offering for free many of the features which LiveJournal offers only to paying users, such as extra icons, voice posts, unlimited styles, and syndication of RSS feeds from other sources. In February 2005 one of the biggest ISPs in the world, ThePlanet, started sponsoring the site's hosting. On June 4, 2005, the site surpassed 1,000,000 users. In August 2005 a new video section was launched. As of December 7, 2007, there were 1.9 million users and communities, , which have eventually led to overload and difficulties.
* : As of December 21, 2007, Blurty had 966,688 members. Blurty also runs on the open-source LiveJournal code and was created in 2002. Users must be 18 or older to join.
* : opened its doors on October 30, 2001 with the URL journal.insanityspeaks.com. Though it was one of the first sites running the LiveJournal engine, for many years InsaneJournal was considered a niche journal site for those who wanted to host their journals at a small relatively unknown site. Then on May 30th, 2007 the same news.com article that told the story of LiveJournal suspending five hundred of their journals listed InsaneJournal, along with GreatestJournal and JournalFen, a possible alternative to LiveJournal. On December 5, 2007 GreatestJournal stopped accepting new accounts and began redirecting their users to InsaneJournal to create new accounts. For a one week period of time, Greatest Journal re-enabled account creation, but then on December 17, 2007 GreatestJournal once again began referring its users to InsaneJournal via their . With the level of publicity that it has received, InsaneJournal has added over 50,000 new accounts and now has over 87,00 user and asylum accounts.
* , founded in March 2003, is only for fans of books, movies, television, music and other forms of entertainment; like Blurty, Journalfen requires its users to be 18 or older. As of November 17, 2007, Journalfen had 14,418 members.
* , founded in September 2007, requires that all users be 18 years of age or older. As of December 21, 2007, Commiejournal had 14,334 members.
LiveJournal, DeadJournal, and InsaneJournal support OpenID, allowing users with accounts on one site to leave signed comments on other sites.
Chabad of Brazos Valley also known as The Chabad Center of Texas A&M is the Chabad Lubavitch center located in College Station, Texas. With the opening of Chabad of Brazos Valley, there has been a revival of Jewish celebrations as Jewish Aggies now have a regular Shabbat dinner and lunch program, Pesach seders, and Purim parties.
Jewish Aggies
Jewish Aggies are a Jewish student group who attend Texas A&M University and are associated with the Chabad of Brazos Valley. On December 4, 2007, the Jewish Aggies lit the largest menorah in the state of Texas.
Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff
Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, and his wife Manya, opened Chabad of Brazos Valley on July 10, 2007. The Jewish Herald-Voice reported that Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff is facilitating the writting of a Torah scroll at Texas A&M. Rabbi Lazaroff stated that “As our brothers and sisters in the land of Israel suffer daily hardship, now is the time for us to come together. What better way than through the core of our existence – the Torah.” The Texas Jewish Post has reported that Chabad of Brazos Valley is independently funded by donations raised by Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff. On December 11, 2007, the Associated Press reported that Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, and other notable rabbis, celebrated Hanukkah with Texas Governor Rick Perry. The Jewish Herald-Voice reported that Governor Perry, "had special words for Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, who helped open a Chabad House at A&M in 2007. Gov. Perry showed Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff his cadet boots from his days in the Texas A&M Corps and posed for a photo with the rabbi in front of a portrait of Lawrence Sullivan Ross, the 19th governor of Texas and president of A&M during the 1890s."
Jewish Aggies
Jewish Aggies are a Jewish student group who attend Texas A&M University and are associated with the Chabad of Brazos Valley. On December 4, 2007, the Jewish Aggies lit the largest menorah in the state of Texas.
Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff
Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, and his wife Manya, opened Chabad of Brazos Valley on July 10, 2007. The Jewish Herald-Voice reported that Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff is facilitating the writting of a Torah scroll at Texas A&M. Rabbi Lazaroff stated that “As our brothers and sisters in the land of Israel suffer daily hardship, now is the time for us to come together. What better way than through the core of our existence – the Torah.” The Texas Jewish Post has reported that Chabad of Brazos Valley is independently funded by donations raised by Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff. On December 11, 2007, the Associated Press reported that Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, and other notable rabbis, celebrated Hanukkah with Texas Governor Rick Perry. The Jewish Herald-Voice reported that Governor Perry, "had special words for Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff, who helped open a Chabad House at A&M in 2007. Gov. Perry showed Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff his cadet boots from his days in the Texas A&M Corps and posed for a photo with the rabbi in front of a portrait of Lawrence Sullivan Ross, the 19th governor of Texas and president of A&M during the 1890s."
Pushpraj is common male name in India. In sanskrit 'pushp' means 'flower' and 'raj' means 'rule' or 'domination' sums up to "king of flowers". In India this title is given to the Lotus the national flower.
Famous People Named Pushpraj
*Shri Maharaja Pushpraj Singh Ju Deo Bahadur, 36th Vaghela ruler (1995), Rewah, Madhya Pradesh.
Some More People Named Pushpraj
*Pushpraj, Actor, Movie: Parivchay(1972).
Related to Pushpraj
*Pushpraj Chauk, Sangli Miraz, Maharashtra.
*Pushpraj Ayurvedic Hair Oil, International Agro Oil Industries Ltd.
*Pushpraj, Garment Exporter, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India.
Famous People Named Pushpraj
*Shri Maharaja Pushpraj Singh Ju Deo Bahadur, 36th Vaghela ruler (1995), Rewah, Madhya Pradesh.
Some More People Named Pushpraj
*Pushpraj, Actor, Movie: Parivchay(1972).
Related to Pushpraj
*Pushpraj Chauk, Sangli Miraz, Maharashtra.
*Pushpraj Ayurvedic Hair Oil, International Agro Oil Industries Ltd.
*Pushpraj, Garment Exporter, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India.
IG3 - Information Generation 3
With the advent of the world wide web, the world has moved into a new information age that is changing not only the way that we do business and commerce but also is changing our lifestyles. It has been predicted that sometime in the near future (before 2020), the total amount of knowledge will double within 12 months. The period of time in which knowledge will double will continue to reduce.
To help define this emerging information age, the following terminology and concepts were introduced. An information generation (IG) can be defined by the availability and general distribution of non-verbal information. Using this definition, there have been three information generations to date; IG1, IG2 and IG3.
IG1 is the information generation that started with rock drawings and paintings, and progressed through hieroglyphics to written language on scrolls and hand-written manuscripts. IG2 started with the invention of the printing press and went through to IG3 which started with the introduction of the world wide web (‘the web’). IG3 owes its existence mainly to innovations in Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Evolving from IG1 to IG3 hasn’t been done in 3 clearly defined steps; it has been done through accelerating advances in technology and behavioral changes over many centuries.
Compared to IG2, in IG3:
* the amount of information is orders of magnitude greater
* information access is much faster
* information has become truly global
* information is more accessible
* different search parameters can be utilized
* visual communication is used more extensively
* dynamic information is replacing static information
As soon as information is updated, it is virtually instantly and globally available through passive and active methods. This is referred to as dynamic information compared to the static information used in IG2 where information was produced and distributed in a static form. If the source information was updated, copies of the updated source would need to be printed and then distributed. Compare a web news site (IG3) to a newspaper (IG2); compare a printed encyclopedia with year book updates (IG2) to an online encyclopedia such as (IG3).
Various techniques and facilities such as intelligent agents, GPS, RFID devices, data-mining, knowledge engineering and many others, will continue to enhance the availability of dynamic information and associated knowledge development. Using this technology, it is now possible to know where things are. Using smart phones and personal calendars, it is also possible to know where people are and where they plan to be.
This dynamic information and intelligence was not available in IG2 and was therefore not used in systems designed and implemented in IG2 such as education, finance, marketing, health, logistics, manufacturing, legal practices, social, etc. Consequently, these systems will have to be re-designed and re-developed for IG3 and this is starting to occur.
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With the advent of the world wide web, the world has moved into a new information age that is changing not only the way that we do business and commerce but also is changing our lifestyles. It has been predicted that sometime in the near future (before 2020), the total amount of knowledge will double within 12 months. The period of time in which knowledge will double will continue to reduce.
To help define this emerging information age, the following terminology and concepts were introduced. An information generation (IG) can be defined by the availability and general distribution of non-verbal information. Using this definition, there have been three information generations to date; IG1, IG2 and IG3.
IG1 is the information generation that started with rock drawings and paintings, and progressed through hieroglyphics to written language on scrolls and hand-written manuscripts. IG2 started with the invention of the printing press and went through to IG3 which started with the introduction of the world wide web (‘the web’). IG3 owes its existence mainly to innovations in Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
Evolving from IG1 to IG3 hasn’t been done in 3 clearly defined steps; it has been done through accelerating advances in technology and behavioral changes over many centuries.
Compared to IG2, in IG3:
* the amount of information is orders of magnitude greater
* information access is much faster
* information has become truly global
* information is more accessible
* different search parameters can be utilized
* visual communication is used more extensively
* dynamic information is replacing static information
As soon as information is updated, it is virtually instantly and globally available through passive and active methods. This is referred to as dynamic information compared to the static information used in IG2 where information was produced and distributed in a static form. If the source information was updated, copies of the updated source would need to be printed and then distributed. Compare a web news site (IG3) to a newspaper (IG2); compare a printed encyclopedia with year book updates (IG2) to an online encyclopedia such as (IG3).
Various techniques and facilities such as intelligent agents, GPS, RFID devices, data-mining, knowledge engineering and many others, will continue to enhance the availability of dynamic information and associated knowledge development. Using this technology, it is now possible to know where things are. Using smart phones and personal calendars, it is also possible to know where people are and where they plan to be.
This dynamic information and intelligence was not available in IG2 and was therefore not used in systems designed and implemented in IG2 such as education, finance, marketing, health, logistics, manufacturing, legal practices, social, etc. Consequently, these systems will have to be re-designed and re-developed for IG3 and this is starting to occur.
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