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web site and provides the webmaster with a site they can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a web browser.

But, PostNuke's functionality can be increased by installing modules, blocks and themes. For example, you can add a forum, a gallery and contact form. You can also change how your entire site looks by changing themes. All of this can be done with just a few clicks in the administration panel saving you hours of time, both in the initial creation of the website and in its day to day maintenance.

PostNuke can do anything from traditional blog websites, to a community members' only website with hundreds of users. PostNuke can scale to thousands of uses but is just as easy to create a small website for friends and family

Generated on January 30, 2009.

ScoutSite Project Looking for Volunteers   (News)

flexibility of it's modules, and a variety of pre-made themes we could build a tool that could help Scouts all around the world.

What Troop couldn't use a calender that tells the Scouts and parents when the next camp out is. Forums where the Scouts can talk about their favorite merit badges. A photo gallery of the canoe trip down the river. Newsletters telling families about the most recent ranks the Scouts have earned. Meanwhile also providing a public webpage that can tell others about your Troop. By focusing on communication, organization, co-operation, and program integration we can address many of the problems that Troops face every day.

With Scouts being a global movement, this project too will be global. By localizing tools for Scouting organizations around the world many more scouts will benefit from our work. This can be an opportunity for current and past Scouts and Scouters to work together to help Troops around the world. Those that have never been involved in Scouting are always welcome to help as well.

Ease of use will be the key to this being successful. By making it easy to use we can help Troops that do not have very tech savvy leaders to administer the site. Meanwhile, by keeping the Postnuke core in tact, more advanced admins can add any Postnuke module they may need. Documentation will pay off for end users as well as any developers that build upon our work.

Privacy and security will be very important. For the safety of the Scouts, and everyone's piece of mind, a strict standard of what information is available to the public will be enforced.

Releasing this as Open Source software is also a way that the work that we do can be helpful even beyond the Scouting community. Many of the same tools may be used by other groups, such as sports teams, clubs, or even keeping an extended family in contact.

If you would be interested in helping with this project please contact me at oik2 -at- hideyhole.org. Please include your name,

Generated on September 23, 2007.

Development Update, February 2007-02   (News)

release, and some is part of the current nightly build from SVN. The items that are part of the MS3 package are indicated with a (*).

Installer and upgrade path
The installer for .8 now also checks for a web-user writable pnTemp directory. Before, only it's subdirectories had to be writable. However, more and more modules need a (temporary) writable directory of their own (for example cache directories for image creation or rss feeds). With a writable pnTemp, these modules are now easily allowed to create that directory themselves if it does not exist. (*)
The upgrade path from the historic .7 family has been updated: Some code has been added to migrate blocks placements into the new block_placements table. (*)
Furthermore, old style (legacy) blocks can now be stored in the /config/blocks directory. The specific files do need to be copied manually from the old /includes/blocks directory to it's new location. (*)

Core (API) and environment variables
In the core pnAPI, get_magic_quotes_runtime() was called lots of times for different purposes. With an internal caching method, the result is stored in the global PNRuntime array. Big advantage is that the site's speed has been significantly improved. (*)
Robert has added an enhancement to allow the pnSessionGet/Set/DelVar functions to accept an (optional) path argument (arguments 'autocreate' and 'overwriteExistingVar'). This will allow for easy setting of complex array structures. The change only adds extra arguments to the existing functions and are backwards compatible. At this moment, no direct usage has been committed yet.

PostNuke Object library
At this stage of development, a lot of changes are (and have been) made to the object library. Most of them are 'simple' bug fixes, but some changes are worth mentioning here (additional functionality or changed methods).
In the DBUtil class, there now exists a new method to increment a field with the function incrementObjectFieldByID. This can be used by module authors for updating read counts of content items for example. (*)
Additionally, the function selectScalar has been added (which takes a SQL quesry as argument). This is mostly useful for places where you want to do a "select count(*)" or similar scalar selection.
The utf8 conversion functions (convertFromUTF8 and convertToUTF8) have moved from AjaxUtil to DataUtil when solving a bug to keep the users input in Ajax driven fields as they are intended.
While solving a Google AdSense script bug, where the script tags were automatically cleaned by the safeHTL output filter, a new feature has been added to FormUtil: Before cleaning posted input on an already installed site, the FormUtil now checks if the current user has overall admin permissions. This allows site admins to input potentially harmful tags (javascript for example), but it's their site after all!
Jörn has improved CSS style handling in pnForm plugins, as he has changed some pnForm classes to be derived from pnFormStyledPlugin, which in itself is derived from the original pnFormPlugin.
Because it's better to read the languages directory first for available languages and compare that result against the full list of languages in stead of the other way around, the LanguageUtil has a new function getInstalledLanguages. This now significantly reduces the number of directory checks.
To ensure that most commonly used plugins are found as early as possible, the order in the pnRender class, where the system is searching for plugins, has been modified. The current correct order for the 0.8 distribution is:

system/pnRender/plugins
system/Theme/plugins
config/plugins
current theme-directory/templates/modules/$module/plugins
current theme-directory/plugins
current module-directory/pntemplates/plugins

Furthermore, two new variables can be added to the rendered output page using the PageUtil class. First is 'description', which is default set to the current site slogan. Second is 'footer', with the ability to add custom content just prior to the closing body tag. The latter function is applied as an outputfilter.
Finally, an additional parameter 'display' is added to the pager plugin, which can be set to either 'page' or 'offset'. This is (why am I explaning, isn't this rather self-explanatory?) to allow paging by pages, rather than offsets. It also mirrors the 'show' parameter that exists in many templates (based on the example module) but was never actually implemented.
Last but not least, the Theme class has now added support for a filters section in a page configuration file. This allows for loading of, in the first instance, custom output filters. Note there is no user interface to the functionality the moment.And, why not, the Atom theme has been updated to Atom 1.0

Module modifications
The following modules have been updated for improved .8 compatibility, or just to make administering those modules easier.
The User module now has the long awaited alpha pager for browsing users. (*)
All occurences of the block rendering APIs (read by the Blocks module) have changed from the old style call "return themesideblock" to "return pnBlockThemeBlock". (*)
To the Settings module there has been added a configurable separator for permalinks (*)Furthermore, a switch to globally disable JS Quicktags (which adds a set of buttons for common html tags to enabled textareas) is now part of the Settings module. (*)
Both the Ratings and the Multisites module are modified to meet the new standards of coding and templating. Work still needs to be done to both modules, so testing functionality for these modules may not be that worthwhile as yet. (*)
The Theme module takes over from the Xanthia module in an upgrade. This doesn't mean that it is not Xanthia anymore: it still is actually the Xanthia 3.0 engine (*).
To the Recommend_Us module a display hook has been added. This will add a list of social bookmark links, like the Diggers plugin also does.

Language files overhaul
The language defines in some modules have been reviewed and adjusted to the naming conventions of .8 (see also Dev Update 2006-06). This means that module-specific language defines start with a module-name specific prefix. Additionally, some new general language strings (using the pnML function) have been added to the core language file. The major effect this will have is to subtantially reduce the number of strings that need translating.These changes are applied to the following system modules: Admin, Admin_Messages, AuthPN, Blocks, Mailer, legal, Settings and SysInfo. ValueAddons modules will follow later.

PostgreSQL DBMS testers wanted
The .8 DBUtil class, as mentioned many times before, makes it possible to run PostNuke on different DBMS platforms, like PostgreSQL,

Generated on February 20, 2007.

Microformats in PostNuke   (News)

name into a pair of span-tags and give it the class "given-name". The same you do with the last name - the class-name would be "family-name".

You can mark all parts of an address in this manner. The result is a program that knows which class is what, can split up the address and work with that. For example you can move an address to your Outlook Address Book with a single click (see Live Clipboard).

There are several of these Microformats. Only few a are fully specified by now (hCard, hReview and some formats for the description of links.) But there are about 50 in discussion.

As an example for the technique and the way you can implement it into your own modules or templates I designed 3 publication types for Pagesetter: hCard, hCalendar and hReview. You can import them into your Pagesetter installation and look at the templates. You can also build your own address books, calendars or reviews with it. I would love to see them working on the one or the other site.

Links:
microformats.or

Generated on February 3, 2007.

Introducing Your PostNuke Steering Committee   (News)

The six members of the PostNuke Steering Committee are:

Simon Birtwistle [HammerHead]
Simon has been working with PostNuke for over three years now. Originally using PostNuke for a simple, personal website running on the .722 release Simon now runs a number of PostNuke websites for different organizations including the Scout Association. His personal website itbegins.co.uk, although out of date, houses developments such as pnStatus and also copies of documentation written for the project. In real life, Simon is a student, fortunately leaving ample time for his volunteer work with PostNuke, mainly centering on the pnForums and documentation, most prominently in the pnGuide. Simon has been a team member since the summer of 2003.

Frank Schummertz [landseer]
Frank started with PostNuke more than 2.5 years ago when working on pnCommerce. In the meantime his portfolio also contains Formicula, MultiHook, pnMenu and last but not least pnForum and the pn_bbclick / pn_bbcode / pn_bbsmile / pn_highlight hooks in their latest incarnation. Frank has been part of the Development team since 2004.

Franz Skaaning [franz.skaaning]
Franz originally started working with PostNuke around the time of the .722 release. Since then, he has started a number of PostNuke related developments, these include modules such as xFPDF and xRSS and his themes, releasing a total of 13. His presonal site, lexebus.net has over 100 visitors a day looking for support and downloads. Franz joined the PostNuke team a year ago to help out with communication, but outside of his volunteer work provides both PostNuke related and other services.

Franky Chestnut [chestnut]
Franky Chestnut has been using PostNuke since the 0.6x series but got more involved in the 0.7x series. Along with pnConcept.com, his personal blog and development site, he is also the administrator of the official French website: PostNuke-France.org. In real life, Frank is working as a developer for a family-owned business creating software solutions for music publishers. He has been part of the Core Development Team since July 2004.
Anecdote : Although not even his real name, Franky added the "y" to the Frank because there was already too many Franks when he got hooked on PostNuke.

Robert Gasch [rgasch]
Robert has a Computer Science background and has been working on large-scale systems for more than 10 years. He considers himself a pragmatic open-source believer for both practical as well as philosophical reasons who brings with him tangible experience using 10+ programming languages on various platforms in a variety of settings.
Professionally, he has filled diverse roles ranging from being a Unix software engineer for a major RDBMS vendor to an ERP technical & performance specialist for a major ERP vendor to being lead-consultant on multi-million Dollars/Euros eBusiness enterprise implementations utilizing technologies such as Java and WebLogic/WebSphere. Robert has been working with PostNuke for almost 3 years and is the driving force behind the http://www.open-star.org development effort.


Joerg Napp [jn]
Jörg started with PostNuke 3 years ago when looking for a nice Content Management System. In the meantime he developed EZComments,the Title Hack and some other Hacks. He also adopted the Static_Docs module.

The PostNuke Steering Committee has initially identified 3 areas on which we will be focusing our attention.

PostNuke Site Redesign
The work on the new site is being pushed forward and has been given priority. We aim to finish this project as soon as possible, improving the usability and value of the website to both new and experienced users.

Communications
We will aim to post periodic updates on the project's progress to keep you more informed of the work behind the scenes, which is not always easily seen. Additionally, you can now contact the Steering Committee through the contact form on each PostNuke subsite to raise any specific queries you may have, though the forums should still be used where possible.

Development
Shortly an update on development towards .8 will be published giving an overview of the development progress so far and what

Generated on October 6, 2005.

Interview: Shawn McKenzie   (News)

What module(s) are you working on?

AutoTheme
AutoTheme is a revolutionary multi-platform HTML Theme System for eNvolution, PHP-Nuke, PostNuke and MD-Pro CMSs. The current theme systems requires you to be somewhat familiar with PHP and the CMS architecture. If you are not very familiar with PHP and/or the CMS inner-workings, AutoTheme removes this complexity. It is not only simple, it is powerful. Much more control and many more customization options are possible with AutoTheme than are possible with the current theme code.

AutoTheme's primary benefit is providing users the ability to create themes in HTML using their favorite editor, with no use of PHP. In addition, AutoTheme provides easy customization of every part of your site including: block display, custom templates for the Home Page, User Pages and Admin Pages and individual modules, as well as, templating of blocks and control over when and where each block is displayed. The addition of AutoBlocks provides unlimited locations for your blocks. All AutoTheme settings are easily configured from a graphical administration interface that is integrated into the supported CMSs.

AutoTheme is packaged as a module and comes in two flavors: the feature packed, fully administration driven, commercial version and the free GPL AT-Lite. The commercial version (currently AutoTheme 1.7) provides template compiling and caching, an Extras (plugins) and Extra commands architecture for easily extending AutoTheme, as well as other premium features.

AT-Lite
AT-Lite (currently .7) is the free GPL version of AutoTheme described above.

PostWrap
PostWrap is a PostNuke module (also works with eNvolution and MD-Pro) that enables virtually any web content such as html, scripts (home pages, galleries, shopping carts, PHP, Perl, ASP, etc...) to be easily incorporated into your PostNuke site. Just call the PostWrap module with any URL and it will display it in the PostNuke main content area. I call it a content wrapper (takes any existing content anywhere and wraps your PostNuke site around it. Uses an which must be supported by the browser and JavaScript to resize the (optional). PostWrap works well with static HTML pages, but the main benefit is the
ability to incorporate scripts and full-blown web applications into your
site.

PostJump
PostJump is a quick and dirty PostNuke module (also works with eNvolution and MD-Pro) used to redirect to a URL. Why in the hell do you need to do this in PostNuke? The main use is in setting a module as your start page and being able to pass it variables (example: PostWrap). Under PostNuke Administration, Settings, you can set your Start Page (The module, index.php is pointing to), but the modules are in a dropdown box and that doesn't allow variables to be passed to the module.

Why do you prefer Postnuke over other CMS?

PostNuke seems to be more solid and professional than comparable systems with a more professional API, and it does everything that I need for now. Community is very important as well, and the PN community is awesome!

When did you start working on your own module?

I started building the first version of PostWrap a little over one year ago. Sometime in August of 2002. When I first wanted to build a family website, I started with phpWebSite and moved to PostNuke after evaluating the major Open Source CMSs.

What is your development like? Do other people help you? How do you work together? How big is the impact of the community on your development?

The community is everything to my development! Other than the first version of PostWrap, everything that I have written has been in response to what I see in the forums. Posters need this, they need that, how can I do this, etc. As far as other people, after I first released PostWrap, Yassen Yotov (a.k.a CyberOto) offered to help and do the coding to add administration. He did a great job!

Are you asking for help with coding? Documentation?

No coding help is needed at this time, however, I would welcome anyone wishing to help with documentation or tutorials for any of the modules.

What is the biggest difficulty in your development?

Of course the age old complaint of documentation, but that doesn't slow me down much anymore as you can learn as you go. My biggest difficulty is my real job ;-) and myself. I tend to keep going and going and add this and that as it occurs to me.

What features should the Postnuke .8 core have to simplify your work?

I actually haven't given that much thought. I'm sure something will come to me next time I start off to write a new module :-) I really enjoy coding and working through issues and banging my head against the monitor. If it were too simple it wouldn't be much fun.

Which route will Postnuke/your module in your opinion go in the future?

Hmmm... I'm not quite sure how to answer that, but they will both definitely go the successful route. PostNuke is a strong platform and continues to get better. The modules that I write that are beneficial and are a compliment to or enhance the value of PostNuke will always be a priority for me, and I'll ensure that they are successful.

What is the strongest point in your module?

For AutoTheme, I feel that the strongest point is that it is a drastic improvement to theme design and provides all users with the power and simplicity to design their own beautifully unique themes.

What is the weakest point in your module?

I'm sure documentation would be the weak point.

Anything else you always wanted to say about Postnuke/your module?

Read about the modules, see demos, get support and downloads at: http://spidean.mckenzies.net

Generated on October 2, 2003.

Interview: Klavs Klavsen   (News)

What module(s) are you working on?

I help Øivind out a little with PagEd - he does some great work - and fast too !

I sent a few patches to Jason Judge, the creator of another great module called feproc (FormExpress Processor) - and as he didn't have an itch any more, he asked if I would like to take over maintainership, and so I have done, and released a few new versions with some features/fixes I needed myself :)

Other than that, I have made a small(!) addition to the FAQ module, that I hope will get in the PostNuke core soon - which makes the FAQ module require that you enter en email address, and emails the admin of the site, whenever someone enters a FAQ - they are both downloadable from my site http://VirkPaaNettet.dk. I've been trying to find out if it will be
included in the PostNuke core - cause if it does, I'd gladly add admin-options to the code, so one can select/deselect these additions - but no sense in doing this, if it's just going to be a bigger patch, for me to maintain seperately from the core of the FAQ module.

I also translate (or am working on a translation - delayed due to different reasons :) for PagEd, FormExpress, feproc and pncommerce when I get the time (and PostKart - available at my site, but you all know what happened to PostKart).

Basically, I don't like to re-invent the wheel - I'd rather improve it :) - and I always see if my suggested changes sit well (enough to be included in the main tree) with the maintainers of whatever I want to change/enhance a bit - as I don't want to be stuck maintaining patches that will never get in the real source. If I do make patches, I make them as small as possible, so that it's less of a fuzz to merge, each time the original source gets updated.

What is your real-life job?

I'm an Open Source and Security Consultant, and I have recently started a managed (ie. Only I mess with the source-code, and ensure it actually works - fixing problems, reporting them to the authors and adding features as my customers see fit) PostNuke hosting service, called http://VirkPaaNettet.dk My reasoning for doing this, was that I had used postnuke for more than a year, and was happy with it, so I figured that others could use this too and started it. My hope is that, if this becomes a success, I will contribute a percentage of my profit as donations to the maintainers of the FOSS that I heavily depend on, and if money allows, also sponsor whatever improvements my customers need.

I don't like to spend time, writing html for my site when I don't need to - I'm lazy, which I believe everybody should be. Less wars, better code :)

Tell me about your postnuke "career".

Well, my first real PostNuke site, was http://EnableIT.dk (original design, by a friend of mine, who'se a pro designer :) - and as you may be able to see, the pages are just the usual articles, with a few annoying things hacked away. This way to create pages, isn't very pretty IMHO, but then I found PagEd, which made me realize that with PN and PagEd I had a combination that could be used by everybody, even my own mom (and she does use it, for her up-and-coming company site :) - and started http://VirkPaaNettet.dk

When did you start working on your own module?

Well, I haven't written any modules of my own (only themes, like the one for EnableIT), I don't think I'm going to need to write my own module, anytime soon either, unless a customer wants to pay for it, as this is one of PostNuke's greatest strengths, the wealth of modules.

What is your development like?

I improve/fix where I need to and help out if I can and have the commitment to do so (I have to select my battles, as there are so many).

Do other people help you? How do you work together?

In regards to modules that I work on, I work via Instant-messaging with Øivind on the PagEd module.

I get great help from google, and people on different mailinglists, to which I'd like to extent a big THANK YOU, for lending me some time. I try to give back, by helping back on these lists, and on the lists of my local LUG (SSLUG), of which I'm a boardmember.

How big is the impact of the community on your development?

Well - google and mailinglists (and forums) are a big help. I'm hoping more people realise how great a module feproc is, and start using it :) If anybody is using it - do tell - I'd also like to build up the ToDo list, and people are more than welcome to submit patches ;)

What features should the Postnuke .8 core have to simplify your work?

The main thing I'd like is performance improvements in PostNuke - but until then, I'm going to up the performance with squid-2.5-reverse-proxy-patched.

The biggest issue there, is I can't seem to find anyone who can tell me why the POSTNUKESID is needed for anonymous users (and I haven't prioritized it enought to dig through and find out myself) - as I don't like that every page sends a cookie to my clients. the POSTNUKESID thing, should be deselectable - I can't see it's use for anything but polls, and
the poll module should set that cookie IMHO (by telling PN to do so - which needs to be possible - Xaraya has this feature now).

Which route will Postnuke/your module in your opinion go in the future?

I think PN will stay popular. The smarty templating thing in .8 will be really good - and I see modules like pncommerce and others already making their modules ready to handle this. If PN manages to make it easy for people to change the module templates - or just switch between different output (I mean easy, like my mom can do it via the menus), it will have become truely great.

Anything else you always wanted to say about Postnuke/your module?

Not really, I've said enough :)
Only thing I'll say is a big THANK YOU to all the FOSS developers, thanks to you I may be able to feed my family with the money earned by my virkpaanettet.dk service, and ie. get paid to develop/improve FOSS programs - could life be any better than that (except for kids and a family of course :)

Thank you very much for you time.

You're welcome.

Generated on September 25, 2003.

PostNuke: Changing the Color for Hotlinks   (News)

folder. In the theme/ folder there was a file named style.css. This was the file that held the properties of the link colors.

I opened up the program "The GIMP" - a free image manipulation program that comes with most major Linux distributions and used it to find a new color. I looked up the hex value for the new dark blue color in the format #XXXXXX where the X's are hexadecimal numbers and substituted it.

I had a hunch that all of the css files in each of the subsites would be identical to the one that was used for the home page, but just to make sure I used the unix 'diff' command to check to see if they were all of the same. They were, which made my life easier since I could write a simple shell script to do the propagation of the files. I ssh'ed back into the server and created my new script in the home directory, like this:

vi propagate_script.sh

This brings up a new file named 'propagate_script.sh' in the vi editor. I pressed 'i' to enter insert mode, and typed:

cp /var/www/html/themes/Pixel-Rave-02/style/style.css /var/www/html/subsite1/themes/Pixel-Rave-02/style/style.css

cp /var/www/html/themes/Pixel-Rave-02/style/style.css /var/www/html/subsite2/themes/Pixel-Rave-02/style/style.css

and so on for all of the subsites (using copy and paste). I closed vi by pressing Escape, and then typing ":wq" to write out the file to the disk and quit. I made the script executable with the command:

chmod 700 propagate_script.sh

Then I opened up the style.css file that governed the home page with:

vi /var/www/html/themes/Pixel-Rave-02/style/style.css

I put in the new text color value (#xxxxxx format) in the 'A:link' line after the COLOR: parameter. I also made alterations to the 'A:active' 'A:visited' and 'A:hover' lines. I changed the 'TEXT-DECORATION: none;' parameter to 'TEXT-DECORATION: underline;' on the 'A:hover' line to make the links underlined when the cursor moves over it. Originally it was:

A:hover { FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #1E90FF; FONT-SIZE : 11px; TEXT_DECORATION: none; BACKGROUND: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;}

and I changed it to:

A:hover { FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: #1E90FF; FONT-SIZE : 11px; TEXT_DECORATION: underline; BACKGROUND: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold;}

You can see what change I made in bold. To change the color you change the value (in this example #1E90FF - a light blue) after the "COLOR:" parameter, use "font-weight:" to make the text bold, and so forth. Next, I made sure that I was in the correct directory and typed:

sh ./propagate_script.sh

to run my script. It propagated all of the changes to all of the subsites. I manually checked to make sure that it worked as desired, and it had. The link color changes were complete.

Generated on July 22, 2003.

Remembering Greg Allan aka adam_baum: PostNuke Co-Founder and Core Developer. One year Later...   (News)

For me, a simple user of PostNuke software, the day of his funeral changed my life.

Greg's death also changed the lives of his many -- both online and offline -- best friends; the lives of his family; as well as the entire PostNuke Development team and ultimately the direction of the PostNuke Content Management System as we know it today . . .

All Official PostNuke development stopped for one week. While the world was following the world cup of soccer being played in Japan and Korea, PostNukers the world over felt as if we had just lost a good friend . . .

We all grieved in our own way.

Vanessa, PostNuke's current Project Manager, created a theme to remember her friend Greg. Quite appropriately, she named it Memories.

30,000 new users have registered and joined postnuke.com since Greg died and you may be one of them....

Many of you never knew the name adam_baum until now. Perhaps you take PostNuke for granted. For you, the following weblinks may bring pause and reflection:

Greg's Homepage
http://www.nDezign.com

PostNuke Mourns Loss of Lead Developer
http://news.postnuke.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1990 (The Official PostNuke Statement about Greg's passing).

Candelight memorial for adam_baum aka Greg Allan
http://www.go4scripts.com/memorials/gregallan

Funeral for Greg Allan aka Adam_Baum
Funeral for Greg Allan aka Adam_Baum (News Article by Florinel).

Photos by Florinel, Taken on the day of Greg's Funeral
http://kitcheneryouth.com/index.php?module=My_eGallery&do=showgall&gid=129&offset=0&orderby=dateD

Greg Allan : March 6, 1973 - June 16, 2002 | Adam_Baum : PostNuke .50 - .714
http://www.GregAllan.TYO!ca

PostGreg
http://www.PostGreg.TYO!ca

Greg's Gallery
http://www.GregsGallery.TYO!ca

Lives Lived - Gregory Robert Wayne Allan
http://GregsGallery.TYO.ca/newmemories/liveslived2?full=1

I spent this past day trying to keep busy, not quite knowing how best to remember Greg nor what to say to his family on this, the first anniversary of his death.

If anyone has memories of adam_baum aka Greg Allan that they just never got around to sharing with their fellow PostNukers... why not post a comment here?

I know his family still visits PostNuke.com periodically and perhaps your words may give them further insight into a part of The Online Greg they hardly knew.

The Greg Allan we all knew as adam_baum.

~ HiMY! ~
Toronto, Ontario.

Footnote:
In memory of the late Greg Allan a.ka. Adam_Baum PostNuke Sweden closed down yesterday, and will be closed with only a honory page showing untill the 20th

I hope you will take a minute, and read the original statement from last year and also read the reflections HïMY wrote during these tragic days

----===~~oOo~~===----//
Bjarne Varoytrand aka Black Skorpio Do to others what you want them to do to you

Generated on June 18, 2003.

Internet Peaks as America's Most Important Source of Information, Reports Year Three of UCLA Internet Project   (News)

Communication Policy, a unit in the Anderson School of Management and affiliated with the university's College of Letters and Science.

When Internet users were asked to rank the importance of major media, 61.1 percent said the Internet was very important or extremely important, surpassing books (60.3 percent), newspapers (57.8 percent), television (50.2 percent), radio (40 percent), and magazines (28.7 percent).

Even the newest users of online technology believe the Internet is a vital information source. Among Internet users with less than one year online, more than half (52 percent) say the Internet is very important or extremely important as an information source.

"Clearly, users consider the Internet to be their key source for the broad range of information needs," said Cole. "We are especially interested to see how the role of the Internet as an information source continues to evolve as online access increasingly shifts to broadband instead of modem access, and the Internet becomes an instantly available service in America's households."

By comparison, television remains the most important source of entertainment, with the Internet ranked fourth; 56.2 percent of Internet users ranked television as very important or extremely important, followed by books (50 percent), radio (48.9 percent), magazines (26.5 percent), the Internet (25 percent), and newspapers (22.8 percent).

Internet credibility: problems grow
Yet a sobering perception persists about the Internet's value as an information source: the credibility of information found on the Internet has declined for the first time in the three-year history of the report.

In 2002, 52.8 percent of users said that most or all of the information online is reliable and accurate — a decline from 58 percent in 2001 and 55 percent in 2000.

Non-users reported even lower levels of belief in credibility of online information; slightly more than one-third of non-users (33.6 percent) in 2002 continued to say that most or all of the information on the Internet is reliable and accurate — down from 36.7 percent in 2001 and about the same as the 33.3 percent in 2000.

"A troubling split in perceptions about the Internet is becoming increasingly clear," said Cole. "The Internet is viewed as a vitally important source of information by new users and experienced users alike, yet disturbingly large numbers of users do not trust what they find online."

"If the Internet's importance for information is growing, but it continues to be perceived as a source of unreliable information, then a 'credibility clash' is looming," Cole said. "How long will the Internet be valued as an important source of information, if the material users find online continues to be considered unreliable and inaccurate?"

Television viewing continues to decline
Year Three of the UCLA Internet Report found that television viewing continues to decline among online users.

"The trend across the three years of the UCLA Internet Project shows that users are 'borrowing' their time to go online from hours previously spent watching television," said Cole. "While survey respondents typically underreport their television viewing, the trend in viewing time is very definitely on the decline, while Internet use is rising."

Regarding television:

· Overall, Internet users watched less television in 2002 than in 2001 — 11.2 hours per week in 2002, compared to 12.3 hours in 2001.

· In 2002, Internet users watched about 5.4 hours of television less per week than non-users — this compared to 4.5 hours in 2001.

· Almost one-third of children now watch less television than before they started using the Internet at home — up from 23 percent in 2001.

· The decline in television viewing becomes even more pronounced as Internet experiences increases; more than twice as many of the very experienced users than new users say that they spend less time watching television since using the Internet.

Concerns about online privacy: still high, but down slightly
Even while the importance of the Internet grows by some measures, concerns about online privacy and the security still remain sky high.

Year Three of the UCLA Internet Project found that the vast majority of Americans continue to express some level of concern about the privacy of their personal information when or if they buy on the Internet.

Yet overall, concerns have declined slightly. Overall, 88.8 percent of all respondents — users and non-users alike — expressed some concern about the privacy of their personal information when or if they buy on the Internet — down from 94.6 percent in 2001. Those who are not concerned at all increased to 11.2 percent, more than double the number in 2001 (5.5 percent).

Concerns about credit card information: a continuing major problem
While worries about personal privacy online declined slightly in 2002, concerns about credit card security on the Internet remain as high as ever — and for many users, nothing will reduce their concerns.

Overall, 92.4 percent of all respondents age 18 or over in 2002 expressed some concern about the security of their credit card information when or if they buy online — a statistically insignificant change from 94.4 percent in 2001.

For nearly one-quarter of the respondents (23.1 percent) who have concerns about using their credit cards online, nothing will reduce their concerns about using a credit card online.

"The twin problems of online privacy and credit card security plague many aspects of Internet use," said Cole. "Those concerns decline somewhat as Internet use increases, but they nevertheless remain, and cannot be overemphasized as an important factor in online purchasing and information exchange."

Internet use at home: a dramatic increase
While overall Internet access remained generally stable from 2001 to 2002, use of the Internet at home increased dramatically.

Of the 71.1 percent of Americans who use the Internet, almost 60 percent of users (59.4 percent) have Internet access at home, a substantial increase in only two years from the 46.9 percent of users who reported home Internet access in 2000, the first year of the UCLA Internet Project.

Hours online increase
The number of hours users spend online continued to increase in 2002 — rising to an average of 11.1 hours per week in 2002, up from 9.8 hours in 2001 and 9.3 hours in 2000.

The Top Five Most Popular Internet Activities in 2002
1. E-mail
2. Instant messaging,
3. Web surfing or browsing,
4.Reading news, shopping and buying online
5. Accessing entertainment information.

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The UCLA Internet Project: Background
Year Three of the UCLA Internet Report, titled "Surveying the Digital Future," provides a broad year-to-year view of the impact of the Internet by examining the behavior and views of a national sample of 2,000 Internet users and non-users, as well as comparisons between new users (less than one year of experience) and very experienced users (six or more years of experience).

The project compares findings from all three years of the study, looking at five major areas: who is online and who is not, media use and trust, consumer behavior, communication patterns, and social and psychological effects.

The UCLA Center for Communication Policy created and organizes the World Internet Project, which includes the UCLA Internet Report and similar studies in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia.

The UCLA Internet Project is supported by public foundations and private companies, including the National Science Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, America Online (AOL) Time Warner, Microsoft, Sony, Verizon, SBC, DirecTV, and the National Cable Television Association.

The UCLA Center for Communication Policy is based in The Anderson School and maintains an affiliation with the university's College of Letters and Science.

To download the full text of the UCLA Internet Report, visit www.ccp.ucla.edu.

UCLA Internet Report, Year Three Additional Highlights
In addition to the highlights cited in the press release, other important findings among the more than 100 major issues in Year Three of the UCLA Internet Project are:

(Page references for from the report are listed after each highlight)
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Who is Online and Who is Not? What are Users Doing Online?
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Overall Internet Use
Internet access by Americans remained generally stable from 2001 to 2002. More than 70 percent (71.1 percent) of Americans in 2002 went online, compared to 72.3 percent in 2001 -- a statistically insignificant different -- but up from 66.9 percent in the first UCLA Internet Project in 2000. (Pages 17 and 18)

Technophobia
Technophobia affects respondents at all levels of experience using the Internet; 30.3 percent of new users and 10.8 percent of very experienced users report some technophobia. (Page 24)

How Do You Connect To The Internet At Home?
Most households with Internet access still connect to online service with a telephone modem; however, broadband access has increased, and modem access is declining. (Page 25)

Broadband Vs. Modem: How Do They Affect Online Use?
Broadband users spend more time online than modem users in all of the most popular Internet activities. (Page 25)

How Many Working Computers At Home?
Almost one-quarter of respondents (24.1 percent) have more than one working computer in their homes. Nearly 10 percent (9.5 percent) have three or more working computers. (Page 26)

Are Your Computers At Home Networked To Each Other?
Home networking of computers is a growing trend; 32 percent of respondents with two or more computers at home have networked them. (Page 27)

Non-Users: Why Not Online?
The 28.9 percent of Americans who did not use the Internet in 2002 express a range of reasons for not being online. The primary reason is lack of the technology; 31.9 percent of non-users say they either do not have a computer or their current computer is not adequate. (Page 28)

Electronic Dropouts: Why?
The primary reason given by "electronic dropouts" --Internet non-users who were once users -- for not currently being online is "no computer available." (Page 28)

Nearly half of electronic dropouts say they miss nothing by not having Internet access. (Page 29)

Non-Users: Will You Log On Soon?
The number of non-users who say they will go online within the next year has continued to grow in each successive year of the UCLA Internet Project. Of non-users in 2002, 47 percent said they are somewhat likely or very likely to go online next year. (Page 30)


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Media Use and Trust
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The Internet's Importance: Broadband Vs. Telephone Modem Users
The Internet's importance as a source of both information and entertainment is higher among those who access the Internet via broadband than those with telephone modems. (Page 37)

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Consumer Behavior
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Internet Purchasing: Do You Buy Online? How Much? How Often?
Fewer adults bought online in 2002 than in 2001 or 2000. (Page 40)

While the overall number of buyers in 2002 has declined, their average number of purchases increased substantially over 2001. (Page 40)

The average dollars spent by online buyers in 2002 also increased substantially over 2001, but is still lower than in 2000. (Page 41)

Internet Purchasing: Does It Affect Buying In Retail Stores?
In 2002, online buying replaced some purchasing in retail stores for many Internet users, and at higher levels than in 2001. (Page 43)

How Long Before Your First Online Purchase?
Many Internet users say they waited months or years before buying online. Almost half of Internet buyers (49.3 percent) waited more than two years after going online before making their first purchase. One-third waited more than three years. (Page 43)

Why Wait To Make The First Purchase?
For online buyers who waited several months or more after starting to use the Internet before making their first online purchase, concern about using a credit card online far outweighs any other reason. (Page 44).

Online Purchasing: Will It Increase?
A growing number of Internet purchasers in 2002 reported that their online buying is likely to increase; 71.2 percent of 2002 respondents agree that they will probably make more purchases online, compared to 66.1 percent in 2001 and 54.5 percent in 2000. (Page 46)

Are You Concerned About Your Privacy When Buying Online?
Responses to several questions in the 2002 UCLA Internet Project continued to show high levels of concern about the privacy of personal information when or if respondents buy online. Yet overall, concerns declined slightly in 2002 from 2001. (Page 48)

Concerns About Credit Card Information: A Continuing Major Problem
While worries about personal privacy online declined in 2002, concerns about credit card security on the Internet remain as high as ever. Overall, 92.4 percent of all respondents age 18 or over express some concern about the security of their credit card information if they ever buy online. (Page 50)

Very experienced users describe much lower - but still relatively high - levels of concern than do new users about credit card security on the Internet. (Page 50)

What Are Your Concerns About Using Credit Cards Online?
When asked about the specific reasons for their concerns about using credit cards online, respondents most frequently say that "hackers" are a reason for concern. "Too many unknowns" about online purchasing is the second most-cited reason. (Page 52)

Notably, 8.7 percent of respondents say they are extremely concerned because they know someone who has been a victim of credit card fraud. (Page 52)

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Communication Patterns
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Are Internet Users Communicating More With Family And Friends?
More than half of users in 2002 said that since starting to use the Internet, they increased the number of people with whom they stay in contact. (Page 55)

E-Mail Contact, Personal Contact
E-mail users maintain weekly online contact with an average of 8.7 correspondents. Of those people, e-mail users meet an average of 3.4 correspondents face-to-face. (Page 56)

Multiple E-Mail Addresses
While more than half of e-mail users (52.6 percent) say they only maintain one e-mail account, almost 20 percent (18.3 percent) say they maintain three or more accounts. (Page 57)

Why Multiple E-Mail Addresses?
E-mail users report a variety of reasons for maintaining multiple e-mail addresses. The most often cited reason is separating work e-mail from personal e-mail. (Page 57)

Opinions About The Value Of E-Mail
Large majorities of e-mail users say that online communication: does not require too much time; makes them more likely to keep in contact with other people with e-mail; and allows them to communicate with people they normally could not. (Page 59)

E-Mail At The Office: Business And Personal Use
Internet users continue to report high levels of e-mail access at work for both personal and professional use. More than 83 percent of those who use the Internet at work access business e-mail from work, slightly lower than 2001 but higher than 2000. (Page 73)

Screen Names: How Many Do You Maintain?
Many Internet users maintain more than one screen name that is used for e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, and other online communication. Internet users average 2.2 screen names. (Page 60)

Do You Use Multiple Screen Names With Different Personalities?
A small number of users across all age ranges report that they have multiple screen names, each of which is associated with its own personality. (Page 60)


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Social Effects
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Time With Family, Time With Friends
Most Internet users in 2002 continued to believe that the time they spend online has no influence on the amount of time they spend with their family, or time spent with friends. (Page 62)

Where Do Children Use The Internet?
Most children who use the Internet go online at home. Well over 80 percent of children who used the Internet in 2002 went online at home - a substantial increase from 2001 and 2000. (Page 65)

Nearly three-quarters of children who use the Internet go online at school, up from little more than half of children in 2000. (Page 65)

Children Online and Watching Television: The Right Amount Of Time?
44.9 percent of adults say that the children in their households spend too much time watching television, while far fewer (18.3 percent) say children spend too much time online. (Page 66)

A large but declining number of adults say the children in their household spend "about the right amount of time" or "too little time" online - 81.7 percent in 2002. (Page 66)

The number of adults who say that children spend too much time online has drifted upward over the three years of the UCLA Internet Project. (Page 66)

School Grades And The Internet
The Internet is not perceived by most users as having an effect on school grades; nearly three-quarters of adults in 2002 said that since their household acquired the Internet, the grades of children in their households have stayed the same. (Page 67)

Children, The Internet, And Interaction With Friends
Almost all adults say the Internet has no effect on children's interaction with friends. (Page 68)

Political Power And Influence
All three years of the UCLA Internet Project have found that going online can be an important resource for gathering information about political issues; however, relatively small numbers of users believe that the Internet gives them more political power, or helps them influence political decisions and government officials - and those numbers are declining. (Page 69)

The Internet At Work: Business And Personal Use
Internet users continue to report growing levels of online access at work for both personal and professional use. Of those who have Internet access at work, about 90 percent visit Web sites for business purposes; 60.5 percent visit Web sites for personal use while at work. (Page 72)

Do Employers Monitor E-Mail And Internet Use At Work?
About 45 percent of respondents who use e-mail at work in 2002 say their e-mail is monitored by their employers - about the same as in 2001. An almost identical percentage of respondents say their employers monitor their use of the Web either somewhat or closely. (Page 74)

Does The Internet Affect Productivity?
In 2002, nearly two-thirds of users (64.5 percent) said that access to the Internet at work makes them more productive - an increase over both 2001 and 2000. (Page 75)

Are Users Satisfied Or Dissatisfied With The Internet?
Overall, users of the Internet in 2002 were satisfied with online technology, rating satisfaction with the Internet at 4.0 on a scale of 1 (not satisfied) to 5 (completely satisfied). (Page 77)

Users are most satisfied with the ability to communicate with other people on the Internet. Users continue to be least satisfied with the speed of their connection to the Internet. (Page 77)
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