---
title: "Checking out the IRC world"
date: 2004-05-30
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2004"
    url: "/tag/2004.md"
---

# Checking out the IRC world

I recently downloaded the [mIRC](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210170615/http://www.mirc.com/) client and have been checking out the [Freenode](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210170615/http://www.freenode.net/) IRC network. The few times I’ve logged in there haven’t been many people about – mainly because I live in New Zealand and so my time zone is out of whack with the northern hemisphere. But tonight (Saturday night my time) I had a nice chat with [Seb Paquet](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210170615/http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/) and [Suw Charman](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210170615/http://chocnvodka.blogware.com/blog) on the #kmtalk channel. The other channels I’ve discovered so far are #joiito and #technorati.

Seb pointed me to a Topic Exchange wiki page for [topics as meeting points](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210170615/http://topicexchange.com/wiki.pl?Topics_as_attractors), which is something I’m interested in exploring further with the community. e.g. Person-centered versus Topic-centered is something [I’ve written about in the past](https://web.archive.org/web/20050210170615/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001688.html).

Even though my time zone and personal schedule prevent a full-on participation in the IRC world, I hope to pop back into #kmtalk and the other tech channels of freenode in the coming weeks. Maybe I’ll see you there!

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/001912.php))*