Admin's blog on Informed Consent http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/weblogs/Admin/ The IC RSS Gadget webmaster@informedconsent.co.uk 360 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:59:58 GMT Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:59:58 GMT Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:59:58 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/301470/ Frankly, here at IC HQ we're sick of the discrimination we all face from (some) prejudiced vanillas. People lose jobs, lose child custody battles, get pilloried by newspapers, and are targetted by local councils because of what we do to other consenting adults. Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:00:15 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/293132/ The first version of IC went live by Christmas Day 1997 and today is IC's "official" birthday. 13 years and counting! Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:14:09 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/276529/ 1 2 3 ... Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:32:49 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/268329/ Following on from this week's thread about doing something to help the newbies, we have decided on some major changes to IC to address the issues raised. Please read this announcement, as it will have major consequences for you and the wider BDSM scene in the UK. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:41:10 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/248897/ I understand that the relevant people now have all the information they need, and I'm locking and removing these threads as they contain some very personal information. Please respect the privacy of the person involved. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:01:43 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/239253/ The Spanner Trust are looking for volunteers to be part of a test case to establish that laws against SM are incompatible with the Human Rights Act. More details and discussion here. Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:04:23 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/231944/ ...because who can compete with the comedians running the country? :( "I say, I say, I say, here's 3 years inside for owning a photo of two people doing a legal, consensual BDSM act, which you took yourself." Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:15:02 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/225921/ It's possible that George Appleton, sought by Greater Manchester Police in connection with a murder, has been using IC. He also has links to the East Midlands and South West. Please have a look at the pictures on their appeal: http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/pages/3560D2E0F1F2478280257558004F70B7.htm Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:59:51 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/220218/ Season's Greetings to everyone who's used IC over the last 11 years. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:06:09 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/216446/ the_pervert's false and malicious allegations about IC and Data Protection. Has he nothing better to do with his life? ;) Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:54:24 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/207998/ Last month IC had major hardware upgrades, and you're hopefully all seeing a much faster service, especially at busy times of the day. This investment was paid for by the advertising banners (and indirectly by your support for those businesses) and by the donations from individuals we get every month or two (you know who you are, and thanks again :) ) To give some recognition to the people behind these contributions, from now on if you make a donation of £10 or more your profile will be marked with a gold "Sponsor's Star" for the next 6 months, on the personal ads listings, your profile and next to any web board posts you make. This also applies to payments for advertising banners. Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:13:25 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/204122/ As promised IC was down for some of yesterday as we moved the main part of the system onto a new, faster server that we've bought using the folding stuff (hint hint ;) ) Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:15:46 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/176372/ But the new options when making a new weblog post might be of interest to people here :) For more details, see this thread: http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/boards/help/176373/ Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:23:24 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/172746/ We count the 25th December as IC's birthday and this year is IC's tenth anniversary. The story of how the site came about and some background about the scene in 1997 is now online. Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:53:20 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/118162/ Last night IC has had its one millionth post to the weblogs / web boards. The first post was by lili back in September 2000 when the weblogs were added to the site, and 600,000 of the subsequent one million posts were made in the last year. Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:41:13 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/75302/ In assocation with Amazon, IC now publishes a list of the 50 best selling books about BDSM and Fetishes. There's been a bookshop on IC since 1998, but we've now combined our list of BDSM/Fetish books with Amazon's sales data to produce a UK bestseller list, including customer reviews and up to date UK and US prices. Wed, 18 Jan 2006 23:00:09 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/67644/ "Today is the first anniversary of the IC.2 system going live. This "new look" IC included a lot more features, a total rewrite of the stuff under the bonnet, and a redesign of the layout to be more friendly to new and casual users of the site." See Tanos's weblog for more stats and graphs of the new system's first year. Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:29:26 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/64706/ We've now totalled up the votes, and the winners list is now published. Almost 300 members voted, and all the winners and nominees were strongly supported. Sat, 03 Dec 2005 10:00:28 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/60998/ Over the years, lots of people have suggested having some way of recognising other IC members and maybe having IC T-shirts etc. In association with Spreadshirt, we've now made a set of designs based on the ICchat icons, and these are available from the new IC Gift Shop. Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:37:15 GMT http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/60959/ This year will see the first Informed Consent Awards, given to the best of UK BDSM, as voted by IC members. The nomination short-lists for the six categories have been published, and IC members can now start voting on best new club, best established club (in London), best established club (outside London), best community group, best shop and best publication. We also have a set of banners that nominees can use to encourage their visitors and customers to vote.