Drupal and GYSD Maps II: Modules in Play
Series: Overview | Modules | Structure and Taxonomies | On Drupal 6 | Functionality Drupal by itself is pretty powerful, but where it really shines is when ...
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How I made a map for Global Youth Service Day 2009
Series: Overview | Modules | Structure and Taxonomies | On Drupal 6 | Functionality This is my "journal" of work in creating a user-modifiable map of the Gl...
The latest OLPC Upgrade
OLPC Upgrading - like an old defrag!Last Thursday, I upgraded my OLPC over some beers – sometimes, the best (and worst) ways to really test technology’s limi...
Linux Audio Server amusement
I'm currently using the laptop as the interim solution / testbed for the LAS idea. It's struggling to run amarok, but works nicely with qiv running a slides...
Social Media and ICT in Kenyan Agriculture
CropScience.org has a great paper on the potential use of social media and Internet access for rural farmers. What sets it apart from most Social Media for ...
A Linux Audio Server
I admit it. I have a Windows laptop at home. For a very long time, it was my primary system. For the past year or so, I've been using a Linux laptop as my...
What’s old is new again
Thin Clients - a.k.a. "dumb terminals" have a long history in computing, and tend to come up every few years (seems to be a ten year cycle) as the Grand Solu...
SMSing political questions
This is pure brilliance, courtesy BoingBoing: This giant billboard, posing hard questions for Sarah Palin, was lit up across the road from her LA rally site...
Venezuela Chooses the Intel Classmate over the OLPC XO - kinda
The Chavez likes Intel – but not Windows? (BBC)The BBC is reporting that Venezuela has ordered a million laptops “based on the Intel Classmate” in partnershi...
The 3G OLPC Laptop
That’s three grand, not third generation.
Tech Salon: Information Sharing and Development
This week's Technology Salon was on information sharing and ways to use social media and peer-generated content in international development. Less of a lect...
Microsoft4Dev Conference Wrap-up, Day 2
Day 2 was slightly less enervating regarding the blatant Microsoft plugs (only about 40 direct plugs, compared to the first day, where I lost count) Edward ...
ICT4D Conference Wrap-up - Day 1
The conference opened with presentations by three hard hitting visionaries -- Counsellor Lisa Chiles, the senior most career officer at USAID; Michael Rawdin...
Quick ways to go Mobile
MobileActive has a great entry on a handful of low cost, low-barrier ways to go mobile, from Twitter to desktop "guerilla" SMS campaigns (best run in develop...
The XO Files Part III: Re-imagining the OLPC Distribution
This entry is the third in the four-part series, “The XO Files: I Want to Believe” Read Part I here</em> What has OLPC done and what should it continu...