Portability vs The World
The DC area mailing list for nonprofit technologists has been alight with suggestions on what the best portable machine is this past week, debating screen si...
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Twitter and Outreach
I'm sure you're tired of hearing me talk about twitter as an innovative and easy tool for outreach and engagement. So listen instead to Amy Gahran and her c...
On Hubris and the 1CC version of OLPC
Business Week has a good article summing up the recent history of the OLPC project and it's difficulties with sales numbers, fading promises, Intel, and its ...
SpaceWarp
Some kids had train sets. Actually, I did but it bored me to death. One xmas I got a SpaceWarp. Sure, I started out building the basic design they gave el...
2.0 NonProfit Conference wrap-up and notes
While few of the concepts at the 2.0 nonprofit conference were hardly new to me (Use twitter! uh, ok.); it was good to see where other nonprofits were and w...
Windows Free
No, not the OLPC, but here's a good story about a guy who's been MS-free for a year.
Vacation!
Jon is on vacation this week on the west coast, so don't expect any insight (or email responses!)
Ultraportable Ubuntu?
Would you like an Ubuntu to go?A recent The Guardian interview with Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth reveals this gem: TG: Will you be coming out with a tail...
Project HA-T1093
No, it's not some early George Lucas film, it's the IADB project title for the "Pilot of the One Laptop per Child Model" in Haiti that Wayan gave a great ove...
MS on XO: It’s so bad you have to laugh
Check out this video of James Utzschneider from Microsoft's Unlimited Potential team walking us through Windows XP on the OLPC XO (Video via OLPCNews.com h...
OLPC Now Microsoft-only
I hope it goes just as well as the Intel partnership. What a disaster. OLPCNews and the NYTimes have more information on the story.
Pots, kettles and OLPC fanaticism
Like most in the OLPC community, Ivan Krstić's discussion on the OLPC yesterday left me (almost) speechless, and even Wayan at OLPCNews left it mostly as a r...
Good will sharing
I read BoingBoing - it provides a steady stream of new and interesting things around the net, and the occasional IT policy tidbit. Lots of people read boing...
Scott McNealy video from CGD
Unfortunately; this clip seems to focus tightly on his IP statements; leaving out some of his more relevant popoints on "sharing" - centric resource creation...