The Web
More people need to hear Eben Moglen and Lawrence Lessig speak. In the past 3 days, i've had the fortune to hear 2 extremey eloquent presentations about "Freedom", as in Free Software, Hardware, Networks and especially culture. Both of these gentlemen are incredibly eloquent, moving and
ict4dev
Wizard of OS: Globalisierung II. This panel is just getting started, with Thorsten Schilling moderating. Thorsten just had a standard intro, not too interesting, definitely not provocative. My uncoordinated notes will be here
Free Software
Blogging from the speakers podium at Wizards-of-OpenSource, just getting into the Panel on Free Networking, with Dewayne Hendricks, James Stevens, Juergen Neumann, Adam Shand and myself, moderated by Armin Medosch. Eben Moglen, just finished his keynote. This guy is the real deal, the preacher of the Free Culture/Information movement.
Free Software
TWiki . Moap . WebHome one of the relizations i have come to working in the fringes of the international development community for the past 3 years is that if pressed to name one semi-"mythical" success of international development , many people will start talking about micro-finance. Micro Finance is
ict4dev
The magazine that styles itself "The First monthly magazine on ict4d" has a new issue on the streets, and this one is all about Wireless Communications in the developing world. And with entries from some of the top people in this arena, it's an issue well
Mixed Bag
About 9 months ago, Signe and I planned a 3 week vacation in April to go visit our very close friends in Vancouver, hike, kayak and generally recover from what I was expecting to be a fairly exhausting winter of work. instead it has been a fairly exhausting winter of
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freifunk - freifunk.net summer convention, fresh air - free networks, Djursland, September 2004 This looks like it is going to be the wireless community event of the year. Anyone interested in wireless community networking should show up in rural Denmark in september. The event is hosted y one of
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Wizard of OS: Free Networks run command free networks - a reality check It looks like I will be on the Free Netwroking panel at the very interesting Wizard of OSin Berlin in mid-June. Other speakers on the panel include Dewayne Hendricks, Armin Medosch , James Stevens and Juergen Neumann. All
Mixed Bag
It's getting late, back here in DK..... But i thought i owe 'my readers' an update. I'm back in denmark, sitting in front of a computer alternately running through my tax papers and hacking together a website that i promised ages ago. I'
Mixed Bag
I don't really care about money. And I never really have. I've always known that that was mostly true because I always had enough of it to get by. I grew up lucky. I mean the lucky of a white, male child of 2 well-educated parents
Mixed Bag
I'm half-way through, what seems to be an ever increasingly frustrating half-year period. (I guess I could be about one quarter way through an ever increasingly frustrating year, but i'l choose the optimistic perspective for the sake of argument). For a bit of background, let'
Travel
We spent saturday cleaning up and winding down after the weeks extravaganza. Well, actually i spent most of the day in the foetal position, dehydrated and hungover after and all-night beer and burning (cd's) session and nigh on 2 hour of sleep. Debrief and detox.... In other words,