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Ethan Zuckerman's Weblog Ethan Zuckerman, founder of GeekCorps, fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, good friend, and one of the sharpest minds dealing with ict for development anywhere these days, has a new blog. Although he claims that posts will be few and far between,
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pulverInnovations pulver.com, the company behind Free World Dialup, has announced it's WiSIP phone. It's essentially a Voice-over-WiFi phone, a cordless wonder that let's you use the Free World Dialup services from any open wireless network. It's based on the SIP standard
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<a title="EmperorLinux " meteor" linux laptop" href="http://emperorlinux.com/meteor.html">EmperorLinux "Meteor" Linux Laptop This past month I have travelled a lot. I've been on the road for about 22 days of the month, and for
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the next 4 days are going to be something of an experiment. i'm in santorini, at the santorini palace hotel in firostefani. signe is here to participate in a planning meeting on hybrid ventilation systems. originally i thought this would be a great chance to get a last
Mixed Bag
I think i tore my cruciate ligament on tuesday. Again. At least i think i heard that snapping sound, like one of those wide rubber bands, gone slightly soft under the influence of sun and time. Ofcourse it wasn't really my cruciate ligament at all. Just a piece
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WERBLOG Kevin Werbach has written a whitepaper on Sepctrum Policy, arguing that Spectrum should not be allocated as if it were policy, but rather as if it were a boundless commons. These are things the free wireless networking community has discussed for a while now, but when someone like Werbach
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Martin Roell blogs my presentation at the Recent FreiFunk Summer Convention in Berlin. It's in german, so if you can't read it, too bad ;-) My presentation was about wireless networks for the developing world, and i'll add a post soon with a little
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polylux - aktuell Berlin radio-station, Polylux has a short realvideo piece about the recently held FreiFunk Summer Convention, which we (wire.less.dk) participated in. The piece is in German and features some of europes most active community networking folks, such as my colleagues Sebastian Büttrich and Julian Priest, and
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Andrew McLaughlin has a very simple question over at the newly opened XDev - Extreme Development Blog. Another great resource from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. And this time I've been invited to be part o this group blog, so expect to read much more about
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When you look out the window and see an unjust world, When you look in your heart and see the strength to improve it, What is left to you but the choice between cynicism and idealism? I choose to believe in life because the alternative is unbearable!
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Breaking the Word Processor Curve Bruce Byfiled makes a compelling case for OpenOffice, as more than just a replacement for word. I'm a long-time OpenOffice user, but to be honest I mostly use it to open office files and do most of my writing in vim or on
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BBC NEWS | World | From Our Own Correspondent | India's digital divide BBC's Jill McGivering relates her own experience of the Indian IT miracle. It is an article well worth reading, a reminder against the dangers of looking at India and seeing a miracle caused by IT. It