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Tools for moving a message are evolving a huge pace. The limited access of the past is giving way to participation. Different expectations happening with communication and with advocacy base, according to Micah Sifry. The base of advocates is expecting more transparency and participation about where things go. So the topic is about how to amplify messages by involving more ...

This project has been talked about a lot. Interesting presentation was from Michail Bletasas, a MIT engineer working on the project. Besides the technical challenges, there are the social issues. The idea is to put a simple laptop into the hands of children in many developing countries. The capabilities of children is important to the idea. Children explore and learn ...

I wasn’t able  to attend day 1 of the Net2 conference because of a family emergency. But I’m here and trying to catch up now. I’m in a session moderated by Scott Case and and with industry leaders, Dan’l Lewin and Gido Jouret. Topic is about the imact on society of networked systems and broadband. Jeffrey Moore–context vs content–recommended.as good ...

Samsung introduces a 32 GB Solid State Disk (SSD) notebook and a multimedia player. View their press release. The SSD reads 3x and writes 1.5x as fast as regular hard drives, makes no noise, and weighs about half as much as a regular hard drive. Read their press release for further details. Computers continue to get faster, lighter, and more ...