Apple - Pro/Photo - Pixel Perfect Africa On February 28, 2002, Cohen deployed a small army of nearly 100 of the world's top photojournalists across the continent for the first-ever all-digital Day in the Life shoot to capture a balanced picture of Africa in pixels.
PDABuzz.com - Monday,December 23 2002
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As AOL pursues its patent on instant messaging, people all over the Net are assembling examples of "prior art" -- instant-messaging-like systems that long predated AOL's. Rafe Colburn recalls one from a company he once worked for. Brian Dear writes in to point out that the PLATO system had IM functionality back in 1973. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] I remember using PLATO at Indiana University in 1979 or 1980. Black screen with orange text...
XML.com: What is RSS? [Dec. 18, 2002] RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS... A good introduction to the various flavors of RSS...
Mississippi Students Build Their Own PC's
Mississippi couldn't afford to put PC's in every classroom. So students are building them as part of an ambitious effort to add computer engineering to the curriculum. By Michel Marriott. [Headlines From The NY Times]
Creative Commons On December 16, 2002, Creative Commons released version 1.0 of its Licensing Project, and the first release of content under its Founders' Copyright. These are the first two projects in a series that Creative Commons will launch, all designed to help expand the amount of intellectual work, whether owned or free, available for creative re-use.The Licensing Project will build licenses that will help you tell others that your works are free for copying and other uses but only on certain conditions. You're probably familiar with the phrase "All rights reserved" and the little © that goes along with it. Creative Commons wants to help copyright holders send a different message: "Some rights reserved" and our "CC Creative Commons" logo.
Lawrence Lessig is associated with this group. Bill Walle and I saw him speak at the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference last spring and this idea was introduced at the conference.
Mac Addicts to the Rescue Interesting story of a guy who sold his laptop online and got ripped off, and how he tracked down the theif...
labs.google.com - Google Demos Take a look behind the curtain and see what the folks at Google are up to... Take a look at Google Viewer...displays the pages found as a result of your Google search as a continuous scrolling slide show.
New York Times Magazine: Pedal-Powered Internet Picture this: A remote farmer in the dirt-poor country of Laos wants to check some e-mail. So he goes to the only computer in his village. (It's bolted to the floor of a public building, to prevent theft.) He brings a friend along -- not to Web-surf with him, but to pedal a bicycle-driven generator that powers the computer. When they've cranked out enough juice, they can log onto the Web, using a jury-rigged set of wireless antennae. It's a clunky system made out of spare parts, but when it goes live next year, it will become the newest way to hook up the developing world: the pedal-powered Internet.
New York Times: Philadelphia School's Woes Defeat Veteran PrincipalFresh from the suburbs and brimming with idealism, Dr. Solkov was chosen by Edison to welcome reporters, television crews, politicians and officials to Morton McMichael Elementary School as the district began the experiment that everyone hoped would turn the troubled Philadelphia school system around. "This is the model that will work," she told reporters, who were focused on her students' poverty and their dismal math and reading scores. But last week she told her staff she was resigning. Sad tale of a veteran principal and her attempts to turn around a Philadelphia elementary school. Portland is noway near as bad as this, but we seem to be on that kind of track...
Have been reading of blogging tools for PDAs. Am using EudoraWeb on my Clié, connecting via IR to my Ericsson T68 and connecting to the web via the ATT GSM network. Can't get file upload to work yet.
New York Times: New Test Site From Google Focuses on Products for Sale One of the main uses of general search sites like Google is to look for things to buy. But the new service focuses specifically on products for sale, displaying pictures of the items and their prices at various merchants. It lets users narrow a search by the category of product and the price.
Tellme. Studio Tellme Studio is a powerful suite of Web-based VoiceXML development tools and community resources that enable you to build, test, and publish your own Internet-powered, voice-enabled applications on the Tellme Network. Interesting idea... think of a school district offering professional development opportunities. What if the could offer a simple phone interface for listing course availability?
EVHEAD: it's sharp! Evan Williams of Blogger.com fame points to our friend Melissa Lim and her knitting weblog...
Today I went on a field trip with my son's class to the Portland Fire Bureau. The kids had a great time. Here the officer is demonstrating a thermal imaging unit. Allows them to see in the dark and in smoke filled rooms.
I am making this post from my PDA via my cell phone. Not exactly sure why I would want to do this, but we'll see.
The Wi-Fi Boom Today's New York Times has several articles on Wi-Fi. One highlights how different types of users are taking advantage of Wi-Fi connectivity to transform their workplaces. Several examples involved people who now make Starbucks their branch office. Sounds familiar... :-) Of particular interest was the experience of a high school in the Seattle area. Every student has a laptop with Wi-Fi. Students utilize applications such as instant messaging to share files, and keep in contact. Cell phone use is down, parents message their children to arrange things such as afterschool pickups.
"There's a lot of instant messaging going on," said Diane Burgess, 39, the school's information technology manager. Ms. Burgess said classes were no longer disrupted by cellphones, parents message their children to arrange pickup times, and students regularly share files for collaborative projects. "Wi-Fi lets them do group work from anywhere on campus," Ms. Burgess said. "It's a really freeing experience."
Wired News: Member Services Get Your Site WiredPowered by HTML GearTake a little bit of code from HTML Gear, put it anywhere on the page you want, and you too can have the freshest, most up-to-date headlines from Wired News.View Sample or Sign Up This is wired page for subscriptions of all types. They have the regular email type where I can sign up to have updated information sent to my mail box with links to articles and such. They also have a Wired toolbar add on for your browser.
In addition you can take a bit of JavaScript code and embed it on your page and have news headlines flow to your own homepage...
BBC NEWS | Technology | Businesses turn to texting Text messaging is no longer just for kidsText messaging is no longer the preserve of teenagers as businesses also embrace the technology. Text messaging is fast becoming a fundamental business tool, with 60% of firms using it on a daily basis, according to a survey by the Mobile Data Association (MDA)
India to open up rural 2.4 GHz
India to open up rural 2.4 GHz: India, which has already allowed indoor and outdoor unlicensed use of the band in which Wi-Fi operates, is planning to open up long-haul links for rural connectivity. In a country with such scattered population outside of some megalopolises, bringing broadband without wires could help transform political activism, economy, and education. Could.