Friday, November 21, 2008
First video from my new collaboration with Akvo, an open source water charity, working on getting ultra low cost videos made which explain their operations and make Akvo more transparent. This is 30 minutes from Mark on Akvopedia which is an open water technology resource. For commentary and making of, see The Akvo Blog. We’re [...]
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Rapid move to take a gig with AKVO (everybody’s favorite water appropriate tech outfit!) helping out with a number of things, including video. So… game on. Who do I need to be meeting?!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Sterling has an excellent bit about “information munitions” – little cameras with cryptographic signatures and GPS to verify time and place an image was created at, and audit trails on image modification. It’s interesting that, even without all that, a camera phone can still rock the world. I left this comment on Worldchanging years ago, [...]
Saturday, November 15, 2008
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) will integrate regional clean energy progress into a coordinated, global effort. It will provide political recommendations, and identify funding for renewable technologies. Moreover, IRENA will seek to even the playing field for countries that have had difficulty affording investment in renewable energy. To this end, the agency will fund [...]
Thursday, November 13, 2008
via Louv Really, really good and interesting song. Just a little cheesy, but really nails a sense of the re-opening of the future. I’m packing for London. I have a feeling that I’m going to be doing a lot more traveling in the next couple of years than in the last few, so I’m sort [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Estimated time of stay: two months minimum. Will likely be back in Iceland after that.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
I think one thing that’s being missed here is that Mormons feel exactly this way about polygamy in many cases. If a man loves a woman, and another woman, and another woman, why are they not free to marry? If it is about love… I really do understand the practical problems with polygamy in a [...]
Links to the paper, the Drupal implementation, and so on.
These maps of county-by-county shifts are really amazing. The interesting conclusion – the south moved significantly to the Republican end, even in 2008. That should worry people.
In a lot of ways, the new year begins now. With a McCain / Palin presidency, the general atmosphere right now would be panic, horror, fleeing – a draft, total loss of faith in America and possibly in democracy (it would have taken massive fraud, for starters) and so on. Right now, the people feel [...]