Here is a lightly-edited MP3 of the presentation recorded by Lloyd Davis. Thank you very much, Lloyd! There should be some video of the talk up next week. If you’re following along with the talk, here are the slides from the handout: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Here is a loose outline of Infrastructure [...]
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Archive for January, 2009
Infrastructure for Anarchists at the Temporary School of Though (Audio)
by Vinay Gupta • January 8, 2009 • The Global Picture • 6 Comments
Recording broadcast quality interviews using Skype. No, really!
by Vinay Gupta • January 6, 2009 • Cool Tools • 0 Comments
Skype for Interviews View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: podcast interviews) via Josef
Read more →A Quick Look Around The Temporary School of Thought
by Vinay Gupta • January 6, 2009 • Personal • 6 Comments
Temporary School of Thought web site. I’m teaching Infrastructure for Anarchists there on January 7th at 1PM, and Soft Development Paths on Friday at 5pm. There’ll also be Hexayurt stuff on Thursday, probably around 2PM but check the schedule on the site for details. Enjoy!
Read more →Bruce Sterling’s 2009 state of the world
by Vinay Gupta • January 5, 2009 • Trivia and Media • 0 Comments
I’m a bohemian type, so I could scarcely be bothered to do anything “financially sound” in my entire adult life. Last year was the first year when I’ve felt genuinely sorry for responsible, well-to-do people. Suddenly they’ve got the precariousness of creatives, of the underclass, without that gleeful experience of decades spent living-it-up. Bruce Sterling [...]
Read more →Talk outline for Jan 7th in London – Infrastructure for Anarchists
by Vinay Gupta • January 4, 2009 • Infrawar, Personal • 7 Comments
Infrastructure for Anarchists – 2 hours Outline of a talk I’ll be giving on Wednesday 7th of January at The Temporary School of Thought in London. See Six Ways To Die for a visual aid which talks about a lot of the material. Here’s the audio of the talk. – two promises: -1> I’m going [...]
Read more →Yesterday was an amazing day
by Vinay Gupta • January 4, 2009 • Personal • 2 Comments
Yesterday was another one of those “the internet brings the best out of people and the world” days. It started badly. My Macintosh decided it didn’t have a battery. Even though it did. That was really the last straw – case problems, screen flickering, these things were manageable. But a notebook that doesn’t know its [...]
Read more →Acer Aspire One review – two months in
by Vinay Gupta • January 3, 2009 • Everything Else • 0 Comments
1> The basic mode – the way the machine arrives – is pretty much all you need for Grandma, if you put Skype on it. There are guides. 2> The “advanced mode” which gives you terminals and a repository to install more software from and so on is a Bad Place To Be. Here’s why: [...]
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