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: [...]
Read more →Quite a few chickens are going to come home to roost in 2009. Many of these chickens have been stored up by the Republican administration in America as presents for the new administration, but some of them simply Are. Let’s do a quick review of the situation and look at some implications. The Modeling Crisis [...]
Read more →Here’s what we’re trying to win the USAID Development 2.0 challenge prize with: Our project focuses on the development of the Water Technology Assistant (WTA). The WTA is a cell-phone based application that provides an enhanced and localized interface to the world’s water technology resources in a format that field workers and villagers can use. [...]
Read more →I finally got around to seeing Quantum of Solace. Spoilerish micro-review continues after the most excellent alternative theme song. (via Jon) So Bond is really Britain’s equivalent to Uncle Sam. It hasn’t been John Bull for quite some time. As goes Bond, so goes the nation…
Read more →100,000 pages * 80 languages == 8,000,000 pages. Plus versioning. We have enough cognitive surplus to do this kind of work. Appropedia or Where There Is No Doctor could provide the seed content. What’s needed is tools for mass translation – billions of translation events, quality reviewing, translation of versioned texts so that it’s easy [...]
Read more →City of love HD from Leonardo Dalessandri on Vimeo. This is beautiful. Beautiful is expensive. Beautiful is hard. Beautiful needs the eye and the skill and the gear. We don’t do beautiful. At least, not routinely and often not by intention. Beautiful video costs 10 or 100 times what functional video costs. TV has to [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →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?!
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