What can I say other than that my side projects are eating my life? I’ve missed several important occasions lately, including the most important anniversary of the blogosphere. Sorry I forgot about it. I hope it was happy. Many years of terrific things to you both!
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Today’s Berkman Luncheon Series featured Ethan Zuckerman and Eric Osiakwan speaking about information infrastructure in Africa. Below are some rough notes. Ethan has more and a link to the slides.
Many people in Africa connect to the Internet via satellite links, not cables.
Internet providers in Africa have a difficult time peering with other networks, unlike [...]
I finished The Adventures of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Novel by Dav Pilkey today. This book is my first official Banned Books reading for this week. I can see why parents object to it. The book has a lot of mischief in it, including a number of school pranks, and features a character who [...]
Besides batteries, there are many things to consider when buying a computer. As Garrett points out in his weekly newsletter, Consumer Reports has a guide to help with the process.
Happy Banned Books Week!
This year, I’m hoping to have time to read the first in The Adventures of Captain Underpants series, one of the Scary Stories series (I just realized I grabbed the one I read before; I’ll have to exchange it later this week), and My Brother Sam is Dead, which I remember borrowing [...]
Happy OneWebDay!
I’m over at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society for a OneWebDay lunch.
Video webcast at http://harmony.law.harvard.edu/webcast.s…
IRC chat channel at irc://irc.freenode.net/berkman
I wonder if that person is wearing the OneWebDay button I sent …
Remember I told you about the Firefox Web Developers Toolbar and how it saved a damaged post last month? Also, remember last month I mentioned someone helped me figure out how to delete lots of trackback spam in relation to my whining about there being no select all option for the check boxes on the [...]
I couldn’t help noticing the link to a spam recipe above the spam mailbox in Gmail. It used to be that my Gmail account would get no spam, so I rarely looked in the spam folder. Now, I dump it every few months. As much as I don’t like junk mail, one of the advantages [...]
Y’all should know by now I’m a huge fan of Gaping Void, comics by Hugh MacLeod. I think Wendy introduced me to the blog. During a talk, Doc Searls showed a cartoon about blogging I decided I should find to show in an upcoming talk. (Too bad I didn’t have it Tuesday!) While trying to [...]