Thorpes

Posted on October 30th, 2005 by longestnow.
Categories: %a la mod.

World wide words… with a brief but well-referenced entry in wiktionary. 

Thorpes …

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Glorious gadgetry?

Posted on October 28th, 2005 by longestnow.
Categories: %a la mod.

Check this solar carrier bag.   Remember the world’s finest turtle face-mask.  And forget not, while in the Christmas spirit, the joys of EVEST v.3 and all its kith.  Your relatives, young and old, will salute you.

Glorious gadgetry? …

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Download size exponentiation

Posted on October 28th, 2005 by longestnow.
Categories: metrics.

The size of downloads has been increasing at a record clip. 
Downloads have been growing in size since the inception of the
concept… today I direct your attention to Wikipedia and Wikimedia
downloads.  Unavailable as torrents, but rather only via http, the
full downloads at 2+GB each are unwieldy even for people who run
downloads over their broadband connections at night while they
sleep.  Is WP dump size growing faster than avergae pipe
throughput to homes and workplaces?  (yes)  What can be done
about this? 

How about… shipping hard drives to people who want them?  Guaranteed 5-day delivery; for a reasonable fee (perhaps $80 for a drive + shipping + overhead?)…

Download size exponentiation …

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Thurs/notes….

Posted on October 27th, 2005 by longestnow.
Categories: %a la mod.

Notes…

http://gayrepublicanmetalheadwiccans.org/

Randyf, Amanda/mal, michael, chris, j, erica…
shekhar, skyler, manon (u. chicago, admin computing, via shekhar)
ronaldo (hls, working for prof on how bloggers should be treated for
1st amendment)  — listen to/speak to some bloggers…  rob woolf.  m. leach.

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How to hold really big fundraisers

Posted on October 27th, 2005 by longestnow.
Categories: international.

Step 1 : Throw a party.

Step 2 : Make it really, really big.  10,000 people?  Almost there.

Step 3 : Don’t hold back.  Invite everyone;  make it a spectacle of an event. 

Step 4 : Only ask for 1/3 of the total cost of the event from the world
at large.  If this doesn’t come to a few million dollars, you’ve
done something wrong.

Step 5 : Put up a nice progress bar on your website to show people how well fundraising is going.

I guess it helps if you’re a major international body working towards the peaceful betterment of mankind. 

WSIS I reflections

http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/informationsociety/template10.do
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/special/informationsociety

How to hold really big fundraisers …

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Beauty and the Jess

Posted on October 26th, 2005 by longestnow.
Categories: Glory, glory, glory.

Jessamyn gave a rocking talk at the Internet Librarian gathering out on
the left coast just this Monday.  Wish I could have seen it! 
Her design skills keep improving with her patter; soon she will have
even the non-librarian world beating down her door.

Beauty and the Jess …

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Boston to host Wikimania 2006, after close contest

Posted on October 24th, 2005 by longestnow.
Categories: international.

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On Saturday, Boston was
chosen by an 11-person jury to be the host city for next summer’s Wikimedia
conference (aka Wikimania
2006).  The week-long event on global
collaboration and free knowledge is being sponsored primarily by HLS’s
Berkman Center for
Internet & Society.   Over 50
speakers and 600 attendees from around the planet are expected to
attend - an energetic mix of Wikimedia contributors;
wiki maintainers and developers; academic researchers in law,
technology, and sociology; and librarians, educators, and
entrepreneurs. 

You can see part of last year’s program and
schedule on the old Wikimania
website.  This year will be even more amazing; to help out, sign up on our volunteer page.

The decision followed a month-long bid
process that culminated in a deadlocked jury and a week of
overtime
deliberation. 
The two finalist bids, for Boston
and Toronto,
were both so strong that a jury vote earlier this month was
inconclusive.  After asking for more information from both
bids and from
the global Wikimedia community, a second vote this past weekend was
5–4 in favor of Boston,
with 2 abstentions.

The Toronto bid
included a generous offer of from the University of Toronto’s

Knowledge Media Design
Institute, including free use of their new Bahen Centre for Information Technology,
and was supported by an impressive local team.  

 
The Boston bid is
supported by its own local team; by the Berkman
Center (offering space, funding
and enthusiasm); by the MIT Media
Lab’s electronic
publishing group (offering to host part of the event); and by
many smaller local
groups of the Boston event in various ways.

Boston to host Wikimania 2006, after close contest …

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Boston it is

Posted on October 23rd, 2005 by longestnow.
Categories: fly-by-wire.

Boston will host Wikimania 2006.  Details to come.

Boston it is …

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My karma’s rubbing off on Boston

Posted on October 22nd, 2005 by longestnow.
Categories: poetic justice.

…they’re planning for disaster by training the community to be more self-reliant (and going back to centuries-old roots in the process).  How did I miss this when it was first announced?

My karma’s rubbing off on Boston …

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Awesome Geomap integration with WP

Posted on October 18th, 2005 by longestnow.
Categories: international.

Care of a German-Korean collaboration. You can add items to a map layer,
have resulting content stored in the db associated with WP articles,
and have tags show up on the map with the article’s name. Then you can
add/remove these items by layer…)

Click on the map to see the layered world-map itself.

Awesome Geomap integration with WP …

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