Ok, it probably shouldn’t become part of my habits but this is another repost of a blog comment motivated by the OLPC XO. This time, it’s a reply to Niti Bhan’s enthusiastic blogpost about the eeePC: Perspective 2.0: The little eeePC that could has become the real “iPod” of personal computing This time, I’m heavily … Continue reading “Handhelds for the Rest of Us?”
As explained before, I am not a “visual” thinker. Unlike some other people, I don’t draw witty charts all the time. However, I do occasionally think visually. In this case, I do “see” Venn diagrams and other cutesy graphics. What I’m seeing is the proportion of “geeks” in the world. And, to be honest, it’s … Continue reading “The Geek Niche (Draft)”
To say the least, I’ve been ambivalent about the One Laptop Per Child project. And I was not alone in my OLPC discomfort. But now, I feel optimistic. Not about the OLPC project. But because that project is enabling something important.
Been meaning to blog about this for a while, especially after listening to this podcast episode: Open Source » Blog Archive » One Laptop Per Child? Quite insightful, in my mind, and they did touch on several of the important issues.
The latest episode of Télé-Québec’s Les Francs Tireurs had a segment on international humatarian aid. (Especially of the Euro-American CICR and Reporters sans frontières style.) Maybe there are more (I don’t to watch much television) but this one was the first television report which had a thoughtful and insightful discussion of the negative impacts of … Continue reading “Took a While”
Disparate 