Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
Pocket Lint reports that UK authorities are banning electronic gadgets from all flights due to security concerns in the wake of this morning's terror scare at Heathrow Airport.
According to the British Airways website, "passengers are advised that no electrical or battery powered items including laptops, mobile phones, portable music players, ...
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Thursday, August 10th, 2006
A Cologne-based company called Sevenval has developed an application that converts webpages into WAP pages, stripping the original HTML code to its leanest, mainly function-oriented essentials. One of their pilot projects is Wikipedia, which they enabled for the mobile as a getsure of goodwill. According to Sevenval's website, the mobile ...
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
There's an excellent article in mopocket worthy of your attention today (the post is a response to a recent CNN article about the lack of SMS adoption in the United States). In his response, Justin articulates a reasoned approach, drawing on the work of Mizuko Ito and others about how ...
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Sandi Thom makes music that is unlistenable. Drab. Moribund, even. But that doesn't stop people from risking an investment of time, money and other precious resources into trying to stimulate a wider demand for it. But hey, that's business, not music, and it's nothing new. And all the "intrigue" around ...
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Monday, August 7th, 2006
I've been intellectually wikiwhelmed this weekend at Wikimania, the annual conference for Wikipedia and related Wikimedia projects. I have pages and pages of notes and commentary, a number of new contacts (possibly new friends too), a whack of cameraphone pics on my Flickr page, and little bits of cameraphone video ...
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Friday, August 4th, 2006
There is a socio-technological irony in terms of the accessibility of what many are calling free culture. If oral cultures, or communities that have low literacy rates are to participate or be included in the fervour of free culture, then they will require a richer media environment. In a nutshell ...
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006
I've contributed an article to wikipedia on a band I play in, and I thought I'd share my thoughts about the experience. (This is also a timely exercise, as Wikimania 2006, which I'm attending in Boston this weekend, is upon us.)
At wikipedia, policies that govern the inclusion and exclusion of ...
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