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Met last night with the apocalypse wow! inner circle. Looks like there is plenty of momentum to keep going. Lots of work to do today. Hopefully we'll get another event together for election night. After that I'm pushing for a pro alternative energy agenda. Not sure if that will happen or not.
My dream is to hook such an effort into something like the Creative Commons (even though it's not set up to deal with anything like new energy technology.) We need the foundational technology for a new free society to be held in trust for the public. And then capitalism (and patents and copyright and profits) can work on top of this open infrastructure. But the base should belong to the people.
Obviously my idea is still quite fuzzy. The dream scenario is where the genius scientist, who makes the renewable energy breakthrough, places her research into the public domain instead of selling it to Mobil. Seems crazy, yet it has worked in the realm of computer software. Very smart people can be tempted by fame (the good kind) as much as by money. Maybe more so. But there has to be a structure set up to encourage this.
The war against Iraq clearly shows how important it is to get oil out of the picture as fast as possible. There's nothing good about war, but this one is so ridiculous maybe it can be a catalyst for real change. Yeah I know: maybe.
The shift.com top 10 defining moments in digital culture.
I lost my mobile charger cord on the DC trip, so it's dead right now. My email here is the best way to reach me until I fix this situation.
13 hours till blast off. I made a page here where I will attempt to photo blog (phlog?) the event. Theoretically I should have wireless data service the whole way. But who knows? This is my first experience with the sidekick outside of NYC.
Busy night tonight making final preparations. This has turned into a really big production. Complete with media on one of the buses. But you can get the scoop (almost) live if you check in here tomorrow.
I have to give this a much closer read, but Curious Yellow: The First Coordinated Worm Design is quite intriguing. And scary. Could someone hijack the global mind? (via aaron swartz)
Google news changed their layout a few weeks ago. I cursed the new style, without ever looking for a link to a less graphically intense version. Of course such a link is right there on the front page. Excellent. Now I have my news back the way I like it.
The bad news is that rumors predict google is going to charge for this at some point in the future.
Canon's new professional 11 megapixel camera compared with the "old" (heh!) 6 megapixel monster. How high will it go?
Wow. This protest thing is really taking off. Another long meeting tonight. It's amazing to watch these people go. They really know what they are doing. It's like a crash course in how to have a meeting.
Assuming the GPRS network is working, I'm planning some serious live coverage of this event. Might be kind of fun.
One more long day tomorrow, and then we're off at 7:00 am Saturday. I'll start broadcasting right away. (Or is that narrowcasting?) In any case, stay tuned.
So you mean if I just update to the most recent (december 2001) iMac firmware version (2.4f), my dead monitor will come back to life? Yup. It's true.
Not sure how I missed this crucial bit of information, but I'm sure glad to have found it.
Behold! A fully operational deathst... er, iMac.
Peter Rojas breaks the open spectrum party line to the masses in today' new york times (page g7, "what's next") This is the easy to understand version of the stuff David Reed (extensively quoted in the article) has been preaching for some time. Short summary: wireless radio spectrum is not limited. In fact, with the right hardware in place, data carrying capacity increases as the number of wireless devices in a given area increases. This is promised land type stuff.
I'm writing this from my mobile (and I'd sure like some more bandwidth) so I won't include links right now, but you could search my page for 'reed' or 'mesh' or 'ad-hoc' and find lots of stuff if you are curious.