The XO Files Part II: The New 4PC Market, and its Failings
The same constraints that make the XO revolutionary for schools also produce technological solutions that make the XO attractive to a certain set of users wh...
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The XO Files: I Want to Believe
This entry is the beginning of a four part series, The XO Files: I Want to Believe in the XO
Rescuing the baby from the thrown-out bathwater
Worldchanging's Jeremy Faludi calls it "reverse-leapfrogging", but is looking for a better name. It's reviving or importing concepts that used to exist: Gre...
Social Media for Change
Ning, if you haven't heard of it, is a roll-your-own "web 2.0" platform, where you can combine blogs, videos, forums, and so on in seconds in a web interface...
My 5 Minute Rule for Documentation
I have a policy which I follow religiously regarding when to document something, which I promote to my co-workers when training them on the staff wikis I cre...
SuBtle tricks
I enjoy activities that put the 'b" in subtle. This Greasemonkey script for FireFox translates dollar figures in webpages you view into Oil Barrels:
NPR Covers the OLPC
OLPC fell short?Morning Edition’s Cyrus Farivar talks about the One Laptop Per Child project: One Laptop Per Child was an ambitious promise to children in t...
A Simple Social Media Analogy
This quirky animation compares social media to ice cream to explain the value of basic customer generated content (uin the form of tagging, rating and commen...
Picking Nits with Microsoft over XP-on-XO
XP on the XOSo after the LaptopMag review of XP on the XO, the W2 Group (“a global marketing services ecosystem that helps CMOs in their new role as builders...
RSS is my favorite web magic
Note to techies - this article is intended for the nonprofit crowd and as such is basically an introduction to RSS. There's a few interesting things at the ...
XP on the OLPC XO, Round Two
Hands on with XP on the XO
One old OS per Child
I keep swearing that I’ll shift gears and focus more on the good parts of the One Laptop Per Child project like the fusion of public and private interests in...
More on OLPC in India
NextBillion on the OLPC in India
The OLPC / OSS Dream
The always-amusing XKCD webcomic illustrates the secret dream on the OLPC project in encouraging children to learn and, in doing so, learn programming:
Zero to Fame in Three Hours
Today, Twitter launched one person from their normal Internet life to getting news on the California-regional LAist and valleywag blogs, CNet, a top-rated d...