Robert Strauss vs. Peace Corps: Round 2
You may remember Strauss from his NYT article damning the Peace Corps back in January. It made the point that the increasing numbers of volunteers is decrea...
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Twittering for Global Youth Service Day II
Global Youth Service Day will be brought to you in live Twitter form with event updates (and locations, to broadcast on TwitterVision.com) throughout the day.
The Opposite of Schadenfreude
OLPCNews has been ripe with the continuing disintegration of OLPC, from Mary Lou Jepsen who got out just in time, then with Ivan's departure due to differenc...
Negroponte on the future of OLPC and Sugar
The Big NN sent out an email, reposted at OLPCNews.com, with the current status of OLPC and Sugar, it's UI, to address the issues finding their way out of th...
ICT4Dev Career Meetup Notes
Here is essentially a list of resources from the DC ICT4Dev Meetup on careers (you'll have to do the googling and hyperlinking yourselves. Email me at jon @...
Notes from “Democratizing Development: How Technology is Disrupting Traditional Development Models”
Below the fold are my notes from the Democratizing Development: How Technology is Disrupting Traditional Development Models panel by SID/W at Chemonics on th...
Lower Your Eee-XPectations
APCMap has an insightful review of their experiences with Windows XP on the Asus Eee. This isn't (yet) any different version of XP than you'd have on a "nor...
Updating the XO
I updated my OLPC from the shipped build 656 to the release candidate for the muh-anticipated Update.1, here's what I did and what happened: from a root term...
How low-cost portables can compete
Wayan at OLPCNews.com has an article up on what he's terming "3P computing" (Power, Price, Performance). Some of the commentators and myself would also add ...
More on Low Cost Laptops
Slashdot's wading in to the discussion on what is a low-cost laptop and what features should it have. At least this time no one's calling me a child hater.
HP enters the low-cost laptop market (kinda)
HP, the current #1 global PC seller, has entered the mini/low-cost laptop market:
DC International Development Events Calendar
Big thanks to GWU's Organization for International Development for importing their events calendar into google calendars. I was getting pretty close to doin...
Innovation is not adding more of the same
You might say that I've at times been critical of the OLPC project, but rarely do I have anything bad to say about their actual technology. Intel has a new ...
Good People Day 2008
I like the good people day idea all about giving props where due. Since I'll be nose-down in work preparing for the upcoming Global Youth Service Day April ...
Twittering for Global Youth Service Day
So coming up on 25th-28th of April is the 20th annual Global Youth Service Day, and I'm trying to see if I can do something fun with Twitter; like having you...