TurnYourWorldAround’s Connect-a-Kid and the OLPC
Disclosure: I work at Youth Service America, where Tara Suri is a member of the National Youth Council</a>, a collection of amazing young people who ma...
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I have to ask…
To reveal the fathomless depths of my geek depravity, one Friday a month I get together with fellow alumni and current students of my International Science a...
Using the OLPC - Day 2
Installing xo activities is a snap, up there with OSX's .dmg install process. Installing anything else can be a bit of a pain, as it's command line installa...
LiveBlogging my OLPC
So I got my OLPC around 11am Saturday morning. Finally. Note: the FedEx AltRefTracking never registered that it was on its way, and I never go to the Lapto...
Web 2.0 ‘08 Predictions Update
I predicted in January that Facebook would "hit its limit. I predict some more ad snafus a la Beacon, and the 3rd party apps become overwhelming and all-too-...
It’s Late March, where’s my G1G1 OLPC Laptop?
One month ago today was the last time I heard anything from OLPC about my laptop, ordered back in December:
Rethinking the OLPC Distribution: A “Base of the Pyramid” approach?
<p>What would a "bottom of the pyramid" approach for the OLPC look like? While the OLPC vision is bottom-up and ch...
LOLPC - One LOL per OLPC
Disclaimer: If you take this post seriously, you need to relax. UPDATE:There are some LOLPCs hiding away at lolnptech!
Negroponte stepping away from the OLPC helm
Naturally, it failed. Nothing is that independent, especially an organization […] staffed by highly individualistic industry visionaries from around the worl...
Martin Langhoff and the XS-ive OLPC School Server
The XS School Server list has been a hotbed of activity the past few weeks with management changes as well as some disgruntled people seem to realize that th...
Twittering for Good
There's increasing buzz on using Twitter for non-profit goals; from the familiar sources of Idealist, NetSquared and of course Beth Kanter. It seems mostly ...
Fujitsu joins the tiny laptop market
The new Fujitsu LifeBook u810 looks, frankly, a lot like the OLPC.
Slacktivisism for Fair Trade (Updated)
My friend over at Esperanza en Accion in Nicaragua, has let people know that someone is attempting aland grab against a cooperative clothing factory, Nueva V...
The OLPC’s Stone Soup
Birmingham, Alabama has had possibly the first of many rude awakenings worldwide as they realize that the XOs don't come with an Internet connection included...
MS offers to buy Yahoo?
Engadget is reporting that Microsoft has posted a formal offer to buy Yahoo (and by proxy, flickr, del.icio.us, and steer the development of Flock (...into t...