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Ben Geyerhan took a few minutes to answer my questions between sessions. Ben is now with teh New Democratic Network , but we know each other form the John Edwards Primary Campaign. Click here to Listen Attachment Size PDF_BenG.mp3 146.15 KB
Noel just pointed out to me that two screen we can see in front of us are trained on tasks unrelated to the conference (as in, not their personal blogs, and not the PDF site, and not the Live Chat). Maybe they are researching posts? Well not the guys editing a video on his mac,…
The morning session of PDF was interesting, starting late, rife with technical difficulties (projector not working, spotting internet access). Scott Hjeiferman, an interesting choice for keynote speaker, being that the general consensu around the net (well atleast the activist community, is that MeetUp Jumped the shark by starting to charge, what when you can use…
You may remember an earlier post on funding open source development collaboratively. I have been talking about this with people since the nTen and now, courtesy of Scott Trudeau if have found Fundable.org a tool for collaborative funding of "purchases". Basically your contribution is only a pledge until a target ammount has been raised.…
I love the internet, and i love people who subvert the mainstream with it's own tools. I just found The Delocator on TechStrategy.org's blog Not sure how I found tech strategy, I think someone put it up on the Penguin Day Wiki . That's right, this is Katrin Verclas' Blog. (I was in the…
So there is debate raging in the blogosphere, it started with Ed Batista's post, "Blogs are Obsolete" There are folks weighing in on both sides. I am going to jump to the meta level on this debate and say that it is really a semantic issue about what poeple using the term "blog" to describe.…
The NYT ran this article over the weekend about Rocketboom the pioneering daily video log which is now positioned to be a perfect video download to the new video ipod. As the article reports, with about 100k viewerd, rocketboom could be making big money selling adversing. The video is only a few minutes long and could be bookened with short ads. 100k viewers is up there with a bunch of the cable news programs. Why aren’t there more such video casts? I could see a network of such short spots that users could then assemble their own program from through taxonomic searching. Some of us at CivicActions mused about a system that could aggregate and classify public televisions and public access television programming from around the country. Users could then subscribe to certain terms, or specific feeds, the result would be a show assembled on the fly of segments the user wants to see.
In this short clip, Amanda Hickman (from LINC project and NOSI ) and I chat briefly about tagging and, once again, upcoming.org. files/gh_and_abh_tagging.mp3 This is super short, and quiet, crank up the volume. I promise, i will get better with the mic. Attachment Size gh_and_abh_tagging.mp3 107.05 KB
I was talking to Daniel K. Gillmor at Penguin Day about podcasting and audio recording. I recorded this description of a program he helps out on that teached public school kids to produce "radio" shows. We talked about the technology they use, and later, not on the recording, we talked a bit more about using…
Andrew is running for public advocate, I like his explanation of the befit of low cost pubvlic wifi…. One of your big ideas is to build a universal wi-fi network serving the whole city. That sounds cool- but what'll it do for New Yorkers? For one, low-cost universal broadband will plug our kids into the […