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The Ambassador from the Next Economy “Joi interprets in deep ways; he’s a profoundly lateral thinker, and therefore he connects the dots better than most,” says John Seely Brown, author of several eminent books on business innovation and the former...

To keep my mind occupied the last day or so, I have been thinking alot about how Flickr's new Map functionality might affect the whole "citizen journalism" scene. Alot of people around me have been talking geo for years,...

I am going to Delhi, India in December for the Global Voices annual meeting. I started researching the trip this evening. First question was "ok, so where is this city exactly..." ;) Obviously I am not going to go...

Flickr: Import EXIF GPS information from your camera Automagically import GPS information as geo data Some cameras can store GPS (location) coordinates in a photo's EXIF header. If you like, Flickr can use that data if it's available to place...

"Lots" indeed. Go nuts. Montreal area...

This seems to work usually and I am always super grateful for any help. I need two queries to a standard WordPress 1.5.3 database for 1- list of the IDs and names of categories that have been posted to in...

Reporters sans frontières - Vietnam: Reporters Without Borders has learned that a British company, Silver Bullet, and a US company, Verint Systems (a subsidiary of Comverse Technology), sold equipment for intercepting mobile phone calls to the Vietnamese intelligence services. The...

Claude Lelouche's "c'était un rendez-vous", traced on a google map while the film plays. I love it. (found on Scott Gillies' USC IMD weblog)...

My mobile, wireless, nomadic, policy, geo wonk friends... check it out. Various forms of mobile media have been imagined for sometime, and are now a reality: mobile Internet, new forms of mobile text, mobile music, mobile film and video, mobile...

For the last two weeks I have been dying for an excuse, any excuse, to be in Helsinki right now. The announcement of Matt Biddulph's Aula talk today comes a full 48 hours too late for me to do up...

I've been back from Tokyo for 2 months now. Funny, it feels far far longer than that; more like 6 months. I've eaten japanese-style food once. (it was my favorite place. I was so disappointed.) I've not watched a single...

(SKY is apparently the british equivalent of Fox News, both Rupert Murdoch properties. Rupert also owns MySpace now. Beware, the brainwash machine expanded by a couple million more brains... very narrow brains mind you... ;) Erasure of memory, loss...

Karl found this gallery/café in Seoul. In Japan I am sometimes called "Borisu". It's a written language thing....

Zephyr got in touch with me today to ask about helping out with some UI for an organization she's now involved in. Poking around their site, I found this screencast showing how to use a site called "opensecrets.org" to find...

Lebanon solidarity protest, CairoOriginally uploaded by madmonk. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez expelled Israel's ambassador. Here a protester in Cairo offers her thanks and support...

Mike Pinkerton, developer of Camino, who now works for Google and doesn't seem so enthused about it all, says: So did you ever notice how most people nowadays start new thoughts or interrupt discussions with "so"? I wonder how that...

I've toted around for years various WiFi detectors and sniffers, to find Wireless Internet access as I roam around. They ugly, clunky, totally utilitarian dedicated devices that resulted in my actually getting a connection only a small percentage of the...

"Recent comments" list in the sidebar of a weblog. Before: After: Yeah, it takes more space, but it is apprehensible. There is more data, but it is better chunked and spooned out, reducing the amount of decoding you need to...

Since I got this Nokia N80 with WiFi, I've felt the very strong urge to use it to do multi-media mobile logging, and alot of it. Like, every moment of the day... ;) Yes. Mmmoblogging. Deal. Anyways, so I thought...

EastSouthWestNorth: Extraordinary Chinese Sayings, 1840-1999 - Part 1: When the Chinese Communist leaders found out that Dr. Bethune was ill, they ordered a full-scale effort to save him. Zhou Enlai issued a secret order to the party underground in...

Lieber Boris, wir haben zwei Fotos von Edi gefunden. Vielleicht sind sie interessant fuer Dich. Lass mal wieder was von Dir hoeren. Der Dutzi (Erhard) war bis heute bei uns, er sagt Du bist haeufig in Japan. Herzliche Gruesse,...

This morning I received a parcel from Toys'R'Us. It was my copy of ElectroPlankton. What a treat. Trying to relax on the couch this evening, I noticed in one of the modes you could turn on a display ("A" button)...

"Ok Go" just raised the bar......