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An email I just sent to some of my colleagues at GlobalVoicesOnline: Hi gang, In the last 36 or so hours, the site has gone down twice. In both cases, the culprits were simple, yet monumentally stupid oversights on my...

(catching up) Excellent article by Aaron about his visit to the Conflux thingy in NYC 2 weeks ago. If you're into internets OR arts OR locations stuffs... it's something good to chew on. (A couple of "Mike"s I know 'specially)...

Somebody in my network today said: A way to deal with bothersome emotions beyond reason is either reading about human physiology as science, or doing some very basic mundane tasks such as cleaning. I read this after an IRC meeting,...

The *official* website for last week's Thai military coup d'état: "The Council for Democratic Reform under Constitutional Monarchy" via GVO of course, from a feed we prepped for Reuters while we were doing the Turner event... ;)...

It is SO hard for me to write these scenarios without diving into "how I would build this." I keep going over and back over and having to edit out whispered pre-suppositions of "how." This is where "technological determinism" is...

Very interesting: The Citizendium, a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance. It will begin life as a "progressive fork" of Wikipedia. But we expect it to take...

another silly IM convo... #dumb dt{font-style:italic;}bopuca DHL delivery bounced today and looking at the tracking it left Sacramento yesterday...bopuci didnt order anythingbopucmaybe it's...bopuca brocoli pizza from Arnie!!!stemanshahabopuchehestemansEsti de Calisse de Sacramento! bopuchahahahastemanshehehehbopucseriously thobopucNOBODY ships as fast as DHL... i've NEVER...

At 4:00pm EST today, Reuters is hosting Ted Turner in a discussion about the future of the United Nations. Turner is, amongst other things, the largest private funder of the U.N. The discussion is being webcast and GlobalVoices has...

Big congrats to the team. This is a pretty big deal. The Knight-Batten awards were created by combining the existing "Batten Awards for Excellence in Civic Journalism" and a new endeavor by the Knight Foundation, of James Knight Batten, founder...

This is what my "Virtual Desktop" pager looks like right now, a more or less busy average Sunday night. That's 3 separate "jobs" open concurrently AND taking care of a task for someone who just pinged me in IM. Normally...

I coded up a little tiny PHP method that takes any text string and returns 5 usable "html" hexadecimal colors. It's not as artful as I'd have liked it to be, but then again my programming skills are not everything...

Not to be flippant about the Columbine-style shooting that just happened at Dawson college in Montreal, but this quote from a 19 year old student got my rant on: "I'm only 19 and to have flashes of your life and...

If the world were 100 people. (a flash movie based on an old internet meme) Share what you can....

locatr DESCRIPTION locatr is a Series 60 Python application to display Flickr photos based on your current location (using a GPS device). HOW IT WORKS locatr will try to connect to a Bluetooth enabled GPS device and ask it for...

People lined up in Laval for the opening of the new "Montreal" Apple Store. (I didn't go. See previous entry. ;)...

I had a very strange and in some ways worrisome experience early this morning. I went out last night; a going away party for a filmmaker friend and then some chilling out at Laika. Nothing extravagant or crazy. I did...

This XMas video by Jer does a nice job of subtly and subconsciously communicating just how surreal consumer culture can be. Remember, only X shopping days till Christmas!...

Ok here we go. Amazon just unveiled "Amazon Unbox", their movie and TV show purchasing & download store. Apple is rumored (damn near confirmed) to release their movie download service next week as well, however with fewer studios signed up...

Ok Go do their crazy treadmill routine live on the MTV Video Music Awards. The first comment puts it... the way you could only expect i tto be put on the Internet... I believe that the narrowminded and obnoxious message...

i am rather shocked by how often i need to wipe my glasses clean... it's like, before i had glasses, i used poke myself in the eyes ALL the time. with my greasy fingers... NOT wtf. I don't get it....

"Sumaato" have developed a ridiculously slick bookmarklet that uses the Google Maps API to allow even easier Flickr geotagging. A sweet feature made better by using Google's better maps ('specially for Japan ;) Seriously. Look at this photo of the...