N810 unboxing by Matt Biddulph. License:
Got my N810 yesterday. Some thoughts:
GPS: sexy. All kinds of interesting possible results. Kudos to Nokia for leading in this, though now that my blackberry does rough triangulation from cells, I’m not sure how pragmatic it is. (Modulo concerns about privacy that go along with cell geolocation.)
look and feel: [...]
Passing on an announce for other tech-interested proto-lawyers:
The Software Freedom Law Center is currently seeking legal interns to join the staff this summer. Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in software freedom and should be conversant in legal and technical concepts related to free and open source software, but no specific prior course of study [...]
… food poisoning, or something a lot like it. And today was supposed to be a fun-ish friday… blah.
All too short and insubstantive piece on the Amazon ‘top reviewers’. Reminds me a bit of the wikipedia cabal discussion. We will eventually demand transparency in these institutions, I think. (via the awesome furdlog- must-read if you want to keep tabs on some of the big picture tech policy issues, especially as understood by the [...]
… is a class that drowns you in both history and state of the art for an hour and a half, and then spends half an hour challenging you to think about what comes next. And all of it (implicitly and explicitly) screaming at you that This Really, Really Matters. I left exhausted, and if [...]
Objectivist phenomenology? (Seen on a mail drop box in lower manhattan.)
I’ve told people that I support Obama in part because I’d rather gamble on someone who wants to lead 60% of the country than to be certain of another four years of someone who can at best lead 51% of the country. Cass Sunstein has some similar thoughts that may be worth reading if you’re [...]
Philippe Aigrain on categories of services
Danny O’Brien on self-hosting
Too much data to process right now- am going through old blog posts of interest… and there are so many of them. Argh!
Two of my classes this semester have class wikis:
Computers, Privacy, and the Constitution
Telecommunications
That would be two more than I’ve ever had before.
There are a few different spins you could put on this development. Along the student-faculty axis, it is putting more control in the hands of students. This is probably consistent with the institutional mission [...]
… when it uses sans-serif fonts in the chapter headings. (In this case, ‘Electronic Commerce’, Mann and Winn.)