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Antipreneur
I love adbusters for what they do. I rarely agree with their logic. Here’s another case. The Blackspot program is an attempt to compete against corporations with… drumroll please… a different logo. In...
View ArticleBitTorrent: Please Stay Outta Copyright’s Way!
Slashdot had a delightful story about BitTorrent receiving a venture capital investment of about $8.75 million dollars. In the announcement, Ashwin Navin, co-founder, stated that they wanted BitTorrent...
View ArticleOpen Source, Meet Open Robot
Some students at George Mason University have put together a wiki that will document the construction of a small open source robot (costing roughly $800). I don’t have much to add to this other than...
View ArticleMIT moves forward with $100 laptop
Nicholas Negroponte is moving forward with his plans to unveil a sub $100 laptop to provide to children around the world. I posted on this a while ago on Banapana but despite my suggestion, it’s great...
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The False Dawn Cometh?
[Banapana is undergoing some category changes and reshuffling of content in an attempt to retain more focus -- please bare with me] A few summers back I read False Dawn by John Gray and was delighted...
View ArticleFact as Asymptote [Update: 2.14.06]
An old article on the Economist web site about the rapidly growing quantity of information in the world brought me back to an old idea I had espoused a while back regarding information having density...
View ArticleSorry Moveon.org
Moveon.org has once again asked folks to participate in an online petition. Generally speaking, I’m behind what they do, and I especially like it because it is a grass roots movement among the...
View ArticleWhy Facebook Wins
It’s one of those things that is questionable ethically, but unfortunately the matter is just not covered by the law. Mark Zuckerburg, of Facebook founder fame, is getting sued by several old...
View ArticleDesktop/Cloud Hybrid Software Will Win
There have been a lot of technology pundits discussing the demise of the desktop—primarily arguing that the desktop is going to get sucked in to the browser. And there has been a lot of conversation...
View ArticleAmerican Consumers Prefer Robots, Not Toys
Via Cognews I found “Robot Consumers, Grow Up!” by Lance Ulanoff. His basic premise is that the more that robots look like real humans or animals, the more put off the American consumer is by it. But I...
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