Tag: technology
member name: Shava Nerad
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June 02, 2006 08:08 PM EDT --
It seems to me that China has always been a land where communications has been difficult. There has never really been a common culture from Sichuan to Guangdong, from Mongolia to Xinjiang. . . .
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February 22, 2007 08:14 PM EST --
As the executive director of a nonprofit -- and myself pushing fifty these days -- I was somewhat dismayed by the range of volunteers who applied for my Americorps/VISTA position last year. Mostly . . .
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October 01, 2008 01:16 AM EDT --
This is a response to the comment stream on Boing-Boing to my " Chickens Come Home to Roost " post last published on Iconoclasm.
@#19 My point is that Enron was able to be a wolf in sheep's . . .
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May 10, 2007 01:25 PM EDT --
I remember my parents telling the story about when phone service made it to their community.
People didn't have a convention for answering the phone -- they would lift up the receiver and listen . . .
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September 04, 2007 05:43 PM EDT --
For me, the drain started with two boilerplate email invites I got from CC Chapman, a co-conspirator in social media. CC often has his finger on cool new things online, so I immediately clicked . . .
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October 25, 2007 02:56 AM EDT --
I don't know if you saw CSI:NY last night , but it was a total travesty of information law. The episode portrayed a series of Second Life players involved in a series of assassinations, which CBS . . .
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February 21, 2006 03:59 AM EST --
Negroponte leaves to change the world by getting children in developing countries $100 laptops...
...and new Media Lab head Frank Moss courts corporate money for the whimsical ivory tower.
Sort . . .
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December 08, 2005 03:07 PM EST --
I've been really enjoying the "tag" field on gather posts, but I found that a lot of folks are not using this field as effectively as they could.
A tag is reminiscent of a library catalogue . . .
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April 12, 2007 01:15 AM EDT --
Yesterday on On Point (produced at my own favorite local NPR station, WBUR) an economist was discussing how even though entry level programming jobs would be lost in a global economy, we'd be alright . . .
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June 06, 2007 04:46 PM EDT --
It's always a little tricky to report on a news event you've just participated in, but Amnesty International's Irrepressible campaign against Internet censorship just had a conference today . . .
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January 23, 2006 12:49 PM EST --
MIT's Technology Review reports on a small $18 device that, exposed to flame for thirty minutes, can keep food refrigerated for 24 hours at 4 degrees C. It's a rehash of some tech that was . . .
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March 08, 2006 01:56 AM EST --
Lauded as "artificial artificial intelligence," Amazon's Mechanical Turk program farms out tasks simple for a human -- but devilish for a computer -- to housewives, students, and overseas . . .
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March 19, 2006 12:13 PM EST --
Are you interested in nonprofit applications of technology? Do you need a geek to help with your nonprofit? Are you a geek looking for a place to pick up a worthy volunteer gig? Just . . .
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January 15, 2006 02:16 AM EST --
Gather's got good news in the Boston Globe, announcing a new funding round and plans for compensating authors on the site on a new 2-tier system.
Must read for all gather denizens!
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January 04, 2008 02:01 PM EST --
Todd Defren , a twitter buddy, passes on the "8 Things You (Probably) Don't Know About Me" meme started by Social Media Group's Maggie Fox.
Here are mine:
1) I'm . . .
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December 08, 2005 01:40 PM EST --
As reported by the BBC, "podcast" is the word of the year in the New Oxford American Dictionary.
It's an interesting commentary on publishing cycles that we get the news today, but the word . . .
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January 06, 2006 03:12 PM EST --
If you've been reading my stuff on Gather, you might have read my post Motherhood Singularity, where I talked about how changes are occuring in what we perceive as the "institution" of the . . .
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February 20, 2008 11:09 PM EST --
Larry Lessig is considering a run for Congress in California, and I want him to run.
And so do a lot of people, including many far from his Stanford home.
He's got a Facebook group. . . .
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