Last night a local census taker came to my door and asked me a number of personal questions. As anyone reading this likely knows, I care deeply about my privacy, but I was happy to fill out the census. This might seem counter-intuitive, especially given all the apparent controversy over giving personal information to the [...]
If you spend some time in the ebook community you inevitably run into Distributed Proofreading, the collaborative proofreading group that supplies Project Gutenberg with high quality text versions of Public Domain books. They are a small community of dedicated editors doing good work. Unfortunately, they are also becoming irrelevant to most of the issues [...]
My new Guruplug, the second generation of that plug computer Eben and I keep talking about, just made it to me.
Here are the two of them side by side. The guru plug is the smaller black one.
The Guruplug is an upgrade from the original Sheevaplug development kit in pretty much all respects. It has [...]
I had planned to spend this post performing an impossible task; I was going to tell you how to put together the freedom box out of existing parts. As recent discussions have shown, there are as many ways of building these tools as there are people who want to build them. Instead of trying to [...]
In response to Luis’s post from yesterday. Suggestions for the diaspora developers.
Build less.
What we need is a tool for making connections with other people and a social firewall to manage what parts of the information you put in the system get sent to which people you know. These are the pieces that hold a [...]