Wednesday, August 13, 2008
On Monday morning, angry commuters set 20 buses on fire. Their reason? They said they couldn’t get any tickets. This was after Putco said that they could ride for free. Why couldn’t they get tickets? Because when corrupt ticket sellers were suspended, the new ones sent in to replace them were chased away.
The articles said [...]
A restraining order was issued against three MIT students who were to make a presentation at Defcon. They were about to reveal security vulnerabilities that they discovered in the Massachusetts train fare system.
The EFF is appealing the decision on the grounds that the restraining order is a violation of the student’s free speech rights.
Ironically, the [...]
There’s a story about a Zen master and student drinking tea. The student keeps asking stupid questions until the master pours a cup of tea until it overflows. When the student stops the master, the master tells the student that he can’t learn anything until he empties his cup.
Descartes said that we first have to [...]
I believe in open content, but I’d settle for open access until the collective consciousness catches up. This is why I love searching the net for free textbooks and ebooks.
I’ve found a couple of classics like the Cluetrain Manifesto, and New Rules for the New Economy, and by now everybody knows about Quirk’s eMarketing Textbook. [...]
Someone finally understood that communication can be abstracted to streams. Obviously RSS and microblogs, but Email, IM and even SMS can fit into the stream model. If Google ever buys a cellphone service provider, you can bet on adding recorded voice and IP calls to the mix.
A couple of days ago, Mozilla announced Snowl, the [...]
I’m creating a new niche blog called Otakumono to focus on geeky entertainment in South Africa. Things like anime, fiction, comics, manga, games, movies, roleplaying, conventions, medieval reenactment, and so on. You get the idea.
Now all I have to do is figure out what the heck I want to blog about in Constant Flux.
Oh, [...]
Danny O’Brien made the point that copying isn’t such a big deal any more, but that plagiarism is almost universally condemned.
One reason for this could be the environment that originated the open content ethos. In an academic environment, using someone else’s work to support your own conclusions is encouraged, but using it without [...]
The idea that telepathy will be like drowning in a sea of voices is by now a cliché in SciFi. Nobody knows whether we might someday develop such mental powers, but right now we already have a form of techlepathy provided by the Internet.
While email and IM allowed one-to-one conversation, people are now using websites, [...]
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
I’ve finally given in to the urge to microblog. Find me on Twitter and identi.ca.
UPDATE: Found a nice plugin to display my tweets on the blog. Check out Twitter for WordPress.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
I remember a time when it was widely believed that Internet shopping would never happen, because people were too afraid that their credit card details will be stolen. People were paranoid about their personal data.
Yet today we put our personal details on Facebook, our creative work on Blogger and send our most intimate messages through [...]
