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Adam Greenfield urges OLPC to be more open about where the donated laptops from the g1g1 program will go and to link donors with recipients ala Kiva. Interesting idea.
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Index that measures how easy or hard it is to ship goods in and out of a country, in terms of infrastructure, customs processes, corruption, etc. Very interesting in thinking about global trade. Via Evgeny
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Koranteng on taxis and fare maximization. Not only is he a brilliant writer, but the posts come complete with playlists, including the brilliant La Drivers Union, performing on drums, bells and taxi horns.
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Listing of news events that have provoked the most traffic to Akami servers that host content for media/news organizations
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Useful post by Cory on internet “immune systems” - the automated tools sysadmins and others put in place to try to combat span, abuse and other behaviors… and which tend to overreact and make our lives miserable.
November 21st, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I can’t tell you how much it means to me that you’d weigh in on my OLPC idea. Sadly, I haven’t gotten a whisper of response from any of the folks over there I sent it to - and things I hear from other friends with ties to the project suggest that I’m not going to.
I really wonder why the idea seems to be of so little interest to them. It strikes me as kind of a gimme, you know?