Month: April 2004

networking a sustainable future

Planetwork Interactive, San Francisco, June 5 – 6, 2004

Join innovators from the world of information technology, peace and social justice activists, environmental visionaries, independent media pioneers and many others to explore how social networks, information technologies and the Internet can play a key role in the 2004 election and beyond, to support emerging global democracy everywhere, including Florida.

sounds very interesting. topics:

  • Environmental: Proactive Responses to Global Warming & Mass Extinction
  • Digital Democracy: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties from the DMCA to Touch Screen Voting
  • Social Networks and Civil Society Emerging Technical and Social Issues & Implications
  • Alternative Economics: Online & Offline Strategies Complementary Currencies, Electronic barter & beyond
  • The Real-World Game: Bucky’s Spaceship Earth meets Sim Earth using real data to model Future Scenarios
  • Independent Media from Blogs and RSS to DV and TiVo, new technologies for independent networked news

gee thanks

i got mail from the welfare agency today. they informed me that they are prepared to pay for my health care in 2005 based on my taxable income of $150 per january 1st. no, its not dated 04/01.. be my guests i say!

Do you wifi?

It’s time to fight fire with fire. Ask conference management for details on what resources are available for WiFi, power access, and cell service. Is the Net service separate from room access? Does the connection pass IM and peer-to-peer traffic? Do VPNs work? And if you don’t get a good answer, let the Blogosphere know. That is, if you can get connected.

as we start the planning process for another oscom, i’ll keep this in mind.

Open source trafficking

i just got this from the sourceforge site update email newsletter:

SourceForge.net is now ranked #258 (out of 100K) in the world in terms of sheer traffic. To put this fact in some perspective, during the past 12 months, SourceForge.net has surpassed IBM.com, Sun.com, and Cnet.com in daily page views. A graph from Alexa can be viewed here. The blue line, representing SourceForge.net, is the one to focus on.

wow.