Software for Human Rights
It’s a good week for launches, evidently. Psiphon, a clever anticensorship tool developed by the folks at Citizen Lab in Toronto, with sponsorship from OSI’s… Read More »Software for Human Rights
What I REALLY want for Christmas
SJ Klein brought one of the first factory-made One Laptop machines to the Berkman Center for show and tell yesterday. SJ is the director of… Read More »What I REALLY want for Christmas
I want my CanTV!
I think I’ve finally reached the point where I can write about Geekcorps without long disclaimers explaining that I’m no longer involved with the project… Read More »I want my CanTV!
Google fixes my custom search problems
Uh, wow. Now that’s customer service. About a week ago, I wrote a blog post about my experiments with Google Coop Search, complaining that the… Read More »Google fixes my custom search problems
Midterm Madness
It’s becoming increasingly clear that US midterm elections could be something of a disaster. Lots of smart commentators are predicting problems with new voting machines,… Read More »Midterm Madness
What Google Coop Search Doesn’t Do Well
Update: the Google custom search team has retuned their code and fixed most of the problems I outlined here. Very impressive. Here’s a new post… Read More »What Google Coop Search Doesn’t Do Well