Tipping Point live blog con’t.

Proteus guy says we need a mobile 911 coop – biz opp and public need. In San Diego in the fires, they had spike for their 211 web site and callers (275 vols) who became news central because the MSM just ran the same video over and over. “Local pockets” of community needed local media […]

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Tipping Point live blog con’t.

Live blogging means posting in bursts, so pardon if this is “chunky.” And I do know not to use abbreviations, but live blogging makes for creative style. Also, I can’t check the spelling of everyone’s name, apologies in advance to those whose names I mess up. The session is starting. Welcome by Sam Groggin from […]

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Synchronicity

For class, I had my students watch the wonderful documentary, Revolution OS. It features a cast of characters that could people a graphic novel — Richard Stallman the GNUman, Gandolf to Linus Torvalds’ Aragorn. Eric Raymond, a sort of Bilbo Baggins, moving between the Cathedral and Bazaar, Bruce Perens, appearing as an Elrond figure–anyway, the […]

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