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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 17th, 2006
After many months of hemming and hawing, I finally took the plunge and committed to going digital with my music collection. I ordered a 500GB external hard drive and a Squeezebox to wirelessly connect my digital music up to my stereo. The drive will run off Molly’s existing desktop computer in the office/guest room. But we’ll […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2005
The use of cellphone text messaging (aka SMS, for short messsage service) in activism contexts has already been well documented by Howard Rheingold, among many others. But most of the celebrated examples have been drawn from the contexts of international national-elections and associated mass protests: the recent elections in Spain, the Phillippines, Korea, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2005
People For the American Way are preparing a massive text-messaging action alert to be launched in the event that Bill Frist pulls the trigger on the Senate’s “nuclear option.” By giving us your cell phone number, we will text message you as soon as Senate Republicans trigger the “nuclear option.” Embedded in that text […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 25th, 2004
The New York Model covers some of the interesting ways that RNC protest organizers used SMS (text messaging), VoIP-powered automated telephone information lines, and other leading-edge network technology to power their “counter-convention” efforts, and the independent media coverage of it. Fun stuff, although I’m still trying to figure out how it’s relevant to campaigns that […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 8th, 2004
I reluctantly got a cell phone this summer when I was dealing with some family stuff that necessitated a long trip Back East. And I’m not much of a gadget-hound under any circumstances. But, still, T-Mobile’s new Cellphone + Blackberry device looks like a pretty useful and cool toy. And it’s […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2004
He’s too modest (or busy?) to mention it, but Kellan is mentioned prominently in a Seattle PI article on WiFi Seattle coffee houses Kellan Elliott-McCrea, a programmer for Groundspring.org and a caffeine fiend extraordinaire, has started a Web site dedicated to documenting Seattle’s free Wi-Fi coffeehouses. This participatory site — at seattle.wifimug.org – […]
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