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Shekhar Krishnan operates as a one-person cultural institution, and i barely had time for a nap after getting back from California, before connecting to his nexus of the cultural life of Cambridge.
Biella Coleman was giving a lecture yesterday afternoon, to a lot of sociologists and anthropologists in his department at MIT, with the snappy title […]

Linked from the new Open Knowledge Foundation blog, slides from the talk i gave at ETech with Rufus Pollock, Hack Your Own Conference: the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructures. There’s also a sound recording of the talk that we gave on a slightly sporadic server with a link to a torrent file.
I went to […]

I flicked through a lot of pictures taken at etech on flickr , and the ones that drew my attention were taken by, or taken of, people i knew. When pictures were unlabelled, especially if i didn’t recognise people in other pictures taken by the same person, i gave less attention to the pictures i […]

I had a lovely chat today with miegawa[sic?], a core developer of the plagger feed aggregation / re-interfacing project, and found the quick overview fascinating. Right now, plagger is a kind of feed multiplexing system, which talks to different well known services like gmail, delicious etc, but has generic interfaces to stmp, irc and other […]