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Wiki Symposium

I went to my first ever professional conference. I had been to a luncheon before, but never a full blown international event. It was just good luck that the first ever wiki symposium would be in my own back yard. I took the morning off of work drove down, parked at the mall, and walked right into the convention center. I wedged myself between an Irish guy and a Chinese girl studying in Alabama and listened to a talk on creativity. I didn't enjoy the first speaker, so I worked on my own upcoming wiki presentation at the CUE conference. The second session was the reason I was there. The wiki symposium had Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki, speaking on Monday, but I had to take my car into the shop or I would've gone. The other highlight was Jimmy Ward, (above) the creator of wikipedia. I was hoping he would talk more about his wikibooks project, but enjoyed hearing more about the free content movement and wikipedia. His wikipedia has functioned almost completely for free and this radical shift in thinking has surpassed the market share of commercial encyclopedias like Encarta and Brittanica. Imagine if we had free textbooks, and a free curriculum for all kids K-University... That's one of the things he talked about in his 10 Things that Will Be Free in the future. Open sharing of information has power over our old paradigms of thinking. Who is the mainstream media, when wikipedia reaches more people than The NY Times, The LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, and MSNBC combined?

jog N blog

I bought a beach cruiser for the girlfriend this weekend. We picked it up on Saturday, then broke it in on Sunday. I've wanted to ride around down here since we moved in. All those great restaurants, shops, and bars are all within reach without using my car. Woo Hoo! My sister came down this past weekend, and I had a friend here from Canada the week before that. what up, James? We had a classic time down in TJ. we took the trolley down, had a good Mexican lunch with 4 margaritas and a classy portrait of yours truly, then trolleyed back to Old Town. while I'm blogging this, there's been an annoying car alarm going off. the steady beeep- beeeeep........................beeep- beeeep started driving off. I always thought those alarms would never do anything. Hopefully our neighbor's car wasn't stolen. pretty funny. Speaking of cars, mine has been overheating. I finally took it in and my terrific mechanic, Smitty's Service, only charged me $26 to fix it. It turns out all it needed was a new radiator cap. I had been bracing for a couple hundred dollar hit all weekend (while I got chauffered around) and it never came. I am sure I can put the money to good use. today after I picked up my car & paid the 26 bucks to get it fixed, I went for a jog around the bay. I'm on a mini-health kick. my jogging leaves a lot to be desired, I just can't live this close to such a great path and not go out and run. It's too nice. today I tried to run with a "real jogger" for a while, then ended up hacking and wheezing by the side of the road before slowing waaaaay down.

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The $100 Laptop for Education

The $100 Laptop for Education: "Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Media Lab have finished the design for the $100 laptop. Check out the images. Note that it can run on AC current, a battery, or be charged using a hand crank, a requirement for rural areas of developing nations. It has table writing capabilities, can be an ebook reader, and has a dual display that can run color or black and white (for use in sunlight). And of course it runs on Linux. So far, five countries have expressed interest in the laptop. Notably absent in the announcement list is the US. While I agree this is a great innovation for developing nations, I'd like to see one distributed to every public school child in the US. Can't we get rid of a few multi-million dollar fighter planes for this?"

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