Christopher Blizzard

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Month: December, 2006

conspiracy theories about olpcnews?

I’m not one for conspiracy theories, but I’ve often wondered if the olpcnews.com site, which popped up some time after the project started to gain momentum, might have backing from one of those many groups that wants the project to fail. Then a comment in one of the posts about the videoconferencing caught Chris [...]

one laptop + video conferencing = hotness

Robert McQueen has posted a web log entry about getting video teleconferencing from the OLPC XO machine.  This is pretty damn hot and I’m very excited about it.  It basically sells itself.
I think we’re going to move as fast as possible to get the right software onto the machine so we can include a video [...]

firefox flicks on tv!

Paul Kim points out that they will be playing some of the Firefox Flicks on TV in my local market! I just set my Tivo to record a random program in the middle of the day here in Boston. Let’s see if it catches one of them.

The clips include This is Hot, Billy’s [...]

the power of a connected experience

The Hat Rack

I want to echo Bryan’s comment about the way that he deals with images on his phone. Since I’ve started using mugshot and flickr and my phone together, the way that I use my phone has changed. It’s fun to use the camera. Before I would just take a picture [...]