Emily Davidow

Todays links are about freedom of communication across the globe — from kids posting video in Uruguay to people coming together to create free wifi networks in sydney, australia and wellington, new zealand. Valentines greetings from scientists. Robotic insects. Social networking’s ad revolution. Pixish, a new kind of marketplace for photography.

Waveplace’s XO OLPC pilot program in Haiti needs your XO PCs. Emily’s analysis of the XO PC and requirements for next laptop.

Betting a Farm Would Work in Queens – New York Times Sur les paves la ferme (Over the pavement, the farm), is the theme of Work Architecture‘s winning proposal for P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center‘s 2008 summer courtyard. Reflects the movement from industrialization to postindustrialization, from global to local, from free market to farmer’s market, and [...]

In Popular Terms In Popular Terms is an interactive visualization that tracks the shifting language of ecology. It maps the catch phrases, scientific technologies, and bumper sticker slogans that surround the changing language used to describe our relationship to nature. (tags: ecology environment buzzwords visualization informationvisualization) Molly Wright Steenson’s Brief History of Boredom Boredom is [...]

Tinfoil hats are so passé. So what should you wear to Faraday’s Cafe? Check out the latest collection of electromagnetic field blocking and “anti-identity theft” clothing at DDCLAB (427 W 14th St, New York NY 10014 map). Here’s the text from the windows: EMF: Electro Magnetic Field Block Anti•Identity•Theft•Fabric Electric Resistivity measure of how strongly [...]

Adam Greenfield, author of Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing, Speedbird, Urban Computing and its Discontents, and the upcoming The City is Here for You to Use, moderated an excellent panel discussion that included Christian Nold (who we loved at Pop!Tech), Eric Rodenbeck of Stamen Design, and J. Meejin Yoon of MY Studio and Howeler + Yoon Architecture. Here are the notes I took during the talk.

If you have seen the wild tsechu masked dances in Bhutan, you have seen something special. Will they continue?

SpaceCollective “where forward thinking terrestrials exchange ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction today” (tags: toexplore space science future scifi visualization generative emergence navigation) February 4, 2008 update from David Weinberger 2 great articles: Is the Web different? Is the Web just [...]

Unevenly Distributed: Production Models for the 21st Century Mark Pesce illuminates how the audience became not just the distributors but the producers of their own content, and have brought down the walls which separate pros from amateurs. Then he outlines the future: how the value of media is based on salience. (tags: mustread media production [...]

Here Comes Everybody Clay Shirky, most lucid thinker on social effects of communication tools, launches new book and thought provoking blog, Here Comes Everybody, about what happens when people have the tools to do things together without needing traditional organizational structures. Eureka! It Really Takes Years of Hard Work Epiphany has little to do with [...]

Google China Released Holiday Mass Migration Map (tags: google China internet map maps mashup weather service)

BBC NEWS | Africa | GPS helps pygmies defend forest When Baka pygmies in Cameroon go into the forest to hunt and gather, they take GPS units to record locations of hunting grounds, sacred trees and rivers. Before if someone chopped down a tree, there was no proof it existed. Now there is. Watch the [...]