If you've been following my blog, you've been aware of the One Laptop Per Child milestones. Last week, The One Laptop Per Child initiative put a name on their first laptop device. The new name is "Children's Machine" or CM1, apparently taken from the title of Seymour Papert's book of the same name (published in the early 90s.) There...

I received an email letter today from Bob Moog's daughter, Michelle Moog-Koussa. The Moog family has established the Bob Moog Memorial Foundation for Electronic Music. The letter states that they have "...carefully chosen objectives, each tied to his life and work" * Endowed Scholarships * The Bob Moog Memorial Museum * Outreach Programs for Disadvantaged Students * Special Events for...

According to CNET, RealNetworks will release open-source software at the end of this year to allow non-Windows software to play Windows Media files (WMV and WMA.) All made possible by...

John Buckman says he created Magnatune out of personal frustration with record labels and to give artists a fair deal. Does their tagline "We Are Not Evil" ring true for artists?...

Ever wonder what the world of computing would be like if the IBM PC was originally created in an atmosphere of open-source?...

Following along with our fun adventure of the One Laptop Per Child initiative is a video of the first working model, courtesy of RedHat. Take a look! More videos for those who want to investigate the OLPC initiative. I'm currently trying to track down the interactive music applications that Barry Vercoe and Simon Schampijer reportedly presented in San Diego on...

The technical quality of most vlogs and podcasts today are... in a word... yucky. It's tiring reading about the advances in multimedia on the web only to find, time and time again, pathetic production values in podcasts and vlogs (Scoble POV.) Apparently authors care little about their message since most are riddled with distortion, clipping and uneven volume levels...

Following on the heals of my blog "We Don't Need No Stinkin' OS", is a project to do just that: eliminate the OS. SqueakNOS is an aggressive project, to say the least. What makes someone think they can bypass years of operating system R&D?...

Last week I reported pictures surfacing of the $100 laptop from the One Laptop Per Child project. eWeek.com recently reported the first working model made by PC Manufacturer Quanta....

The One Laptop Per Child program has posted pictures of the first working laptop model. Interesting!...