Good article in today's NY Times about the One Laptop Per Child initiative. "Mary Lou Jepsen, the chief technologist for the project, likes to refer to the insight that transformed the machine from utopian dream to working prototype as "a really wacky idea."" Check it out! ---- BTW, you don't need the OLPC laptop to check out one of the...

According to Yahoo News, starting 22 November, Microsoft will offer new TV and video XBox Live content. TV Shows are expected to retail at $1.99. Movies will probably rent for $3.99 for 24 hours. Media reports are spinning this product as the "iTV killer", but I have my doubts. I'd like to see how easy it is to connect to...

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...

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...

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

i used to be a Wang programmer [ok, stop laughing, i know that sounds funny, but you wouldn't be reading this if it weren't for An Wang, inventor of magnetic core memory and founder of Wang computers, which kept me gainfully employed by day in the 80's while i fed my jazz and salsa music habit by night] and i...

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 WRA and the ABA won't probably cause the average podcaster any concern. But what if you're creating podcasts for a government entity or large corporations that do business with the government? Do you have to close caption the podcast? Do you haev to provide a transcript? The answer very well may be yes.

As everybody knows, the promise of Java was that functionality written once could run unmodified on different machines, different types of devices and different types of runtime spaces (e.g., server-side, client-side or browser-based). But this isn't a commentary about Java, its successes, and where and how it fell short. Rather, this post is an assessment of how digital media and...

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