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The City of Boston invites you to attend  the Boston Wi-Fi Summit to discuss the recent analysis of wireless technology in the City of Boston and models to increase Wi-Fi capability in the future.

The event is the outgrowth of an order filed in August 2024 by City Councillor Tobin, who represents West Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. Councillor Tobin’s order called for hearings to discuss how the City of Boston could use wireless technology to bridge the  "digital divide" and provide the infrastructure to support residents’ growing need for access to new technology.

RSVP online to reserve your seat at the Wi-Fi Summit. There is no cost to attend this event. You can also RSVP on the phone by calling Councillor Tobin’s office at 617-635-4220.

Date:
Thu, May 19,
2005 08:45 am to 01:00 pm

Location:
Museum of Science
Science Park
Boston, MA 02108

Brendan Greeley is holding forth.  By my lights this is the best session of the day so far, which is a real challenge given the after lunch slot.  What makes it good is the level of interaction. 

"What is the RIAA doing for me?" asks a podcasting woman.   Elaborate fee structures and complex administration makes it very difficult to podcast a lot of music and stay in compliance with the regs.  ASCAP, RIAA, Sound exchange… different license types… sounds like a minefield.  "The people who figure out the rules are going to have a better chance of being published."

We need a clearinghouse for regs…

We need a star…  "Fantasia Burrito?"  A lot of this is going under my head.

Staci Kramer:  Wayne’s World!

Rex Hammock:   Podcasting is a movement, built on blogging.

Dave Winer:  In the 21st century we’re telling stories to each other.  The best podcasting idea is a father telling stories to his kids [through a podcast] because he won’t be home.

(Thanks Beth, for reminding me about the MIT gathering of time travelers tomorrow). 

Whenever you are, if you possess the capability of traveling in time, get yourself to the gathering.  Unless you are now, in which case do everyone a favor and stay home.  There’s really only room for a limited number of people from now, but there is an open invitation out to anyone who is from then.  So do the Jules Verne thing, crank up the Time Travel unit and get over to

The Time Traveler Convention

May 7, 2024, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2024 02:00:00 UTC)

(events start at 8:00pm)

East Campus Courtyard, MIT

3 Ames St. Cambridge, MA 02142

42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W

(42.360007,-071.087870 in decimal degrees)

Why write if you can rip?  Here then is my post, stolen verbatim from Jeneane, yet every word of it true for me…  (and before we get into the journalistic integrity argument, well - at least I cited my source).      

From time to time, we have to clean our monitor screens.  There are many ways to clean the outside, but what about dust on the inside?  Here is the method I prefer (Flash required):

Clean Screen Utility

(Thanks to the fertile mind at  http://www.bassfiles.net/ from whence this was lifted, and to Bruce R. who showed me where to find it).

How might the computing and communications world be materially different in 10 to 15 years, and how might we define a research agenda that would get us to that world?

In 10 years, any physical object should be able to tag itself in a way that links it to relevant information and functions in cyberspace. A context of scanners and online viewers will allow users to see this information in a convenient and interactive manner.

That’s just one of the more accessible conclusions found in the report of the End-to-End Research Group, part of the Internet Research Task Force.

This is cool…

…this is cool…

    …this is cool!

It’s time for me to move off Typepad.  I’m going to bump up against the maximums pretty soon in terms of throughput and storage. Here’s a great CMS comparison.  I wish I had started here!  But I started in the middle of things and gradually got more conversant with my own limitations and my hosting provider’s.

Well, Wordform would probably be cool, but I’ll wait for Shelley to formally release it before I jump in with both feet there.  Also, I expect that Matt Mullenweg and others are looking closely at what she’s doing and that some of her better ideas will find their way into Wordpress 1.5.n.  Meanwhile, I looked at Postnuke and thought it was way constipated.  The download was about a zillion megabytes.  I looked at NucleusCMS and discovered you better read the fine print because you need root access on your server which I discovered I don’t havewhen I tried to install it.

Textpattern has fascinated me for years but I don’t think I could muddle through an installation and customization without some hand holding and nobody is holding my hand right now.  I have a lot of respect fro Dean Allen and hope that I learn enough to work with his tool some day, but I’m a lowly systems analyst, not a programmer by trade or training.

I’ve been working with WordPress and I like it. WordPress is open source with a large and growing community of users.  It has a marvelous wiki that provides documentation and links out into the devlopment community.

I’ll test Drupal next and then watch for Sandhill Trek rel. 3 at listics.com, coming sooner or later.

MT?  Don’t get me started.  I mean, I’m sure it’s a good product, but….