so which is the wealthy country? botswana or greece?

top 7 reasons why most ict4d fails.

slavoj žižek: “[...] always bear in mind this: afghanistan is not an old fundamentalist country that we should enlighten. afghanistan was quite a nice, tolerant country. its fundamentalization is precisely the result of being caught in the global politics. we, the global liberal system, generate fundamentalisms.”

the roof is on fire, sheep!

just wondering which era will end now: the one of session cookies? or the one of unsecured hypertext transfer protocol? or will it be the end of open/public wireless networks?

i am sure the internet will work it all out.

“dear paper tiger, the ipad is not going to undo the web, it’s accelerating the change you hate so much.”

google groups hidden announcements page: “in february 2011, we will turn off the pages and files features, and you will no longer be able to access that content.”

they can take away the name but they cannot take away the fame – the future is still reported in the orf.at zone: f00zo.

praise of the us-american academic education: an undergraduate class on computer hackers at new york university.

hi, my name is piefke 3000 and i’m a bad programmer.

margaret gould stewart: how youtube thinks about copyright.

“the scale and speed of this system is truly breathtaking—we’re not just talking about a few videos, we’re talking about over 100 years of video every day between new uploads and the legacy scans we regularly do across all of the content on the site. and when we compare those 100 years of video, we’re comparing it against millions of reference files in our database. it’d be like 36,000 people staring at 36,000 monitors each and every day without as much as a coffee break.”