One World, One Sky The kite is a transworld, transnational, transcultural subject at Planet Kite. I can't think of a more peaceful and empowering metaphor for being on the earth than flying a kite, and I can back that statement up because I've glued ground glass to my kitestring.

Where were you when they called the roll?

Going, Going, Gone Clay Shirky on Permanent Net, Nearly Net, and Wireless, a comparison of 3G and wireless and the will to low cost, high-bandwidth service.

New Link I just added a link to the

Depends on How You Look at It Edward Tufte has a great conversation on projects.

Where It's At Politech is a good website with running commentary on the confluence of politics and technology.

I got this link from an e-mail from Cory Doctorow. (Does that give me some kind of whuffie?) It's a good antidote to this from Tim Berners-Lee.

Be Watchful A good site for tracking transnational corporations.

Watch a Wiki Check out the PC Forum Wiki and see developments in a discussion on social software.

Fiesta's over but it could make a good example of a web-enabled citizen's movement . . . or not. I spent a couple of minutes reviewing the site and trying to find out who they were and what they do. All to little avail. Then I figured I'd find out about the Weavers program, which smacked of anarchy in its most productive form, but in order to find out more, it looked like I had to fill in a fairly lengthy form. I quit after I encountered the first form error. Too bad. I think they might be a great link for a group of Turkish women creating small businesses.

Here's What I Think of Your Opinion Internet polling gets dissed on Wired. Obviously, if netizens want to gauge opinion they're going to have to come up with some rules-of-thumb.

You Think You're So Smart (Mob) From boingboing, a link to Howard Rheingold's site, which has a short and sweet essay for the Korean edition of Smartmobs.

Democracy Now As Metafilter says, if bloggers can get rid of Trent Lott as a majority leader, maybe they can get someone elected president. A warm welcome to fellow blogspot site Dean 2004.

The Local Angle Here's a local group, The 1877 Project, whose work sounds interesting. It seems like they're a BGC tenant.

If You're Happy and You Know It, Cut It Out If we start feeling overly optimistic about the possibilities of technology, we can always listen to Jerry Mander on computers or the internet.

Movin' on up I'm consolidating my blogs on to Blog Pilgrim. It's run through Movable Type software. So I'll get a chance to try comments, trackback, categories, etc.

I Don't Give a Damn about My Bad Reputation More on the value of on-line reputation from Harvard. The whole on-line reputation thing has promise as a revenue source. I imagine someone could make money on reputation differentials between on-line companies, pretty much like bond traders and currency traders.

The Power to Buy . . . Or Not We have many powers to exercise, not least is our power of consumption. Loome would have you recapture that power.

The FPG Communications Committee just met. They're interested in doing a service directory, for contractors especially. Know of any P2P Verifiable software that could do contractor ratings and reviews?

audblog audio post

The DIY State I imagine a true proglog would have as much to do with social contracts as with technology, and that user interface (I think that would be ethics, legal codes, and mores) is just as important for social contracts as it is with technology. To get started, here's a link from kottke.org to an open-source constitution. Can "lazy government" be far behind?

Small Screen Rendering Opera has come up with a solution to working with big (PC) and small (cellphone) content.

Legacy Technology Integration Interesting concept of using old technologies with new technologies batted around by Anil Dash in this article. Print is still a great way to read things. Faxes are a great way to send messages. I still like receiving a letter written with ink on paper.

Where Do You Want It The audiolog/mobile log posted this NPR story on a multi-block wi-fi zone in Athens, Georgia. According to the story, installing the antenna cost $85,000. Once they had it installed, they had to figure out what useful content would be. This CNN story shows that they haven't created the killer app just yet.

What Do You Want This group is talking about the end-product.

Mysterious Clouds Alter Brain Chemistry This article in Blogcritics describes how wi-fi's advantages will have it replacing cellular. Wi-fi users will probably want a computer that's easy to talk into. With VOIP you can have a computer that acts like a cell phone.

More Blogphones Kablog and Foneblog are mentioned in this Wired article about blogging by phone. Jupiter analyst Joe Laszlo says that such software will attract bloggers, but not sure who else. According to Laszlo, "This isn't the killer app for mobile devices."

News Monster is a web-browser based news aggregator with lots of goodies, caches web sites for off-line reading, enabled to work with PDAs, and works with non-RSS news sources.

Blogphones on the Move On Blogcritics there's a description of devices that put texting in a richer environment for social interaction.

He Who Steals My Whuffie This article discusses on-line reputations.

Emergent Democracy Joi Ito has a paper on Emergent Democracy, describing some of the conditions that lead to web-enabled society.

I got this Survival Guide from the sixapart weblog.

Looked through WikiWiki Sandbox definition, and Twiki website. Then I looked at the Wiki weblog definition, which included a list of software. Looked briefly at PikiePikie, a wiki and weblog software, available only for Windows and Linux.

Then I thought if I'm going to find out how I post this stuff, I probably need to figure out how to control access. Liz gave me information from our server that led me here.

Regards Google and government documents, I found cataloging them,the Archives Library Information Center, and a librarian site for government sources, but I couldn't find info specifically about the San Diego project.

Just wanted to remind you of what is possible with this technology.

Now we're going to find out how to do a test link. How about Corante

Let's get this started. If you don't mind I'll start to put links in here.