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Ceibal Jam! An event for the XO


h1 Posted 1 day, 21 hours ago in the late afternoon by oso

Originally published on Idea Lab.

An avalanche of analysis, impassioned commentary, and angry rants descended upon the tech mediapshere over the two past weeks ever since One Laptop Per Child Chairman Nicholas Negroponte urged developers for the XO laptop (formerly the ‘$100 laptop’) to recreate the student computer’s user interface for Windows XP rather than Linux. [...]

Prison Diaries: Prisoners use blogs as a start to social reform


h1 Posted 3 days, 3 hours ago around lunchtime by oso

Sometimes I feel like there are more websites dedicated to documenting citizen journalism than actual citizen journalism initiatives. Among them: J-Lab, Idea Lab, Media Shift, Press Think, MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media, Contentious, Online Journalism Review, Social Media, NewAssignment.Net, and a slew of personal blogs (like this one) that are often focused on that [...]

Pangea Day, Un Evento Glocal


h1 Posted 4 days, 5 hours ago mid-morning by oso

Con los tantos viajes que hago y la dispersión de lugares de residencia de mi amigos, es bastante raro cuando todos podemos hacer lo que la mayoría de los grupos de amigos lo hacen al menos una vez al mes: relajarse viendo una película juntos. De hecho, este año sólo tenemos dos oportunidades para hacer
exactamente [...]