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. [...]

One of the main goals of the Open Translation Tools conference was to get a strong sense of the state of open tools to facilitate the translation of both open source software and open content. As you can tell, this community really likes the word open. But first it’s important get a better sense of [...]

A few nights ago Mari and I arrived home when we usually arrive home: late. It was another 10-hour work day, the fourth in a row. And on the answering machine there was a flashing number. It was a one. It was my grandmother.

‘Hi David and Marisa … it’s Grandma … Sasaki … I’m not [...]