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Sky is the CTO of The Dalai Lama Foundation. [This URL replaces the old URL for Sky's blog. The contents remain the same. All old permalinks and bookmarks remain valid.]

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  1. The end of analog TV will accelerate a paradigm shift

    http://sky.dlfound.org/the-end-of-analog-tv-will-accelerate-a-paradigm-shift/

    I got there through several levels of indirection, but a post in LINUX JOURNAL by Doc Searls entitled What’s Next for Open Source and Public Media? got me thinking about the impending doom of analog “terrestrial” television in the US and how it may well kill off, as collateral damage, the broadcasting model for TV here in the US. …

    6 days ago
  2. What was that TSA guy doing with my driver’s license?

    http://sky.dlfound.org/what-was-that-tsa-guy-doing-with-my-drivers-license/

    I boarded a plane at a small regional airport two weeks ago. And noticed some new and unusual behavior by the TSA screener at the security checkpoint. After I walked thru the metal detector, he took a small penlike device and scanned it across the name, address and photo on my driver’s license. …

    10 days ago
  3. A hacking epidemic

    http://sky.dlfound.org/a-hacking-epidemic/

    …and I’m not talking about a hacking cough here. Twice this week, clients or friends of mine have had their web sites hacked. One was hacked for the second time in a couple of weeks. I can tell a lot from the forensic analysis as I clean up a site. A bit of CSI as it were. …

    14 days ago
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    Links 31/05/2008: Quick-booting Debian, Siemens Taps Linux and Much More

    http://boycottnovell.com/2008/05/31/siemens-taps-linux/

    Could the EEE 900 be the School Computer of the Future? Despite my own reservations about the eee 900, since I started loaning it out to teachers last week it’s gotten nothing but positive results. Dell’s Ubuntu 8.04 Plans Ubuntu desktop (LTS) 8.04 SaxenOS goes PCLinuxOS SaxenOS from Germany once based on Slackware and Zenwalk-based distribution with the Xfce desktop and designed for older, low-specification computers adopts PCLinuxOS as its base and Xfce desktop

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    Re: Schadet Aus- und Einschalten dem Monitor? - Peripherie: Displays, Monitore

    http://www.monitor-scharf.com/monitor/wordpress/2008/05/30/r...

    monitor standart tolleranz maschiene schrieb am 26. März 2006 10:48 > > > Wenn ich den Rechner für zwei Stunden nicht > > > brauche, schalte ich ihn komplett aus, mit einem richtigen > > > (mechanischen) Ausschalter vor dem ganzen Klimbim. Auf diese Weise

    35 days ago in monitor-scharf · Authority: 2
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    Digital Film and Video

    http://digitalvideo.guerillacinema.com

    unknown wrote an interesting post today on Here’s a quick excerpt Our friends - teen-age Tibetan refugees living in India - have now made a dozen video segments and posted them online - and my gosh all we had to do was provide them with a digital video

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    On “The Power of the Personal - Voice?”

    http://video.gotiphone.mobi/2008/03/10/on-%e2%80%9cthe-power...

    that Wikipedia rose from zero to “Daily Traffic Rank” of about “10? in about four years, and YouTube rose to “10? in about a year and a half. (Making them among the top sites on the web.) You’d have to attrib Read the rest of this great post here

    117 days ago in Video · Authority: 4
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    On “The Power of the Personal - Voice?”

    http://digitalvideo.guerillacinema.com/uncategorized/on-%e2%...

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    Making Peace

    http://blog.learnlets.com/wp/?p=283

    post talking about an interactive mobile art project, Making Peace. Jim’s been developing a system architecture that integrates web, mobile, fax, etc to support creating ubiquitous games. The technology is rich with opportunity, and his creativity has

    131 days ago in Learnlets · Authority: 53
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    More and more ICT education

    http://sky.dlfound.org/more-and-more-ict-education/

    taking place in the wake of the DITG founding (that we participated in, in 2005). Recently this took the form of a four-day Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) session for Tibetans in exile in Dharamsala. You can see what I’ve written about in this blog related to the DITG.

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    eGranary and Open Digital Village - a marriage?

    http://blog.onevillage.tv/wp/?p=589

    eGranary and Open Digital Village - a marriage? Posted in Field Agent Report, Open Digital Village, oneVillage Initiative at 2:17 pm Jim ‘Sky’ of the Dalai Lama Foundation asks me what I think of eGranary today. I recall eGranary project from few years back (I think Michael Mitchell introduced me to this) and it seems that the project has been developed to the extend that products and

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    In Situ

    http://kitode.typepad.com

    A few posts ago, I talked about competition after viewing the Richter Scales' Web 2.0 video. Well, chaos evidently ensued. They've put up a new version. Thanks to Sky blogging for the Dalai Lama Foundation for alerting me.

    156 days ago in In Situ by kitode · Authority: 6
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    In Situ

    http://kitode.typepad.com/in_situ

    A few posts ago, I talked about competition after viewing the Richter Scales' Web 2.0 video. Well, chaos evidently ensued. They've put up a new version. Thanks to Sky blogging for the Dalai Lama Foundation for alerting me.

    156 days ago in In Situ · Authority: 3