Besides ‘open source software‘, ‘open source hardware‘ as a concept is gaining more and more acceptance. One of the advocates is Limor Fried. Phillip Torrone at Austin Maker Faire (2007) asked her about what is behind this term and we have seen some hacking projects going on, for instance the wifi-killer Jammer, the Chumby (which […]
We’ve been to MAKER FAIRE!!! Attila & I have been really looking forward to Austin Maker Faire (luckily, close enough to New Orleans!) & meeting people who like tinkering with things, have a deeply injected creative urge and innermost curiosity to make, break, recycle, have fun, etc. Besides having a great time at a […]
John Warmbrodt, a 25 year-old Missouri grad student, has made a long study with the aim to map vloggers’ community. The title of his 91 page thesis is An Exploratory Study of the Videoblogger’s Community. In his abstract he is stating that “A social network analysis of the linking patterns of 74 personal vloggers was […]
Today there has been a competitive wave rippling through the blogosphere: bloggers were checking the A-list blogs’ actual popularity through the number of Google Reader subscribers, plus their own. Knowing the top 100 is always interesting for some. TechCrunch has eventually come up with a flexible negotiable solution by using a Google spreadsheet on […]