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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Bikes business

Saw already twice (Joi’s and Matt Jones’s) this morning a link to Mission Bicycles, an interesting project just started where you can design your own bike, that starts as a “light steel frame fixed gear bike with high quality components, a custom paint job, no visible branding”.
That reminded me of Stefano and SlyWay, an Italian [...]

No need to understand code to play with it

game mod from steph thirion on Vimeo.
Game Mod was a six hour long workshop with the objective of showing the participants that it is not required to understand code to experiment and play with it.
Although they had no experience in coding, the task of each participant was to make a mod (modified version) of a [...]

how broadband can help save the planet

Just a link to this article by Emily in SmartMobs that reports a study about how broadband access could spare the planet 1 billion tons of greenhouse gases.
How would faster downloads and Web page loads curb the annual flow of globe-warming gases, and by how much? According to the report:
– Telecommuting, [...]

1001 flavour of geeks

well, actually “just” 56. 56 archetypical geeks that Scott Johnson illustrated and aggregated in this poster as well as making them available as individual portraits (prints also available here).
Seeing this poster made me remember a conversation had a long time ago with Lilia and Phil Wolff on the many natures (or many types) of geeks [...]

PiuBlogCamp, once upon a time…

So next sunday in Rome there’ll be the PiuBlogCamp that is supposed to be summa of the experience of Barcamps in Italy since the BzaarCamp of September 2007 to today.The idea is more than interesting. However, the wiki looks quite full of participants but quite poor in ideas and proposals for conversations. Also asking a little bit around to [...]

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