TheFeature :: Political Texting: SMS and Elections
From the article:
Texting and electoral politics are the strange bedfellows of the 21st century. The use of SMS for political action is only in its infancy, but has already enabled citizens to topple governments and tip elections from Manila to Madrid. The electoral power of texting could be an early indicator of future social upheaval: whenever people gain the power to organize collective action on new scales, in new places, at new tempos, with groups they had not been able to organize before, societies and civilizations change.
Month: September 2004
Nicebots opening in NICE
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Daniel, Mark, Ann and Jean-Marc put together this great exhibition in Nice France.
Making the Every-person’s Bit Torrent
I love Jonny’s blog
Mobile Phone Dev Nirvana
Benhui.net the harmony of mobile development
Great information on Bluetooth, J2ME, MIDP 2 and more.
Oooh, ahhhh.. An SLR WiFi Camera
Gizmodo : Nikon D2X, 12.4-Megapixel DSLR
If only I could afford it. This is networked photography the way it should be! Throw away that stinky camera phone and join the WiFi revolution (just kidding, really)
Bye bye LaunchBar, Hello QuickSilver
Some nice free utilities from Apple for QuickTime
QuickTime Development Resources – Tools
A set of utilities from Apple for QuickTime authoring and development. Notable are the QTPlayer Streaming Info Plug-in tool and the MakeRefMovie tool.
Check your users bandwidth
Encode Windows Media on the Mac
Windows Media Format for Mac
Doesn’t Cleaner do this? This seems to integrate with QuickTime and therefore it’s capabilities should be available in any QuickTime app. This would be better than only being able to use Cleaner. Anyone have experience with it?