Adnan Gharabiya, 34, lives in Wadi al-Na’am, a Bedouin community adjacent to Ramat Hovav in the south of Israel. The place is not connected to the electricity grid or to running water. While working on his thesis, Gharabiya discovered that the Internet, and in particular instant messaging programs, are extremely popular among Bedouin youth, the [...]
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The municipality of Kiryat-Yam decided to sue Google for slander last week, after many complaints from its residents over false information presented in the Google maps application. The municipality claims that the false information in Google’s software harms the city’s image within the general public in Israel and worldwide. The Google Earth software claims Kiryat [...] I’ve been enjoying discussions around the new Talkback Law proposal and following the situation in Israel closely. Currently, all Israeli News Sites allow commenting on every one of their online posts. They are extremely successful, drawing hundreds of people to write their thoughts and opinions for every post. But as one can imagine, having a [...] Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access – a new technology aimed at providing wireless data over long distances for both point-to-point links and full mobile cellular access implementation. It is effective for enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL. For this reason, it is not surprising that [...] Over the past semester I’ve been helping out with the Super Studio Design class that Lisa Nugent and Sean Donahue teach at the Media Design Program @ Art Center College of Design. My part is to understand technology and possibilities to leverage it within their cultural probes design. During the past semester most of the [...] Anne Burdick, head of the Media Design Program, organized a roundtable today at the South Campus of the Art Center College on the topic of Cultural Probes in design work. Probes are defined as designed objects and activities used in qualitative research studies. They have emerged as a robust tool for designers to gather rich [...] I went to BarCampLA last weekend in downtown LA and was pleasantly surprised at how organized the geek-fest seemed (thanks to Crystal’s hard work). Even though the schedule was packed by the time I got there, I managed to squeeze in a short talk: my take on mediated presence through physical objects (similar to the [...] I really enjoyed reading your post HJ, and myself, had too many thoughts which turned into a post. I asked HJ, a friend and activist from Monterrey (Mexico), about his insights on the OLPC project, specifically on its possible impact in Mexico. He mentioned that Carlos Slim spent 70 million for 250,000 XOs, which will [...] I love it and I hate it. I love the effectiveness and hate the superficiality. I like the ease and yet dislike the tools. We have gotten so easily used to minimizing our conversations to a chat window – generic SMS messages – receiving e-cards instead of real post. When things come too easy, we [...] Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production. Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines. Previously, the organisation behind the scheme said that it required orders for [...] |
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