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Hacking the OLPC v2

{ Posted on Jan 27 2009 by Bill Zimmerman }
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There’s been a veritable bevy of blog posts and rebuttals lately debating what went wrong with the OLPC and what sort of device should follow in its wake. Like a lot of other technology devotees, I’ve watched from ...Read More »

Gearing Up For An Offline Application

{ Posted on Jan 14 2009 by Bill Zimmerman }
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We’re in the early stages of building a web application with a big requirement: the ability to work seamlessly in an offline and online mode. The Internet and cloud computing are great, but you can’t always be plugged ...Read More »

Top Twenty Tools for 2008

{ Posted on Jan 09 2009 by Bill Zimmerman }
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This began as a post specifically about TiddlyWiki, but seeing as many bloggers do retrospective “year in review” posts around this time, I thought I’d chip in my own. I may yet reprise the TiddlyWiki how-to I started around ...Read More »

Anthropology, Tech & the Developing World

{ Posted on Nov 28 2008 by Bill Zimmerman }
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This post was largely inspired by the views of Ken Banks, the man behind FrontlineSMS and Kiwanja. I only recently discovered him via Twitter, and feel that I’ve met a kindred spirit. His essay on anthropology’s “technology-driven Renaissance” ...Read More »

What Obama’s Win Means To Me

{ Posted on Nov 11 2008 by Bill Zimmerman }
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I spent the night of November 4th like most Americans abroad—and indeed much of the world with cable TV, I suspect—watching the election results trickle in until dawn. We were a mix of Americans, Cameroonians and a token Canadian. ...Read More »

Fresh Blog Goodness: Tags and Tweets

{ Posted on Aug 17 2008 by Bill Zimmerman }
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I made a couple of enhancements to ye olde blog worthy of mention. First, I finally got around to retroactively tagging my posts with keywords. This may sound like drudgery, but it was actually quite easy with the ...Read More »

The Trouble With Peace Corps

{ Posted on Aug 08 2008 by Bill Zimmerman }
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As an American in my adopted country of Cameroon, I’ve had some time—just over one month—to process some thoughts on the impact of my Peace Corps service, of the agency as an instrument of development and my motivations for remaining ...Read More »

Of Pidgin & AdSense

{ Posted on May 25 2008 by Bill Zimmerman }
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This list comes from a recent Gmail exchange with a Cameroonian friend that was conducted entirely in Pidgin English. If I were to guess, I'd say that AdSense's semantic analysis got hung up on the monosyllabic Pidgin words in ...Read More »

When iPods Fail

{ Posted on May 11 2008 by Bill Zimmerman }
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Having ready access to music, I’ve found, is key to weathering any number of trials in Cameroon. Over the last two years my trusty iPod has performed faithfully and helped me to maintain a measure of sanity through the ...Read More »

Colin MacNeill’s Amazing Ride

{ Posted on Oct 31 2007 by Bill Zimmerman }
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Last week I received a text message from a friend in Mamfé that an Irishman cycling through Africa was on his way to Buea. They indicated that he might arrive tomorrow. I made a mental note of this and dusted-off ...Read More »
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