The Apple iPhone and other smartphones hitting the market are cool, but if you don't have a spare $200 in your wallet, and you can't afford the hefty monthly service fees, there are less expensive options that still offer some of the wireless Web at a much more affordable price tag. These alternative phones may not be as sexy as the iPhone or the new Palm Pre. And the Internet service and applications will not be as slick as what you'll find on a full-fledged smartphone. But for many wireless subscribers, less expensive feature-phones and cheaper data plans will offer enough to do the trick.
- Joey Mornin
These tools are incredibly useful. They make us all feel smarter and more capable than we are trained to be. But are these smartphones genuinely making us smarter or just more dependent on smartphones? It should be noted that I’m not an innocent party to this trend. After getting off the plane and mumbling my way through Japanese Customs (arigato, domo arigato, hai) I ran straight to the local Softbank desk where I rented a portable wi-fi hotspot.
- Joey Mornin
WIsh I had (reliable) cable so I could watch @buddyroemer on the Daily Show tonight. Looks like it'll have to be tomorrow. #freetolead
Deploying Django with Apache and mod_wsgi is the recommended way to get Django into production. mod_wsgi is an Apache module which can be used to host any Python application which supports the Python WSGI interface, including Django. Django will work with any version of Apache which supports mod_wsgi. The official mod_wsgi documentation is fantastic
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IntegrationWithDjango - modwsgi - How to use Django with mod_wsgi. - Python WSGI adapter module for Apache. - Google Project Hosting - https://code.google.com/p...
The Django framework provides the django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler() function for constructing a WSGI application corresonding to a Django application. Using this function, a script file for a Django application which is compatible with mod_wsgi would be constructed as follows:
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Inside the 3,100-square-foot cottage, technology executives and academics gather to argue, debate and set policy about the Internet's toughest questions. Is the Internet bad for democracy? Should all Internet traffic be treated equally? What happens when much-praised "open" systems are abused? When and how should copyrighted material be shared online?
- Joey Mornin
As part of its tenth anniversary celebration in the 2007-2008 academic year, the Berkman Center produced a special, glossy annual report, complete with a short history of the center, a timeline, profiles of community members, 2006-2007 project overviews, and much more. The creation of the report involved the participation and generous contributions of every corner of the Center's network, from staff to faculty and fellows to alumni and friends around the world. This beautiful document can be downloaded below (best viewed with Adobe Acrobat).
- Joey Mornin