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This led to an email exchange with Jack Dangermond at ESRI asking about the difference between ESRIs stated desire to help open up government data and my experience where ESRIs commitment to closed formats prevented me from accessing dataat least without first buying a copy of ArcGIS. - Thad Kerosky

via hackernewsLiberias Mammoth Electricity Demand, Why Hydro Power NecessaryEARTH University - HomeVia BIll Massaquoi, they involve much practical so that by the end of the agricultural school they can start up their operationAptus Solutions | Tanzania Web Hosting, .tz Domain Registration, Internet Access, BulkSMS and VoIP services.via:inveneo and ubiquitiAffirmative action for women in math contests boosts participation without dropping results1. A quota system was implemented, requiring that a certain proportion of the winners be female; 2. Two related subcases: the highest-performing woman was given preferential treatment in one, while in the other, if a tie occurred in the competition, the woman was always selected; 3. The competition was repeated until a certain fraction of the winners were women. Note that none of these constitute "reverse discrimination," an accusation affirmative action plans often face. In no case was a top-performing man denied a reward if he outperformed... - Thad Kerosky

Via BIll Massaquoi, they involve much practical so that by the end of the agricultural school they can start up their operationAptus Solutions | Tanzania Web Hosting, .tz Domain Registration, Internet Access, BulkSMS and VoIP services.via:inveneo and ubiquitiAffirmative action for women in math contests boosts participation without dropping results1. A quota system was implemented, requiring that a certain proportion of the winners be female; 2. Two related subcases: the highest-performing woman was given preferential treatment in one, while in the other, if a tie occurred in the competition, the woman was always selected; 3. The competition was repeated until a certain fraction of the winners were women. Note that none of these constitute "reverse discrimination," an accusation affirmative action plans often face. In no case was a top-performing man denied a reward if he outperformed everyone else. The main effect the researchers found was an increase in the number of able women... - Thad Kerosky

via:inveneo and ubiquitiAffirmative action for women in math contests boosts participation without dropping results1. A quota system was implemented, requiring that a certain proportion of the winners be female; 2. Two related subcases: the highest-performing woman was given preferential treatment in one, while in the other, if a tie occurred in the competition, the woman was always selected; 3. The competition was repeated until a certain fraction of the winners were women. Note that none of these constitute "reverse discrimination," an accusation affirmative action plans often face. In no case was a top-performing man denied a reward if he outperformed everyone else. The main effect the researchers found was an increase in the number of able women willing to participate.cclive - the command line media download tool with low memory footprintcommand line youtube media video downloader2011 music wrap-upWetmachine My Thoughts Exactly Remembering Tom West, the Original Geek Rock StarSoul... - Thad Kerosky

cool name, reminds me of udadisi which means creative or subversive in Swahili - Thad Kerosky

Low impact is due to a flawed program design: growers must pay for FLO (Fair-trade Labeling Organization) certification and bear the costs of compliance with fair-trade standards. When coffee prices exceed the $1.41 threshold (as they do today, with prices at around $2.50), all growers essentially re - Thad Kerosky

flash interactive demo of options for latrines with pro's and cons. - Thad Kerosky

Mwihilie? - Thad Kerosky

A book filled with many stories about the corporate-technological development of radio in the US--including juicy intrigue around RCA and the inventor of AM or FM. See also localroger's paleotech articles on Kuro5hin. - Thad Kerosky

The problem is, "saying no" is expensive. It costs you willpower to do so. Explicitly saying no doesn't scale. We need automatic or default ways to "say no". The best word we have for that is "filters". That's the thing about willpower, it's not a collective thing. It's a personal thing. No one is going to give it to you. You have to create it yourself. It's just you. - Thad Kerosky

We have," he said, "decided upon and at once put into effect through all the branches of our industries the five day week. Hereafter there will be no more work with us on Saturdays and Sundays. These will be free days, but the men, according to merit, will receive the same pay equivalent as for a full six day week. - Thad Kerosky

Calestous: Emerging Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: http://t.co/6uxXtfn - Thad Kerosky

mobileactive: Africa's mobile economic revolution http://j.mp/nR43tg - Thad Kerosky

Emerging Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia: - Thad Kerosky

Crabgrass is being used by UNICEF for connectingclassrooms.net as a low bandwidth social networking platform for high school kids in Africa. - Thad Kerosky

Don Norman discusses the direction of tech: back to the pre internet corporate control, essentially. He mentions 3G +roaming, walled gardens where you worry which platform to use. - Thad Kerosky

Digital education "standardization" documents. - Thad Kerosky

A website full f ict4d wireless link resources, and trainig dates. - Thad Kerosky

Rice husks are useless in even poorest places in India, this company has been scaling up gassification of it since 2008 to reach many unelectrified villages  in  India in a profitable way. - Thad Kerosky

Ridiculously thorough and wide ranging article on applied mobile applications in the developing world...a suitable followup to their 2009 mobile special issue. - Thad Kerosky

Maps - Thad Kerosky

Turning on/off autoupdate for Chrome on a mac - Thad Kerosky

"sharing, celebrating and enhancing the world's visual language" - Thad Kerosky

no bit torrent is apparent but the HTTP link is very fast. - Thad Kerosky

Clean visualization for the set of primes which Eulers n^2 - n + 41 can find. - Thad Kerosky

World Cup, Gay rights, Guinea goes okay, Light on spilled Nigerian oil, Terrorism from Nigeria (2k killed), ICC in Kenya, South Sudan indy, cote, Rwanda election & Iwawa island, bombings in Uganda. - Thad Kerosky

Liberia has next to no infrastructure.  There is no connection to submarine fiber, no domestic Internet backbone, no exchange server, no data center, no copper wires.  Everything connects to the outside world via satellite, and communicates from there via microwaves. - Thad Kerosky

Tanzania corruption around unnecessary Military-grade Radar system is reported. - Thad Kerosky

don't be the "human keyboard" for problem solving in organization, implement a dashboard andor ticketing system to help mitigate annoying (for all involved) requests to you. - Thad Kerosky

Google’s philanthropy, dubbed DotOrg, launched in 2004 with bold ambitions and almost $1 billion in seed funding. But the corporate culture built by engineers proved challenging for the development experts brought in to run DotOrg. Six years later, the philanthropy’s leadership has been replaced and its ambitions have shrunk. - Thad Kerosky