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The scientist Stuart Kauffman has a suggestive name for the set of all those first-order combinations: "the adjacent possible." The phrase captures both the limits and the creative potential of change and innovation. In the case of prebiotic chemistry, the adjacent possible defines all those molecular reactions that were directly achievable in the primordial soup. Sunflowers and mosquitoes and brains exist outside that circle of possibility. - Thad Kerosky

"Too many Chinese/Americans" in x, Africa polled. - Thad Kerosky

Russian Soyuz rockets will launch the satellites from the new Sinamary spaceport in French Guiana..in first half of 2013. O3b is promising round-trip data transmission of about 100 milliseconds compared with the more than 500 milliseconds associated with Geostationary satellites. - Thad Kerosky

www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/talks/dean-keynote-ladis2009.pdf - Thad Kerosky

The Realm Artist has moved on but his inspirations still ring back to it. - Thad Kerosky

A website to help people scrape flat websites together. - Thad Kerosky

Tanzanian Aunt shares her experiences with her nephew in one Tanzanian primary school and reflects on how the country needs to change. - Thad Kerosky

recommended the Geography of Time, a bit over-authoritatively stated the "different kinds of people" but the reflectiveness is interesting anyway. - Thad Kerosky

"Its very hard to provide frank advice for people back home if you know its going to be splayed all over the place so I think it won't change the way diplomacy is done---but it would be nice if the dialog in public was also well informed" - Thad Kerosky

The unbearable lameness of web 2.0 - Thad Kerosky

Human Development mapped out across the USA. - Thad Kerosky

Although Dar es Salaam is increasingly the location of large, high-end private property developments, there is not the same energy and edginess that seems to drive Kenya in both good and bad directions. But there are almost certainly more Tanzanians of an entrepreneurial mindset than there were at the end of the socialist experiment under Nyerere. Also whereas urban Kenyans and their media are complaining vigorously about the speed and cost of their Internet, Tanzanians do not seem so bothered as perhaps the Internet has not yet reached critical mass either on mobile or laptop. - Thad Kerosky

A collection of democracy & election transparency projects, mostly outside Africa. - Thad Kerosky

Indeed in order for resources to be disbursed through African grant-makers in a manner that would support our progressive movements for change, our grant-makers themselves would need to be self-determined by: holding stocks and investments that would generate interest for grant-making while creating a large reserve for sustained social justice support; tapping into the philanthropic potential of Africa’s Diaspora and bourgeoisie, in particular targeting young Africans that are potentially divorced from the interests of the political elite having generated their wealth through sectors like the information, communication and technology (ICT) sector; - Thad Kerosky

Tanzania parastatal COSTECH (website down at present), gets $35,000 in funding from InfoDev to use social networking to build science and technology awareness. - Thad Kerosky

This could probably be used to save a decent amount of bandwidth on constrained connections. - Thad Kerosky

pdf has meaningful coverage (+ EMIS notes): RT @GeSCI: The Situation in Tanzania: Tanzania’s ICT in EDU landscape - Thad Kerosky

Kenya is pulsing! - Thad Kerosky

Malarone Generic to be available third-quarter 2011. - Thad Kerosky

This is the lead article (by @ICT4DJester) of a forum on the role of information and communication technology in global development. - Thad Kerosky

hnny has created the Hackers for Charity non-profit organization[4]. Known by its byline, "I Hack Charities", the organization collects computer and office equipment to donate to underdeveloped countries - Thad Kerosky

*Physical, Human, Social, Financial, Technologies: "Life Skills" style answer to bridging the digital divide. *Partner with good organizations *Q: will it matter now that Kenya/India/etc are making their own from-inside innovation (37:30)? Answer: mb yes.good sign. Don't focus on superficial innovation too much. *Q: Tech in the US not help poverty: distraction for us. - Thad Kerosky

is a program for transparency redirect connections from programs through SOCKS server. - Thad Kerosky

You will be able to ‘email’ your doctor. Your doctor will be able to ‘email’ you. Faxing health records will go away. - Thad Kerosky

Tim O'Reilly's chart from ~aug 2010 with all the big players and their competing technology stacks. - Thad Kerosky

@opensourcing, who is at the london school of economics - Thad Kerosky

Social Networks reduce people; Fiction reduces humans, bad fiction less than good... If [facebook] were a genuinely interesting interface, built for these genuinely different 2.0 kids to live in, well, that would be something. It’s not that." - Thad Kerosky

This reminds me of QuestionBox. - Thad Kerosky

To obtain a fair result from a biased coin... - Thad Kerosky

Buckets! - Thad Kerosky