Archive for May, 2008

Your window on the online world - using Firefox 3

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

What web browser do you use? How much time to you spend in front of it per week? It is your window on the online world, it is what you use to see the web, compose an email on an online mail service, watch videos, listen to music, find photos, ...

I am on Mars! …or, what’s in a name?

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

(Photo by Nasa, uploaded on Flickr by Jurvetson. See a high resolution version too!) The Phoenix interplanetary exploration vehicle landed on Mars. My name, David Orban, is on it, together with those of the other members* of Planetary Society. This is of course a rather indirect way of being on Mars, ...

Living In The Cloud

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The migration of our lives into the Cloud has accelerated lately, and it is not at all to the detriment of our physical experiences. We need simplicity, in order to face a complex world, and certainly to me this world appears to getting really complex. The unified access to what ...

On becoming vegan: five good reasons

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

A few days ago I've become a vegan. Vegans are those who do not eat meat like vegetarians, and also eschew animal products, like milk, cheese, eggs. When I tell people they laugh. I laugh as well, since I am a jovial person. But I am pretty serious. Here are five ...

Accelerating the debate on Climate Crisis

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

My question to Al Gore linked various themes that are dear to him, and some that are also dear to me: Current as a community driven conversational medium, the existential threat of rapid environmental change, the relationship between public debate, and public policy-making, and the evolutionary forces behind their interactions. I ...

Meeting Al Gore in Rome to talk about the Climate Crisis, and OpenSpime at the Current launch

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Image by OpenDemocracy Al Gore is in Rome this Thursday for the launch of the Italian edition of Current, his television channel around user generated content, and I am among the dozen or two people invited to meet him for a couple of hours' conversation. The questions we are going to ...