Now that I’ve moved I’ve finally set up my Fonera. I had hoped to offer a story about the process, but it was so simple I can’t really say much more than “I plugged it in, I registered it, it worked.”
The Fonera is a tiny little router/WiFi access point that looks worlds better than the [...]

Posted April 11, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: connectivity, crowdsourcing, fon, Fonera, Fonero, grass roots networking, mass, network, wifi, wireless. 3 Comments.

It should be no surprise that journalists are talking about citizen journalism, but what of the disintermediation of other industries?
Man-on-the-street Mark Georgiev told Marketplace:
I didn’t want a certificate, I didn’t want any kind of accreditation, I really just wanted the knowledge. And I also wanted to work at my own pace.
Georgiev, the story explains, has [...]

Posted April 10, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: citizen professor, college 2.0, courseware, education, ivory tower, network, OpenCourseware, podcast lectures, Robert Schrag. Be the first one.

That headline might seem a little late among the folks reading this. But we’re all geeks, and if not geeks, then at least regular computer users. Regular computer users, however, are a minority. Worldwide, only around 500 million people have internet access, and fewer than 100 million people in the US have internet access at [...]

Posted August 4, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: access, change, change computers, computer, computing, critical mass, desktop apps, email, geek, geeks, information age, information system, internet, internet access, internet connected, killer app, market opportunity, network, paradigm shift, penetration, portable computing, web, web applications. 9 Comments.

Geolocation by GPS my be the most straightforward approach, but we mustn’t forget the other ways to get lat/lon coordinates.
All current cell phones support aGPS positioning to comply with federal E-911 mandates, but not all phones make it easy for the user to get that information out of them. Still, some do and GPS-enabled moblogging [...]

Posted June 13, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: agps, cell phone, coordinates, geolocation, gps, lattitude, longitude, map, mapping, maps, moblogging, network, networking application, palm, picture phone, social networking, wifi. 5 Comments.