Skype for iPhone has arrived!

March 31, 2009

Things just keep getting better for those of us using Apple’s iPhone.  You can now download the Skype App for your iPhone over at Apple’s App Store.  I used it this morning and it works great!  This could seriously impact responsiveness of stateside and Europe based office teams since they are now able to drag […]

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Is Laconica the best microblogging platform for aid agencies?

March 26, 2009

Following my last post Rob Allen left a comment pointing me toward the open source microblogging platform Laconica.  I skipped right past Laconi.ca a week or so ago but thanks to the redirect I have dug a little bit deeper into Laconica’s offerings and I like what I see. Laconica is a Free and Open […]

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Why microblogging might prove a good fit for aid agencies

March 25, 2009

I apologize for neglecting my duties but I have been busy making arrangements for an upcoming trip.  I’ll fill you in on the details in the next few days but for now I want to point out my little find of a few days back. For some time I have been wondering about tools like […]

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Interlude – Elton John-Tiny Dancer

March 23, 2009

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TechFuga – my new favorite one stop news site for all things tech

March 14, 2009

A few days ago I came across TechFuga via another bloggers site.  I wish I could remember where I found it but thanks to whoever you are.  TechFuga is a fantastic aggregator that now leads the pack on my Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar.  Here’s a taste: Why shop anywhere else? Tweet

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Sat2Twitter – Tweet from far away

March 11, 2009

Nick over at Arktisma.com just dropped a comment on an earlier post about a new service he just launched called Sat2Twitter.  You can now Twitter using your SPOT Messenger from anywhere in the world and they soon hope to add functionality for Thuraya, Iridium, and other devices. Many moons ago I sent out a request […]

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Chasing the Flame

March 10, 2009

The other day I took a walk with a friend around one of the nearby lakes and he told me about a book he was reading called Chasing the Flame: One Man’s Fight to Save the World.  It is a biography about Sergio Vieira de Mello, the former chief of the U.N. mission to Iraq, […]

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Crowdfunded news, Rob Crilly and Darfur

March 8, 2009

I came across a great post the other day by Christopher Albon over on his blog War & Health titled ‘Why You Should Crowdfund David Axe‘. For those of you who don’t know David Axe he is one of the principal writers over at WIRED’s Danger Room which always has some great posts covering humanitarian […]

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Interlude – Grateful Dead – Jack Straw (Copenhagen 72-04-17)

March 8, 2009

I usually try to not contaminate Interludes with editorial comment but today I am going to have to break my own rule.  It’s a beautiful day here in Marin County and I am looking out of my bedroom window at Mt. Tamalpais.  Marin was home to the Grateful Dead while I was growing up here […]

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FrontlineSMS introduces FrontlineForms and changes the game for all of us.

March 2, 2009

Wow, the group of talented developers over at FrontlineSMS have just released what could be a game changer for the aid industry: FrontlineForms.  Now your IT person, using the FrontlineSMS system, can quickly generate a custom data collection template and deliver it en masse to field teams via SMS.  With the drag-and-drop functionality of the […]

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