What to do when the internet goes down?

From CBC’s Spark radio show: There are lots of reasons you can find yourself offline: a natural disaster, government censorship, or simply a flaky ISP. Nathan Freitas researches alternative network technologies, and he knows first-hand what it’s like to not have internet access — he was in New York City during 911 and for the major […]

Wind Farm 0: If there was suddenly no Internet, what would we do?

(Originally, posted on Medium and Fold, but here since this is my *real* blog after all, and if the Internet went down, I still will have my local blog archive, and can run a teeny tiny WordPress server on my own computer, local network and/or $9 computer). This last Friday and Saturday, a group of tool […]

Eliza is five!

Here’s a picture of Eliza and her beloved teacher, Mary, at school this morning. Happy…

Here’s my top 10 reasons why Rhinobird eats Meerkat for lunch…

Here’s my top 10 reasons why Rhinobird.tv eats Meerkat for lunch… (not to mention clouds up Periscope too…) Read on, or watch the archive of my live reading of this here: https://beta.rhinobird.tv/stream/551572394e6fa46608b9307f/ or download the WEBM here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/media-rhinobird.tv/709798245457932400.webm Here’s my top 10 reasons about why Rhinobird eats Meerkat for lunch… (not to mention clouds up Periscope too…) Read […]