Category Archives: Internet

I'm in DC at the moment, and tomorow I head off to a wedding in New Haven. I'm going by train and my fare will be 20% less than it might have been thanks to one of these handy Amtrak discount codes. No, it's not just a toy: this Internet thing is useful.

Open Park is a great idea, and Kevin Werbach is part of it:

WERBLOG: The Open Park Project is a non-profit working to establish free public WiFi connectivity on the National mall in Washington, DC. I'm one of the co-founders, along with Washington telecom lawyer Greg Staple and two others. On [April 28], Open Park launched its Website and its first location, on Capitol Hill.

Hard to believe, but this is the first public outdoor WiFi hotspot in Washington, DC. The area around Supreme Court, the Capitol Visitor Center, and the Library of Congress is now “lit.” Next stop: a wireless mesh from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial.

Just another Internet identity mystery story? But this is an unusually good one: The Search for Isabella V. Here's “her” blog, she's a flight risk.

Karl Auerbach of the CaveBear Blog has been thinking about Google's GMail service and has figured out a way to turn the tables on it, Manipulating Google's Gmail for fun and profit.

I'm not sure how practical this is, but I like the spirit of it.

As an abstract matter, Lockergnome’s Price Drops RSS Feeds seem like a great idea. But who has time to monitor these on a regular basis? Not even relatively obsessive price-sensitive consumers like me, that's for sure.

Not trying to make this an all Google day, but given what a clean reputation google has, and given all the stuff in their IPO about how they plan to Be Good and not be short-termists, it's a little disturbing to read this Joi Ito item collating various bits of info suggesting that Google colludes in government censorship.