eTech

Jimmy Wales, founder of wikipedia, gave an interesting talk at eTech this morning.

Freely licensed encyclopedia,

Justin F. Chapweske, CEO of Onion Networks gave a presentation at eTech to motivate the need for a better way to transfer very large files across the internet.

Spam sucks. Of course, we know this. The point is that spam could be stopped, but the result would no longer be email as we know it today.

Corey Doctorow gave

Neil Gershenfeld, from The Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, opened today’s

Sam Ruby talks about why we can’t “just use http”.

Ouch. My head hurts. This is important stuff, and I do mostly understand it, but I’m not gonna do it justice

Random short notes … here’s a link to the reinventing radio presentation.

10 hours of listener’s

Wendy Seltzer and Jason Schultz from the EFF gave a great presentation at eTech this afternoon. Many electronic and software