Montréal "du futur"

I want to do this in Montreal...

The goal is to make cloud computing less mysterious by helping people through the process of setting up a server on Amazon EC2. The title derives from a class that was offered at the University of Wisconsin, when I was a grad student there, called Computer Science for Poets.

"I've also suggested to Evan at Laconi.ca that he offer an AMI on Amazon for an instant microblogging server."

Evan, we should talk about that, I think I have a project that could give some cycles to that with your crew...

Bruce Sterling speech at a California technology conference. Delivered at alpha-geek central, it may include indecipherable techie in-jokes. Well over 6,000 words. Includes illustrations.

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task.

It's pretty easy (we hope). The language to use the datbase is very simple. Not geeky at all. We call it TwiNQL (TWItter Non-geeky Query Language).

Even helping a bit once in a while (like typing in the track names of a CD nobody else had ever entered) benefited you and the system. Instead of making you feel bad for "only" doing 99%, a well designed system makes you feel good for doing 1%.

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open source as fair trade for nonprofits