Yet Another Flash Player – big deal?

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A new Flash player was silently released by Macromedia in the beginning of this week. Whilst a silent release of a new player version is kind of new in the FLash 6 line of players – its still more of a back to the way it was with the Flash 5 players. When I first heard about it, I thought — OK, bug fixes and a few updates – no big deal and I guess its ok they are not making a lot of noise about it. But the information

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Flash Remoting for Java

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Very cool news from Mike – the Flash Remoting server for Java is out in beta 3. One of the cool things about this beta is that it is now possible to install it on any Java Application Sever – thats what I call platform independent. What does that mean? Well, among other things, you can now use Flash Remoting on OSX using Apache and Tomcat. You can get ColdFusion MX running on OSX, but it is not currently the easiest process in the world. <regular nagging> We will see

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Distributed computing moving from search for aliens to searching the Internet

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Grub is a cool new project that relies on you and me taking part in keeping the search engines updated. The project is based on open source software, and is in early beta – with clients available for a few of the most common Linux distributions, Windows and as source code ready to be compiled to any *nix system. So why would you want to waste your cpu and bandwidth on helping someone make a more updated web? Well, when you run a Grub client, you get to have your

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A new kind of democracy?!

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I watched an interesting TV-program today, about the Participative Budget in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Its a project that has been going on since 1989 in Brazil, and has shown such promise that the Brazilian labor party is saying they will expand the program to the whole country. I am sure I am not alone in thinking that the democracy as it is today is failing. Less people are voting every election in most of the developed countries, in fact I would go as far as saying we are approaching a

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Janis Ian follows up her peer-to-peer vs musicians vs music industry article

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About a month after her initial article (that was actually written in may 2002), Janis has written an equally interesting article: FALLOUT – a follow up to The Internet Debacle Its nice to see all the reactions she got, and it seems like most people agree with her. She got over 2000 e-mails, and only 9 disagreed – of which she was able to sway 5. See my previous posting about her article. [Via Dave Winer]

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Setting up a Mobile Wireless Network

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This is a cool story, about HighWLAN: A Driving Wireless Network. When Casey West and friends decided to drive from Pittsburgh to St. Louis they first thought about using cell-phones to communicate, but ended up (as true geeks) with the first known mobile Wi-Fi setup for communication. They threw in a cell-phone with an internet hookup, and voilà – they had a internet connected Wi-Fi network. Very cool and geeky!

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How radio got boring

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I worked in radio for about 10 years here in Norway, and I could write a long rant about how the radio business has changed in Norway, how it used to be a lot more personal and interesting (I think the operative word is Fresh) than it is today. And I might just do that one day, but for now you will have to stick with reading about how radio got boring in the USA, in the San Diego Union-Tribune: Mourning DJs

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