Robin Good Archive Of Latest News
May 2005

Wi-Fi Co-ops: Wireless Community Networks Now Within Reach   Would you like to create your city-wide Wi-Fi hotspot without investment nor public funding? You can. In Turku, Finland, in one month time, a city-wide Wi-Fi network of hotspots has been created with absolutely no centralized investment or public funding. Creating cooperative grassroots wi-fi networks is now within our... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 30

The News Is NowPublic: See The News You Want To See   "Technology has broken the corporate news monopoly. Digital cameras, camera phones, blogs, and RSS put the tools of the news trade into the hands of the public, and now real news comes from real people everywhere." Photo credit: Nick Winchester Just a few hours ago I have... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 28

Online News Editor: To Be Or Not To Be   An online news editor is someone who researches, writes, edits, enriches with images, references with complementary resources and links an article to be published on a Web site. ... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 26

Data Visualization Tool Generates Ultimate Baby Names Buyer's Guide: NameVoyager   NameVoyager is a fascinating information visualization tool which allows you to "see" the universe of American first names in ways that can help you see which names are or have been most popular at any point in American recorded history and to discover and consider names... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 25

Screen Sharing Tools: The Best Low-Cost Solutions - June 2005 Update   If you want to show your computer screen, a presentation or a set of documents to someone connected to the Internet who lives across the ocean, you need to use a "screen sharing" software or online service. Photo credit: Jorge Del Toro While most popular web conferencing systems... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 24

The Future Of News Is For Reality Producers: A Good Conversation With Jon Rappoport   "The center of the universe this is what I have decided this place is..." This is how independent investigative journalist Jon Rappoport started out responding to my video interview questions focusing on media, economic interests influencing the news, grassroots journalism, blogs, and the future of online news. Robin... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 23

RSS, Social Bookmarks And Free Foto Search: The Sunday Sharewood Picnic   The sheer number of new, interesting unique tools and services that keep popping up is increasing at an ever increasing rate. Each day I have many more items that I'd like to cover but only enough time to provide good insight and information on a few... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 22

The Open RSS Feed Reader On The Web: Microsoft Start   Start is a new, still undefined, unpromoted and unhyped technology service from Microsoft, which has lots of good things going for it. click thee above image to enlarge it I first saw the Microsoft Start technology during the recent Microsoft Search Champs 2 meeting in Redmond, and as... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 19

Online Classified Ads: Craigslist Shows The Way   Though I had been hearing a lot about a US-based free online classified service called Craigslist but it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I started to realize the effective power and usefulness of this service also for many people outside the US. Photo credit: Neža... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 18

Group And Multi-User Blog Platforms Compared   Multi-user and group blogs are a new, rapidly emerging reality, representing one of the most interesting aspects of the strong market adoption and diversification process that the new generation of online publishing tools is giving life to. Photo credit: Alexander OPL As blogs are about to get their... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 16

Digital Image Editing Grassroots Toolkit: Light And Lean   Digital image preparation, editing and publishing remains one of the key growth areas for indipendent publishers and digital communicators of all creeds. Photo credit: Melanie K. Not being able to leverage digital images to their fullest when communicating with new media technologies is like writing on a... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 13

Cooperative Distribution: How To Distribute Large Media Files Via BitTorrent   I know this is no breaking news for many of you as BitTorrent has been making the headlines for just about two years now, but I keep receiving many requests of professionals wanting to know more about this revolutionary P2P protocol and its unique benefits for... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 12

Wikis And Blogs As Instruments Of Citizen Participation   This morning, as I was driving inside the Rome traffic on my way to the office, I realized something interesting, about blogs, wikis and all these new forms of grassroots communication. Photo credit: Robin Good Blogs and wikis can be great enablers for local district and... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 11

RSS Advertising: How Can I Pull If You Keep Pushing?   The latest RSS wave to hit the news is the final arrival of tangible RSS advertising options like the ones offered by Google AdSense (who is just beta testing the solution with a selected number of publishers), Pheedo, RSSAds and soon many others. Photo credit: Jim De... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 9

Open Source Software Tools For Windows PCs   If the word "Open Source" makes you think only of Linux computers and geeky programming languages, it's time to update yourself. Open Source software is now available for every category of productivity, research and programming you can think of and the number of open source applications that... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 8

The Google Web Accelerator: Problems And Issues   Google has just launched its web accelerator, a free web service that allows Windows users on broadband to significantly speed up access to most web pages online. Photo credit: Jerry Glica Google achieves this feat by caching most frequently requested Web pages on its servers and by pre-fetching... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 7

Services And Tools To Publish Video Content Over The Internet: The Rise Of Online Movie Distribution Services   If you have not already heard about it, then this is news that is going to change the way we think about independent movie production and distribution in the near future. Many services have popped up with online archival of large rich-media files including audio recordings,... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 6

Grassroots Real-Time Collaboration Tools And Their Differences With Enterprise Conferencing Solutions   It is just more than a month since I have presented this short audio and video presentation to iCohere Virtual teams 2005, an online conference which focuses on online collaboration, tools, technologies and resources that facilitate online cooperation and teamwork. Andres Ojeda The presentation is 37' minutes long... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - iCohere -- May 5

Usability Testing Lab-In-A-Box: View Remotely, Record And Analyse Clickstreams And User Events Visually With Morae From TechSmith   Usability testing is that field of activity that puts a specific information system, tool or product under the scrutiny of a precise methodology geared at identifying the specific bugs, idiosyncrasies and ambiguities inherent in the design and interface of the product at hand. As such, usability... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 4

Breeze Is The Conferencing Tool To Beat   Macromedia announced this past Monday, May 2nd, the availability of a new version of their flagship web conferencing product: Breeze 5. Breeze 5 is from my point of view a wonderfully designed masterpiece of interface design, usability and features. While Paul Ritter, research director, at Wainhouse Research told... read more | cat.: | Link Robin Good - Kolabora Latest News -- May 3

Free Image Hosting: Imageshack   If you have been looking for a place where you could store your images online, without going over the allowed storage space on your own web server or hosting provider, and without having to pay a monthly hosting fee, here is good one coming along. Imageshack is... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good -- May 3

Cost-Effective Alternatives To Expensive PCs May Help Bridge The Digital Divide   In some developing coutries, a computer costs the equivalent of a house. This is a major factor causing and perpetuating the 'digital divide' - the socio-economic gap between countries and communities that have access to computers and the Internet and those who do not. Photo credit:... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - BBC News -- May 2

Your Battle For Individual Freedom Is Up - Claim Your Rights And Support Our Flag: The Individual-i   Today, the rights of individuals are being eroded: by government, by corporations, by society itself. Individual-i is a new campaign launched by Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowed writer and speaker on personal privacy and security issues. The campaign is centered around the symbol displayed here, a "vaguely... read more | cat.: | Link | Comment Robin Good - [via Boing Boing] -- May 1

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