http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal A look at technologies that help create a global village/ society Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:32:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Get Out and Vote! Or at least in Estonia, stay in and vote over the Internet using your chip-embedded national ID card. Officials in that country are expecting 20-40,000 people to do so, out of the nearly one million eligible voters. WiMax for Chile Intel’s WiMax wireless networking protocol is being deployed in ... http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal/2007/02/22/myglobalcity-thur-feb-22-2007/ If you haven’t seen it yet, I’ve started a non-tech version of this blog up at the root directory. It’s called MyGlobalCity - Book of Mankind Project, or BoMP. The new site’s focus is mostly travel + culture, but with a healthy dose of world events and global politics, provide there’s ... http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal/2007/02/21/new-non-tech-myglobalcity-blog/ So be good for goodness sake… The year 1984 was a symbolic date that had everything to do with George Orwell’s 1949 novel of the same name. But Big Brother surveillance societies already are here, have been here, and will continue to be here. We’ve let it happen. And it’s not ... http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal/2006/11/05/british-big-brother-he-knows-when-youve-been-good-or-bad/ Everybody’s writing about Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoing the RFID safety legislation tabled by California State senate, who called it premature and potentially hampering later technology that would lead to improved RFID secure technology. Maybe this is my gut reaction for another fake Hollywood politician that I have little respect for, ... http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal/2006/10/06/schwarzenegger-terminates-california-rfid-bill/ It occurred to me earlier today, while nibbling on a snack, that my entire freelancing business exists primarily in cyberspace. I do everything here. Well, almost. I’m reminded of a pseudo-documentary film shot in Vancouver, B.C., Canada (possibly called Downtown). It documents a collection of office workers who make a ... http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal/2006/07/16/the-virtual-global-office-using-skype-voip/ Dating services have been predominantly around since the late 80s, when workaholism probably first started rearing its ugly head. First there were the match-making services, then introduction services via telephone - often advertised in the back of city weekly newspapers. Then came the online services. All of which cost heavily ... http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal/2006/07/10/verbdate-skype-online-dating-gets-audio-voip-chatting/ After a spate of attacks against bus drivers in recent years, the one-time very quiet town I grew up in has decided to install cameras on board buses for the safety of both drivers and passengers. Local transit is also testing GPS technology to offer citizens the ability to find ... http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal/2006/06/24/hometown-transit-employs-gps-and-cameras/ Consider: You’re planning a trip to Europe and you’re going to be joined there by a friend who will be travelling through Asia ahead of you. How do you sync up with each other without paying exorbitant cell phone or satellite phone costs? Why, through VoIP and/or Skype, of course. Imagine ... http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal/2006/06/14/travel-agency-voip-applications/ Want to be a VoIP provider and achieve fame, fortune and fast cars? Well, maybe not all of that. But if you’re interested in joining what will probably a group of thousands of small- to medium-sized VoIP providers the world over, SkyVoIP will give you the necessary equipment for $499.95/m, ... http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal/2006/06/13/roll-your-own-voip-service/ Apparently the city of Sacramento wants to set up a public free Wi-Fi network whose cost is completely supported by advertising. The project was only at the RFP (Request For Proposal) stage and MobilePro, who won the bid to work on it, did not think the city’s demand was feasible. ... http://www.myglobalcity.com/journal/2006/06/10/municipal-wi-fi-setbacks-mobilepro-quits-sacramento-project/