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Treasure Island Wireless - SF.Gov + Nodecity

Over the past few months I’ve been tweeting about Treasure Island. Not the one from the movie, but an island in San Francisco.
What I’ve been doing over there is helping SF.Gov’s Department of Technology deploy a Cisco Wireless Mesh.
Instead of blabbing on about it, I’ve put together a 5 minute 27 second video, below.

Treasure Island [...]


Netflix on Culture

This is the most obvious culture presentation I’ve read. There’s almost nothing business here, it’s all common sense. Something that seems to go out the window in most offices/businesses. Not sure how lived this is, but on paper, this is so obvious it needs to be saved/blogged.
Culture
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Internet Censorship, Coming, Like It or Not

Governments like control. All centralized media has been censored by Government in some form. James Joyce’s Ulysses was banned in both UK and US until the 1930’s. Book burning is an old practice. Most recently made popular by Hitler in 1933. Radio, TV, movies, and games are all censored through national ratings panels. Beyond that, [...]


Doing It ‘Right’ With Twitter

There’s no one right or wrong way to use twitter. Here’s a few companies over in San Francisco who not only have a Twitter account, but use it well for both their customers, and themselves.

Local shop, health focused, Bi-rite, on Twitter  

SF SPCA Business Cards, asking people to follow them  

Others doing it [...]


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