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Reflections on my Laplife

Posted by Mary in ZapBoom on 16/11/2007 at 19:50

"Oh, my darling, I'm so glad that you're finally here."
 

Well, my new power cord arrived on Wednesday evening and.... it worked!  So, here I am, plugged in, battery happily charging, tapping on my laptop, enjoying my laplife. As promised, I did use my week without a laptop to reflect on the role of laptop in my life.  Here is what I can up with.  Does your laptop mean the same things to you? 

1. A laptop is just an entry point to the almighty network

Ever since we started going online en masse in the late 90's, computers have

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The Gift Economy on the Internet

Posted by Mary in ZapBoom on 11/08/2007 at 14:32

Open it up, it's free... and here's why

 

One of the basic tenets of anarchist thought is the gift economy, an economic system in which goods and services are given without any explicit agreement for a reciprocal gift of money, good or services from the receiver. Basically, in a gift economy, if someone needs something which you have the ability to give, you give it, and vice versa. Most people consider gift economies to be rather silly and utopian ("someone's just gonna give me a new cell phone - yeah right!"), but what few people realize is that a

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Rayt FAQ

Posted by Mary in Rayt it! on 18/07/2007 at 06:10 PM

1. Why did you pick the name "Rayt"?

It's a play on the word "rate." Rayt allows users to rate the content of web sites by making a comment and also to rate other people's comments. Also, Rayt is like a "ray" of light, shining the interactivity of real Web 2.0 throughout the entire internet. So really, the name works on three levels.

2. Tell me quickly, how does Rayt work?

First you install the Rayt add-on to you Firefox browser. Then you will have a little Rayt icon on your toolbar. Whenever you visit a site that you want

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For Developers

Posted by Mary in Rayt it! on 18/07/2007 at 05:54 PM

Hi Developer,

Thanks for visiting the Rayt development blog. I am not a developer, so I will need a lot of help to make Rayt a reality.  In a nutshell, I want Rayt to be a Firefox add-on that allows people to write, view, and rate (rayt) comments through a banner at the top of their browser screen.  For this I think I will need:

  • 3 dialogue boxes: make a comment, rayt a comment, viewing preferences
  • code to interact with the server on which the comments are stored
  • a database to organize the comments
  • a ranking algorithm to
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The Rayt Manifesto

Posted by Mary in Rayt it! on 18/07/2007 at 03:48 PM

Why the World Needs Rayt

The reason I developed the idea for Rayt is because Web 2.0 does not exist. We don't have Web 2.0, we have web sites 2.0. Some sites - like del.icio.us, Digg, and Wikipedia - allow users to interact and create contents, but most websites merely broadcast They create content and they don't really care what you think about it.

I want users to be able to contribute content to every page on the internet. I want them to be able to rayt (rate) the entire internet, for the Web to be truly 2.0.

How

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In the internet age, everything is known.

Posted by Mary in ZapBoom on 28/04/2007 at 22:09

Tonight I watched The Boys From Brazil, one of those classic films more famous for it's surprise ending (which everyone knows by now) than for being truly great. Once I accepted that is was hokey, though, I really enjoyed the twisty plot. However, there was one element that I didn't understand. There is a bone bracelet that appears throughout the film, and also in the closing shot, and I wondered "what the heck is this damned bone bracelet?" So I did what anyone would do. I googled it.

Soon I found myself on a message board on Internet Movie

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