Blog: Applied Technology

Camera phones, and the photos taken with them, got a lot of coverage after the London attacks two weeks ago. After today’s blasts, London police are hoping that they can help nab the people responsible them. The UK Police Service...

We are surrounded by a couple a hundred bloggers, strategists and programmers with their laptops creating a quiet huming on their keyboards at the Personal Democracy Forum. Ian and I will be up in New York for the next two days meeting some really exciting people here at the conference and at the CivicSpace get together tomorrow. As we have time to write throughout the day we will be posting our commentary.

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Spring cleaning help from Development Seed

Here is an little information that we are sending out to our past and present clients to help them get their computers free of spyware and running faster. Feel free to forward it along to friends.

After staying cooped up all winter and playing too much on your computers and maybe opening attachments that you shouldn’t have it is time to clean up the mess.

Here are FREE programs that we recommend your download and run to get ad ware, spy ware and viruses off your computer. The links we have listed for you will take you to PCWorld Magazine with more information and to download. It is a good idea to run multiple anti-spyware programs to get everything off the computer. And why not - they are free and fast.

Clean City Co-Hosts an e-Cycling Collection Event During GreenDC Week

Residents may bring computers and other items for environmentally safe recycling on April 23rd

(Washington, DC) This spring, DC Mayor Anthony A. Williams' focus on the environment highlights the important issue of recycling obsolete electronics. As part of the District's celebration of Earth Day numerous agencies District wide are putting events together for GreenDC Week, April 18th – 23rd.

The Office of the Clean City, DPW – Office of Recycling, The George Washington University, and several other community partners are hosting a free electronics recycling collection event for Washington, DC residents on Saturday, April 23rd, at the Rock Creek Park - Carter Barron Amphitheatre parking lot on 16th and Kennedy Streets, NW, Washington, DC.

I really don’t know what to think here. I have been watching what has been transpiring over the past week and am still just as unsure how things will end. What I do know is that a lot of people are going to stop using the site sooner rather than later. And OSS software like Drupal’s organic groups module and hosting options like bryght.com that offer more for their money.