Joe Trippi one of the fore-runners of change-the-world-tools on the hopes of software as emancipaton. Might sound cynical but it’s rather skepticism in technological determinism.

Today, I donated for the spread-Firefox-campaign. You should do it too. It starts with just $ 10 that is roughly 8 Euros. Nothing for an excellent proof of concept and realization and great web-browser.

Since I’m there at Dornbirn anyway I should step into the convention.

Linux-Kongress in Dornbirn
Am 12.11.2004, 9:00 – ca. 18:00 Uhr, findet in Dornbirn der Linux-Kongress statt (Hotel Martinspark, Dornbirn). Thema: “Freie Software in der öffentlichen Verwaltung – Erfahrungen aus der Praxis”. Weitere Infos… [Sozialinformatik]

I downloaded a film yesterday that really made my day. It’s about rural holidays (be careful some 650 MB or 40 minutes). A documentary about alternative sources of income for farmers in the US. It’s an amazing piece of (a daily) history. Daily practices are screened fully biased since the movie was produced by or for the US Ministery for Agriculture around the early 60s or late 50s I guess.