Aaron Parecki

cyborganthropology.com is quickly becoming the default online resource for everything relating to Cyborg Anthropology. With over 800 articles and growing daily, it's possible to find nearly anything you can think of.

I recently spent some time at Souk, a co-working space in Portland. It’s a great space with lots of room and lots of light, which is important when you’re going to spend hours on end somewhere. Over the course of a couple days, it became apparent that there are several tools that can help facilitate the coming and going of people in spaces like these.

Loqi is an IRC bot that lurks in several channels on irc.freenode.net. He is mostly a utility bot, but occasionally enjoys a bit of playful conversation.

Note: This is a really old post! In the time since this was written, Apple acquired TestFlight and now provides a native way to distribute your app to beta testers over the air. The below should still work, but isn't really necessary anymore.

If you're like me, you've probably got a lot of bookmarks saved on Delicious. If you're not, you might know someone who does. With Delicious going offline, the question is where people are going to be taking their Delicious bookmarks? If you have a Delicious account (created after the Yahoo! acquisition), your only download option is a html download exporting to browser bookmarks. This doesn't give anyone much freedom in where you can take your data. To ease this frustration, caseorganic and I set out to solve this issue.

Many people keep asking me why I use Tropo instead of Twilio. It seems that Twilio does a great job of getting the word out about their service, so many people end up using them first. But there are a few reasons I'm using Tropo instead. Basically it comes down to features, scalability and support.

Say you want to register a couple different typos of your domain name, and redirect everyone seamlessly to the correct site. This can be done quite easily in Apache using ServerAlias and a simple RewriteRule. I just registered geoloqui.com after noticing a couple articles linking to it instead of geoloqi.com. But then I thought, wouldn’t it be useful if I could track these typos and see which ones are most common? Turns out it’s not difficult!

On the weekend of December 4th and 5th, people gathered in coworking spaces around the world for the Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon. In Seattle, two teams worked on Population Centers in Disaster, and Mobile Assessment of Damage for the Public.

Summary

Dropbox is great. Most of the time. It's great when I need to easily share files with people while working on a project together. It keeps files in sync between multiple computers, and is the only solution I've found so far which works seamlessly and instantaneously. If you don't already use it, I highly recommend it.

Receive notifications to an IRC channel when posts are published or comments are posted. Configuration page allows for customizing the text sent to the IRC channel.

A short guide to setting up MediaWiki to work on multiple websites using the same codebase.

I haven't used Dreamweaver since 2002 and don't regret it for a minute. On the other hand, I?ve been struggling to find a good IDE for PHP/HTML/Javascript development for a very long time.

A rough outline of my trip to San Francisco for the eComm conference. Will be taking notes here as plans solidify.

Originally posted on oakhazelnut.com by Amber Case

@twaddington sparked a Twitter debate when he tweeted

Rough notes from the talk at pdx web innovators on 2/1/10 presented by Marshall Kirkpatrick

Quick summary: Automatically bookmark a site after it has been open for a certain amount of time.

At a recent meeting, I was asked to explain open-source licenses to people who had not heard much of them before. I only had about 5 minutes because I had to rush off to another meeting immediately after. I was, however, able to touch on a few key points in the 5 minutes I was given, and help them understand a bit more. This page is an attempt to provide you with enough information to give your own 5-minute explanation.

I've been logging GPS data for about a year and a half. I use an app on my Windows Mobile phone to log the GPS data, and my phone has a wifi antenna that stays in the "off" position most of the time. I met with @donpdonp the other day and he introduced me to the geomena.org project. I realized it should be possible to log access points along with my existing GPS logging. It was easy to install Airomap on my phone, so now I can log wifi points too!