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Geeking in the Third World

Posted by michael on from the thar-be-dragons dept.

suzipaw writes "Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman, late of Tripod, gets some well-deserved media attention for his good works via an interview on oreilly.com. What he and other volunteers are doing on behalf of developing nations is pretty darn cool. And humbling--makes this first-worlder grateful for a regular power supply."

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  1. New Moderation System by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As the stories have been a bit slack of late... I propose a new moderation system... let the users moderate the actual editor's stories!

    Scoring could be from the following...

    - Strength of the hosting server ( +1, not slashed... yet)

    - Commerical content (+1, not-an-ad!)

    - Redundency (+2, Yeah! Not-a-dupe!)

    - Language (+1, 6th grade level)

    - OS prejudice (+1, They better not be teaching wind'rs)

    Yeah! A good story!

    Add your suggestions!

    AC

  2. It's obvious by Master+Tofu · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That O'Reilly simply is a money grubbing corporation. Why? You may ask, well i'll tell you. In 1998, they allied with Microsoft to slander open-source, but jumped the boat on it when it became the next big thing, as we now know. It's good they're doing so much to help Linux, but I just thought you guys should know their past.

  3. Re:Okay... by maelstrom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    OH NOES

    --
    The more you know, the less you understand.
  4. First Neil Young post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Neil Young said I could do this:

    Keep on GEEKIN' in teh third world!!

    Don't feel like satan but I am to them, so I try to forget it any way I can.