Published March 30th, 2005
in Travel and Technology.
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I spent the day in Washington, DC participating in a public broadcast show about the future of the Internet organized by Bobby Austin at the University of DC. It was an interesting group. Other then myself there was Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn who are considered the fathers of the Internet. I guess my contribution was my vision for what the Internet should look like moving forward.
In the interview I tried to stress that we should not look to the Internet as a solution in and of its self, the Internet is only a tool. Instead we need to focus on what we want the Internet to be and try to make it happen. The future of the Internet is what we want it to be. I think one comment I made sums up my feelings:
The Internet made my success possible, but I made it happen.
The university has an interest in contributing to my American voices project. So I think I will try and get the ball rolling on that shortly.
Published March 29th, 2005
in Politics.
Today I attended a session at Harvard’s Berkman Center on Global Voices a project by Ethan Zuckerman and Rebecca MacKinnon. I’ve been fascinated by the project since it started. It attempts to give a voice to citizens around the world who normally wouldn’t be heard either because the English speaking media is not interested in their country. In American media this means any country that isn’t America, Iraq or Afghanistan.
It is a great resource if you want to connect to communities abroad and hear what they have to say about the events occuring in their country. They have setup a Blog Index Wiki that has a list of informative bloggers around the world. It is the concept of Bridge bloggers that I am fascinated most by.
Bridges are more interactive spaces. Bridge bloggers write for an audience outside their everyday reality - for instance, when Ory Okolloh (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ory) writes about corruption in Kenya, reaching family at home and readers at Harvard, she is bridge blogging. (And when people comment on her blog from outside Kenya, they’re bridging back.
I want to create a similar project in America. One that “bridges” ethnic and communities in America to a wider American audience. We neglect the voices of Americans just as much as we neglect the voices of communities outside of America. In both cases technology can help bridge this gap. I wonder if their are already similar projects running now?
Published March 28th, 2005
in Entrepreneurship.
When I returned from Spain I was bed ridden for about a week. I’m still recovering now. I’ve managed to migrate the site from its old server and Movabletype to WordPress which I really like so far. I haven’t updated the HTML for the rest of the site. I could do it with time, but its not a priority for me. I’m looking to hire a web developer for my personal sites and SecurityLab related work. The person should atleast be familiar with PHP and CSS related technologies. If you know someone, drop me an email ejovi@ejovi.net.
Published March 16th, 2005
in Misc.
I’m moving my blog to WordPress. Those of you using the old MT feed URL’s will need to update them. The new blog is located at http://blog.ejovi.net examples feeds:
http://blog.ejovi.net/feed/ (RSS2)
http://blog.ejovi.net/feed/atom/ (ATOM)
I’ll be moving the blog officially Friday.
Published March 14th, 2005
in Travel.
The forums are over and I am getting ready to go to the airport. This trip has shaped my feelings about America and the democratic process. I am a patriot, which is not a popular thing to be these days. When I travel I find myself feeling as though I must defend America. I try not to defend the policies of the administration, but the ideals of the country.
However after hearing many intelligent people present intelligent arguments about the direction that America has taken recently I am forced to pause and think. From a historical stand point has an invading force ever been able to successfully build a democratic society? Napoleon invaded Spain promoting the ideals of “liberty and freedom” but when the French were eventually defeated all ideals attached to France “liberty and freedom” were violently abandoned.
At the Atocha Workshop I met an Iraqi woman who believed that the ideals of democracy and civil society were building in Iraq but it still required support by means of information, and education. Not guns. An angry Iraqi man felt that America was forcing its ideal of democracy which was not necessarily the ideals that Iraqi people believed in. The Atocha Workshop was successful in bringing people of varying backgrounds together and I hope it happens again next year.
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