In what other country can eight year old girls shoot machine guns at cars, for fun?

I caught the closing session of Vidfest on Friday - a call to arms to defend net neutrality, entitled "Can I Have Your Attention Please? An Internet SOS", featuring Matt Thompson and Jason Roks.

Today's announcment that Verizon and Mozilla are joining the Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo) is great news for the advancement of mobile Linux.

Having a major carrier like Verizon announce that they "will encourage its handset partners to use the OS even if it is not a part of LiMo" and that they will "make a big financial commitment by hiring people" signals great confidence in open platforms as the way forward.

I've been eagerly anticipating the flood of creative, silly, art pieces that will start to flood onto the 'net around the 2008 American elections. This is a great start.

I've been sifting through the internet, including the excellent Symbian Freeware site, looking at various packages available for live location tracking using the Nokia N95 handset. Our plan is to provide live location tracking of a car vs. bicycle journey that will visit the various Car Free Festivals on June 15th.

The main project that I will be working on over the coming year is the Fearless Mobile Muse project - placing smart phones in the hands of artists and residents in the DTES for the purposes of providing live coverage of a series of festivals in the heart of the city.