A visionary project in Austria, replacing all ads and logos in a space with one color. And all the businesses cooperated.
Stian

It´s already been noted by for exampel Google and Flickr that opening up your api (the interface to your website) and allowing other programmes / webpages to interact with your data can be hugely positive in creating a community, that can come up with ideas that you never dreamt of. See for example the Flickr […]

Since the project where I am living in Mexico does not have very good TV reception, I have barely watched Mexican TV programs - mostly I have caught glimpses in waiting lounges at bus stations and cafes and similar. Although every time I´ve been watching, there has been something new and “interesting” to reflect upon. […]

In listing some of the technologies I’d found useful yesterday, I forgot to mention XAMPP, which is an integrated package of Apache, Php and Mysql, all configured to “just work”. Download a 30MB file, on Linux or Window, unpack and you are ready to go. Works out of the box. On Windows, this is a […]

This last week I have been working unusually hard. After fighting for a while with EZPublish, which is what Politics of Health is published with, I have decided to try to migrate the whole system to a wiki. The article structure is very simple, we hardly use any of the CMS features of EZPublish, and […]

Finally back to Coyotitan after a very long 18 hours on a bus (it was supposed to be 14, according to the ticket seller) from Mexico city. Since the individual lights did not work, I could not read after sunset (around 8PM), and had plenty of time to think (after my brain had been toasted […]

This is the Spanish name for NAFTA (which I found out belatedly when attending an economic conference at UNAM about regional development in Mexico), and clearly something that I need to know more about. I heard different econ professors give very different accounts about its impact on Mexico, but most agreed that it had been […]