Bookmarks for October 6th through October 10th

These are my links for October 6th through October 10th:

Dutch Twitterati raise cash for One Laptop Per Child

Dutch Twitterati are using Twitter to support the One Laptop Per Child project, brainchild of Nicholas Negroponte. All tweets that mention the words OLPC are counted by the Twitter stats application Twitstat:

With each tweet with ‘olpc’ in it you semi-voluntarily raise 1 euro for the One Laptop Per Child
project. Each laptop is 140 euro. Please make sure @twitstat follows you
before tweeting ‘olpc’. And twitstat doesn’t count you if you have
locked your account.

The fundraiser was started by Dutch journalist Francisco van Jole ( @2525) who sponsored the first few laptops before other people started chipping in as well.

The mission of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is to empower the children of developing countries to learn by providing one
connected laptop to every school-age child.


(watch the New York Times review of OLPC’s laptop)

The charity drive runs till midnight on Christmas Eve.

Final tally: A total of 2883,50 euro was raised, enough to buy 21 laptops. Full story (in Dutch). Happy Christmas!

Dutch broadcaster launches Lowlands festival mashup

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Dutch public broadcaster VPRO’s music portal 3VOOR12 is reporting from the three-day Lowlands Festival in Biddinghuizen, The Netherlands, using a very cool mashup site www.vpro.nl/lowlandsmashup.

The page, a collaboration between 3VOOR12 and Today’s Art combines a live broadcast from the festival, photos from the Flickr Lowlands pool, video reports at Kyte.tv, weather forecasts and a Twitter and Jaiku feed. Viewers at home and audience members as well as professional reporters on site use the Twitter feed to cover the festival.

To post to the Twitter stream, follow Twitter user 3VOOR12, then post your tweets as usual, but start your sentence with #LL07. Alternatively, log in straight from the mashup (bottom menu, click ‘Twitter/Jaiku’ Direct’).

Lowlands 2007 takes place August 17, 18, 19. The festival is sold out.

  • Lowlands festival programme