Read quite an interesting idea on Ideascale in a Techcrunch article, and how the U.S. government is using it to power 23 sites to crowdsource ideas. It allows citizens to contribute ideas and vote on them, allowing the best ideas to “bubble” to the top. It follows a trend which has long been used by [...]
Read David Allen’s getting things done (GTD) over the holidays, and it’s basically a productivity system that helps you get your head clear. It does seem too much of a overkill for a college student (it’s mainly geared for business executives) but it does work, and pretty well.
I’ve started to adopt it and it is [...]
Setting up a google apps site for Locra.in now- and regretting that I didn’t just pay an extra $3 to have Google settle all the domain stuff for me. For a semi-techie, having to figure out CNAME records and MX servers costs me more than $3 in headaches.
However Google Apps is interesting in that it [...]
Just returned from listening to Ken Banks, the founder of FrontlineSMS. His tool allows NGOs to create mobile networks to liaise with people out in the “front lines” through text messaging, with only a laptop and a mobile phone. You can read more at their site here.
What struck me was how Ken structured his project. [...]
I’m the newest user of Twitter, and it’s awesome. Twitter is a 140 character “microblogging” site which allows people to receive text messages of other people blog posts. Receiving text messages (SMSes) is free and there are a lot of interesting applications you can use on Twitter.
What I use twitter most for is to receive [...]
Test pictures from the new camera: still figuring out how to use many of the functions…
Tables in my classroom
My housing estate, from my bedroom window
My desk
Just spent 3 hours today searching for a suitable second hand camera on Yahoo Auctions- the Sanyo S6 (a cheap, plastic $170 camera) that I share with the rest of my family is firstly, shared (i.e. I can’t hog it all the time), and secondly, really quite bad.
Learnt an entire dictionary’s worth of camera-related lingo [...]
I am Daniel Isaiah Ong, an undergrad at Stanford studying Engineering and Political Science. I also work at locra.org.
I write mostly about social entrepreneurship, technology, design, and Singapore, the land where I come from.
