Mobile Phones

Five ways to guerrilla broadcasting with your cell phone

Allison and Nancy have a killer post over at TechPresident titled, "Twitter: An Antidote to Election Day Voting Problems?". It's brilliant and you have to read it top to bottom for the points it makes on : Empowering Self-Organized Volunteers, Sharing Patterns, Serving as Mobile Legal Aide, Smart Routing Around Resource Gaps and Guiding the Watchdogs.

I had joked about a week ago that it would behoove the United States to have Jimmy Carter invite international election observers and have him to for our country what he does in every other nascent or 3rd World democracy. Yet it dawned on my we, the voters of the United States, can open the US electoral process to the world by using our cell phones and digital cameras.

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Google's G1 phone is looking kinda hawt

I really, really, really smacked down the urge to get an iPhone because it was bound to the detestable ATT; whereas I am already bound to the somewhat detestable TMobile.

Obligatory segway into political commentary : I hate ATT because it's the company that came after the breakup of ITT which was one of the major corporations to finance dictatorships all across Latin America in the 60s and 70s.

Anyhow ...

Am looking at this image and am totally feeling my bossom heave. HAWT!

BTW : Does the G1's trackball have an outie?

To be honest, I am not so enamored with the actual casing. As one twitterina said, "it looks cheaply made". Yet the price is looking all right : Starting at $179, which by the time you get your data and voice plans in place and pay taxes and fees, it's probably going to run to about $225 initial price with about $40/month in usage fee.

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