links for 2007-10-30

• Inside the Mind of a 9 Year Old File-Sharer
  "Why would they put it [music] on the internet and invent mp3 players if it was against the law?" and other frank replies on online music sharing by a 9 year old girl who uses LimeWire, Bebo and YouTube. (From TorrentFreak, via LHaug)
  (tags: culture interesting p2p music piracy)
• 19.20.21
  19.20.21, a project collecting and presenting information about 19 cities which will have populations over 20 million in the 21st century.
  (tags: cities future research)
• FON wi-fi routers for free (if you live in Geneva)
  FON and the city of Geneva are giving away 500 free wi-fi routers ("Foneras") for free. FON is an international organization of shared wireless networks. (via LHaug)
  (tags: FON wifi geneva wireless)
• First look at Apple's Leopard
  A look (in pictures) at Mac OS X 10.5's new features, applications and user interface -- if you want to check it out before considering upgrading. (From ComputerWorld)
  (tags: Apple)
• In Praise of Slow Blogging
  Great post by Michele Bowman on conference (slow)blogging, inspired by Carl Honoré's speech at Pop!Tech (+ interesting comment by Evgeny Morozov). (Ego alert: I'm mentioned in the post). (From fringehog.com/verge)
  (tags: blogging slowblogging slow fringehog)
• NY Times by keywords
  An experiment by Dave Winer: Tracking and remixing New York Times stories by keyword, updating every ten minutes, as stories become available. (thx Pam for the links!)
  (tags: NYTimes newspapers)
• Stewart Brand and thinking about Megacities
  Ethan Zuckerman summarizes a speech by Stewart Brand on megacities: “History is what happens in cities. The developing world is taking over history by taking over the world’s largest cities”. (Ego alert: I'm mentioned in the post).
  (tags: megacities cities EthanZuckerman Future)
• Projections From Chevron's CTO: Peak Oil Is Real
  Figures from Chevron's CTO Don Paul: the total amount of oil on Earth: about 3 trillion barrels, of which we've used about 1.1 trillion. Another trillion can't be extracted with current tech. We will consume another 0.4 trillion in the next 5 years. Peak
  (tags: peakoil energy)
• Innovation: The Shape of Things to Come
  A photovoltaic-world scenario of what that future -- circa 2017 -- might look like, as seen through the offerings of Craigslist. By Jamais Cascio for Metropolis Magazine (you've to click on the graphics)
  (tags: design environment sustainability future)
• UN issues 'final wake-up call' on population and environment
  A new report by the UN. Demand for resources is close to 22 hectares per person, a figure that would have to be cut to between 15 and 16 hectares per person to stay within existing, sustainable limits. (From the IHT)
  (tags: climatechange environment sustainability)
• Zoning on a global level
  "Zoning" for newspapers usually means "going local", creating separate editions for different towns for example. The UK daily The Guardian is zoning globally, launching a US website, guardianamerica.com. Already one-third of their readers are US.
  (tags: newspapers journalism)
• Dragonfly or Insect Spy? Scientists at Work on Robobugs
  A number of US government and private entities are developing insect-size drones. Some ... are even growing live insects with computer chips in them with the goal of mounting spyware on their bodies and controlling their flight muscles remotely. (From WP)
  (tags: espionage insects privacy robots surveillance)