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One of the most intriguing new products unveiled at DEMOfall was a USB “smart drive” created by U3.  Here’s the idea: on a USB thumb drive (for you Luddites that’s a thing the size of your thumb – get it? – that you plug into your computer), you can hold not only your data, but…

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MIT will host a grassroots technology conference in 2 weeks.  It certainly tilts left, but online organizing ideas ultimately ignore the political spectrum.  The workshop is described as follows: Workshop proposals that were accepted fit into one of these themes: a) Making technology relevant to communities b) Online politics post-2004 c) Uniting movements for social…