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i don't know what's going on with my blogger account, as i'm still not able to post comments on anyone's blog. i suppose for the moment, i'll just have to keep reacting via my own blog. i wanted to remark about two posts in particular. first, lee's post about AR apps:

when lee was talking about this the other night, i was a little confused about what an AR app would look like, but reading about these apps cleared things up for me. i particularly like the "nearest tube" app -- i would totally use something like that. this also made me think of gis (geographic information systems), a program that a lot of my friends who studied geography in college used to make these crazy-detailed maps overlaying various sets of data (normally dealing with the distribution of resources).

also, i liked sarah's post about "cyberped and revolution." this reminded me of an article i was reading in the new yorker the other day about mo ibrahim. he's a sudanese man who is largely responsible for the presence of cell phone towers in many parts of africa. he's made a whole bunch of money and is now giving away his fortune chunk by chunk to african leaders who reveal themselves to be genuinely for democracy and to have the interests of their countries' people at heart... i'd recommend checking it out, there's a very interesting correlation between political reform, youth engagement, and technology suggested there, too.