{"id":75,"date":"2007-12-28T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2007-12-29T02:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2007\/12\/28\/one-laptop-for-a-child-one-more-laptop"},"modified":"2007-12-29T13:47:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-29T17:47:32","slug":"one-laptop-for-a-child-one-more-laptop-for-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/stepno\/2007\/12\/28\/one-laptop-for-a-child-one-more-laptop-for-blogger\/","title":{"rendered":"One Laptop for a Child, One More Laptop for a Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rubbery child-sized keyboard of my One Laptop Per Child<\/a> XO computer isn’t great for my usual verbose blog entries, but this item has already accomplished its purpose — testing the XO with WordPress.<\/p>\n

Alas, the XO’s browser doesn’t show a text cursor in “visual” editing mode with Harvard’s WordPress installation, but I can type well enough in “code” view. The browser has a similar problem with Gmail. I plan to try it with other Web editors and see if there’s any discussion of the topic on the olpc wiki site.<\/p>\n

Just a few more days remain in the Give One Get One<\/a> offer from olpc. I hope more folks in the Radford area order the little green guys so we can try the collaborative music and drawing programs.<\/p>\n

Maybe this will tip someone over the edge: One bonus feature I didn’t appreciate until I took a Christmas trip to New York — the G1G1 offer includes a year of T-Mobile’s wifi service, which normally sells for almost the price of the computer. I have a lot of wifi access points in Radford, but the fact that T-mobile offers service at Starbucks made the XO a handy interstate travelling companion.<\/p>\n

While in New York, I saw this AP\/Times piece on the real “market” for the XO computers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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