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Philip Torrone (MakeBlog) reports what seems next google shoot:

I could access the page, then it went away…Google Secure Access is a downloadable client application that allows users to establish a more secure WiFi connection. By using Google Secure Access, your internet traffic will be encrypted, preventing others from viewing the information you transmit. Link.

The service is reported (a cut and paste from the flickering page I suppose) as being available for beta testing only in the San Francisco Bay Area,

Where can I go to download Google Secure Access?

The program can currently be downloaded at certain Google WiFi locations in the San Francisco Bay Area.

However as it is based on virtual private networking the secure access (obviously not the free part) should work at other locations too (firewalls permitting).

Will Google Secure Access work at other locations?

While Google Secure Access should work, we have not tested it at other locations.

Via Laurence Lessig:

Try^d’s first album is now up: title - Public Domain. Available through Opsound and on their site.

I’m currently listening to track # 3 “i see” and it sounds good, very good. Nice to see the dynamics at the birth of the album:

“rj had posted a song on his website, and I just knew that I had to rework it into something different,” said Holowach. “When he heard it, he was very impressed by the work I had done on it, and was eager to spread the piece around. Shortly after that, vavrek added vocals, and the rest is history.”

I might hear the cool sound in this open and creative environment.

Update: Made a donation, absolutely worthy. My personal long distance run music test went fine, I found the melodies relaxing and energizing (fast start with the “Final Rewind”) very pleasing in the earphones. Thank you for the music, try^d!

Via Paolo Massa Blog

Petition for Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data

You might want to sign up the petition for Open Access to State-Collected Geospatial Data (in Italian).
We believe that state-collected geodata should be openly available to citizens. Please sign up below to support this manifesto.
All government-collected geodata should be open, that is, available for free distribution and re-use under a ShareAlike license.
Geodata is a public good. Open access to it, under a ‘Commons’ (ShareAlike) license, is the best way to see its full benefits realized by industry and citizens. At the same time such an arrangement, by requiring users to redistribute updates and improvements to the data, promises to deliver more and better data for less.

Availability of such information, as the remixable web meme shows us, could foster the development of an ecosystem of applications bringing a twofold enrichment, on one side of the value of the data collected, and on the other side of the web experience; briefly, spuring innovation.

As I was suggesting on Paolo Massa weblog (thank you Paolo for the initial pagerank), I ran in this insightful video about Trusted Computing . It is very well made, simple and effective, the trust definition given needs special remark:

Trust is the personal believe in correctness of s.th. .
It is the deep conviction of truth and rightness, and can not be enforced.
If you gain s.o. trust, you have estabilished an interpersonal relationship, based on communication, shared values and experiences.

TRUST always depends on mutuality.

As I am currently reading “The Tao of Physics”, the focus on interactions and on the dynamic aspect of this definition is enlightening (”you have estabilished an interpersonal relationship, based on communication, shared values and experiences” in the cited definition). A static and apriori approach in defining what s.o. can trust is doomed to fail, like a static approach in defining speed and position of a subatomic particle does not hold for every experiment; the observer is interwingled with the experiment . Rigid and execessively bureucratic systems don’t take in account the observer viewpoint, don’t accept change and innoviation, are unable to sway with failure.

This is a major step in ending procrastination mode. After some time spent watching the ever evolving panorama of social technologies (the start date go back to the autumn of 2002 - basically reading weblogs on a daily basis), and in the while of designing and building my personal cognitive support environment, I dare to blog.

Usefulness may vary.