NewAssignment.net: An experiment in participatory journalism
[orignally posted at Smartmobs]
[02:36 UTC CommunityWiki: InquiryLog
InquiryLog
The idea is to make tools that make it easy to perform inquiry and research publicly. #
Example Inquiry
2006-06-09
- 14:04 UTC computerimmunology.pdf (application/pdf Object) – Uploaded File
2006-05-20
2006-05-15
- 17:05 UTC WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: The Open Future: Open Source Scenario Planning
Original Location: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004246.html ...
2006-05-13
- 21:34 UTC Social Synergy: Grassroots Use of Technology Conference 2006
Grassroots Use of Technology Conference 2006
[via 21:18 UTC Personal Knowledge Management Tools Ready For Enterprise Use - Robin Good's Latest News
http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/04/26/personal_knowledge_management_tools_ready.htm
...- 21:01 UTC Rythm modeling visualizations and applications – Uploaded File
2006-05-10
- 23:09 UTC Social Synergy: Bliki (blog wiki)
From now on, in all of the posts that I make here in this blog, as well as posts to 21:13 UTC Wikicurrency - Meta
Wikicurrency
From Meta
[16:03 UTC The Cornucopia of the Commons: How to get volunteer laborThe Cornucopia of the Commons: How to get volunteer laborNapster is an example of a manually-filled database that has found a way to use volunteer labor such that normal use increases its value.http://www.communitywiki.org/odd/CollectiveProblemSolving/Discussion/?action=rss> http://feeds.feedburner.com/P2pFoundation
>Earlier version called NetworkLinks for comparison. Sorted by wiki, not by date
P2PFoundation blog:
2010-02-09
- 08:36 UTC The community-focused approach of Architecture for Humanity in Haiti – Eric Hunting reacts to this article in Shareable about architectural reconstruction efforts in Haiti: “Cameron Sinclair is well known as one of the chief proponents of the new socially responsible architecture movement that has been sweeping across the design community over the past decade. It is no surprise to find he and Architecture for Humanity so [...]
- 04:24 UTC When states become hollow, they become brands – Excerpt from an analysis of the Obama approach by Naomi Klein: “Obama has gone much further, turning the White House into a kind of never-ending reality show starring the lovable Obama clan. This too can be traced to the mid-90s branding craze, when marketers grew tired of the limitations of traditional advertising and began creating three-dimensional [...]
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2010-02-08 [del.icio.us]
- Never mind the Edupunks…
- Works – Weblogsky: Jon Lebkowsky's Weblog
- Science in the Open » Blog Archive » Peer review: What is it good for?
It hasn’t been a real good week for peer review. In the same week that the Lancet fully retract the original Wakefield MMR article (while keeping the retraction behind a login screen – way to go there on public understanding of science), the main stream media went to town on the report of 14 stem cell scientists writing an open letter making the claim that peer review in that area was being dominated by a small group of people blocking the publication of innovative work. - Leading-ship: reshaping relationships at work « NewUnionism’s Blog
In an effort to develop an alternative model of leading, a work-in-process began some years ago, seeking to develop a model based on equally-balanced relationships in the workplace. The term “leading-ship” was introduced into this debate by myself in 2006(1). The neologism was considered necessary because the term “leadership” had become so laden with associations, assumptions, perceptions and beliefs that yet another modified interpretation could never help establish a qualitatively new model. If real change were necessary, I felt it must involve a reorientation of language and terminology as well — a paradigm shift to help make the unthinkable thinkable, the unconceivable conceivable. The term leading-ship embodies the function of leading through personalized and internalized processes that involve every person in the workplace. Put simply, leading-ship consciously manifests itself as a contrast to leadership. - Slashdot IT Story | 95% of User-Generated Content Is Bogus
it found was that a staggering 95% of User Generated Content is either malicious in nature or spam." - Germany plans enquiry into the digital society - P2P Foundation
On 14th January the Christian Democratic Union and its Union partner in the German government the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CDU/CSU) proposed setting up an Enquete Commission to examine the implications of the Internet on society. Amongst other things, the Commission will be asked to look at initiatives for providing free access to publicly-funded research. Could this announcement be connected with the e-petition in support of Open Access (OA) launched in Germany last November? Does it herald a change of heart about OA on the part of the German government? - Destructive Creation: Internet Disintermediation and the Rise of Efficiency « Generation Bubble
If Google and its ilk deliver humanity to a post-scarcity paradise by supplanting costly, ponderous brick-and-mortar institutions with cheaper, more efficient virtual ones, what will humanity do with the surfeit of leisure such a transition entails? - P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Virtual and physical p2p spaces as a policy against the meltdown
What do you do when you find yourself with a lot more time and a lot less money on your hands than you’re used to? That may be the most important question of 2010 - P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Dean Baker’s proposals for the Obama stimulus package
Great example of how stimulating/promoting/funding open and participatory processes makes economic and policy sense. - P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » 20 proposals to get beyond the crash
20 ideas for building a more stable, more local, and more fair economy. “Governments need to act,” says Executive Director of nef, Steward Wallis, “not to shore up and rebuild the old financial system but to help build a new system that serves society instead of acting as its master.” - Exchange, justice and injustice — keimform.de
In a recent post Oekonux participant Raoul Victor from France deals with the question, if it is possible to have »no commercial injustice”. Here is the main part of the post - Welcome to the CiviCRM 3.1 Demo | CiviCRM 3.1 Demo Site
CiviCRM is a community-based open source project to build constituent relationship management functionality for the nonprofit, advocacy and nongovernmental sectors. - CiviCRM (en)
CiviCRM is a powerful web-based relationship management system. It allows you to record and manage information about the various people and organisations that are important to your organisation. CiviCRM is more than just an address book It also allows you to track your interactions with those people and organisations and to get them to engage with, and potentially give money to, your organisation through your website. The information you gather is all stored in one place but you can access it from almost anywhere.
2010-02-08
- 20:16 UTC An extraordinary bibliography on participation – Bibliography of one of the three main paradigms constituting the P2P ethos: open and free input, participatory processes of value creation, and commons oriented output. See: * Bibliography: Understanding participation: A literature review. Pathways through Participation explains: “Our project looks at participation in a very broad way, and covers a wide range of participatory activities that are often viewed [...]
- 20:07 UTC Panarchical governance: towards a state that isn’t a state – We have opened the door on the notion 1) that the state could participate in the new networks as a legitimate actor, or 2) that the state could decentralize to the point of being a network itself. Certainly states participate in networks already, but for many global networks the impetus to their formation is the [...]
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2010-02-07 [del.icio.us]
- The dead end kids - NYPOST.com
The number of young Americans without a job has exploded to 53.4 percent — a post-World War II high, according to the Labor Dept. — meaning millions of Americans are staring at the likelihood that their lifetime earning potential will be diminished and, combined with the predicted slow economic recovery, their transition into productive members of society could be put on hold for an extended period of time. - IEEE Spectrum: Open-Source Warfare
Terrorists are leveraging information technology to organize, recruit, and learn--and the West is struggling to keep up - Twitter for educational purposes: how and why?
- DECE | Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem
"There will soon be an exciting new way to buy, access and play digital entertainment. Developed by the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), a coalition with support from every industry involved in digital entertainment, this new system will provide a revolutionary new way to enjoy your favorite movies, TV shows and other entertainment." - Crowdsourcing Grading Revisited: The Public Gets in the Act | HASTAC
Last summer, I created a bit of a dust storm by announcing that we'd be "crowdsourcing grading" in my undergraduate class, "This Is Your Brain on the Internet." The logic, in brief, is that, if this class is about learning how to be constructive and productive participants in participatory online culture, then we should practice what we preach. So now I share grading duties with the students. We don't do this in a vacuum. We spent the last week reading all the comments we could find in response to my original "How To Crowdsource Grading" - Technology and Organizations » Blog Archive » Piazzza – E2.0 in the Classroom
"Piazzza provides E2.0 for interaction between fellow students and faculty. Interaction and emergence are at the heart of modern business, and ideally, modern teaching. I have used a threaded discussion approach for “course questions and comments” since 2000. Since 2001 I have been adamant that email is for health and personal grading issues only (for more on my thoughts on email, please see Kill Email). Questions and comments should be made where all can see, provide support, and gain value. My approach is an application of transparency for learning. Piazzza takes a big E2.0 step forward from a threaded-discussion list by being responsive to student needs and taking emergence to the next level." - Ohio Employee Ownership Center - Ohio Employee Ownership Center
- Global Times - Invisible footprints of online commentators
All about China's "wumao dang" or "fifty cent party" - China is aiming at America’s soft underbelly: the Internet / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
"Cyberattacks on Google might be just the beginning. America's former director of National Intelligence says the US should do what is necessary to defend itself before there is a catastrophic event." - IRIS Framework Overview - IRIS: Impact Reporting and Investment Standards
Creating a Common Language for Assessing Social and Environmental Impact - Understanding participation: A literature review — Pathways Through Participation
Our project looks at participation in a very broad way, and covers a wide range of participatory activities that are often viewed in isolation. This broad approach to participation has informed our literature review, which is now available for download.
- The dead end kids - NYPOST.com
2010-02-07
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2010-02-06 [del.icio.us]
- 66% of Government Agencies Use Social Networking | WebProNews
- Skypes New Dawn? - loose wire blog
We talk about Facebook, twitter, MySpace and Friendster as the big social networks but we keep forgetting one that is far bigger than that: Skype. This from a Bloomberg piece on Skype’s vacillating fortunes: Skype has soared in popularity since it started in 2003 and has about 548 million users worldwide—more than Facebook, MySpace and Twitter combined. - Who Will Dare to Invest in Nuclear Power?
Will there be a nuclear power renaissance in the United States, as a host of rosy-glassed prognosticators have predicted? Not as long as it remains such an abysmal investment opportunity, Matthew Wald writes in Technology Review - The Open Solace Haiti Project - CrisisCommons Wiki
The Open Solace Haiti Project aims to set up independent channels of communications between Haitians currently living in Haiti and Haitians outside of Haiti. Our analysis indicates that lots of effort is going into getting data out of Haiti, and representing it to professional NGOs and western audiences. Very few projects are focusing on creating sustainable flows of information into, out of, and with Haiti. It has also been demonstrated that a community's social and emotional needs are best served by locally produced independent media. - Geoengineers: Blinded by Science
High-tech fixes are increasingly being applied to all sorts of problems—why not climate change? That’s basically the pitch for geoengineering, which proposes not that humans change their behavior but that we change the way the planet operates. Techno-optimistic scientists have dreamed up schemes that include spraying sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to deflect sunlight and building synthetic trees to capture carbon dioxide and turn it into a liquid to be stored underground. One scientist wants to launch a trillion mirrors into a stable orbit between Earth and the sun to create a gigantic space umbrella. - Article: Haiti: A Case Study - WiserEarth
hat lessons can we learn from this disaster? While the world governments continue to control access to the high impact tools .... machinery, doses of medicine, food and water. etc. .... the methods of aide sourcing and response will be ineffectual, obsolete in a post peak oil world ravaged by the impacts of climate crisis. - Open Solace Haiti — Rebuilding Haiti's Communications Network, One ...
- Jailing the American Dream
lthough the term “criminal aliens” has no precise definition, its broadening use reflects a trend in dealing with immigrants. With the post-9/11 creation of DHS and its two agencies—Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP)—a wide sector of aliens increasingly became the focus of joint efforts by immigration and law enforcement officers. ICE’s Criminal Alien Program, working with local police, began targeting for deportation both legal and illegal immigrants with criminal records. And CBP’s Border Patrol began to turn over illegal border crossers to the justice system for criminal prosecution, instead of, as in the past, simply deporting them. Many criminal aliens are long-term legal residents of the United States and are also the parents, children, or siblings of U.S. citizens and lawful residents.
2010-02-05
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2010-02-04 [del.icio.us]
- Collaborative Space Travel and Research Team - CSTART
We are a non-government, non-profit, collaborative space agency engaged in research and exploration of the solar system. We are based on an open model, and depend on the collaboration of volunteers located around the world. - From now on, Net and Freedom - Red-Sostenible
We believe it is essential for the first final provision of the Spanish Law of Sustainable Economy to be withdrawn, for the following reasons - Upload and Search Theses and Dissertations - OpenThesis
a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents - FabFi Wireless
- Tikkun Daily Blog » Blog Archive » The Art and Activism of David Bygott
Ultimately I would love to be able to produce art which helps people respect and connect with the natural world in a more realistic way. To make them aware of their dependence on it and the way their choices and actions affect it. It’s not something to fear, or to control, or to endure while we wait for some Great Hereafter – it’s the only home we’ll ever know, and we’re doing our best to wreck it for our kids.–David Bygott - Tikkun Daily Blog » Blog Archive » Obama and the Right
From the beginning of his Presidency, Obama has been guided by one fixed principle: keep the right wing of the Republican Party at the center of the nation’s consciousness. The reason is obvious. Compared to Neanderthal Republicans, even the lamest, most conservative, most devoid of ideas Democrat will look good.
- Collaborative Space Travel and Research Team - CSTART
2010-02-04
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2010-02-03 [del.icio.us]
- Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos | OEDb
If you're interested in specific open courses, you can find a variety on the Web (or through this list of 100 courses). Usually, those single courses will contain all the materials you need to learn one subject for free. But, if you're after more than a single focus or if you need a deeper perspective on a subject, this list of open courseware collections may be just what you need. Each resource listed below contains a collection or collections of educational materials. You'll find digital archives, a variety of courses, Podcasts, videos and sometimes a mix of everything you can imagine so you can learn any given subject in depth. - About the USSF | USSF 2010
Welcome to the United States Social Forum official website! We're glad you're here. - Nodilus
Nodilus is developing a revolutionary kind of social network designed to help create the kind of future we want our children to inherit. It focuses on essential topics we must address in order to inspire a collective movement toward a more resilient, equitable and regenerative future – food production, transportation, energy independence, health and healing, education, community organizing, activism, habitat, local economies and sustainable communities, to name just a few. The idea behind Nodilus is as simple as it is audacious: to create a self-organized universe that inspires its users to discover and present ideas, activities and projects that match their values and affinities. - About Gaia Community
Imagine a community of others who understand, like you, that by focusing our energy on what inspires us rather than what we fear, we bring about the world we desire. By keeping kindness in our hearts, we contribute to the harmony of Gaia. Gaia Community is a place to share this intention with like-minded others, so that together we can make the world a better place.
- Take Any College Class for Free: 236 Open Courseware Collections, Podcasts, and Videos | OEDb
2010-02-02
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2010-02-01 [del.icio.us]
- A Framework of Observation, Research and Development to Guide the Reform of Education
Computer-Aided Teaching and Learning: CAT/L By Dr. W. Reid Cornwell and Jonathan R. Cornwell - The Case against the iPad « Bottom-up
I don’t understand who this product is marketed for, and I’m disappointed that Apple has decided to adopt the iPhone’s locked-down platform strategy. The iPad appears to be Steve Jobs’s attempt to roll back the multi-decade trend toward more open computing platforms. Jobs’s vision of the future is one that revolves around a series of proprietary “stores”—for music, movies, books, and so forth—controlled by Apple. And rather than running the applications of our choice, he wants to limit users to running Apple-approved software from the Apple “app store.” - MEGAVIDEO - I'm watching it
- Apple's iPad and the classroom. | Edstrom Educational Consulting
while I am guessing that administrators can erase “iPad applications” from their 2010-2011 line item budgets, I do think is that Apple is a revolutionary company. Today, iPad is probably not the answer, but as a concept it is a stage-setter that gives us a glimpse of what the technological landscape may look like in the classroom of the not-so-distant future. While the iPad may need several iterations before it becomes a sleek and elegant classroom solution (multi-tasking?!?), this should be a wake up call for the educational publishing industry. eReaders are here to stay. The buzz on Twitter and Facebook says it all. - Indigenous people of Bolivia obtain land titles through ICT empowerment - P2P Foundation
- Home | OpenAction.org
The first, truly open platform to: showcase projects exchange knowledge empower local champions - ZNet | Proposal for a Participatory Socialist International
We, the undersigned, endorse the idea of a new International and urge that its definition include assessing, refining, and implementing as many of the following points as the International’s participants decide mutually agreeable: - Calendar of 2010 social change conferences | Socialbrite
- Gov 2.0 Camp New England [licensed for non-commercial use only] / FrontPage
- Open Source Prefab Strawbale House | Open Source Ecology
These guys are pretty good. They also developed a model open source, prefab, straw-bale house design, and they will be buildng it this year at a budget of $7k. I always thought that straw bale is too exotic in practice because of the huge labor requirements, but these guys are showing otherwise with OpenSTRAW: - openSTRAW | Open Architecture Network
- Are You Ready For An Open Source Car? | NetworkWorld.com Community
Software isn't the only thing open; open source could change the auto game
- A Framework of Observation, Research and Development to Guide the Reform of Education
2010-01-31
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2010-01-30 [del.icio.us]
- What has social media done to traditional business models?
hat you may not be so familiar with, is the ability to combine your internal work and processes, with on-demand workers. Smartsheet is a service that lets you do just that. It’s like Google docs on steroids. The service is combined with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, allowing you to create documents that are then submitted to the organisation’s on-demand workforce. - Michael Geist - Legislators Worldwide Asking Questions About ACTA
Legislators around the world are demanding more information on the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. French Deputy Nicolas Dupont-Aignan raised ACTA questions in the National Assembly late last year, expressing concerns about a global three-strikes and you're out approach, increased costs for medicines, and the lack of transparency associated with the process. - A Talk With Antony Williams of ChemSpider « AltSearchEngines
what is ChemSpider? At present it is primarily a large database of chemicals and related data linked out to the original sources of the data. What we’re been working towards is having ChemSpider be a “structure-centric” resource. If you want to find information associated with a chemical structure/compound and you know either its name(s) or its chemical structure then you can search the database and find associated information and data. The data are of various forms and include lists of chemical identifiers, experimental and predicted properties, analytical data, textual descriptions including synthesis procedures and Wikipedia articles, links to related information and data sources.
- What has social media done to traditional business models?
CollectiveProblemSolving Discussion
Social Synergy TeleCommunity WebDB
2006-12-24
- 16:10 UTC CommunityWiki LackOfReworkingLackOfReworking notes:
- Reworking is rewriting the text for future readers. summarizing, drawing lessons, clarifying.
- Page states "rewards for the person reworkign are minimal". Although, I would make a small argument that rewards are the same as the rewards for the person that jots down notes and summarizes key points from conversati ...
2006-11-25
- 20:16 UTC Open the Future: Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot
The Second Life internal economy was predicated on the notion that designers could produce in-game objects that they could then sell; these objects would ostensibly be scarce (in the economic sense) because the designer could put limits on how many copies s/he would sell, and because -- in principle -- other residents couldn't make copies except by tedious efforts to reproduce a design by h ...
2006-11-11
- 18:34 UTC Smart Mobs: CitizenEngagedGovernmentCitizenEngagedGovernment
Always-On Panopticon...or Cooperation Amplifier, 19:51 UTC simplenet P2P – Uploaded File2006-09-22
- 02:10 UTC Allband Communication Cooperative
Services:
A loan from the united States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development division will help Allband build a state-of-the-art telecommunications network in Allband’s certificated service area. Allband plans to spend a little over 8 million dollars in two phases on the first all fiber to the ho ...
2006-09-20
- 15:23 UTC Getting open thinking through Gated Communities
Getting open thinking through Gated Communities
We’ve had an influx of members due to a Springwise article picking up on our Angelic crowdsourcing (You can 20:37 UTC CommunityWiki: WikiMusic
The idea here is collaborative asynchronous recording of music, wherin you record your parts to a music editing software file, then upload it for others to add to. Each version of the file can be left online, so that people can revert back to older versions. I this is like wiki for music. It’s not hard to do. Perhaps someone is already doing it?
An open source multi-track music digi ...
2006-09-05
- 18:59 UTC Research on Wikipedia authorship CooperationCommons2006/09/04
Research on Wikipedia authorship
by ...2006-08-17
- 18:24 UTC Principled Innovation LLC Would you work for your association for free?
Would you work for your association for free?
July 11th, 2006
13:49 UTC Anecdote: New white paper: connecting people with content
Original Location: http://www.anecdote.com.au/archives/2005/02/new_white_paper.html ...
2006-08-15
- 19:54 UTC Putting people first Planning Portal enabling transformational governmentPlanning Portal is not only a successful example of technology enablement in service delivery but could prove to be a tremendous asset for local authorities in their quest to develop and deliver citizen centric services, says eGov monitor.
Just under two years ago, the [UK] Government unveiled its ambition to develop a world class e-Planning Service which wou ...
2006-08-09
- 21:24 UTC Symbiosis and Living MachinesHuman-Plant/Animal Species Symbiosis
The nature of human cooperation with other species is now largely a based upon a symbiotic structure that has changed very little since the dawn of agriculture in early human civilization.
This symbiotic relationship has consisted mostly of humans selectively breeding, raising and caring for different plant and animal ...
2006-08-01
- 21:22 UTC Micro Persuasion: Blogs, Podcasts Among Top Tech Marketing Tools
Original Location: http://www.micropersuasion.com/2006/07/blogs_podcasts_.html ...
2006-07-26
- 19:06 UTC Zopa - The first lending and borrowing exchangeHere's the way the world works (and it must be right because it's been like this for hundreds of years...)
People who have spare money give it to a bank. Banks then do whatever they like with it. Some of it they lend to people who need to borrow. Some of it they give to their shareholders. Some of it they gamble on the price of tin, or the dollar going down, or wheth ...
2006-07-25
- 19:17 UTC Social Synergy: NewAssignment.net: An experiment in participatory journalism
NewAssignment.net: An experiment in participatory journalism
- 19:54 UTC Putting people first Planning Portal enabling transformational government
- 18:24 UTC Principled Innovation LLC Would you work for your association for free?
- 18:59 UTC Research on Wikipedia authorship CooperationCommons
- 02:10 UTC Allband Communication Cooperative





