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
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2008-07-07
- 01:41 UTC Book of the Week: Christopher Kelty’s Two Bits – Better late than never, here’s a presentation and excerpts of the important book by Christopher Kelty which is a history and discussion of the cultural significance of free software. (Christopher Kelty. Two Bits. Duke University Press, 2008) You can buy and read the book here, and we recommend reading the conclusions on the ‘cultural significance of free [...]
- 01:00 UTC Local Agriculture: Growing locally given a helping hand in Bay Area – “Not long ago we wrote about permaculture and Australian Permablitz’s volunteer-based implementation of the concept in urban gardens around Melbourne. Now one of our spotters has come across the first for-profit example we’ve seen. Launched earlier this year, San Francisco-based My Farm calls itself a decentralized urban farm that grows vegetables in backyard gardens throughout the [...]
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2008-07-06 [del.icio.us]
- Understanding Open Access in an Academic Environment: A Guide for Authors
- Embracing “Open Access” in East Africa: a Common Internet Infrastructure
- Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog
- THE X2 PROJECT
X2 will utilize an open-source web platform that will help individuals and organizations track and analyze global trends in science and technology. - Textbook Piracy Grows Online, Prompting a Counterattack From Publishers - Chronicle.com
College students are increasingly downloading illegal copies of textbooks online, employing the same file-trading technologies used to download music and movies. - Wired Campus: Fighting a Textbook-Piracy Site - Chronicle.com
Textbook Torrents lists more than 5,000 textbooks for free download, - » Facebook For the Masses: Perhaps Not For Africa
Not guns or butter, but facebook or toilets for the poor? - Intellectual Property Watch » European Interoperability Framework Nears Final Stage Of Revision
A unit of the European Commission has presented a new version of a proposed European framework on interoperability which it hopes will encourage member governments to further enable information sharing, such as through the promotion of open standards. - Digital Curation Centre: Events: 4th International Digital Curation Conference
Radical sharing, new ways of doing science e.g. large scale research networks, mass collaboration, dynamic publishing tools, wikis, blogs, social networks, visualisations and immersive environments - Telecoms package briefing
why it is a threat to internet freedoms - Downloading files from the Internet to become a crime in Brazil - A2K
- The End in Mind » Open Learning Networks
proposal to merge the rigid, centralized CMS paradigm and the open, free-form world of personal learning environments. - Faculty Profile of Associate Professor Theng Yin Leng
and a collaborator on a couple of collaborative research projects on geospatial digital libraries and reusable learning objects. - James Seng - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seng Ching Hong (commonly referred to as James Seng) is one of the Internet pioneers in Singapore and is recognized as an international expert in the Internet arena. - SharedCopy
SharedCopy allows your clients to comment directly on the mockups. - Rising energy costs eroding Asia's competitive edge - International Herald Tribune
In China a lot of the factories were built in the past 10 years with certain levels of energy costs in mind. I suspect we have significantly breached the levels of energy costs that would make these factories viable. - The Digital Movement
We are a young organization seeking to build up a global community of young leaders in web 2.0 and social media. - 28-31 October 2008: International Conference on Sustainable Urban Environmental Practices
International Conference on Sustainable Urban Environmental Practices on October 28-31, 2008. - Some critics are hatching ways to fight Google's influence - The Boston Globe
as Google's influence grows, a number of scholars and programmers have begun to argue that the company is acquiring too much power over our lives - invading our privacy, shaping our preferences, and controlling how we learn about and understand the world - China's new freedom fighters | World news | The Observer
"Countless thousands of people in China are blacklisted, harassed, intimidated and locked up merely for what they say or because of the job they do....six dissident voices explain why their battle for freedom of speech must continue"
2008-07-06
- 23:42 UTC Starting our 2008 fundraising drive – Dear friends, Some of you may have noticed our donate button at the right hand side of this blog. We need you support to strengthen and sustain our activities. Here is a more formal appeal. If you read this, are willing to support us, please also forward it to 10 of your contacts, so that we may [...]
- 03:10 UTC Un-globalization and the prospects for the Chinese economy – In my presentations on open business models, when I mention the emergence and future potential of open design communities linked to more relocalized production facilities, I always present the hypothesis that, if on the one hand the information globalization will continue and is sensible, on the other hand, the worldwide transportation of far-away goods [...]
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2008-07-05 [del.icio.us]
- Solar Cooking
When these visitors navigate to a given country page, we believe that it is important that they obtain a complete view of solar cooking activities for that country. - Facebook | Photos of You
- Solar Cooking
2008-07-05
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2008-07-04 [del.icio.us]
- So, how do the Chinese Bloggers avoid the "censorship" | IfGoGo.com
"Yes, censorship takes a lot of trouble to bloggers, but there are many funny ways to avoid the censorship. Let me introduce some of the methods..." - Morfeo MyMobileWeb
MyMobileWeb es una plataforma open source, basada en estándares abiertos, modular y de bajo coste - Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference | Free Knowledge Institute
The Free Knowledge & Free Technology (FKFT) Conference, organised by the Open University of Catalonia and the SELF Consortium, is the first international event focused on the production and sharing of free educational and lifelong learning materials - Crooked Timber " " Blogs, Participation and Polarization
blog readership is unlikely to be associated with the kinds of deliberative exchange between different points of view that some political theorists would like to see. - Digital Tipping Point - P2P Foundation
Digital Tipping Point project claims to create "the world's first open source feature film-length documentary". - Dutch governmental plan for Open Standards: Netherlands in Open Connection
the main political parties in Dutch Parliament urged the minister to enforce the plan more strictly and set up a support team on open standards. - Yearbook: Open source in the Netherlands
The book covers the main activities of the year 2007 of Free Software in the Netherlands, including the complete actionplan of the Dutch government. A case study of the Spanish region Extremadura is included by David Jacovkis and Wouter Tebbens. - SSRN-Self-Segregation or Deliberation? Blog Readership, Participation and Polarization in American Politics by Henry Farrell, Eric Lawrence, John Sides
we find strong evidence of polarization among blogreaders, who tend to be more polarized than both non-blog-readers and consumers of various television news, and roughly as polarized as US Senators. - BytesForAll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BytesForAll (also known as B4A or BfA) is a South Asian initiative to focus on how information technology and the internet can help in taking up social development issues. - On The Media: Transcript of "Online China" (June 27, 2008)
7-min interview with Rebecca McKInnon - Journal of Virtual Worlds Research -- Reprint of original "virtual communities" article
Virtual communities - exchanging ideas through computer bulletin boards By Howard Rheingold, University of California at Berkeley; Stanford University This is an essay originally published in Whole Earth Review, Winter, 1987. - Technology Liberation Front " Archive " The Incoherent Singularity
good review of arguments against the singularity hypothesis - Singularity! - A Tough Guide to the Rapture of the Nerds
- OhmyTV Beef Protest Coverage Opens Readers' Hearts, Pocketbooks - OhmyNews International
OhmyNews is testing the treacherous waters of a media business model with a viewer-sponsored live Web casting this month. - Games for Higher Education: 2008 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
Learning via computer games: the very idea can seem surreal or outrageous. Yet for the past five years, a movement has been afoot to examine how digital games work as pedagogical devices. - Visualization
We believe that the future of user interfaces is in the direction of larger, information-abundant displays. With such designs, the worrisome flood of information can be turned into a productive river of knowledge. - /Message: Web Culture: Identity, Belonging, And Scalar Freedom
"I suggest that the future we are moving into -- where we are already, actually -- is being framed by the crumbling of mass institutions as a result of their cumulative failures, and this is creating a power vacuum into which something will move." - Deliberative Democracy
In contrast to the traditional economics-based theory of democracy, which emphasizes voting as the central institution in democracy, deliberative democracy theorists argue that legitimate lawmaking can only arise from the public deliberation - About "Spot Us" " Spot Us - The Blog
"Spot Us" is a nonprofit that allows an individual or group to take control of news in their community by sharing the cost (crowdfunding) to commission freelance journalists to write important, or uncovered news stories. - The Future of Web 2.0 - The Sharing Economy - Joi Ito's Web
Impress, a Japanese publisher, just released a Mook (magazine/book) called The Future of Web 2.0 - The Sharing Economy based on presentations at the Digital Garage New Context Conference last year in Tokyo. - Video games | Asian invasion | Economist.com
A new business model: give away the game and charge avid players for extras - Open Money Metacurrency Systems
open monies and barter are taxable! - DNA as a vehicle for the self-assembly model of computing - ECS EPrints Repository
A paper discussing self-assembly model of computing - buckman's magnatune blog: Short film about Creative Commons Business Models
Frances Pinter and David Percy have made an excellent documentary film about business models in the publishing world that use Creative Commons licenses. - Keep Rocking: 30+ Sites for Free & Legal Music
- Firefox 3 Sucks
- ICANN | Links Concerning ICANN's 2002 Evolution and Reform Process
Board Committee on ICANN Evolution and Reform - Techdirt: Why Compulsory Licenses Are Bad: A Look At The Sausage Making Process
I tend to have serious problems with compulsory licensing plans (even those pushed by the EFF), because they don't seem necessary. - Sustainability Wiki Search
Search collaborative knowledge sharing sites focused on sustainability, solutions to poverty, and open design. - Oekonux 4thConference Roadmap - OekonuxWiki
- Oekonux/Project/Conferences/4thConference/PossibleSponsors - OekonuxWiki
- So, how do the Chinese Bloggers avoid the "censorship" | IfGoGo.com
2008-07-04
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2008-07-03 [del.icio.us]
- Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software » Conclusion
conclusions from Christopher Kely. - Accueil - Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2008
Les RMLL (Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre) sont l'occasion pour tous les publics de se rencontrer autour des logiciels libres. - The Next 10 Million Users Won't Have a Beard : Building a global, effective advocacy community for Freedomware - Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2008
explain their two-year-long efforts to provide high quality marketing for GNU/Linux, and talk about the long-term vision of the non-profit for free software advocacy. - ISEA2008
the world's premier media arts event for the critical discussion and showcase of creative productions applying new technologies in interactive and digital media. Held biannually in various cities - Unit Structures: Web 2.0's Breakpoint
It also strikes me that Schacter's exit, as well as the exit of Flickr co-founders Butterfield and Fake, create a nice breakpoint for Web 2.0. - The Microfame Game and the New Rules of Internet Celebrity -- New York Magazine
There’s a new class of celebrity powered by the Internet. The stakes are smaller, but the rewards are within anyone’s reach. These are the rules. - Thinking Space: LinkedIn to Chinese market, oppotunity and challenge
fundamental difference between Chinese social networking and western social networking. - My Vision Of Social Networking: Burning Problems « Follow the passion
I wanna talk to you about some burning problems we have when using social networking sites and tools. This is how I feel from user’s point of view. - Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling Wikileaks Plans to Save Journalism From Itself
great profile of Wikileaks - Cory Doctorow: Getting tough on copyright enforcers | Technology | guardian.co.uk
I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate. - Defending Openness in the European Union - Blogs – ComputerworldUK blogs - The latest technology news & analysis on Outsourcing, HMRC data, Apple iPhone, Global warming, MySQL, Open Enterprise
Royalty-free is the only way to establish a truly level playing field – which was the whole point of adopting open standards in the first place. Allowing anything else would be a total negation of what openness is all about. - European Interoperability Framework
- Google Is Evil in a Flash - Blogs – ComputerworldUK blogs - The latest technology news & analysis on Outsourcing, HMRC data, Apple iPhone, Global warming, MySQL, Open Enterprise
Flash is the antithesis of the Web's transparent, open structure, and Google is decidely evil to be aiding and abetting it with this latest move. - Your Right To Know » Article: Let’s get crime mapping
The police in Britain, however, feel they “own” crime data and the public have no right to know what is happening. Yet access to criminal incident data is vital, as it allows the public to judge the effectiveness of the police and crime policies. - Intellectual Property Watch » Member Nations Balk At World Customs Organization IP Enforcement Push
Concerns ran high in some developing countries last week that their voices have been largely absent from a draft set of standards for heightened intellectual property enforcement advancing rapidly at the World Customs Organization - Your Right To Know
UK Open govt blog - ICANN Goes .bonkers - Blogs – ComputerworldUK blogs - The latest technology news & analysis on Outsourcing, HMRC data, Apple iPhone, Global warming, MySQL, Open Enterprise
domain names will turn into a kind of protection racket - B2fxxx: p2p search report
Why is the search engine market so concentrated and will it evolve towards monopoly? What are the implications of this concentration for different `participants’ (consumers, search engines, advertisers)? - Opening up Symbian – Good or Bad for Linux?
assessment by Glyn Moody - Software Patents: Campaign4Creativity is back in software patents lobbying
Software patents are getting back through the back door, as EICTA and BSA predicted the monday before the vote on the software patent directive, arguing on the phone with several EPP MEPs to push for rejection, and push for a central court instead. - Linux is Subversive....
tool for managing software development and maintenance across distributed teams. - 451 CAOS Theory » We’re all going on a European tour
a virtual tour of Europe to assess the adoption of open source software across the continent. - Why I Don’t Use Facebook (Too) Much Anymore - PaulStamatiou.com
Ever since Facebook applications came along… - When Does a Social Network Become a "Publicity Network"? | CenterNetworks
Robert Scoble has mentioned several times that Facebook currently limits him to 5,000 "friends" and that the limit should be lifted. - Social media confuses relationships and databases
A “link” on LinkedIn, a “friend” on Friendster … those are entries in a database. Yes, it’s a “relational” database, but that’s a technical term. It doesn’t mean you have a relationship. - Is Google the Next Microsoft?
research paper by rufus pollock, on the economics of search - Facebook owns /me online and I hate it. What can we do? at optimal experience
FACEBOOK, I’m sick of the singles ads and I’m sick of you owning my timeline. - Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog » Blog Archive » After the first Open Visualisation Workshop
The first Open Visualisation Workshop took place - Should the public care about Data Portability? | Here in the Hive
’ve long been behind the idea of data portability, especially in relation to social networks but does any member of the public actually care about this - or should they? - MicrobeWiki - MicrobeWiki
MicrobeWiki is a free wiki resource on microbes and microbiology, edited by students and monitored by microbiologists at Kenyon College. We invite you to use our Microbe Wiki to study the microbial world with us. - The Devolab at MSU
An approach to studying evolution that lies somewhere in between evolution experiments with biochemical organisms and standard Monte-Carlo simulations is the study of self-replicating and evolving computer programs (digital organisms).
- Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software » Conclusion
2008-07-03
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2008-07-02 [del.icio.us]
- Collective Action, Property Rights and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal
This paper focuses on decentralization of central state control over natural resources, especially forests. - Community_Tracing_the_Outlines of the Concept
the history of community as a concept, very interesting essay - Obama Supporters Organize to Protest Candidate's Stance on Spying | PEEK | AlterNet
Many activists are outraged by the Senator's recent announcement that he will back a controversial bill to grant the Executive more spying powers and immunize telephone companies accused of illegal surveillance. - Towards a New Socialism
The core of the book consists of a series of chapters spelling out what we believe would be efficient and democratic methods for planning a complex economy. We also examine issues of inequality and its elimination, systems of payment for labour, a democra - Heinz Dieterich: first explicit integration of p2p in socialist theory?
To put this “World Spirit” at the service of humanity through its gratuitous contribution and solidarity in the New Historic Project (NHP) of the Socialism of the XXI century will be relatively easy. There are millions of engineers, economists, mathem - Democrats Capitulate on FISA | The American Prospect
Democrats are trying to rationalize capitulating on surveillance and telecom immunity in the new FISA bill by calling it a compromise. It isn't. - Towards a New Socialism: Introduction
The principal bases for a post-Soviet socialism must be radical democracy and efficient planning. The democratic element, it is now clear, is not a luxury, or something that can be postponed until conditions are especially favourable. Without democracy, a - Edge 248: the end of theory in science - chris anderson, kevin kelly, stewart brand
Will the Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete? - P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Networked scenius, private patronage, and the partner state
This reminds us of an uncomfortable truth: peer production, in order to work, needs a core group of committed ‘leaders’, with a nearly full-time attention to the project. But such a full time engagement is impossible to sustain through pure volunteeri - Computers and economic democracy
paul cockshott, the case for cybernetic planning - The case for social(ist) planning
... based on the objective socialization of labour - the Abolition of Private property. Part I
Paul Cockshott - FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNIST PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
text from the 1930's - Information and Economics: <br> A Critique of Hayek
Hayek is a prominent right wing economist, a significant part of whose out has been devoted to attacking the very idea of socialism from an economic standpoint. This article isa detailed refutation to his claims that as an information processing system ca - Against Mises
The first proponent of the claim that socialist economic calculation was impossible was the economist of the Austrian school von Mises - What went wrong with soviet planning
Analysis of what went wrong with central planning in the USSR . - Information,Work, and Value
Draft edition of a book that unites Marxian value theory with statistical mechanics and information theory. - PARISF - Helmut Dunkhase
Communisme = Pouvoir des Soviets + internet* - Towards a new (cybernetic) socialism
full text of the 1983 book. - European Tribune - New capital partnership mechanisms
chris cook - FACTnet » Scientology’s Crushing Defeat! What Scientology Paid $8 Million To Hide…
Fast forward to 2008, and the world of reporting on Scientology has changed radically, thanks in part to the lunacy of Tom Cruise, but also in part to a worldwide, leaderless movement that calls itself Anonymous. - Hyperpolitical Chaos another word for Anarchy « Chief Outhouse Correspondent
A hyperconnected polity – whether composed of a hundred individuals or a hundred thousand – has resources at its disposal which exponentially amplify its capabilities. Hyperconnectivity begets hypermimesis begets hyperempowerment. After the arms race - Did the Wikimedia Foundation lie about muzzling Wikinews? - Wikileaks
The Wikimedia Foundation ordered an admin to delete two controversial Wikinews articles, and Jay Walsh, the Foundation’s head of communications, knew more about this than he would like to admit, according to Wikinews author Jason Safoutin. - Show Us a Better Way
To show they are serious, the Government is making available gigabytes of new or previously invisible public information especially for people to use in this competition. - Public timeline - Identi.ca
open source, distributed microblogging service. - Power of Information Task Force
a competition inviting the public to suggest ideas for new products which re-use public information - Show Us a Better Way
Tell us what you'd build with public information and we could help fund your idea! - Social cameras, on the way (Scripting News)
adds location to the camera - Encouraging results fromfirst year of Peer-to-Patent - O'Reilly Radar
Even if it becomes institutionalized, Peer-to-Patent can't fix everything that's wrong about the patent system. That will require a close look at laws, at patent office regulations and funding, and even at the structure and incentives in the court system - Brazil - brol.com - Tickets, Tours, Amazon and Pantanal Ecotourism, Hotels, Carnival, Lodge
- BBC NEWS | Technology | Government launches data mash-up
The UK government has launched a competition to find innovative ways of using the masses of data it collects.
- Collective Action, Property Rights and Decentralization in Resource Use in India and Nepal
2008-07-02
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2008-07-01 [del.icio.us]
- InternetTrends: Morgan Stanley report on relational usage of internet
- Recovery 2.0 / Recovery 2.0
a collection point for information about Recovery 2.0 - an opensource disaster recovery initiative. - multicast.org.uk » Virgin Radio UK Multicast
global multicast stream is provided as an experimental service - entrepreneurcommons.org
a not-for-profit for and by entrepreneurs dedicated to helping them finance their ventures. We provide is a platform hosting a social network of entrepreneurs, which promotes mentoring between entrepreneur members and which manages a seed investment fund. - 72 heures pour vaincre l'inertie
project for a new bottom up internet mesh, starting from Corsica - Memetic and Information Diseases in a Knowledge Society: speculations towards the development of cures and preventive measures
In a knowledge society, there is a related need to better understand the "information diseases" to which individuals themselves are vulnerable within the networks in which they variously participate, or as they interact with their sources of information - - Icann set to spark internet land grab - Tech & Web News - Times Online
A new era in the way websites are named was ushered in yesterday when the governing body for internet domain names announced a massive liberalisation. - Wikio - Classement des blogs (most influential french blogs)
Retrouvez ici tous les mois le classement des blogs les plus influents de la blogosphère. - Devenir Media
Au-delà d'une approche étroite pour laquelle un outil technologique ou un média viserait à « ré-enchanter la démocratie », ce livre tente de montrer qu'Internet apparaît surtout comme un espace d'expérimentation politique articulant constamment - OMNI - Already out there
The uptake of broadband has been followed by a surge in innovative public service content. The video above contains a selection of the most exciting. - Mito Akiyoshi 's Home Page
"Unmediating Community: The Non-Diffusion of the Internet in Japan, 1985-2002." explores economic, social, and cultural issues involved in the propagation of the Internet into Japanese society. - Demos | Publications | The Collaborative State
How working together can transform public services - Putting people first » Mito Akiyoshi: the digital divide does not vanish with the mobile
a unique look at what is happening in Japan: it allows us to not focus on the technology, as is so often the case, but on how this technology is used, - GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. Congress
tracks the United States Congress. Follow the status of federal legislation or learn about your members of Congress by using the tools on the left. - Freedom to Tinker » Blog Archive » New bill advances open data, but could be better for reuse
We urge that all the data be published in open formats. An API delivers search results, but that makes the search interface itself very important: having to work through an interface sometimes limits developers from making innovative, unforeseen uses of t - Virtual and Actual Politics in Second Life and out « Second Loop
This video shows a really interesting phenomenon, virtual political tactics, specifically griefing from SL, being reproduced in real life against real political figures. - Second Loop
the feedback between us and our avatars - Billboards That Look Back - NYTimes.com
They are equipping billboards with tiny cameras that gather details about passers-by — their gender, approximate age and how long they looked at the billboard. - MediaShift . LoJo Connect::12 Lessons Learned from Locative Media Project at Medill | PBS
project that has explored ways that newsrooms can use location-based storytelling, including online interactive maps and GPS-driven stories, - Google Trends et Ad planner: et si c’était idéologique? « ecosphere
Google's strategy is profoundly ideological and neoliberal - Google LatLong: Making your mark on the world
a new product that allows users to contribute and edit Maps data for regions around the world. - Les représentations et logiques politiques des jeux vidéo
the ideology implicit in games - Tech Beat Nokia Gets Symbian in Fighting Shape - BusinessWeek
it is turning its intellectual property over to the newly formed Symbian Foundation. Handset makers Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and LG Electronics, carriers Vodafone, NTT DoCoMo, and AT&T, a chipmakers Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics are al - Symbian Foundation
the foundation will unify Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) software to create an unparalleled open software platform for converged mobile devices, enabling the whole mobile ecosystem to accelerate innovation. - How Global Should the Internet Be?
Domain names are a sore point with nations who use alphabets other than Roman. Now, the group that oversees domain names is trying to translate - Wind: The Power. The Promise. The Business
A partial answer to America's energy crisis is springing up. But the struggle to harness the winds of Kansas shows the difficulty in building an industry that threatens the status quo - Open Business: More info on VC funds - and it gets worse...
So investors investing in VC funds will make less than market, their investment underperforming the market by 3% on average. - Slyck.com - File Sharing, Digital Media and Tech News
- The Freenet Project - /whatis
free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship - Open Grid Forum
open community committed to driving the rapid evolution and adoption of applied distributed computing. - RCCS: View Book Info: Ruling the Root
Is the Internet the free space as some make it out to be? Or is it a regulated territory, subject to rules of access and navigation as any other?
2008-07-01
- 00:00 UTC Links for 2008-06-30 [del.icio.us]
- The Beltway-Blog Battle - TIME
It's too simple to say that the new media are killing off the old media. Interest in political news is sky-high, and new and old media each need the other to supply material and drive attention. What's happening instead is a kind of melding of roles. - Emotions were let loose! — Jen Reeves - New Media Mind
the Carnegie-Knight Conference on the Future of Journalism today in Cambridge, MA. It's hosted by the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, & Public Policy. It's a culmination of a number of initiatives and conferences hosted by the organization. - Welcome to the beehive! - La Ruche , Paris
La Ruche (French for beehive'), destined to open its doors early 2008 in central Paris, is a collective workspace dedicated to social entrepreneurship and innovation. - Around the country, some cities say providing cheap wireless Internet access is as essential as water.
The town is in the vanguard of a movement to provide Internet access not as a luxury but as a public utility,administering its own free access points with the help of community-minded businesses and residents who contribute bandwidth on their own networks - New Statesman - A spirituality to suit the times
Paul Harrison wraps up his four-part series by explaining the complementary relationship between Pantheism and modern science. - Life’s Work - A Shared Office Is a Great Escape From Working at Home - NYTimes.com
Co-working spaces, which first appeared in the Bay Area three years ago, are a cross between home, work and Internet-equipped cafe. They are based on the hard-won realization that while avoiding an office is liberating, it’s also energizing to have one - Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer
The next stage in technological evolution is a single worldwide computer. Collectively, we are already assembling this megacomputer from our billions of Net-connected PCs, cell phones, PDAs, and the like. As an increasing number and variety of devices are - Study: Having 6,141 friends you don't know may be beneficial
University of Minnesota researchers say they have discovered educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. - FriendFeed - Bookmarklet
Once added to your toolbar, this button will let you share web pages on your FriendFeed. You can even attach thumbnails of images from the pages you share! - FriendFeed Blog: Spice up your room with feeds
Rooms have become incredibly popular since we launched the feature a few weeks ago. Based on your feedback, room administrators can now import sites directly into a room: - Unit Structures: Obama and the Internet
Rejecting the game-changer model, I argued that social networks act as harnesses for activated interest. If you've got a population that is activated by a brand, they'll turn to the information tools at hand to further that interest - Digital Natives » Digital Natives, by a digital native from Germany
StudiVZ for students or SchülerVZ for younger children. They are a complete copy cat of Facebook, which does not play a role in German children’s lives. - YouTube - The Internet Has A Face (New Music)
student video from michael wesch's class - Sidewalks for Democracy Online | Rebooting America
After almost two decades of “e-democracy,” we seem content with simply accelerating online what’s already wrong with politics. - Foreword | Rebooting America
This anthology of essays is intended to shine light, to spark conversations among citizens, and between voters and elected officials, about how we can engage more people in public problem solving and community building. - Can Social Networking Sites Enable Political Action? | Rebooting America
To date, the passion and interest for sharing political and policy information far and wide through SNSes—particularly by and for young people—doesn’t match the capability of the SNSes. - It's Time to Reboot America. | Rebooting America
The Personal Democracy Forum presents an anthology of forty-four essays brimming with the hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the Internet Age. - Mark Pesce: Hyperpolitics (American Style) - really great lecture
the ‘hyperconnectivity’ engendered by these new toys is transforming the human landscape of social relations. This time around, fifty thousand years of cultural development will collapse into about twenty. - Obama's Surveillance Stand Shakes the Netroots
When Barack Obama announced his support this week for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that included retroactive immunity for telecom companies, the move sparked a crisis of faith among some of those in the progressive networks - Civil Service: Participation online guidance
The Civil Service Code applies to your participation online as a civil servant or when discussing government business. You should participate in the same way as you would with other media or public forums such as speaking at conferences. - Social Media Guidance « Power of Information Task Force
Tom Watson MP announced the publication of social media guidance for civil servants at Cabinet Office questions in Parliament today. - 2gether08
We have have an extraordinarily rich schedule for July 2-3 in London, when 350 people will be exploring how digital technologies can bring us major new social benefits. - Is our politics big enough for the web? :: Mick Fealty
Compared to the time of the last UK general election, there is now a vast virtual real estate in the British political blogosphere. Currently some of the biggest players are on the right. - Charlie Beckett, POLIS Director » Blog Archive » The UK Left Blogosphere: staring defeat in the face
It seems to me that the Leftwing blogosphere is as knackkered as Gordon Brown’s poll ratings. - DavePress - UK political blog
Dave Briggs on how the social web and collaboration can help government, non-profits and community groups get things done. - Digital Natives » The Video Generation
For young Digital Natives online video seems to compliment their TV experience. - National Repository of Online Courses (NROC)
a growing library of high-quality online courses for students and faculty in higher education, high school - Commonwealth of Learning - HOME
Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe - Complexity and Freedom
great presentation by Flemming Funch - TinyURL.com - shorten that long URL into a Tiny URL
By entering in a URL in the text field below, we will create a tiny URL that will not break in email postings and never expires. - Main Page - Evo Devo Universe
we can distinguish evolutionary processes which are contingently adaptive and developmental processes which produce systemically statistically predictable structures and trajectories internal to the developmental cycle.
- The Beltway-Blog Battle - TIME
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








