With architect Michael Fountouklis, we serve as editors for the new upcoming issue of the bilingual (En+Gr) political online journal “Re-public”, which will try to focus on the strands and ramifications of 3D printing technologies beyond the hype. Re-public’s call follows and we are looking forward in receiving papers from readers and people around the… Continue reading
Date archives "February 2012"
Three Ways to Bring Crowdsourcing into Mainstream Manufacturing
Source: Derek Singleton I’ve been covering the manufacturing industry as a software analyst for the last year and a half over at Software Advice, a website that helps manufacturers find the right business software. Lately, I’ve spent a lot of time analyzing how tools such as Salesforce’s Chatter are making their way into the industry… Continue reading
Podcast of the Day: MacKenzie and Pillay on the Epistemology and Spirituality of OWS
A discussion between filmmaker Ian MacKenzie and artist Pravin Pillay covering everything from Burning Man, the emerging paradigm shift, and how your mind has become occupied. Podcast: http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/occupy-movement-hacking-consciousness/
Special Issue of the Commoner: Care of/for the Commons
there is an urgent need to construct non-capitalistic ways to reproduce our life, other than those provided by states and markets. * Special Issue of the Commoner. Care Work and the Commons/ Ed. by Massimo de Angelis et al. Issue 15, Winter 2012 Excerpted from the issue’s preface by Massimo de Angelis: “It is becoming… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: A New Way of Measuring Openness
Article: A New Way of Measuring Openness: The Open Governance Index. Liz Laffan. TIM Review, January 2012 “Open source software is now “business as usual” in the mobile industry. While much attention is given to the importance of open source licenses, we argue in this article that the governance model can be as necessary to… Continue reading
Vinay Gupta: From Gandhian Infrastructure-Centric Politics to the Pirate Party
Vinay Gupta describes his political evolution over the years. A very interesting and strongly recommended piece from one of the digital mavericks of our time. We excerpt the last two phases of his thinking. Vinay Gupta: “I became a Gandhian through a more subtle process. I started to try and figure out how you could… Continue reading
Issue on Open Educational Resources
Source: Center for American Progress Open courseware and other open educational resources are beginning to draw the attention of higher education policymakers and other leaders. Why? Simply put, these web-based educational tools hold the promise of both reducing the cost of higher education and helping learners to complete their degrees by providing access to top… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Copyright Piracy and the Web
Neil Gaiman talks to the Open Rights Group about how the internet affects the books and publishing industry.
Book of the Day: The Art of Community
Book: The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation. Jono Bacon. O’Reilly Media. 2009. “Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today for supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. The Art of Community helps you develop the talents you need to recruit members to your… Continue reading
Book of the Day: The Social Media Reader
Book: The Social Media Reader, edited by Michael Mandiberg. New York University Press. 2012 With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social… Continue reading
The price of information: Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals
Source: The Economist SOMETIMES it takes but a single pebble to start an avalanche. On January 21st Timothy Gowers, a mathematician at Cambridge University, wrote a blog post outlining the reasons for his longstanding boycott of research journals published by Elsevier. This firm, which is based in the Netherlands, owns more than 2,000 journals, including… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Friends of WikiLeaks
Friends of WikiLeaksFriends of WikiLeaks is a network of people from across the globe who defend WikiLeaks, its people, its alleged sources and its mission. We publicly and privately promote WikiLeaks and individuals and organisations aligned with the mission of WikiLeaks. This site will help you to join with people like you in your area… Continue reading
BitTorrent’s Future? DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained
Source: TorrentFreak This week The Pirate Bay confirmed it would shut down its tracker for good, instead encouraging the use of DHT, PEX and magnet links. This move confounded many BitTorrent enthusiasts, who although wishing to adapt, were confronted with hard to grasp terminology and technology. Time for some explaining. The Pirate Bay’s recent confirmation… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability
Ezio Manzini-Keynote: In a small, densely populated, highly connected planet, people’s intelligence, sensitivity and creativity are the most abundant resources. these social resources are catalyzing, becoming powerful drivers for sustainable changes. This talk will focus on how design can effectively help the process.
Essay of the Day: Thrivability as a Critique of Sustainability
By Gary Horvitz: “I’ve encountered a lot of talk about thriving lately. Everywhere I turn I am hearing that word: movies, meetings, online and personal conversation. It used to be that sustainable was sufficient. That word has now become inadequate. Now we need something more. Maybe “sustainable” has been used so much it’s missing the… Continue reading
Project of the Day: The WikiSpeed SGT01 as paradigmatic example of the new wave of open and distributed manufacturing
The WikiSpeed Team and Joe ‘Awesome’ Justice have put together many of the pieces of the puzzle that we have been describing here. Don’t forget to watch this video first: 1. ‘To build a car that can really change the game, you have to think outside the box. That’s what Joe Justice is doing with… Continue reading