Excerpted from Adam B. Levine: A proposal for “Compensated Open Source Innovation for All“: “If you have a new, profitable idea and you patent it under the current system, that’s great! But how do you make money with it? You could sell it (if someone wants to buy it, ideas are cheap). If you want… Continue reading
Date archives "May 2013"
The Personal Design Manifesto
Excerpted from Jan Borchers, René Bohne: “Personal Design, not Digital Fabrication, is the 3rd Digital Revolution. Affordable personal digital fabrication technologies only enable a third digital revolution of Personal Design whose potential impact on society reaches far beyond the previous PC and internet revolutions. “Personal Design Demands New UIs. To move from mere personal fabrication… Continue reading
An exemplary, publicly funded community incubator: the Medialab Prado in Madrid
MediaLab Prado is both a physical and a digital platform. Physically, it’s a space where anyone can walk in, while online it functions as a laboratory for connecting ideas. MediaLab Prado is an interdisciplinary workspace for creation and innovation. And here’s an important detail: its strength doesn’t reside in its own programming, put together by… Continue reading
The P2P Lab
We are happy to announce P2P Lab’s official web-platform where our completed, ongoing and future projects are documented. P2P Lab is a media lab, based in Ioannina (Greece), interested in interdisciplinary research on free/open source technologies and practices. In a nutshell, our mission is to: produce innovative, global techno-economic solutions to local problems. strive for integrative insights… Continue reading
Video: post-growther Donald Maclurcan interviewed by Layne Hartsell
An Interview on Donald Maclurcan’s work and research on education, nanotechnology, and post-growth economics. Donald Maclurcan (Australia) is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, an Honorary Research Fellow with the University of Technology Sydney Institute for Nanoscale Technology, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Schumacher Institute. He is also a Co-Founder of… Continue reading
Please support and co-finance Adtlantida.tv, for a truly free media infrastructure system
Adtlantida.tv is different form other services like Bambuser, Ustream or Vimeo in that it only uses free tools ((Icecast at Linux server, html5 media players, Android apps); it combines live streaming on demand in only one COMMUNITARY service; and it works with uncensored free contents and without advertising. This way, you are not a media… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Los Ojos de la Milpa in Oaxaca, Mexico
Eugene Tisselli writes: “I am really excited to finally share the project I’ve been doing together with farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico. The project is called “The eyes of the milpa” (a milpa is a traditional Mesoamerican crop-growing system, composed of maize, beans and squash), and it can be thought of as a “community memory” created… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Telling the story of participatory design
The diy days in Gothenburg focused on the value of creativity, addressing themes like sustainability for creators, storytelling and hacking for social innovation, digital literacy, transmedia communication, crowdfunding, new business models, story architecture, storyworld-weaving for cross-disciplinary co-creation, and more. Facilitated by ‘story architect’ Jasmine Lyman, the participants produced this beautiful document about ‘learning to share’:
Democratic schools for emergent learning and trust
This is a trailer of a documentary about the “democratic schools” movement. The funding for the final cut will be crowdfunded. Watch the video here:
Pinoccio – Arduino creators add open networking hardware
Arduino has announced – and successfully crowdfunded – the upcoming production of a little brother of the Arduino boards, specialized in networking and sensors. The board is small, it measures only 1 inch by 2, but powerful. This image, from the indiegogo crowdfunding page, shows two currently available Arduino boards and, at the left, the… Continue reading
Book of the Day: The Serendipity Machine
* Book: The Serendipity Machine. by Sebastian Olma. An ebook on a radically new conception of what a business is about. An excerpt by Sebastian Olma: “Serendipity — value creation based on unexpected encounters — is a new trend in the world of business. Successful global players like Google and LinkedIn are introducing serendipity leaves… Continue reading
Can Internet Access Cooperatives save the U.S. broadband gap?
Excerpted from a proposal by Thetabyte: “Cooperatives offer a simple, albeit challenging, solution to a complex problem. If we, as Americans, are fed up with the state of broadband–with corporations who drive up prices, set arbitrary usage caps, or perform any action on a long list of customer abuses, why don’t we come together and… Continue reading
Everyvote.org – Gov2.0 Federation in Pursuit of Crowd Wisdom
Everyvote.org is developing and providing software that makes it easy to know your candidates, their views, and others’ views about them, all collected in one place for easy access. Goals 1) Establish in the nearest possible future a reliable, comprehensive United States candidate database, that anyone can freely integrate into their own website. This database… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Swarmwise
“It is an instruction manual for recruiting and leading tens of thousands of activists on a mission to change the world for the better, without having access to money, resources, or fame. The book is based on Falkvinge’s experiences in leading the Swedish Pirate Party into the European Parliament, starting from nothing, and covers all… Continue reading
How does a bitcoin transaction work
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Behind the lines
Why is it important, in this blog, to refer to a certain indiegogo campaign? Because we believe in the idea of “news from the people, to the people”. Because, especially in a fragmented state as Greece is, it is of crucial importance to see behind lines. To learn the unreported, so to be able to creatively change… Continue reading