Elon Musk (Paypal,Tesla, SpaceX) publishes details of the Hyperloop, a sun powered high speed transportation system. He’s the 57page PDF: http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-20130812.pdf The project is said to be based on open design and open source principles calling for feedback. Here are the two related quotes: “Hyperloop is also unique in that it is an open design… Continue reading
Date archives "August 2013"
The German Rosa Luxemburg Foundation 2013 Activities on the Commons
Stefan Meretz: “The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (from the German Left Party) is preparing some interesting meetings on the commons and around. First is an international workshop “Beyond Ostrom”, 8.-11. November 2013 in Berlin: http://beyondostrom.blog.rosalux.de/ Second is a call for contributions (deadline 1st of december 2013) concerning the 100th Anniversary of Luxemburg’s “The Accumulation of Capital:… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Daniel Reetz on DIY Book Scanning
From the 2011 Open Hardware Summit, http://openhardwaresummit.org/ From Speaker: http://danreetz.com/ A presentation on the DIY Book Scanner
Project of the Day: Co-Open
Co-Open Brief “An open source online collaboration platform for distributed manufacturing that supports thousands of simultaneous online contributors.” Further information Mira Luna: “Another exciting development at Open Tech Forever is that they are launching an open source online collaboration platform called Co-Open, available for the first time this week on Github, that supports thousands of… Continue reading
Book of the Day: After the Software Wars
* Book: After the Software Wars. Keith Curtis. Keith Curtis: “I dropped out of the University of Michigan at age 20 to become a programmer at Microsoft, and worked there for 11 years writing software in various groups from Windows to research. After leaving, I tried out Linux, saw the potential, and studied the problems…. Continue reading
Video of the Day: Introduction to the Urban Farming Guys
Wonderful video about a Kansas City inner city experiment More Information: Follow the story at TheUrbanFarmingGuys.com Featuring Aquaponics, Neighborhood Transformation, Permaculture, Urban Farming and lots of fun taking back the neighborhood. Come join the conversation on Facebook : http://on.fb.me/theUFGs and the Blog at http://TheUrbanFarmingGuys.com
Project of the Day: Restart Project
Restart Project “Building a platform making it easy to get all the broken things you own repaired and reused, reducing waste and connecting repair enthusiasts”. Further information: 0. Michelle Bastian: “Restart was started by Janet Gunter and Ugo Vallauri in 2012. Their mission is to help grow a more widespread culture of repair. They organise… Continue reading
Bitcoin Illegal in Thailand?
Well it seems Thailand may be the first country to ban Bitcoin, at least according to an announcement by the Thai Bitcoin Exchange https://bitcoin.co.th/news/. The excange has suspended business as “senior members of the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department advised that due to lack of existing applicable laws, capital controls and the fact that… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World
* Book: The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World. Marina Gorbis. Free Press, 2013. From the publisher: “Large corporations, big governments, and other centralized organizations have long determined and dominated the way we work, access healthcare, get an education, feed ourselves, and generally go about our lives. The economist Ronald Coase, in… Continue reading
Project of the Day: ADABio Autoconstruction
ADABio Autoconstruction This is a bit like Open Source Ecology or FarmHack, a coalition of organic farmers who share their agricultural machine designs, active in France. Brief in French: “Un réseau socio-technique d’agriculteurs biologiques qui partagent des savoirs et des savoir-faire dans l’autoconstruction de matériel agricole libre et approprié.” For more information: Julien Reynier: ‘ADABio… Continue reading
What’s Next for the Sharing Movement?
Excerpted from Neal Gorenflo and a very important article: Peer to peer dynamics form the basis of a new, liberating social contract. “The old social contract bound citizens to large hierarchies like nations and multinational corporations. In this contract, citizens gained the protection of hierarchies in return for obedience, labor or taxes. Citizen’s rights were… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Factories Of Knowledge, Industries Of Creativity
* Book: Factories Of Knowledge, Industries Of Creativity. By Gerald Raunig. MIT Press, 2013. From the publisher: “What was once the factory is now the university. As deindustrialization spreads and the working class is decentralized, new means of social resistance and political activism need to be sought in what may be the last places where… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Strong Roots
Strong Roots Brief: “Established in 2006 by Lucy Scurfield, Strong Roots describes itself as a therapeutic garden project. It is, in essence, a piece of ground in Norwich where people can meet with others for personal development, belonging, companionship and delight in the shared task of cultivation. Strong Roots can also be seen as a… Continue reading
The innovative methodology behind the #GlobalP2P WikiSprint campaign
Bernardo Gutiérrez Translated by Stacco Troncoso, edited by Jane Loes Lipton– Guerrilla Translation! Original article Collaboration, networking, transversality, openness, free licenses, remixing, transnationality. On March 20, the hashtag #GlobalP2P suddenly vaulted up among Twitter’s most globally used. One detail: it had never before been a TT(Trending Topic) in any country. Afterwards, it took place as… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Networked Disruption
* Book and PhD: Networked Disruption: Rethinking Oppositions in Art, Hacktivism and the Business of Social Networking. Tatiana Bazzichelli. PhD Dissertation Department of Aesthetics and Communication. Faculty of Arts Aarhus University. 2013 First published in 2013 by Digital Aesthetics Research Center, Aarhus University, Helsingforsgade 14, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark. www.digital-aestetik.dk PhD Dissertation: Tatiana Bazzichelli –… Continue reading
Project of the Day: PDX Radical Mycology Collective & Fungi for the People
PDX Radical Mycology Collective & Fungi for the People Brief PDX Radical Mycology Collective ‘Portland’s regional Radical Mycology collective.’ “Radical Mycology Is for … Accessible Mushroom Cultivation Techniques Myco-remediation of our Polluted Environment Building Healthy Relationships between People and Fungi We are currently forming as an off-shoot of the (inter)national Radical Mycology Convergence. Fungus is… Continue reading