Trend of the Day: Occlusive Reality

Occlusive Reality Aaron Rosa writes: “As Augmented Reality (AR) tentatively moves from obscurity to ubiquity, we find ourselves constantly enticed by the purported capabilities and glossy demonstration videos of this technology. While major corporate players seek to establish unique identities in this emerging information space, their design fictions focus on a product’s ability to improve… Continue reading

Essay of the Day: Enabling Co-operative Enterprises To Grow the Green Economy

Enabling Co-operative Enterprises to Grow the Green Economy = Report: Sharing Prosperity. Enabling co-operative enterprises to grow the green economy. By Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty. Cymru/Wales Summary Pat Conaty: “The recommendations grew out of deliberative discussions at a Mid Wales conference that we ran this summer to help community based local food, co-operative energy… Continue reading

Podcast of the Day/XE: Gar Alperovitz on the next US revolution

From our friends at The Extraenviromentalist Podcast. Alperovitz talks about the US, but his analysis applies worldwide. The episode also features a presentation by Stefano and Vera Zamagni on the co-op movement in Italy. http://www.xepodcast.com/extraenvironmentalist/063-nextUSrevolution.mp3 From the episode notes: With a media ecosystem focused almost entirely the corporate system, burgeoning elements of a new economy revolution escape the mainstream eye. As… Continue reading

Challenges and Promises for an Open Science and Technology Movement

* Essay: Do-it-yourself biology: Challenges and Promises for an Open Science and Technology Movement. By Thomas Landrain, Remi Sussan et al. Systems and Synthetic Biology, Vol 7., No. 1-2 Abstract “The do-it-yourself biology (DIYbio) community is emerging as a movement that fosters open access to resources permitting modern molecular biology, and synthetic biology among others…. Continue reading

It’s Time For Crypto To Go Mainstream

In this era of mass surveillance more than ever it’s time for Crypto to go mainstream. This is one crowdfunding campaign that deserves all the support we can give. http://goteo.org/project/gnupg-new-website-and-infrastructure GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) is the free/open version of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the gold standard in secure email and other kinds of eavesdropping-proof, authenticated,… Continue reading

Project of the Day: the People’s Food Plan Process in Australia

An interesting Open-Sourced_Food_Policy_Initiative in Australia! Nick Rose explains: “Inspired by the example of the People’s Food Policy Project in Canada (2008-2011), last year we launched the People’s Food Plan process, Australia’s first grassroots and open-sourced food policy initiative. With the help of 600 people in 40 public forums around the country, we began to articulate… Continue reading