“Plenty of people need jobs with very flexible hours — but it’s difficult for those people to connect with the employers who need them. Wingham Rowan is working on that. He explains how the same technology that powers modern financial markets can help employers book workers for slivers of time. Wingham Rowan is the founder… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Carbon Co-op
Carbon Co-op ” Carbon Co-op, which launched in 2011, is one of a new generation of co-ops that are now aiming to address the critical issue of climate change by making houses more energy-efficient, which in turn will slash carbon emissions and in the long-run save homeowners money.” For more on this topic: “The UK… Continue reading
Elon Musk’s new high speed transport project is open design – open source
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
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