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New Brave World workshop: RFID and art

Regine Debatty

It's Monday and although everyone else is probably thanking Easter break for providing them with an opportunity to lay in bed until lunch time, i've been up early to give the final touch of my presentation about RFID and art at the RFID workshop that iMAL organizes this week in Brussels as part of its series of New Brave World events. With Hidden Numbers, Meghan Trainor Just a parenthesis: tomorrow at 8,30 pm Atau Tanaka will give a talk at iMAL about Mobile Music and his other locative...

The Business of the Social Graph

Jon Lebkowsky

I've been reading and thinking about an October 18 piece in The Economist, "Social graph-iti," a critique of Facebook - actually a critique of excessive valuations "bandied around for Facebook and other social networks," saying that high valuations (assumptions that Facebook is worth billions) are the result of a misunderstanding of the "social graph," which is defined as "the network of connections that exist through which people communicate and share information." I would've said "a...

Unpacking Linden’s “Open Source� Announcement

Ethan Zuckerman

Linden Labs, the folks behind Second Life, have announced that they’re releasing the source code for their client “viewer” application under a GPL license. This announcement has already inspired a good deal of conversation and debate, including a number of emails and blogposts asking me whether I’ve withdrawn my argument with Charlie Nesson in the light of Linden “going open source”. Nope. Linden’s taken a great step towards opening up their code,...

Open Source House

Sarah Rich

Rahm Rechtschaffen, an architecture student at Catholic University in Washington DC, is using Flickr to run a participatory architecture project for his senior thesis. We've talked about applications of open source in architecture and design before, and the potential that OS could open for transformation in those fields. "Unlike the software programmers that participate in open source design projects, the end users of most architectural projects are neither steeped in the guiding...

Catching Up with the Wind

Jamais Cascio

Everybody's talking about wind power right now, and it's easy to see why -- a combination of new developments, high energy prices and (in the northern hemisphere) the return of brisk fall breezes put us all in the wind turbine frame of mind. While we've all been busy getting WorldChanging: The Book completed (can WorldChanging: The Motion Picture be far behind?), a number of wind-related stories have piled up on my desktop. Rather than let them go to waste, I thought I'd give you an...

Open Source is Worldchanging

Jon Lebkowsky

Among Open Source developers and devotees, there's been a growing awareness of its impact as a philosophy and practice that extends beyond the world of software development and distribution. As noted by Thomas Goetz in the November 2003 issue of Wired Magazine:Open source has spread to other disciplines, from the hard sciences to the liberal arts. Biologists have embraced open source methods in genomics and informatics, building massive databases to genetically sequence E. coli, yeast, and...

Tropical Disease Initiative

Jamais Cascio

The "Free/Open Source" model could be as revolutionary in the world of biological science as it has been in the world of software. We've the notion of open source biomedical research a number of times here, and expect the idea to be of increasing importance in the coming years. An open source approach to biological research offers significant leapfrog potential, as scientists in the developing world could participate in the research and get unrestricted access to what has been learned, and...

Fractal Democracy

Rohit Gupta

I was writing a draft when I noticed that people are already talking about Fractal Democracy - "small numbers of people, let's say somewhere around 7 form the base cell of the organisation. Out of these, the group agrees on who represents their group will the best, and these selected persons form together with others who are selected to form the same kind of grouping, and these people then select one out of their group which goes up to the next level, where the same thing happens again. This...

Catching Up (Tech Bloom Edition)

Jamais Cascio

Continuing with the categorized catching-up entries... Social Design Notes points us to an article at Local Government Commission entitled "Computer Simulation as a Public Participation Tool," which celebrates the virtues of using digital tools as a way of envisioning urban development projects. Interestingly, the article focuses on the visual presentation elements of simulation, such as photoshopping in a new retail complex or street design over a photograph of a city location, rather than...

Collaborating and Creative Communities

Taran Rampersad

There's a lot of recent buzz about creative community and collaboration. Jamais recently posted the Collaboration Manifesto, and Andy Carvin recently wrote about Richard Florida's speech which opened the University Continuing Education Association conference. ..."My father worked for the same company in Pittsburgh from age 11 to age 65," Florida said. "Today the average worker changes jobs every three years - and if you're 30 or younger, you change jobs after less than one year." Because of...

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