Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:08:08 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/ PostNuke Powered Site en-us http://www.imaginify.org/images/logo.gif http://www.imaginify.org/ benb@nu-world.com http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=107 "Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive..." -StewBrand, The First Hackers' Conference, circa 1984 "At some level, the expression does carry the moral judgement that "Information should be free": the idea that access to information and knowledge should not necessitate a class war, that such access is a basic human right, and, as technology improves, the whole of humanity should be able to partake in its gifts and services." - Wikipedia, circa 2006 (All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License) From MURL Seminar Archive, Stanford, CA --- circa 2003 --- From Counterculture To Cyberculture: How The Whole Earth Catalog Brought Us "Virtual Community." [video *] --- circa 2005 --- Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: Revisiting the WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community. --- circa 2006 --- From Counterculture to Cyberculture: StewBrand, the Whole Earth Network and the Rise of Digital Utopianism. [Intro | Excerpt **] --- circa late 2006 --- From The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog [Invite] -- By Fred Turner, Department of Communication, Stanford University [FredTurner] -- Wed, 25 Oct 2006 17:08:08 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=106 If WikiWiki is the Hawaiian word for fast (quick)... *** ... what is the sense for calm (serene, peaceful...)? Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:59:20 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=105 "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #...... for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." - Woody Guthrie, American folk musician, 1912-1967 - Synesthetic colors, described by; Alexander Scriabin, Composer, 1872–1915 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:28:28 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=104 Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:22:36 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=103 "Patterns of Infectious Good" by Tom Munnecke Wellesley Uplift Academy, Aug 7 & 8 2006 (excuse our dust) "Spherical Accounting: Using geometry to embody developmental integrity" Licensed under Creative Commons by Anthony Judge "Simplicity The Art of Complexity" Ars Electronica Fest, Aug 31 - Sep 5, Linz, Austria Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:31:09 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=102 Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA, is aimed at both increasing the quality of food and the quality of care given the land, plants and animals – while substantially reducing potential food losses and financial risks for the producers. Fairview Gardens was the second farm on the West Coast to offer a CSA. The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens is a California non-profit organization that was established in 1997 to preserve and operate Fairview Gardens. Founded in 1895, the historic Fairview Gardens is considered by some to be the oldest organic farm in southern California, and is now preserved in perpetuity through an agricultural conservation easement. Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:55:05 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=101 Freedom River by Orson Wells (excuse our dust) Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:52:44 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=100 • Wikimania 2006 eArchive [8.09.06] Wikimedia Conference, by Jimbo Wales, Eben Moglen, Lawrence Lessig, Judith Donath, Ward Cunningham, Chris Messina, Brewster Kahle, Michael Eisen, Jenny Preece, Mitch Kapor... • Open-Source Networked Journalism Meets SmartMobs [8.09.06] MasterNewMedia, by Robin Good • Credibility and copyrights in the new improved media [8.09.06] InTheField, by Erik Sundelof (2006 RDVP Fellow) • Futurism Without Gadgets [8.07.06] Open the Future (Podcast #1), by Jamais Cascio • Chance and choice experiences, presencing as community art [8.06.06] Community-Intelligence, by George Por • Cell phones: A new tool in the war-zone blogosphere [8.01.06] CNN, by Marsha Walton • Can Technology change Social Processes? [7.30.06] Reuters Digital Visions Program, by Carlos Miranda Levy (2004 Fellow) • Introducing NewAssignment.Net [7.25.06] Journalism.NYU.Edu, by Jay Rosen • Stanford Fellow Imagines Every Cell Phone as Citizen Media Outlet [7.18.06] PBS, by Mark Glaser Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:08:43 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=99 Elephants Dream is the world’s FIRST OPEN MOVIE, made entirely with open source 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback software (Blender.org). Available in all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. AND ... All the production files are freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license. HAvE FuN!!!!! Mon, 31 Jul 2006 02:44:12 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=98 Ubuntu is a desktop-oriented Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support (Debian GNU/Linux). Ubuntu use only free software to provide an up-to-date yet stable operating system for the average user, and available to you free of charge. P.S. Cory Doctorow-- just switched from Mac to Ubuntu. Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:06:25 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=97 Open Space 1.Whoever is there are the right people. Everybody has his or her role in the story. 2. Whatever happens is the right thing to happen. Everything happens for a reason and is there to help us gain more insight. 3. Whenever it starts, it starts. Magic has its own timing. It might already start weeks before the [experience/conference] happens. 4. Whenever it stops, it stops. Don’t linger on, when the feeling is too good, nor stay when things that don’t work. Follow the flow. 5. Follow the law of the two feet. Keep your own responsibility. You can leave an [experience/workshop] if it doesn’t suit you. 6. Be prepared to be surprised. The soul always leads us to our highest good, but it might be an unexpected journey. It is also; a concept in urban planning: * Public space, Urban open spaces and greenways * Landscape * Piazza * Plaza * Courtyard Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:54:09 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=96 CHESS HISTORY AND REMINISCENCES THE TEN ADVANTAGES OF CHESS [excerpt 060606] (wikipedia.org) • Cathedral & the Bazzar • • Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom • • Free as in Freedom • • Free Culture • • Open Source Democracy • • Open Source Shakespeare • • We the Media • Sun, 28 May 2006 20:21:05 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=95 Recognizing the rights of both the users and the creators of art, this art show was organized in support of creative works that enable a more participatory culture. Why is this important? Just think: where would Disney be if there were no fairy tales?What would our national anthem be if Francis "Sharedevil" Scott Key hadn't ripped the melody off of an old British drinking song? If everything in our culture is owned and unavailable for the public to build upon, we all suffer. Laws automatically granting and extending copyrights are doing just that. Even an out-of-print book can't be remixed until its *95* years of automatic copyright are up! (cc) 2006 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:23:42 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=94 JOIN IN THE... FREE & OPEN SOURCING OF 2ND LIFE ROADMAPS The Open Source Metaverse Project provides an open source metaverse engine as an alternative to the commercial metaverse engines Second Life, There and Active Worlds. UNTIL THEN, HERE WE ARE... Creative Commons in 2ndLife... What's next? Open Source Webmap APIs? Lawrence Lessig, analog in the digital. Mon, 24 Apr 2006 14:24:09 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=93 TESTING ... TESTING ... 1... 1.2... TESTING... "LED Throwies II..." The Graffiti Research Lab is dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artist and protestors with open source technologies for urban communication...... 0010100010100101000101001000101010 0010101010000001010010101001010100 10010100101001010010100101010000010 101010010100101001010010100010?2001 00010001010100100010000101010101011 11101001010101011101010010100101010 11010010010001001001010101011110100 101010101010101111011111110010101011 10100101011101011010111010101001101 01101010101010101010010100101010100 101010100101010011010100101001010101 010011001001010010011000101010`101011 111101000001011111010000 Sat, 08 Apr 2006 01:33:01 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=92 "an outdoor hacker conference/event took place on a large event-campground. New communities bordering common themes which loosely defined as 'hacker issues.' "We feel it is very important for people from different fields dealing with one or more of these issues to meet at larger events. We would also like to introduce new topics and forge new links between various communities. We haven't even kept count of the interesting things that happened, both on- andoffline, simply because the right people met at one of these events. * freedom of speech * government transparency * computer insecurity * privacy * open software, open standards & software patents * community networking Lat 51°33.270858 / Lon 5°20.620584 / July 28-31 2005 Liempde, near Den Bosch, The Netherlands And oh yeah: it is a lot of fun too!" Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:40:21 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=91 July 9-14, 2006 @ Sonoma State University. The 50th anniversary conference of the International Society for the Systems Sciences offers an opportunity to celebrate and reinvigorate a half-century of interdisciplinary collaboration and synthesis. • Complex Systems and the Roots of Systems Thinking What can the sciences of complexity teach us about social justice and sustainability? • Self-Organization and Living Systems What is the nature of the relationship between information and consciousness? • Ecological Systems and Sustainability How do we manage information in a way that fosters effective decision-making processes? • Social Systems Design and Practice How do we nurture organizational structures that serve human needs while also protecting our resources for future generations? Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:19:53 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=90 "Every cluster of galaxies, every star, every atom... had a beginning, but the Universe, itself, did not" - Sir Frederick Hoyle, Plumian Professor of Astonomy, Cambridge University photo c/o Hubble Telescope Website Gallery, NASA public domain "The novel idea that there are an infinite number of time dimensions in the Universe revolutionizes gravitational theory and much of modern science with it." - Alexander Franklin Mayer, MIT Alumni Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:35:29 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=89 "The Map Is Not The Territory," 2000-2006 Metamedia, Mesh-Mashup, Meta-Identifiers(?), MetaSystems(?), Network Media New Media, Multimedia, Intermedia, Telematic, Conceptual, Abstract... Inspired by Integral Theorists : Ralph Abraham • Tom Atlee • Kenny Ausubel • Gregory Bateson • Mary Catherine Bateson • Nora Bateson • Michel Bauwens • Joseph Campbell • Fritjof Capra • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin • Anne Dosher • Marcel Duchamp • Jim Fournier • Marija Gimbutas • Stanislav Grof • Francis Heylighen • Jean Houston • Aldous Huxley • Ervin & Alexander Laszlo • Lawrence Lessig • Humberto Maturana • Margaret Mead • Thomas J. McFarlane • Michael Murphy • Jackson Pollack • Richard Stallman • Rudolph Steiner • Elizabeth Thompson • William Irwin Thompson • Paul Trevithick • David Ulansey • D.Beck, A.Cohen & K.Wilber • Francesco Varela and many others... "Dialectic Process vs. Dialogic Process" ...more to come... Thu, 02 Feb 2006 14:18:05 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=88 From Imaginify: Thank you to everyone who participated, collaborated and/or attended Metamedia Cooperation II @ the Erb Memorial Union (EMU). Currently in the works on Imaginify II, an open digital fountain. "Local seasonal mini-metamedia experiences," will open space for co-presencing to the Metamedia Cooperation III (March 3, 2007) with the support of the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts & departments from The University of Oregon. THANK YOU AGAIN!!! Click 'Read More' for articles, photos and more (in the process of being updated with new material). PHOTO TAG : mcii [360° visual screen] Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:43:56 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=87 Friday, January 20th 2006 @ EMU Ballroom, University of Oregon. Eugene, Oregon will once again play host to an experience in sharing and collaboration, celebrating the connections between open source & organic solutions in art, science and community. This year will acknowledge the transdisciplinary space between analog and digital ecologies. From the organic to the cybernetic, from the earth to the internet.... This experience is scheduled for 5pm. Poster Designed by: Rocketeye Fri, 09 Dec 2005 15:43:21 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=86 CLICK READ MORE... UPDATED Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:25:53 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=85 A BRIDGE WAS BUILT. Imaginify attended a dialogue hosted by the Stanford School of Medicine between His Holiness the Dalai Lama, neuroscientists and Buddhist scholars at Stanford University on November 5, 2005. FREE STREAMING VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE... Thu, 03 Nov 2005 02:24:26 -0800 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=84 From Imaginify, Social Software Applications (SSA) are web applications that enables people to rendezvous, connect or collaborate through a computer network or networks. Like photo games, an online "MadLibs." Take a story/poem/quote and swap in flickr images for words, letters... Click 'Read More' Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:31:18 -0700 http://www.imaginify.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=83 "The free flow of code is an increasingly important social and artistic force." - Spot Draves, PhD. When computers "sleep", a screen saver comes on... Electric Sheep is a free and open source distributed screen-saver that harnesses idle computers with the purpose of evolving and morphing fractal animations known as "sheep". They are modeled in a 26- to 65-dimensional space and executed by the collective power of connected Unix machines. Fri, 07 Oct 2005 20:25:30 -0700