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"Our point is a plea for a dialectical middle way... It means taking explicitly into account the conditions of our descriptions, whereby we switch back and forth between the organism as a system in its own internal logic, and the organism as a unity in its interactions. In this switch back and forth between these two distinct domains of description we, as observers, establish as valid certain fundamental constraints in the environment which the organism must satisfy."

-- Francisco Varela, Biologist, Philosopher and Neuroscientist (1946-2001)

Organizations: UPDATED: DH (2009)

Tuesday, March 03, 2009 - 12:00 AM

:: UPDATED JUNE 24TH 2009 ::
"THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES MANIFESTO 2.0"

digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/images/stories/mellon_seminar_readings/manifesto%2020.pdf

Meta-Manifesto – June 16, 2009 – In Development

"THE PROMISE OF DIGITAL HUMANITIES"

digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/images/stories/papers/promise%20of%20digital%20humanities.pdf

Whitepaper – March 1, 2009 – Final Version

: Characteristics :
• Interdisciplinary •
• Collaborative •
• Socially Engaged •
• Timely and Relevant •

"The Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci
Public Domain

People: Analog Creativity Re-Presented in Digital Medium

Saturday, February 14, 2009 - 02:00 PM

"Autumn Treasures" by Trixi
(CC) Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic

"Re Ordering" by Trixi
(CC) Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic

Blogs: A crossover reference: Peer-to-Patent

Friday, January 23, 2009 - 12:00 AM

Peer-to-Patent is a pilot project in collaboration with the US Patent and Trademark Office. It was established in 2007 and recently extended/expanded to June 15, 2009. It is focused on helping the patent office perform high-quality examinations of pending patent applications by enlisting the public to help find and explain prior art.... Peer-to-Patent uses social software features to facilitate discussion amongst groups of volunteer experts. Users can upload prior art references, participate in discussion forums, rate other user submissions, add research references, invite others, and more. This helps the examiners focus their attention on the submission(s) of prior art that have the highest relevance to an application.

Beth Simone Noveck, Law Professor, and Director, Institute for Information Law and Policy, New York Law School launched the Peer to Patent: Community Patent Review project.

Incentives for submitting an application to the project include:
• Expedited review. Public review begins one month after publication of the application. Review continues for four months, after which the patent examiner conducts an expedited examination of the patent application.
• Potentially stronger patents. If Peer-to-Patent review works as expected, patents that survive the process have already undergone considerable scrutiny and will be less at risk of a successful challenge later.
• Public service. Applicants can feel they are contributing to a valuable experiment in new models and technologies for public decision-making.

"The Peer-to-Patent Web site is built using open source technologies (RoR, MySQL, Linux OS). Hosted database/web servers, load balancers, and interactive features (threaded discussions, e-mail alerts, RSS feeds, social bookmarks, video clips, tagging, ratings, and more)."

Sponsors: CA, Inc., General Electric, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intellectual Ventures, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Microsoft, Omidyar Network, and Red Hat. Peertopatent.org content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 US License, except where otherwise noted.

Projects: Open Source Font & Forges

Saturday, December 13, 2008 - 11:20 AM

An interesting post-typographical innovation...

Free EcoFont uses up to 20% less ink.
Results vary font size 9 or 10 is best depending on
your software and the quality of your screen...
Best for OpenOffice on Mac, PC, or Linux.
Distributed under GPL and based upon Bitstream Vera...

VeraSansSpecimen.svg by Sun Ladder
CC-BY-SA 3.0 & GDFL

Also check out some new forges on the top right column... : )
BioForge, Digital Commons, Media Commons, Moving Images, Open GoogleCode, RubyForge,
ScienceCommons, ScientificCommons, Software Archive, SourceForge, WikiSpecies

Projects: The 1st Stanford University Open Source Lab Unconference

Wednesday, November 05, 2008 - 07:54 PM

Projects: interoperable across metasociocultural gambits...

Thursday, October 23, 2008 - 10:20 AM

[download browser]

manage • track • update
social networks • friends • photos • sharing
blog editor • webmail • favorites • search
detect • drag-n-drop • subscribe • media • feeds • reader • more

Firefox 3 architecture
easier • faster • safer • free • open source

Flock Eco-Edition

[browser also includes]

People: FLASH: Giant Styrobot Invades from Oregon!

Monday, September 29, 2008 - 06:40 PM

Giant Styrobot & Featured Stories & More

"Zoe and Styrobot, Looking Back - Rice University Art Gallery"
Source: Flickr • Photo by Mr. Kimberly
(CC) Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0

“Ironically, the robots actually critique the very culture
of which they are byproducts . . . Every time something ships there’s a piece of
Styrofoam to keep it safe and sound . . . I really look at these pieces as being
mechanical and robot in nature. The result is a pretty poignant statement about
what we buy . . . and what we throw away.”
- Michael Salter, Associate Professor, Department of Digital Arts, University of Oregon
Time-lapse of "Art from Excess" at the San Jose Museum of Art.

People: berkeley.edu.law.tech.freeculture.con

Friday, August 08, 2008 - 08:00 AM

dmax.bampfa.berkeley.edu/blog/2008/09/free-culture-2008-international-conference-2
law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/events_calendar.htm
freeculture.berkeley.edu/Free_Culture_2008.html

Organizations: Cycles and Spirals

Friday, July 25, 2008 - 12:07 PM

Wikipedia : Cycles

< a h r e f=" http: / / en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Systems_art" target="new">

"This image has been (or is hereby) released into the public domain by its author, Cumbrowski at the English Wikipedia project.
This applies worldwide. In case this is not legally possible:
Cumbrowski grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose,
without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law."

Time ^ Calendar
Planetary cycles
Astronomical cycles
Climate and weather cycles
Geological cycles
Organic
Agricultural cycles
Biological and medical cycles
Brain waves and cycles
Physics
Mathematics of waves and cycles
Electromagnetic spectrum
Sound waves
Manmade
Economic and business cycles
Music and rhythm cycles
Religious, mythological, and spiritual cycles
Social and cultural cycles
Military and war
Literature
& Spirals . . .

10th Anniversary of Media Ecology

Blogs: U R Meta4, 2008 :::: From Happening to Unmuseum to Open Museum(s)

Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 12:00 AM

Unmuseum recommended reading:

"Possibilities for Transformational Conferences" a paper by Sunrise Facilitation, a collective that met regularly in Eugene, Oregon from 2000-2006. While no longer active, the ideas and connections from it generated this paper. Formats include: appreciative inquiry, expert time vs. participatory time, fishbowls, kinetic spectrum, pause for pairs, small group sharing, speed geeking/dating, storytelling, open space, world café, and more. Published (CC) Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.
In addition, view the open exhibition catalog by Sterling Israel M.S. curating and archiving Eco-Art & Artists titled,

"Creative Students and Artists in Eugene: New Visions for a Healthy Planet" from March 2007, Arts & Administration, University of Oregon. Published (CC) Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0.

"Basic Open System Model" by Anonymous, wikipedia, Public Domain

<<< The Open Museum >>>
Digital Art Media Progam (DMAX)
UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
...the first open-source museum collection - is a preservation repository
and online database of born-digital art. This next-generation cultural works project,
currently in the planning phase, also provides a testbed for developing innovative legal,
economic, and cultural frameworks for the digital arts.

<<< Open Source Museum of Open Source Art >>>
Department of Modern Culture and Media
Brown University
...the museum is entirely in the public domain
(add, modify, or remove art, likewise, elements of the building).
Our goal is to reimagine definitions of art, artist,
curator, museum, culture, and open source.
This project is underway in a virtual reality called Second Life.

<<< Online Spaces >>>

"Galactic Trading Cards Installation"
Illuminated, by PodCollective

p.s. worth checking out when in a deeply reflective state...
Molotov Alva and His Search for the Creator