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News: Positive Solar Evolution, Organics & Weblogs

Friday, April 23, 2004 - 01:33 AM

This article is a mix a few info portals and weblogs but they all relate. The first is from Technology Research News, "Silicon solar cells capture only some of the spectrum of sunlight, limiting their efficiency. A mix of several metals and oxygen could lead to solar cells that capture much more sunlight. The key is misaligning the material's crystal structure by infusing it with oxygen." Editor-in-Chief Paul Hughes of the FutureHi weblog carried this story from Berkeley National Laboratory that "An unexpected discovery could yield a full spectrum solar cell."

Organizations: Launch of International Movement for Free Culture

Thursday, April 22, 2004 - 03:50 PM

On April 23, students at Swarthmore College will launch a new international student organization, the International Movement for Free Culture, dedicated to what it calls a "bottom-up, participatory structure to society and culture." The new group will leverage the power of students at colleges and universities around to the world and promises to be a leading voice for copyright reform, online rights, free and open-source software, and threats to the free flow of information.

Projects: Open Source Ecology Project

Monday, April 19, 2004 - 04:28 PM

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A friend from Norway turned us on to Marcin Jakubowski, PhD. He is the founder of The Open Source Ecology Project, a nonprofit research and education institution creating open access to sustainable, healthy, and affordable ways of living. (1) open access to practical knowledge, (2) the collaborative development of working economic models via the nonprofit sector, and (3) education, demonstration, and training aimed at integrated, ecological, regenerative social enterprise. The process by which they attain the above is called Open Source Development, a collaborative, open process which builds on past knowledge and leverages public collaboration.

People: New Book by Lawrence Lessig

Friday, March 26, 2004 - 12:44 AM

This just in... from Creative Commons chairman Lawrence Lessig. He released his new book, Free Culture today, both online, a licensed downloadable version and in stores. The book covers the current state of copyright law and what it means to our culture and society. Give it a look, and if you like what you see, ordering online will contribute a small percentage to Creative Commons.
UPDATE: "Free Culture" popup audiobook
UPDATE2: Business 2.0 article, Giving It Away (for Fun and Profit).

People: Stephen Wolfram & A New Kind of Science

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 12:16 PM

Physicist and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram has made his seminal work, A New Kind of Science, available for free online. What is the Principle of Computational Equivalence? Almost all processes that are not obviously simple can be viewed as computations of equivalent sophistication. More specifically, the principle of computational equivalence says that systems found in the natural world can perform computations up to a maximal ("universal") level of computational power, and that most systems do in fact attain this maximal level of computational power.

Open Source Schools and Libraries

Tuesday, February 10, 2004 - 01:27 AM

SchoolForge News has a great article on..."Have you wanted to go to your school and explain why they should use more Open Source Software but not had the time to really sit down and put together a good presentation of why it should? It may have been done for you!

Blogs: Open Instant Messaging

Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 02:17 PM

You want to help build a truly open network that values freedom of communication and doesn't treat the individual as just another pair of eyeballs. You like the idea of open-source software. Well...just found this..Open Instant Messaging, instant messages are similar to email because they consist of text that you type back and forth. However, unlike email, responces are in seconds. A shinning example is PSI - an awesome client for the Jabber network.

News: What is "FREE CULTURE" [Part I]

Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 07:17 PM

Here's a great article written in the NY Times The Tyranny of Copyright, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's page on free culture.
1. Creativity and innovation always builds on the past.
2. The past always tries to control the creativity that builds on it.
3. Free societies enable the future by limiting the past.
4. Ours is less and less a free society. --Lawrence Lessig, 2002.

People: Tom Munneke - Giving Space

Saturday, December 20, 2003 - 03:20 AM

To sow the seeds of a global self-organizing, self-propagating infrastructure which allows the creation, discovery, commitment, and fulfillment of meaningful giving opportunities within a trusted environment... Asking the question, "What is the simplest thing I can do which will have the maximum global humanitarian uplift?"

People: Tom Atlee, Some ways we can be wise

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 04:27 PM

When people talk about wisdom, they often use sight-related words like insight, foresight, discernment, farsightedness, brilliance, reflection, illumination, enlightenment, visionary and seer. "I am writing about wisdom to recover it from esoteric realms and place it solidly in the middle of our collective lives where the world lives or dies, depending on how wise we learn how to be together."