Via Mayo Fuster Morell:

NY Times article: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/​ 2011/07/19/reddit-co-founder-c​harged-with-data-theft/



//// Aaron Swartz charged for downloading too many journal articles from the Library ////



Shocking news: Moments ago former Demand Progress Executive Director Aaron Swartz was indicted by the US government. As best as we can tell, he is being charged with allegedly…

Via Tom Atlee <cii@igc.org>

http://tom-atlee.posterous.com/rethinking-curricula-for-the-21st-century-1



(short URL -  http://bit.ly/od2UDV)



(I recommend going to the original as this version 'refuses' to be properly edited)



Dear…

Via Vinay Gupta:

First, see http://blip.tv/the-hexayurt-project/the-open-factory-vinay-gupta-1-of-2-5336955

 

First 20 minutes covers all of the basic concepts, but here's the

pitch in three bulletpoints

 

1> We've got a 750 square meter manufacturing (zoned light industrial)

facility with the foundation poured last week, open for…

* Manifesto: Manifesto approved by Popular Assembly last night [May 22nd] at the Rossio Square, Lisbon, where the Rossio camp stands on its fourth day.

URL = http://ceesa-ma.blogspot.com/2011/05/voices-from-another-europe.html

[…

A proposal by George Por,

Discussion and details at

"I envision the game as a path to create and empower a global

“Commons-ownership and governance of a new currency that can out-

compete any corporate model, and fund the development…

This one-day symposium, co-organized by PhotoIreland and GradCAM and supported by the City Arts Office, Dublin City Council, investigates emerging possibilities around collaboration, sharing and exchange and collective models of production,…

Via Carlos Alberto Alejandro CASTILLO Ocaranza:

Hello P2P people,



I wanted to share with you this project by Daniel Mariscal, a young video producer from Cordoba, Spain. The name is Creativos Conecta2, and it is an online TV show on Free Culture; the first program is already available at http://creativosconecta2.tv/



The…

Letter to the P2P community

I've been all over the web this week, blogging, posting comments on technical boards, chatting in IRC and the like.

So far its paying off - I'm 7 votes from being #3 out of over 400 entries in the contest - I am shooting for #1 which will require 31 additional votes as of today - but its a moving target - I'd like to invite any and all to cast their votes for this project. The process takes about 5 minutes. The contest ends on the 30th of…

Interesting to note that there was session on Social Networks: Connectivity and Security Issues at the Bilderberg conference earlier this month, and Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Amazon were among those represented.

I have wikified the guest list list here:

http://powerbase.info/index.php/Bilderberg_2011_St_Moritz

Bilderberg is, I think a particularly significant forum for what amounts to…

Via Wouter Tebbens:

Dear friends and colleagues,



maybe you've heard it already: we have been working to set up an online community about Free Technology. A community portal hosted by the Free Technology Academy, completely based on Free Software and integrated in its online campus. It's an informal social networking space where people can participate in (and create) groups to learn, discuss and work together about Free Technology.



Some examples of…

At Last, a Human Right to Water

(submitted by lisinka.ulatowska)

Good news for thirsty people around the globe: The UN affirms the right to safe and clean drinking water.

by Daniel Moss

posted Jul 30, 2010…

Colombia, chronicle of a Social Controversy Foretold

Translated by Carolina Mejía

Original in spanish By Carolina Botero

Following the trend of other laws currently being enforced by other countries attempting to regulate ISP’s responsibility for copyright infractions made through the internet (known as…

The Open Hardware Summit Call for submissions is open. Deadline is June

24th. Please RT, forward and blog!

This post is also available on the open hardware summit

websitea href="http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/2011/06/06/open-hardware-summit-2011-call-for-submissions/" target="_blank">http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/2011/06/06/open-hardware-summit-2011-call-for-submissions/>

 

Thanks !

 

Open Hardware Summit 2011 – Call for…

The Philosophy of Peer Learning

Educational Philosophy and…

For those that have followed the developments in CubeSpawn: I'll give a brief introduction to the current request for support,

For folks new to the concept: I'll give a short overview and describe what I see as the benefits to this approach over the current, unstructured approach to Open Source Hardware

My Request:

I have placed an Entry in…

Via Hervé Le Crosnier:

Bonjour,



       Les biens communs de la connaissance forment

       un contexte majeur dans lequel nous pouvons réfléchir

       à l'avenir des "sociétés de la connaissance"



       Deux événements nous y incitent en ce mois de juin :



       - la parution du livre/référence "Libres Savoirs :

         les biens communs de la…