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April 2008 Blog Posts (7)

Quality of Experience

In the west (and particularly in Europe) we tend to settle for the less-than-inspiring experience: the experience with the product that we cannot configure and use;

the experience with the train service that sells us the long distance ticket on the sardine-packed train with no seat;

and the experience with the institution that takes no extra step to realize the goal in such a way as would benefit everyone: the applicant, the civil servant who's getting paid to perform the… Continue

Added by John Hammink on April 28, 2008 at 16:30 — 21 Comments

Graffiti Research Lab The Movie

I just finished watching the Graffiti Research Lab Movie which is available as a bittorent from http://graffitiresearchlab.com/

Its a testament to the cultural value of the free and open source approach.

The Graffiti Research Lab develops new often low tech approaches for… Continue

Added by Kevin Flanagan on April 27, 2008 at 10:00 — No Comments

Appeal for blog posts at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

Dear friends,

A lot of people seem to be joining our Ning network here, and I'm sure each of you has interesting projects and ideas that others may be interested in.

Why not describe them at our blog?

I'm particularly keen on new content to keep our publishing schedule on track, as I will be travelling until May 20 at least!!

Michel

Added by Michel Bauwens on April 21, 2008 at 12:04 — No Comments

L I N K S I'm involved in:

Earth Intelligence Networks Twitter page

Earth Intelligence Networks non-profit YouTube page

Earth Intelligence Network (homepage)

"Cyber Scout Hyper Link-Table" from Sept. 2007-present. Loaded with links related to mobile, 3D, data visualization/mapping, gaming, documentaries, and…

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Added by Jason Liszkiewicz on April 20, 2008 at 20:30 — No Comments

CCi International Conference - Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons

Some of you might be interested in the following conference, which takes place here in Brisbane in June. It might not be immediately obvious from the themes, but much of the conference will be about user-led content creation / p2p production / produsage (as well as questions around the increasing commercial embrace of commons models).

More information, including a tentative list of keynote speakers, is… Continue

Added by Axel Bruns on April 9, 2008 at 8:30 — 2 Comments

Vibewire e-Festival of Ideas

For those of you who are interested: the Vibewire e-Festival of Ideas runs all through next week. A great line-up of participants, and they're posting up some interviews in the lead-up as well. Worth checking out...

Added by Axel Bruns on April 4, 2008 at 2:03 — No Comments

To begin ...

... where?

March 2008? After 13 years on the web? After 36 years of online activity in one form or another? (I could say 41 years, if I counted ham radio!)

How about this:

let's go with "something old and something new ..."

I'll let the "something blue" be the tree / blue sky / horizon JPG I just installed as the background on my profile page here. :-)

Something old: