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Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 23:00 syndicated blogs- Social Tech Training was a Great Success | Web of Change
the first Social Tech Training – an innovative collaboration between Web of Change and MaRS – has come and gone. - It's Not About the Web :: Learnings from the Social Tech Training | Web of Change
Lughnassah, first Harvest Festival
Syndicated from: The Gates of Horn - Gateway to the Inner Realms on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 09:35 syndicated blogsIt’s one week now before August 1st and I checked the 148 article titles in the archives and realized that I hadn’t yet put on a posting about the Sabbat called Lughnassah, by those who can get their eyes around the spelling of the Irish, and Lammas by those who can’t.
All the other Sabbats have had some kind of treatment. But it turns out that everything I have written about Lughnassah was in notes for students and not for the blog readers. So here goes a little summary. Mea culpa!
Reboot lecture: Liberation Technology
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 02:35 Collective Intelligence syndicated blogs“[Gwendolyn Floyd and Joshua Kauffman of Regional] gave a talk about the burgeoning field of liberation technology, synthesizing their studies from both developing world and leading-edge technological and social environments. The talk outlined their vision for how technologies liberate societies at critical developmental inflection points - including our own. They outlined our arrival at the new commons, which is the knowledge of our shared resources, and discussed the possibility of liberation coming through integration into each other and our greater ecologies. Spanning micro-democracies to the suburbanization of the internet and the “mobile phone as the new AK47,” the slides and notes are available here.”
Open data mash-ups for government
Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 23:24 P2P Public Policy syndicated blogsBill St. Arnaud has started a new blog on Next Generation Democracy.
One of the first entries deals with open data mash-ups in government.
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Syndicated from: P2P Foundation on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 23:00 syndicated blogs- New book examines global trends in environmental aid | EcoLiving Solutions
The book, “Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Aid,” analyzes the environmental impact of development - Main Page - SDWiki
FISDEV (Framework for Integrated Sustainable Development) is a collaborative, open source methodology for Sustainable Development that that anyone can use.
Why musicians make us weep and computers dont?
Syndicated from: Multifaith Information Gateway on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 19:48 Business--Religious aspects Online Religion Religion online syndicated blogs New Study of Public Library of Science.
Info courtesy: Forhad @ Research Directory Headline
Info courtesy: Forhad @ Research Directory Headline
Music can soothe the savage breast much better if played by musicians rather than clever computers, according to a new University of Sussex-led study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.
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Local Food Gets Trendy
Syndicated from: On The Commons Blogs on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 01:00 syndicated blogsNow that the New York Times has splashed it on the front page (July 22), consider it an official trend: locally grown food is all the rage. It is being avidly sought out by Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the glam crowd in the Hamptons, the merely affluent of Mill Valley, California, and even by the rest of us who live in less celebrated locations with few boldfaced residents.