Pierre Terre's blog

• Etherpad Foundation - Live Document Collaboration
  "The Etherpad Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the development of the Etherpad project."
• Comparing business development paradigms | Forward Foundation Blog
  "In a posting to http://localfoodsystems.org on Feb 04, 2010, Steve Bosserman introduced the idea of "Production Centered Local Economies", and "People Centered Local Economies". This article synthesizes Steve's coining of those terms, and uses concepts developed by Sam Rose, Paul Hartzog and Richard C Adler of Forward Foundation to further explain the differences between these economies, from a business development perspective."
• Open Source Urbanism | Open Source City | urbanohumano
  

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Shareable reports on Microtouch: An Open Source, DIY eBook Reader and Mobile Media Device

Created with minimal hardware resources and much ingenuity, the Microtouch is a neat gadget you can make yourself or you can buy pre-assembled.

Shareable says about it:

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* Book: Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community. Thomas Linzey and Anneke Campbell.

Rose Aguilar writes:

” In the new book, “Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community,” Linzey and Anneke Campbell, an environmental justice documentary filmmaker, argue that it’s time to stop begging the government and corporations to cause less harm. It’s time to replace corporate minority decision-making with community self-government.

Linzey and Campbell write about people from all walks of life doing just that by leaving their comfort zones to become community leaders.

• [libbitcoin] Overview | Bitcoin Media
  libbitcoin is a bitcoin library targeted towards high end use. The library places a heavy focus around asychronicity. The enables a big scope for future scalability as each component has its own thread pool. By increasing the number of threads for that component the library is able to scale outwards across CPU cores. This will be vital in the future as the demands of the bitcoin network grow."
• Mondragon Assembly
  

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Here are excerpts from an interview conducted by Shareable magazine:

“I like to think of crowd-funding is part of a whole wave of social entrepreneurship, how do you think Kickstarter’s mission differs from the average tech start-up?

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A very interesting experiment/project by Markus Kayser as part of his MA studies in Design Products on Platform 13 at the Royal College of Art:

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Excerpted from a Guardian editorial by Mark Graham:

“Profound digital divisions of labour are evident in all open platforms that rely on user-generated content.

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In a recent discussion I had with Vinay Gupta, Gupta hinted that(as I read him anyway):

1) the American corporate state’s apparent descent into lawless fascism (as evidenced by the passage of provisions for indefinite detention without trial in the NDAA and the recent seizure of MegaUpload), combined with

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You would expect Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business to focus its teaching on making profits from the world as it is instead of asking students to explore how to fundamentally change it. But that means you probably haven’t met business Professor Leo Burke — a former entrepreneur, Motorola executive and, in his student days, manager of the Notre Dame football team. At first glance, Burke ’70 hardly seems a rabble-rouser.

Excerpted from a longer and more extensive profile:

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Code Wars: 10 Years of P2P Software Litigation. Rebecca Giblin. 2012

The content industry spent the better part of the last decade seeking to hold P2P software providers liable for the infringements of their users. Its emphatic victories against the providers of Napster, Aimster, Grokster, Morpheus and Kazaa led directly to a massive shakeout of large commercial file sharing software operators, and might have been expected to wipe out unfiltered P2P file sharing software production for good.

• Idevnews | In 2012, Workers To Demand More Social Media, Mobility, Report Says
  "Demand for social and mobile collaboration within the enterprise is growing, according to a recent study by ABI Research. A new wave of cloud-based, enterprise-caliber social tools and platforms are emerging as alternatives to email and other “legacy” collaboration platforms in the eyes of workers, the study found."
• World oil supplies beyond tipping point, says Sir David King | Energy Efficiency News
  

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Recorded in 2009, but still insightful video on the ‘distribution’ of manufacturing.

• Clay Shirky: Are Lolcats a Sign of Human Progress? - YouTube
  "Clay Shirky explains how widespread education coupled with 21st-century technology has enabled what he terms "cognitive surplus," or the potential for large and cumulative creative endeavors. He argues that while it is responsible for inanity like Lolcats, "doing something is different from doing nothing.""
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