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gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": the hughtrain
The market for something to believe in is infinite.
2008, corporate, essay, manifesto saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000823.html
Ivan Illich: Silence is a Commons
essay, human, machine saved by: millette more details ...
http://www.preservenet.com/theory/Illich/Silence.html
Dave’s Wordpress Blog » What is friendship?
blog, conversation, essay, friendship, insightful saved by: millette more details ...
http://scripting.wordpress.com/2006/01/28/what-is-friendship
The Konformist - Assassination Politics & Jim Bell
assassination, bell, essay, jim, politics saved by: millette more details ...
http://www.konformist.com/2000/assassination/assassination.htm
Assassination Politics - by Jim Bell
assassination, bell, essay, jim, politics saved by: millette more details ...
http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/jimbellap.htm
Jim Bell Files
These files provide information on Jim Bell's essay, "Assassination Politics," his arrest, charges, pre-trial jailing, IRS spam, hearings, news reports, plea bargain, sentencing, letters ...
assassination, bell, essay, jim, politics saved by: millette more details ...
http://jya.com/jdbfiles.htm
A Unified Theory of VC Suckage
business, capitalist, essay, funding, startup, venture saved by: millette more details ...
http://www.paulgraham.com/venturecapital.html
The Theory of Infinite Struggle
la route est longue
activism, anarchy, essay, infinite, struggle, theory saved by: millette more details ...
http://activism.wikia.com/wiki/Ali_Hussin
Bandits No More » Islam & Tradition
Can Islam today look different from the Islam of Mohammed (or of the Caliphate) and still be faithful? Leaders like Irshad Manji and Fethullah Gulen think so. Only time will tell.
2007, article, controversial, demagogical, essay, faithful, gulen, ideological, islamic, manji, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://sequimur.com/banditsnomore/?p=589
social capital: civic community and education
Interaction enables people to build communities, to commit themselves to each other, and to knit the social fabric.
2008, appropriate, associative, beneficial, clean, collective, committed, confluent, connected, cooperative, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.infed.org/biblio/social_capital.htm
ClimateEthics.org » Blog Archive » The Ethical Duty to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Face of Scientific Uncertainty
Those emitting high levels of greenhouse gases cannot deny that their emissions create a significant risk to human health and the environment around the world.
2008, criminal, dangerous, destructive, essay, ethical, global, legal, responsible, risky, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://climateethics.org/?p=35
Web exclusive: 'The emerging moral psychology' by Dan Jones | Prospect Magazine April 2008 issue 145
Even when explicit reasons appear to have the effect of changing people’s moral opinions, the effect may have less to do with the logic of the arguments than their power to elicit the r...
2008, affective, article, cognitive, divine, emotional, essay, ethical, fair, intuitive, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10126
happiness, flourishing and education - theory, practice and possibilities
If educators are to take happiness, human flourishing, seriously then there need to be some fundamental changes in the way we understand, approach and organize education.
2005, active, capitalistic, chronic, circumstantial, conscious, consumeristic, contemplative, courageous, deliberative, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.infed.org/biblio/happiness_and_education.htm
Moving Beyond Gore’s Message: (Science and the Media)
Gore has done a very good job of intensifying the beliefs of audiences who were already concerned about climate change, but a deep perceptual divide between partisans remains.
2008, adaptation, communcation, essay, framing, globalwarming, gore, influence, nisbet, perception, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.csicop.org/scienceandmedia/beyond-gores-message
The New Geopolitics of Energy
Rarely has a policy choice been as stark or as momentous for the future of our country.
2008, collaboration, energy, essay, globalization, greed, green, imperialism, klare, politics, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080519/klare
Annals of Innovation: In the Air: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
The history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same time.
2008, creativity, essay, gladwell, history, ideas, innovation, newyorker saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
The Gospel of Consumption | Orion magazine
The men and women who masterminded the creation of the consumerist society understood that theirs was a political undertaking, and it will take a powerful political movement to change cou...
2008, capitalism, consumerism, consumption, culture, economics, essay, history, leisure, marketing, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/2962
Slashdot | The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia, Part II
The focus on the encyclopedia provided the task and the open content license provided a natural motivation: people work hard if they believe they are teaching the world stuff.
2008, anarchism, authority, collaboration, culture, emergence, essay, ethos, history, motivation, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/1746205
Slashdot | The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir
The early history of Nupedia and Wikipedia, including some cogent observations on project management, online legitimacy, dealing with trolls, and other hazards of running a large, collabo...
2005, essay, history, sanger, slashdot, wikipedia saved by: meryn more details ...
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
People asking, "Where do they find the time?" when they're looking at things like Wikipedia don't understand how tiny that entire project is, as a carve-out of this asset that's finally b...
2008, anthropology, collaboration, commons, consumerism, cooperation, creativity, crowdsourcing, culture, engagement, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html
A Second Look at the Cathedral and Bazaar
An overview of the weaknesses of Eric Raymond's (ESR) paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar (CatB) as well as the more coherent demonstration of the fact that the bazaar metaphor is internal...
collaboration, communication, cooperation, coordination, decentralization, essay, firstmonday saved by: meryn more details ...
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_12/bezroukov/index.html
The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net
The attention economy brings with it its own kind of wealth, its own class divisions - stars vs. fans - and its own forms of property, all of which make it incompatible with the industria...
0607, attention, attentioneconomy, essay, firstmonday, metaverse saved by: meryn and 2 people more details ...
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue2_4/goldhaber
The Life of the Law Online
A legal system is nothing more than a collective conversation about shared values. When it ceases to be that kind of internally entailed organism, the law becomes mere power, social “or...
adaptation, convention, conversation, essay, evolution, firstmonday, formalization, regulation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_2/johnson/index.html
Manifesto for the Reputation Society
By leveraging our limited and local human judgement power with collective networked filtering, it is possible to promote an interconnected ecology of socially beneficial reputation systems.
article, essay, filtering, firstmonday, trust saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_7/masum/index.html
Thoreau's Civil Disobedience - with annotated text
While Walden can be applied to almost anyone's life, "Civil Disobedience" is like a venerated architectural landmark: it is preserved and admired, and sometimes visited, but for most of u...
essay, philosophy, thoreau saved by: meryn more details ...
http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil.html
How to Do What You Love
Much as everyone thinks they want financial security, the happiest people are not those who have it, but those who like what they do.
entrepreneurship, essay, graham, happiness saved by: meryn more details ...
http://paulgraham.com/love.html
Why to Not Not Start a Startup
Because of Y Combinator's position at the very start of the venture funding process, we're probably the world's leading experts on the psychology of people who aren't sure if they want to...
entrepreneurship, essay, graham saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.paulgraham.com/notnot.html
Reversal of Fortune
We've gone too far down the road we're traveling. The time has come to search the map, to strike off in new directions.
econmics, essay, happiness, mckibben, sustainability saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/03/reversal_of_fortune.html
"The Christian paradox: How a faithful nation gets Jesus wrong" by Bill McKibben (Harper's Magazine)
Three quarters of Americans believe the Bible teaches that “God helps those who help themselves.”
christianity, essay, mckibben, religion, usa saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2005/08/0080695
Thomas Princen - Principles for Sustainability: From Cooperation and Efficiency to Sufficiency - Global Environmental Politics 3:1
Pursued to their logical ends, the goals of cooperation and efficiency are, in principle, unassailable "goods." But in practice they are good only when [...] among other things, biophysic...
cooperation, efficiency, essay, princen, sufficiency saved by: meryn more details ...
http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/global_environmental_politics/v003/3.1princen.html
The Mirror's Gonna Steal Your Soul • T.Prug | Media Mutandis - a NODE.London Reader
Tools available in marxist theory are as precious for the egalitarian society that those two can bring about, as the organisational methodologies of anarchism and Free Software are for th...
2006, anarchism, copyright, essay, law, marxism, prug saved by: meryn more details ...
http://publication.nodel.org/The-Mirrors-Gonna-Steal-Your-Soul
Free Software
Free Software is a rare secular return of thinking beyond the accountants' spreadsheets. It is a return to an affirmative, axiomatic, belief in thinking about society as one.
2007, democracy, economics, essay, politics, prug, sociology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://rabelais.socialtools.net/FreeSoftware.ToniPrug.Aug2007.html
[iDC] Some notes on value...
Brands are a form of ethical capital: they build on the ability and desire of free (that is not entirely commanded) actors to create community, in the absence of given hierarchies or mone...
2008, arvidsson, business, communities, economics, essay, esteem, ethical-capital, ethics, honor, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
https://lists.thing.net/pipermail/idc/2008-February/003139.html
Creative Class or Administrative Class? On Advertising and the ‘Underground’ [pdf]
A different model of the interaction between the creative industries and the urban environment, namely one which emphasises the contribution of the unpaid ‘mass intellectuality’ of th...
2007, arvidsson, creativity, essay saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/7-1/7-1arvidsson.pdf
Crisis of Value and the Ethical Economy - P2P Foundation
The prime source of productivity is not what people get paid for, but [... ]their ability to network, share knowledge and support each other, to co-create a good working environment, a ma...
2007, arvidsson, business, creativity, essay, p2p, sociology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://p2pfoundation.net/Crisis_of_Value_and_the_Ethical_Economy
ChangeThis :: The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage
One of the most powerful and least understood aspects of business is how an emotional connection between management, employees and customers provides a competitive advantage.
2008, business, essay, relationships saved by: meryn more details ...
http://changethis.com/44.06.ConnectionCulture
Gifford Pinchot - The Gift Economy
The first step toward a sustainable sense of success is taking pride in the value of our contributions to others rather than taking pride in the value of our possessions.
1995, contribution, economics, essay, ethics, frugality, future, gift-economy, hyde, integrity, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC41/PinchotG.htm
Edge: THE ASSORTATIVE MATING THEORY: A Talk with Simon Baron-Cohen
My thesis with regard to sex differences is quite moderate, in that I do not discount environmental factors; I'm just saying, don't forget about biology. To me that sounds very moderate.
2005, autism, baron-cohen, biology, essay, gender, homosexuality, psychology, testosterone saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/baron-cohen05/baron-cohen05_index.html
Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0
The most visible authors, writing about the Social Web are lawyers, legal scholars at elite universities, business strategists, and corporate social media consultants.
2008, capitalism, crowdsourcing, essay, firstmonday, ideology, scholz, web2.0, wikinomics saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2138/1945
The Hi-Tech Gift Economy by Richard Barbrook
It is impossible to understand my article without remembering the bizarre moment in the late-1990s when so many pundits believed that the Net had almost magical powers.
1998, 2005, altruism, anarchism, anarcho-communism, barbrook, capitalism, communism, copyright, culture, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_12/barbrook
The Hacker Milieu as Gift Culture
Gift cultures are adaptations not to scarcity but to abundance. They arise in populations that do not have significant material-scarcity problems with survival goods.
1998, abundance, anthropology, competition, cooperation, craftsmanship, culture, economics, essay, gift-economy, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/homesteading/ar01s06.html
scottberkun.com » Essay #58 - How to innovate right now
Progress depends on people thinking independently and following their curiosity as far as they can, including doing things others around them refuse to try.
2008, berkun, creativity, curiosity, essay, innovation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/essay-58-how-to-innovate-right-now