Learning Communities Online Just found P2PU - Peer to Peer University - on a list at reddit of online learning resources This looks really cool. The ones I'm most excited about so far are BOINC for citizen scientists tools for content curation
American History Quiz: Which founding father leaked documents that triggered the start of the American Revolution? From 1773 to 2011, leaking incriminating documents into the public eye has been a powerful mechanism to galvanize revolutions. Nothing quite like reading in black and white the recommendation for "abridgement of what are called English liberties". Benjamin Franklin leaked Royal Governor Hutchinson's letters to the
Why the Truth Shall Set You Free Did Wikileaks trigger events in Tunisia? Not to devalue the efforts of the Tunisian opposition, street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi's sacrifice or in any way minimize the real problems with the government; just the opposite. But it could be that Wikileaks publishing a 'truth that everyone knows'
Writing for AloNovo I'm doing some work (a very little work) with the AloNovo project, which is basically a site to help consumers find socially responsible companies to shop with. Here's my first post on taking responsibility as an accidental shareholder in these beasts: We the Corporations
And the moral is... Just finished the old Jack Finney Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (had to read it because of the title, I have a theory about corporations being subject to real-life bodysnatching ;-). Good read, convincing characters, plot ok - and I love the moral : yeah its hopeless but that's exactly
WeGiveBooks - took a look Books, language, reading are so foundational to everything that it doesn't seem to need saying. I've been thinking for some time of a site that would be 'books-please.com' or something similar, for people to donate books to other individuals. This site is not
Tucson Developers' Co-op Check out http://tucson.devcoop.org, where me and a few friends are kicking off a new group of indie developers who get together to check out each other's stuff. I like having collaborators but can't stand meetings, so this is an 'unmeeting' -