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  Links for 2008-04-29 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: April 29th, 2008, 10:00pm PDT

  • Transition Hankbook | united diversity
    The Transition Handbook will come to be seen as one of the seminal books which emerged at the end of the Oil Age
  • Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
    Here's something four-year-olds know: A screen that ships without a mouse ships broken. Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for.
  • Recruiting for the Cyber Wars
    Uncle Sam wants you—to help defend against Internet threats. But is the military any place for slackers and hackers?
  • Twitter: Friends for Sale
    One popular subscriber has put his Twitter account up for sale on eBay, prompting a fiery debate over ethics and commerce online
  • Net Video Views Topped 10 Billion In February - 4/16/2008 3:41:00 PM - Multichannel News
    U.S. Internet users viewed 10.1 billion online videos in February—up 66% year over year—with Google’s YouTube again capturing the lion’s share of the traffic with 34% of all videos viewed, according to Internet measurement firm comScore.
  • Civil society and capitalism: a new landscape | openDemocracy
    Michael Edwards's critique of philanthocapitalism underplays how far a world of interdependency creates opportunity for civil society to force business into embracing social and legal progress, says Simon Zadek of AccountAbility.
  • Fair Labor Association
    organization dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide
  • The Equator Principles | A framework for banks to manage environmental and social issues in project financing
    A financial industry benchmark for determining, assessing and managing social & environmental risk in project financing
  • The Information Society and the Welfare State - The Finnish Model
    Google books rendering
  • Springwise: Route planner with a wiki twist
    advanced route planners
  • Springwise: Web tools for landlords
    two different continents have come up with tools to help make the job easier.
  • Springwise: 'Tipping Point' Activism site ensures participation
    by giving planners a way to organize fundraisers, rallies, boycotts and other events so that they occur only once enough people have promised to join in.
  • Springwise: Pop-up work spaces in vacant buildings
    transforms empty inner-city shop and office buildings into temporary work spaces for copywriters, designers, artists and other young creative professionals
  • Springwise: Maps for new-energy entrepreneurs
    reports show just how much wind or sunshine an area is likely to receive, based on years’ worth of meteorological data. The company advertises its reports via a free interactive map, which uses Google Maps.
  • Springwise: Online magazine publisher for the masses
    Issuu's viewer features full-screen mode and vector graphics to create the online equivalent of a print magazine right from within a web browser.
  • Springwise: Book lending made convenient
    We've recently written about the Netflix model being applied to toys and textbooks, and now a few new contenders are applying it to popular books.
  • Springwise: Coffee life stories link farmers and drinkers
    We've written before about product life stories and how they're bringing new transparency to the creation and distribution of consumer products. Dole Organics did it for bananas, and now Crop to Cup is doing something similar for coffee.
  • Springwise: Online invites, upgraded
    focusing more on the appearance of its invitations, and incorporating more Web 2.0 features into managing the process.
  • Springwise: Location-based games lure kids off the couch
    location-based games kids can play outdoors using their GPS-enabled mobile phones.
  • Springwise: Dining reviews by the dish
    Dishola, a user-driven website devoted to the best dishes in gastronomic destinations around the world.
  • Springwise: Marketplace for book makers
    publishing software and services company that brings bookstore-quality publishing to the masses, publishing nearly 80,000 unique titles in 2007, for example, and doubling in size every three months—and now it's come out with BlurbNation, a way for users
  • Questia Online Library
    the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences
  • Merakis and Free Australia Wireless
    podcast
  • BarCamp Canberra Blog » Podcasts and presentations
    Downloadable (mp3) recordings of BarCampCanberra presentations.
  • BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Global food system 'must change'
    The global agriculture system will have to change radically if the world is to avoid future environmental and social problems, a report has warned.