- The Church of England and the 1,000 war against usury
Usury overthrows trade, decays merchandise, undoes tillage, destroys craftsmen, defaces chivalries, beats down nobility, brings dearth and famine, and causes destruction and confusion. - YouTube - Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)
nearly 6 million views, very moving dynamics - Buddhist Economics Research Platform - Call for Papers
- Michel Bauwens — Peer-to-Peer Alternatives « Tom’s News and Views
about the emerging phenomena of networks, peer production, social design and innovation, and peer-to-peer (P2P) alternatives. - User:Guaka/mockup - P2P Foundation
- Mercury News | 09/08/2002 | 10 choices that were critical to the Net's success
How did technologists, government officials and a host of other early players turn something with no obvious business model into a system that has become so intrinsic to the new century? A series of decisions proved critical - Yahoo! Search BOSS - YDN
BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform. The goal of BOSS is simple: to foster innovation in the search industry. Developers - Advanced Google Search Operators
Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. - Google Help : Cheat Sheet
Here's a quick list of some of our most popular tools to help refine and improve your search. - Yahoo Strives To Disrupt the Search Market, Opens Up Its APIs @ SOA WORLD MAGAZINE
aimed at giving third parties an unprecedented level of access to Yahoo! Search Technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of Web search - Internet2: 2004 and beyond - CNET News.com
through the Internet2 network, he can give individual instruction to students half a world away with CD-quality sound and DVD-like images. - Jeremy R. Cooperstock
Cooperstock's accomplishments include the development of a computer-controlled videoconference environment that reacts intelligently to the activity of users, the Intelligent Classroom - Barack Obama | Change We Can Believe In | Technology
Barack Obama understands the immense transformative power of technology and innovation and how they can improve the lives of all Americans. - ibiblio linux archive
ibiblio archives over 171 gigabytes of Linux programs and documentation freely available for download via FTP and/or WWW access. The subject categories listed to the right give you a general idea of the diversity of our archive. - South Africa's freedom includes its data | Technology | The Guardian
The Promotion of Access to Information act overturned the commercial model that the CDSM had been operating until that time. - Bharat Operating System Solutions — Bharat Operating System Solutions
a GNU/Linux distribution developed by C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing) for enhancing the use of Free/ Open Source Software throughout India - OpenBiblio | Main / OpenBiblio browse
an easy to use, automated library system written in PHP containing OPAC, circulation, cataloging, and staff administration functionality. - IASC 2008 Conference Home Page
Governing shared resources: connecting local experience to global challenges - The Social Web TV
Tune in each week to learn about the progress being made toward opening up the Social Web. - The Future of Groundswell | Fast Company
Two years later, Stormhoek's $1 million wine business had grown to a $10 million business. Jason has continued to build on the success among bloggers with a Facebook group, YouTube videos, and Flickr photos - OECD Newsletter on new economic indicators
- Elizabeth Tunstall - The future of politics: Distributed creativity and DIY policy design | Re-public : re-imagining democracy - english version
What is the role of design in a complex, distributed world of policy formation and implementation? Why is the model of distributed creativity more appropriate for this domain? - Katherine Hepworth - Yes we can: Barack Obama, graphic design and liberal democratic process | Re-public : re-imagining democracy - english version
In a bid for the presidency that is all about difference from the political norm, graphic design has been used in a unique way for an election campaign. It has been treated as a serious campaigning tool - Jamie Brassett and Peter Booth - Ecstatic innovation: Digesting, designing and democracy | Re-public : re-imagining democracy - english version
The removal of the locus of power and control from the hierarchic project of design, will lead to opportunities for innovation that will be constrained only by the tardiness in producing digestable objects. - Mine Ovacik Dortbas - Learning from Do-It-Youselvers in villages | Re-public : re-imagining democracy - english version
From the standing point of my design interest and study made in a village of Anatolia, I had the chance to see some daily objects made by villagers as users. - Of Network Privacy, Neutrality, and Turtles
Contrary to popular belief, ISP services have never been entirely “neutral”. They do more than relay all packets - The Self-governing Internet: Coordination by Design
Contrary to its popular portrayal as anarchy, the Internet is actually managed, though not by a manager in the traditional sense of the word. This paper explains how the decentralized Internet is coordinated into a unified system. - Can mydeco Democratize Design?
mydeco, a new London company that showcases furniture from major retailers and helps users design their own interiors. - Spec Work Is Evil / Why I Hate CrowdSpring | Andrew Hyde - Humble Yet Bold
Speculative work (asking someone to complete a job as an application is a loose promise to pay them if you want to) is evil. - NO!SPEC » What is Spec?
“Spec” has become the short form for any work done on a speculative basis. In other words, any requested work for which a fair and reasonable fee has not been agreed upon, preferably in writing.