Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive

George Dyson | Evolution and Innovation - Information Is Cheap, Meaning Is Expensive | The European Magazine

Containr | A Convergence of Art, Ideas and Technology

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Containr | A Convergence of Art, Ideas and Technology

Move Commons

see their presentation at #dimmons here

See also: Frame your initiative | move-commons

The conversation is now at Kune.cc

Getting started in Transmedia Storytelling

Getting started in transmedia storytelling

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Transmedia Activism_SilverDocs presentation

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Social Media Won't Save the World... But It Might Make the Job Easier

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The 5 shot method and beyond

Great practical advice below for anyone attempting to learn video production techniques but check this blog for more.

Teaching Visual Storytelling: The Five Shot Method and beyond

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Checklist: Five Shot video method

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Checklist: Video interviews

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See also: 10 step tutorial for digital storytelling

The Campaign for Commons Literacy

The Campaign for Commons Literacy on Prezi

The Campaign for Commons Literacy by School of Commoning on Prezi

An Overview of the Knowledge Commons

This book is intended as an introduction to a new way of looking at knowledge as a shared resource, a complex ecosystem that is a commons—a resource shared by a group of people that is subject to social dilemmas. Download it at mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262083574intro1.pdf

New Economy Network

The New Economy is an emerging system of values, practices, institutions, policies and laws that support an economy designed to maximize current well being and social justice without sacrficing the natural world or the resources available to future generations. Although there is no blueprint for the new economy, if you want to explore key ideas of visionary thinkers and organizations, then click here

Does civic engagement help immunize a place against recession?

• stronger social networks make it easier for people to get re-employed;
• civic engagement helps generate skills and confidence that translate into employability;
• civic engagement helps spread information that make it easier for individuals to learn about job openings or training programs;
• civic engagement produces higher trust and higher trust leads to better economic performance (although social trust wasn’t directly measured in the CPS survey);
• governments are more responsible and responsive in high civic engagement states; or
• people in more engaged communities may feel greater community attachment which leads them to invest more locally.

Read more at Social Capital Blog

See also: Could Civic Engagement Be the Key to Economic Success? for more links to reports

Even at a time when the global economy has been buffeted by strong and dangerous forces, all communities have capital and skills that can be deployed to create or preserve jobs. Investors may be more willing to create jobs locally if they trust other people and the local government, if they feel attached to their community, if they know about opportunities and can disseminate information efficiently, and if they feel that the local workforce is skilled. All these factors correlate with civic engagement. Those correlations, plus the other evidence cited in this report, lend some plausibility to the thesis that civic health matters for economic resilience.

On Community Building

On Human Networks and Living Biosystems

It can be argued that the emergence of the internet and of ubiquitous mobile communication & computation is an expression of our natural instincts to move into closer alignment with our environment; to follow the adaptive design patterns of nature in order to find a more sustainable & equitable posture for our species; a thermodynamic need to seek maximum efficiency in energy expenses. And to express a direct intervention programmed by nature itself to nudge the Anthropocene back towards equilibrium.

Recommended reading by chris arkenberg: On Human Networks And Living Biosystems

Online Audience Data is Future of Screen Media

Screen media producers need money to create their product. To get that money they need to show that they can deliver an audience. The more information they can provide about that audience, the easier their product is to sell and the easier it is to attract investment/advertising dollars. In fact, I recently was told, that it is this audience data that is the most valuable product. The actual content (the film, television show, web series, transmedia experience) is secondary and could even be viewed as simply a delivery mechanism for that data. That, my friends, is a mind-blowing and potentially extremely depressing idea. But, if the content no longer really matters, then this fact can be very liberating as well. If you can prove that you can and are delivering a clearly defined and loyal audience with certain viewing habits and purchase behaviours, then you can make whatever you want (as long as it keeps that audience with you). So, how do you provide that proof and gain that kind of creative freedom? This article makes the case that the online audience and its data is the key to the future of this industry.

Convergence Review

In response to @Converg_Review

Convergence Review

When more spectrum becomes available, how should the government determine how it is managed and used?

Please reserve a chunk of spectrum across rural, regional and remote Australia for the delivery of the NBN. I recognise that it's not part of NBNCo.'s current delivery plan due to their dependence on existing off the shelf technologies but the symmetrical inequities of satellite delivery in particular will put non FTTH users at a distinct disadvantage in the emerging digital economy.

I'm sure you're aware of the Ngara technology being developed by CSIRO - it offers great hope for symmetrical bandwidth access to those of us in hard to reach locations. When this technology matures, we'll need the spectrum allocation to capitalise on it.

Download speeds = consumption. Upload speeds = production. Don't allow rural, regional and remote people to be consigned to consumption only just because they live beyond the cultural cul-de-sac of urban Australia.

Peep Wireless Technology

PEER-TO-PEER GLOBAL MOBILITY. EVERY PHONE, EVERYWHERE, WITHOUT LIMITS.

Peep Wireless technology instantly expands wireless capacity for little or no cost, depending on the customer needs. By using peer-to-peer structure, Peep™ increases network capacity and coverage without needing additional infrastructure, such as base stations. Even in a catastrophic failure of the cellular phone system, the Peep Halo Mesh Network will still continue to operate.

Over a decade ago, our team developed a method of operating a Smartphone or other mobile handheld wireless computerized communications device outside of a normal cellular network. The method can be useful for either reducing cellular phone costs, or alternatively when the cellular phone infrastructure is degraded or absent. In such situations, the Smartphone operates in an alternative peer-to-peer wireless network mode, supplemented by optical network links as needed. The method can utilize standard Smartphone functionality such as Bluetooth or WiFi transceivers, light sources, and video cameras, and may be implemented in the form of a standard Smartphone App. The invention may establish a Gnutella-like peer-to-peer networking protocol between nearby Smartphones, and can extend the length of the peer-to-peer network connections by way of longer distance optical, radio and VeBand™ links. In alternative embodiments, various Smartphone peripherals can be added to extend the functionality of the peer-to-peer network still further.

Check out their website

see also: the serval project

http://www.transmediant.com/2011/01/serval-project.html

The Free Network Foundation

Who We Are

• We are an organization committed to the tenets of free information, free culture, and free society.
• We hold that advances in information technology provide humanity with the ability to effectively face global challenges.
• We contend that our very ability to mobilize, organize, and bring about change depends on our ability to communicate.
• We see that our ability to communicate is purchased from a handful of powerful entities.
• We know that we cannot depend on these entities to support movement away from a status quo from which they are the beneficiaries.
• We believe that access to a free network is a human right, and a necessary tool for environmental and social justice.

What We're Doing

• We envision communications infrastructure that is owned and operated cooperatively, by the whole of humanity, rather than by corporations and states.
• We are using the power of peer-to-peer technologies to create a global network which is immune to censorship and resistant to breakdown.
• We promote freedoms, support innovations and advocate technologies that enhance and enable digital

Click here for more.

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

For an innovator to be an innovator, you have to decide you can because only then will you. This is not self-help. This is being who you want to be. If you want to do something then stop telling yourself all the reasons why you won’t do it or why it will never happen. Those are just stories. Just start focusing on doing it, trying it, learning about it, grappling with it and then one day — voila — it’ll happen. Embody the idea and the idea materializes. The narrative precedes the action, which precedes the outcome.

The Stories We Tell Ourselves | Yes & Know

12 Most Effective Strategies for Blog Curation

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Making Movie Storyboards

Making Movie Storyboards

IdeaScale Suggestion Box

I discovered this platform via Pia Waugh's survey for Digital Public Sphere

The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

read the article at Popular Photography

Ingenesist Project: developing Social Capitalism

The Ingenesist Project is dedicated to the development of an alternate economy built on a platform of Social Media. Check out the video playlist to get a quick overview of what they're on about here

How the NBN can help bridge our geographical cultural divide

The cultural divide and the digital divide are both manifestations of the Desert Syndrome.

Australia’s dispersed population and its vast tyrannies of distance has created a major, ongoing, cultural divide.The relative costs of consuming culture between bush and city are starkly skewed in favour of the city, and may be getting worse as culture goes digital and the disparity in access, speed and reliability of broadband makes the bush relatively worse off.

The bush-city disparity between communications services in general, and broadband specifically, was one of major factors that drove key independents to install the minority Labor government last year.

Arts Minister Simon Crean wants Australian culture to play a significant role in binding the social fabric of the nation. This needs to play out not just in terms of publicly-funded culture reaching beyond the established middle class supporter base, who already possess significant cultural capital. It also must be centrally about addressing our great geographical cultural divide.

Read more here.

How to save the world

In our modern society, there are five distinct ways that decisions get made. Each entails power dynamics, and make no mistake: Decision-making is all about the exercise of power. Here’s a snapshot

Digital Literacy & the Digital Economy

Download this presentation by Carolyn Anderson : Digital_Literacy.pdf

Libraries & the Digital Economy

Download this presentation by Ross Duncan : Libraries_and_their_role_in_the_digital_economy

The Big Shift

Given the magnitude, depth and far-reaching impact of the Big Shift, succinctness is a challenge. At the highest level, we would characterize the Big Shift as moving from a world of push to a world of pull. In other words, given the growing uncertainty in the world around us, we must master a new set of techniques required to access, attract and accumulate resources to unleash peer based learning in far more flexible ways than conventional push programs permit.

But perhaps this is too high level. It may help to develop this perspective just a bit more in the context of “from-to” contrasts. Read more here

Hypereconomics

What happens after we’re all connected? Read about it at the human network

Networks Understanding Networks

Archived webcasts from both days of MIT Media Lab's Networks Understanding Networks are available here

Virtual Volunteering Guidebook

Virtual volunteering means volunteer tasks completed, in whole or in part, via the Internet and a home or work computer. Read more at Virtual Volunteering Resources

Video Advocacy Planning Toolkit

Do you want to use video to create social change? Are you trying to determine how to best tell a story that will create lasting change? If so, you are in the right place. The Video Advocacy Planning Toolkit incorporates the best practices and lessons learned by WITNESS and our partners over the past 20 years. The Toolkit was created to help human rights defenders and activists evaluate whether video is right for their campaign. It will also help you to plan and create an effective and powerful advocacy video.

The Cognitive Limit of Organizations

The structure of a society is related to its total amount of information. Read more at MIT Media Lab

iTaNGO Knowledgebase

The iTaNGO Knowledgebase contains a library of resources and references to encourage community service organisations (CSOs) to:

• develop their understanding of digital proficiency
• embrace the need for an information communication technology (ICT) plan
• undertake the production of an ICT plan.

Gertrude Street Projection Festival

The Gertrude St Projection Festivalis calling for proposals for the July 2012 Festival on the theme “Elements”.

If you are a projection artist, artist, filmmaker, design professional or student, download an entry form via the Gertrude Association and submit by 5pm, 4 November.

Proposals must be for site specific, moving image or still projection installations that respond to buildings or sites along Gertrude Street, Fitzroy.

*Deadline: Friday 4 November 2011 *

Gertrude Street Projection Festival. DL NOV 4 « Artabase Opportunities

Projection Mapping Wizards

Thanks to Fee Plumley for tweeting about Kimchi and Chips

Content Curation Primer

For organizations and brands, content curation can help establish the organization’s thought leadership and capture attention in today’s information cluttered world. Content curation can help your organization become the go-to authority on an issue or topic area. It can be done as simply as writing a blog post with links or sharing annotated links on Twitter around your topic.
Content curation is a three-part process: Seek, Sense, and Share.

Read more at www.bethkanter.org

Building Digital Commons

Global Forum on Building Digital Commons and Collaborative Communities
Barcelona, 29-30 October 2011
Building Digital Commons

No art? No social change. No innovation economy.

We are in a time of massive economic challenge, political, and generational change. Historically, the most significant reforms and investments in social capital and game-changing approaches have been accomplished during similar periods of challenge and transformation. We are in a time when policymakers will have to address significant structural changes and where the body politic is in play with pendulum swings left and right that demonstrate a willingness to risk the status quo.

Read more at Stanford Social Innovation Review