What might interest us? Laurent Straskraba: People who are willing to do good for society can only fulfill their work if they can access necessary resources and cover the costs.[...] This just brought me to the idea to remind you on the model of "Social
Entrepreneurs". Do all of you know this model? Take a look at www.changemakers.net to learn more about it. To spin this even more - wouldn´t we like to become a "Netpreneur"? Take a look at www.netpreneur.org
http://www.changemakers.net Andrius ms
What might interest us? Bruce B. Janz of the University of Central Florida has put together pages of African Philosophy Resources, including philosophy about Africa, or done in Africa, or of interest to African philosophers. Links to discussion lists, associations, bibliographies, conferences, journals, websites, documents. Topics include: Afrocentrism, ancient Africa, art in Africa, gender, indigenous knowledge, literature, panAfricanism, politics, race, and religion.
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/afphil/ Andrius ms
What might interest us? "The Meatrix" is a clever animated short on behalf of farm animals, those who eat them, and small farmers. With a red pill of truth leading to actions that we can take. How might we phrase this as an endeavor that fosters "caring about thinking"?
http://www.themeatrix.com Andrius ms
What might interest us? Thank you to Robin Good for alerting us to the DOT COM Alliance lead and funded by the USAID, with help from 99 resource partners, to promote the use of information and communication technology in global development. DOT COM Alliance consists of dot-GOV for policy and regulatory reform, dot-ORG for underserved communities and accelerated development, and dot-EDU for education and learning systems.
http://www.dot-com-alliance.org/dotcomfaq.htm Andrius ms
What might interest us? The 21st World Congress of Philosophy was held in Istanbul, Turkey, attracting 2,000 philosophers to this congress held every five years. (The next will be in Seoul, Korea). Leading thinkers were Jürgen Habermas, Peter Singer, Gianni Vattimo and Kwasi Wiredu, and the theme was "Philosophy Facing World Problems". Alan Gewirth introduced a new conception of human rights as the necessary conditions for human action.
http://www.philosophynow.org/issue43/43steinbauer.htm Andrius ms
What might interest us? Thank you to Ramana Rao for alerting us to the Half Bakery. It is a collaborative database for fictitious inventions, for the sake of speculation, creativity and satire. They invite original ideas, either possible or interestingly impossible. There is a cabal of editors and moderators, and they don't want to be the ones to decide what is doable, and what is silly. Registered users can vote for or against ideas.
http://www.halfbakery.com Andrius ms
What might interest us? Ramana Rao, CTO and Founder of Inxight Software, works there to cross borders between technology and sales. His work at Xerox PARC and Inxight has been to design and promote software systems to augment human creative and intellectual capability. He has a blog, hosts a wiki, and writes a monthly newsletter.
http://www.ramanarao.com/bio.html Andrius ms
What might interest us? Microsoft's Longhorn operating system, due to be released in 2006, will include an API for smart-client applications for both Windows and the Web, which make use of a PC's bountiful processing, memory and storage, and then synchronize with Internet servers as needed and available.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15600044 Andrius ms
What might interest us? Flemming Funch: One of Edward de Bono's numerous contributions to the discipline of creative thinking is the six thinking hats. The idea is basically that you are aware of what thinking and communication mode you are in - what hat you are wearing. That puts things in perspective, sorts statements in a meaningful way, and makes it less likely that people misunderstand each other. E.g. if you're wearing the black hat, you might be playing devil's advocate, and put attention on things that might not work. If that is clear, and announced up front, it is likely that people will take less offense to the criticism, and it is more likely to be useful. If you announce you're wearing a red hat, irrational emotional outbursts are more acceptable, and don't necessarily have to be analyzed logically. Etc. You can have a meeting using that system. Or you can use it in brainstorming, to categorize different kinds of ideas.
http://ming.tv/flemming2.php?did=10&vid=10&xmode=show_article&amode=standard&aoffset=0&artid=000010-000716&time=1050062693 Andrius ms
What might interest us? Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld: I was glad to read recently that Belgium's attempt to make itself into the Hague has come to naught. An interesting view of this (written by a Lebanese Christian Arab) and the situation of Lebanese Christian Arabs with regard to the Palestinians they welcomed into their midst is at the Lebanese Foundation for Peace web site.
http://ms.memes.net/index.php3?request=displaypage&NodeID=114 Andrius ms
What might interest us? Flemming Funch: Bluetooth seems to be becoming a really cool thing. Even though I haven't succeeded in getting very far with it myself. For the uninitiated, Bluetooth is a standard that allows cellphones, headsets, handhelds, laptops, or whatever, to communicate wirelessly with each other over short distances, like when they're within the same room. [...] A Swedish programmer came up with a way of using his cellphone for remote controlling his Macintosh.
http://ming.tv/flemming2.php/_d10/_v10/__show_day/_w2003-03-07#000010-000634 Andrius ms
What might interest us? Doc Searls, a leading technology reporter, commentator and blogger, has placed his weblog in the Public Domain with the help of the Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain This will be a great stream of thought for our ideafeeds!
http://doc.weblogs.com/ Andrius ms
What might interest us? Shannon Clark: Andrius, check out lulu press. The founder of red hat has just started it as a peer to peer publishing firm and printer of public domain works. He is also starting a trade show arm.
http://www.lulu.com/about/author_tips.php Andrius ms
What might interest us? ThoughtTreasure by Erik T.Mueller is a common sense knowledge base available for noncommercial use. It consists of 27,000 concepts, 51,000 common sense assertions about these concepts, and 35,000 English and 21,000 French related words and phrases. The downloadable architecture enables tagging, parsing, converting, resolving, simulating, planning and understanding. There is a Java-based API and a online query mechanism.
http://www.signiform.com/tt/htm/tt.htm Andrius ms
What might interest us? Shannon Clark: While I'm not a fan of MS by any means - they have an upcoming software product that sounds interesting - "OneNote". Which, in many respects, sounds like their version of a mindmapper type of software - if it is open and easy to access might be something fairly interesting.
http://www.thinksecret.com/news/onenote.html Andrius ms
What might interest us? Nic Harvard: I've actually had a fairly long look at traction's product (I want to build a blogging tool into an intranet i'm building next year) and it's very slinky. At over 30K US, it's not all that expensive either. Lots of attention to detail, and a very powerfull tool for high-powered teams and workgroups. If i was going to start a 10-30 person operation, using mostly highly skilled and educated people, a this is a tool i'd very seriously building into the working methodology of my business.
http://www.tractionsoftware.com Andrius ms
What might interest us? GIVE Foundation promotes giving by helping NGOs raise funds through greater transparency and accountability. It is a not-for-profit financial services organization with a focus on India and a vision of organizing giving with the professionalism of investing. They envisage charity exchanges, information databases, pooling of funds, percent based donations, incubation funding, charity portfolio management, and rating agencies.
http://www.givefoundation.org/vision.htm Andrius ms
What might interest us? Time magazine chose Tom White as America's best philanthropist for his quiet giving of the greater part of his fortune. His favorite charities are Boston's Partners in Health, providing medical care to the poor around the world; Bread for the World, urging Washington lawmakers to spend more on food stamps and raise the minimum wage; Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, funding the appeals of death-row inmates; Odwin Learning Center, helping Boston adults get into college; and Sojourner House, providing emergency shelter in Boston.
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/americasbest/TIME/society.culture/pro.twhite.html Andrius ms
What might interest us? Jenson Crawford alerts us to this article that Plumb Design has released version 2.0 of their Visual Thesaurus http://www.visualthesaurus.com based on their Thinkmap interface and the WordNet database. A word is shown at the center, with its various meanings branching out, and rotated via animation. The meanings are given by rollovers. Each meaning further branches out to new words, any of which may be selected as the central word. Antonyms are connected with dashed lines. Plumb Design focuses on structuring, presenting and retrieving information assets for enterprises.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/021010/102167_1.html Andrius ms
What might interest us? Cayak invito nos a sus grupos por studentos y profesores en español. Quieren tener el mayor academico virtual del todo el mundo. Tienen 3000 miembros y ahora se organizaron.
http://groups.msn.com/mechudos/ Andrius ms