Worth a Look: Sarapis Non-Profit, Free/Libre/Open Source (FLO) Solutions to Local Challenges — A NYC Change Agent

  FLO projects make their source materials freely accessible to the public at no cost & with few, if any, restrictions. What’s the Problem? Technological advancements lead to increases in productivity that are supposed to lead to increases in wealth. But for the vast majority of Americans, real wealth has actually been decreasing over the last 30 …

Yoda: Neil Irwin in NYT Gets Its Right – Scotland’s Independence Vote Shows a Global Crisis of the Elites — Robert Steele Comments + Book Review RECAP

At last, NYT gets something right. Scotland’s Independence Vote Shows a Global Crisis of the Elites Neil Irwin New York Times, 18 September 2014 When you get past the details of the Scottish independence referendum Thursday, there is a broader story underway, one that is also playing out in other advanced nations. It is a …

2014-09-13 INTERVIEW Robert Steele with Pierre Cloutier Québec – plaidoyer pour une nation intelligente

Les grandes entrevue de Vigile : Robert Steele Québec : plaidoyer pour une nation intelligente Le Québec pourrait servir de modèle pour le monde entier Pierre Cloutier Tribune libre de Vigile samedi 13 septembre Robert David Steele Vivas est un vrai patriote américain. Ancien marine, ancien agent de la CIA en Amérique du Sud et ailleurs, co-fondateur du …

Finn Jackson: Can Monasteries Be a Model for Reclaiming Tech Culture for Good?

This article describes an initiative more in line with the approach I would take: “find a place with unmet needs and unused space to lend a building to a group of young hackers. Live together cheaply, building open-source infrastructure for the commons. Repeat until it becomes a network.” Can Monasteries Be a Model for Reclaiming …

Jean Lievens: Open Content Business Models and Michel Bauwens on DeGrowth

Open Content and Public Broadcasting: Future Business Models – YouTube Over 100 participants and industry leaders explore issues related to producing and distributing open access content across multiple public broadcasting platforms.The WGBH Educational Foundation, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, hosts a conference on Open Content …

Stephen E. Arnold: Free Law Textbooks — and the Fight to Liberate Intellectual Property Law from Entrenched Corporations with Armed with Lobbyists

Free Law Textbooks Challenge Copyright Maximalism August 28, 2014 The article titled Duke Professor Looking To Make Legal Texts Affordable; Kicking Off With Intellectual Property Law on Techdirt refers to the work of James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins. Both work in the Center of the Study of Public Domain at Duke Law School and hoped …