Jean Lievens: Stigmergic Collaboration: The Evolution of Group Work

Collaboration depends on communication, and content depends on combination of social negotiation and creative energy. Stigmergic Collaboration: The Evolution of Group Work Mark Elliott M/C Journal, May 2006 Introduction 1The steady rise of Wikipedia.org and the Open Source software movement has been one of the big surprises of the 21st century, threatening stalwarts such as …

SchwartzReport: Corporate Cabal Taking Over World Food and Water Supplies — Until the Riots — Will Vigilantes Begin Hunting Down and Killing Monsanto Executives?

I have decided to focus today’s SR on GMOs and the transgenic sector because it represents such a clear example of the geopolitical shift we are living through: the Ascendence of the Non-geographical corporate states. NGCSs are not just corporations, in a business sense, that we mean when we say, corporatocracy. These transnational entities are …

SchwartzReport: GOOD Supergreen Hydrogen, 400 Year Old Moss Revived BAD Citi-Bank, Monsanto

GOOD Here potentially is some very good news. An alternative energy source, a technology for reversing ocean acidification, and a CO2 sequestration remediation. Scientists Develop CO2 Sequestration Technique That Produces ‘Supergreen’ Hydrogen Fuel, Offsets Ocean Acidifica ANNE M STARK – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory This may seem very esoteric but I am publishing it because …

Anthony Judge: Potential of Feynman Diagrams for Challenging Psychosocial Relationships?

Potential of Feynman Diagrams for Challenging Psychosocial Relationships? Comprehending the neglect of an unexplored possibility Introduction Questionable appreciation of quantum electrodynamics Characterisation of Feynman diagrams Credibility of psychosocial analogues of Feynman diagrams Urgent need for subtle representation of positive-negative relationships through a pattern language Relevance to much-valued psychosocial processes Exploratory psychosocial reframing of Feynman diagrams …

DefDog: Russian Target #1? Dimona, Israel — Along with an Alternative History Worth Reading

Funny how stuff gets around.  More than one source is talking about Dimona, Israel as the ideal “proportionate response” from Russia with love…  Not sure why the French are allowing false stories about chemical weapons use by Assad — and we all continue to worry about Israel and the neo-cons simulating Iranian attacks on US …

Michel Bauwens: Towards a Grand Coalition for the Commons

Towards a grand coalition for the commons I believe there is a historic opporunity to reconstruct a progressive majority around enabling the commons, which would be based on the following political and sociological complementarity between political forces and parties. Though the fortunes of the new player in politics are down from the moment I wrote …