By John Cloud and Jodie Morse TIME.com In many ways, in fact, home schooling has become a threat to the very notion of public education. In some school districts, so […]
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We each view reality from our own unique perspective, only a community of minds can show us the truth.
Bravery and Responsibility
Mark Pilgrim wrote a very interesting and in my opinion very brave article about his personal addiction to alcohol, marijuana, and tobacco. He published his article on the internet and […]
Continue readingHelp, I’m in Orwell’s 1984 and I can’t get out!
John Bostrom Before Sept 11th, Bush was in huge trouble – on top of not having been really elected and sounding like a puppet, his first months in office prove […]
Continue readingNow for the really, Really, REALLY bad news.
Benjamin C. Works I’m not ready for $100 a barrel oil prices, are you? That would be more than a four-fold increase from prices now bouncing around $22 a barrel. […]
Continue readingThe Internet is still a Gift Economy
by Ed Phillips It’s free, it’s out here, but you’re going to have to dig for it. You are going to have to give something away in order to receive […]
Continue readingCan Linux billionaires carry the free-software torch?
Salon.com Both Larry Augustin and Eric Steven Raymond are believers in something called “the gift economy”—a way of organizing labor in cyberspace that runs counter to the normal business practices […]
Continue readingSeeking the Mechanism of a Gift Economy
Timothy Wilken I will posting lighter here for the next few days, I am working on my description of a Gift Tensegrity. Tensegrity is the most powerful organizational pattern in known […]
Continue readingThe Morgenthau Proposal
a thread from the Alas Babylon Yahoo Group Paul starts the thread: Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt, was a modern prophet. He came out with an idea […]
Continue readingHow Vulnerable are the Saudi’s Oil Fields?
Seymour M. Hersh THE NEW YORKER “The American military response has triggered alarm in the international oil community and among intelligence officials who have been briefed on a still secret […]
Continue readingMy Thoughts on Gift Economy
Arthur Noll There has been a lot written about gift economies, but I haven’t been able to find many details about how it would work to overcome our problems. It […]
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