Meet the New Monastics: Kingsley L. Dennis & The Phoenix Generation [Electric Lyre Podcast]
For episode 2 of Electric Lyre podcast, I spoke with Kingsley L. Dennis about his new book, The Phoenix Generation, and how distributed networks and empathic consciousness might help a world in crisis.
An Internet for the Common Good: Engagement, Empowerment and Justice for All
More than a technology or a marketplace, the Internet is a social environment, a community space for people to interact with the expectation that principles of equity, fairness and justice will prevail.
HandUp wants to solve homelessness and make money doing it
Rose Broome was walking on a cold night in San Francisco when she noticed a homeless woman living on the street. She thought, there must be a service to help people in need get crucial items like food and personal hygiene products, with some amount of transparency.
Sporeganizer Spotlight: Why and How Networks Connect, by Jason White (Evolver Boston)
I started the netfoundry project because I had been in correspondence with several people over the years about the need for a “network-of-networks” type of social media/organizing infrastructure. To further elaborate on what netfoundry is intended to accomp…
Decentralized Domains
Government seizure of internet domain names has inspired the creation of a new, de-centralized, peer to peer Domain Name Service that could potentially combat DNS level censorship in the U.S. and other countries.
The Interwebs: Electronic Insanity and Mental Environmentalism
New technologies, particularly new communication technologies, have a
naturally occurring rewiring effect on thought and behavior. The Internet and the
psychosocial dysfunctions that accompany it seem to have crept
up on us all like a psych-brain virus with a decade-long
incubation cycle.
An Interview with Wellphoria Founder Vin Cardillo
Recently Reality Sandwich and Evolver entered into a partnership
with Wellphoria, a directory-membership service for alternative and
holistic healthcare. We wanted the RS/Evolver community to know more about this
innovative program, so we talked with Vin Cardillo, founder of
Wellphoria and the Wellphoria Foundation, about his company and the
vision that drives it.
All About Terra Madre
20 years after founding Slow Food, we're charting the future with Terra Madre. Terra Madre embodies a new approach to the production, processing, distribution, and consumption of food, drawing liberally on the history of the world's populations. It's conscious of the mess we have gotten ourselves into, but it's not afraid of the future.
Intelligence is Self Teaching
That intelligence is primarily an auto-didactic force of nature appears to be self evident. The complex forms and systems it can take on transcend our own "personal" intelligence. Social networks now are showing the degree of high wisdom and humor that can erupt from our collective intelligence as the Internet completely exploits our "self teaching" ability and our intelligence increases as a whole.
Who Actually Hears Your Voicemail Messages?
When you leave someone a voicemail message, you expect that the party you called will ultimately hear it. But have you considered that there may be other potential listeners as well?