Archive for December, 2008

the party, digg-like government open for questions

Monday, December 29th, 2008

I am impressed by the way the Obama team is organizing its priorities: based on voting questions formulated by the population. It’s not rocket science to set a website like this, but it shows an authentic wish of grasping what the population wants.
Example, the question voted at the top of the “Health Care” section:
“In all [...]

now, gettin’ high

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Travelling the silk route (2008) by Move D and Namlook. If this is not a work of genius, I don’t know what is. You don’t need marijuana or some other stronger drug to get high, it can happen spontaneously, all you need is just to listen to it (the Travelling…) and probably you’ll feel what [...]

notebombs on free software, public services, intellectuals and parasites

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Is your toilet economically sustainable?
Intrigued by Ubuntuism, commodification, and the software dialectic by Mike Chege, published on 1-st Dec 2008 in FirstMonday.
The author says:
free software is based on a philosophy of inclusion, cooperation, sharing, and openness, while the market is synonymous with self–interest, secretiveness, competition, and the exclusion of those who do not, or cannot, [...]