Trend of the Day: Polycentric Law
“Just as we want ‘many centers’ of social entrepreneurship, we need ‘many centers’ of legal activity. These centers won’t build themselves. To erode monopoly power with start-ups in business we need...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Hackerspaces and DIYbio in Asia
* Article: Hackerspaces and DIYbio in Asia: Connecting Science and Community with Open Data, Kits and Protocols. by Denisa Kera . Special issue (#2) of the Journal of Peer Production on Bio/Hardware...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Distribution Hacking (marketing as coding/engineering)
The following is from the P2P By Design blog: “That said, there is another emerging discipline with which I’m fascinated. It’s called “growth hacking,” or, as Danielle Morrill prefers, “distribution...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Hacker Hostels
Excerpted from BRIAN X. CHEN: “This is not some kind of dorm, but a “hacker hostel.” It’s one of several in the Bay Area that offer short- or long-term stays for aspiring tech entrepreneurs on the...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Accountable Algorithms
“When I say that a public algorithm is “accountable” I mean that the output produced by a particular execution of the algorithm can be verified as correct after the fact by a skeptical member of the...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Desktop Fashion
From an interview of Chris Anderson, conducted by Vikram Alexei Kansara: “BoF: How might digital fabrication apply to the fashion industry? Are we going to be able to print out a sweater or a shirt?...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Open Public Transportation Data
Excerpted from Sam Muirhead: “Open data presents an opportunity to compare statistics, to make graphs, apps and maps which allow us to better understand the world and see what needs improvement, to...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Kit-Driven Innovation
Talented amateurs don’t just build kits; kits help build talented amateurs. And healthy innovation cultures — and successful innovation economies — need the human capital that their talent embodies....
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Open Modular Hardware
“While eBay provides a circulation of objects, and cradle-to-cradle provides a circulation of materials, modular construction systems provide a circulation of parts and components. Our ambition is to...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Community Choice Energy Aggregation
John Robb writes: “In a small number of US states (Massachusetts, Ohio, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and California), it’s legal to create a community power company that negotiates for power from...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Ad Hoc Temporary Social Networks
Ad Hoc Temporary Social Networks Mike Elgan: ‘Young job applicants are being turned away because of pictures posted of them drunk and shirtless at high school parties. People are being judged for the...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Commons Health Care
Commons Health Care = a commons healthcare system … would recognize, promote, and preserve health promoting activities and institutions such as farmers markets, community gardens, better food access,...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Transnational Societal Constitutionalism
Transnational Societal Constitutionalism = a concept and a conference on how international civil society is creating its own constitutions and thereby resisting the constitutionalism of global finance....
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Networked Participatory Design Systems
Networked Participatory Design Systems By Elizabeth Sikiaridi and Frans Vogelaar of Hybrid Space Lab: Networked Participatory Design Systems Today: “The projects described above stand in the long...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Research Reputation Metrics
Research Reputation Metrics by Richard Price: “New reputation metrics, developed by a number of startups, have been developed that incentivize scientists to share their research openly, rather than...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Earth Law
Around the world, we are seeing the emergence of creative alternatives to destructive economic paradigms. The good news is what is healthy for an ecosystem is also good for people: key ingredients are...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Community Micro-Financing for Solar Projects
Mosaic connects investors to solar projects in need of financing. Excerpted from John Robb: “Here’s an idea for a very simple community financing system from a company called Mosaic. Currently, they...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Occlusive Reality
Occlusive Reality Aaron Rosa writes: “As Augmented Reality (AR) tentatively moves from obscurity to ubiquity, we find ourselves constantly enticed by the purported capabilities and glossy demonstration...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Contextual Economics
Contextual economics understands that the economy itself contains at least three spheres. In addition to the for-profit business sphere—the focus of mainstream economics—there is also the core sphere,...
View ArticleTrend of the Day: Renewable Energy Exporting Local Communities
Excerpted from John Robb: “There’s a small city in California called Lancaster. They’ve got a dynamic mayor that’s geared up to do something to reverse his community’s slide into economic oblivion (a...
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