Story Telling Social Media site (more)

aka Digital Rights Management (more)

Microforms are any forms, either films or paper, containing microreproductions[1] of documents for transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about one twenty-fifth of the original document size. For special purposes, greater optical reductions may be used. All microform images may be provided as positives or negatives, more often the latter. Three formats are common: microfilm (reels), aperture cards and microfiche (flat sheets). Microcards, a format no longer produced, were similar to microfiche, but printed on cardboard rather than photographic film. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform (more)

GNU Privacy Guard (Gnu P G or GPG) is a GPL Licensed alternative to the PGP suite of cryptographic software. Gnu P G is compliant with RFC 4880, which is the current IETF standards track specification of Open P G P. Current versions of PGP (and Veridis' Filecrypt) are interoperable with Gnu P G and other Open P G P-compliant systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard (more)

Pretty Good Privacy (more)

If you’re curious about biology, you can join a newly formed organization called BioCurious in California’s Bay Area. BioCurious, started as an online community, recently opened a new BioTech Hacker Space and community lab where those interested can come together to learn and share ideas... If you live in New York City, you can join Gen Space, the city’s community biolab that opened doors in December 2010. According to their web page, “Genspace was founded by a group of science enthusiasts who come from different professions--artists, engineers, writers and biologists. Unlike traditional institutions, our diversity is our strength and the source of our innovation.” Wired Mag profiled the lab when they opened last year. (more)

SnapChat is trying to move from its Self Destructing Instant Messaging origins to become a publishing Platform. (more)

founder of EBay (more)

Stowe Boyd thinks in terms of a Liquid World rather than a Network Economy. (more)

The book that launched ADD in the public consciousness. Still maybe my favorite. (more)

aka Community Supported Agriculture (more)

aka Hacker Space

quietCare service (more)

Crowd Sourcing curating of new/Start Up products. (more)

John Michael Greer on Jack Lalanne's Physical Culture. We don’t like to think about the fact that by and large, Americans these days are weaker, less healthy, and less capable than their great-grandparents... from its beginning, the physical culture movement took a critical stance toward the products of industry and the Life Style-s made possible by the extravagant use of Fossil Fuel-s... His accomplishments, like those of the great physical culturists before him, depended on something utterly unmentionable in contemporary industrial culture. It’s more strictly tabooed than sex or death or the total dependence of today’s Middle Class American lifestyles on Third World slave labor. Yes, we’re talking about Self Discipline (Self Control)... JamesFrancis’ useful 1994 study Subversive Virtue: Asceticism and Authority in the Second-Century Pagan World chronicles how Rome’s rulers found the reasoned self-discipline taught by Stoic (Stoicism) and Platonic philosophies an unendurable challenge to their authority. You can find similar conflicts in the history of imperial China, the Muslim world, or, really, wherever the decline of imperial (Empire) states is well enough documented. The reason behind these conflicts is simple enough: people who are ruled by their passions and appetites can be ruled just as efficiently by any political system willing to pander to those things, while those who control themselves can’t reliably be controlled by anyone else. Thus the Roman government regularly sent Rome’s philosophers into exile, failing Chinese dynasties praised Confucius to the skies while doing away with anybody who took his teachings too seriously, and modern America uses every trick in the media’s book to marginalize those who remind us that the life of a channel-surfing couch potato might not express the highest potentials of our humanity.

*Nu Vu is the brainchild of Saeed Arida, a former PhD student from MIT who believes that young people should be taught to solve real-world problems, like using new materials to design higher-quality prosthetics. (more)

Google Now is an Intelligent Software Assistant developed by Google. It is available within the Google Search mobile application for Android, and IOS, as well as the Google Chrome web browser on personal computers. Google Now uses a Natural Language user interface to answer questions, make recommendations, and perform actions by delegating requests to a set of web services. Along with answering user-initiated queries, Google Now proactively delivers information to the user that it predicts they will want, based on their search habits. The estimated cost of development is $75M. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Now

document summarizing Mission/Business Model/Business Strategy for a Start Up, usually for the sake of getting investment (more)

Scott Rosenberg noted (back in June) Larry Lessig's announcement that he planned to shift his focus/specialty to the Corruption of the Political System/process. I Commented (on Scott's blog) about my belief in Term Limits. (more)

William Lind on Dealing With Terrorism via defense. (more)