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Over 40 organizations endorse The Declaration and “How-to” guide to new models of sustainability in the digital era that are released today by the Free/Libre Culture Forum (http://2010.fcforum.net) after 4 months work. http://fcforum.net/sustainable-models-for-creativity Each year, the FCForum brings together key organisation and active voices in the sphere of free/libre culture. It responds to the need [...]

There are petabytes of research data being produced in laboratories around the world, but the best web search tools available can’t help us make sense of it. Why? Because more stands between basic research and meaningful discovery than the problem of search. Many scientists today work in relative isolation, left to follow blind alleys and [...]

Die Beauty is a Surreal thriller into a feverish fairy tale world . A story about friendship and alienation , family ties and Kindred blood . A group of girls want something to happen . Something That Will make everything change . A dead body floating down the river Would ask Exciting . And if [...]

I do believe in what Torrent Freak says: “One of the main challenges that independent content producers face today is not piracy, but finding ways to to get their work noticed.” Pioneer One is an ambitious project from Josh Bernhard and Bracey Smith who have collaborated before on ‘The Lionshare’, a BitTorrent-exclusive film which was [...]

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) may hamper the fight against climate change by inhibiting the diffusion of green technology, according to the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII). Behind closed doors, the European Union, United States, Japan and other trade partners are negotiating an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. ACTA will contain new international norms for [...]

Beagle: On the future of species The voyage of the HMS Beagle has been described as the most important journey ever made. During his travels, Charles Darwin gathered information and knowledge that would drastically change the way we look at the world. With his book “On the Origin of Species” (1859) Darwin would be the [...]

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I have just gave my bit to descentralise the internet! And to support alternative ways to finance projects.

Douglas Rushkoff, media theorist and writer.