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Make: Online | Is It Time to Rebuild & Retool Public Libraries and Make “TechShops”?

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Sat, 06/18/2011 - 23:19
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http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/03/is-it-time-to-rebuild-retool-pu...

Let’s explore what could be ahead for public libraries and how we could collectively transform them into “factories” — not factories that make things, but factories that help make people who want to learn and make things. Will libraries go away? Will they become hackerspaces, TechShops, tool-lending libraries, and Fab Labs, or have these new, almost-public spaces displaced a new role for libraries? For many of us, books themselves are tools. In the sense that books are tools of knowledge, the library is a repository for tools, so will we add “real tools” for the 21st century?

JSONView - View JSON in Firefox | BenHollis.net

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 00:33
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http://jsonview.com/

JSONView is a Firefox extension that helps you view JSON documents in the browser.

Normally when encountering a JSON document (content type "application/json"), Firefox simply prompts you to download the file. With the JSONView extension, JSON documents are shown in the browser similar to how XML documents are shown. The document is formatted, highlighted, and arrays and objects can be collapsed. Even if the JSON document contains errors, JSONView will still show the raw text. More info in the inaugural blog post.

very helpful

Paulo Coelho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 10:11
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho

The Alchemist has gone on to sell more than 65 million copies, becoming one of the best-selling books in history, and has been translated into more than 70 languages, the 71st being Maltese, winning the Guinness World Record for most translated book by a living author.

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OpenFire Mac OS X Uninstall Problem and Solution

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 09:18

I'm really just putting this out there in case anyone else runs into the problem I did.

Basically, installing and running OpenFire on OS X, and then deleting the app, but having it turn out that some installed binaries keep running in the background and writing to error logs that quickly expand to fill many Gb's of space on one's hard drive. Furthermore, the used-up space is hard to locate because it's in /usr/local/

Here's the solution I was able to use:

Run this in Terminal to see a list of everything touched by the installer
 

Vint Cerf: Smart Grid Has to Be Distributed, Voluntary, Collaborative: Online Collaboration «

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 02:45
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http://gigaom.com/collaboration/vint-cerf-smart-grid-has-to-be-distribut...

At the end of the day the smart grid is about extracting and sharing information in the best way possible to manage resources, points out Cerf. And he sees the smart grid as just the beginning for managing resources with networks, and expects digital networks to eventually manage water, oil and gas.

Smart grid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 02:29
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid

Basic info for our work on Energy Commons.

Ain’t Gonna Work on Arianna’s Farm No More | Institute For The Future

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 02:12
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http://www.iftf.org/SocialProduction

peer production becomes Social Production :: http://www.iftf.org/SocialProduction

by Marina Gorbis. a must read. "digital manor economy" and "digital peasants"

Shareable: International Energy Crises Make the Case for Change: Towns Lead Transition

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 00:58
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http://shareable.net/blog/international-energy-crises-make-the-case-for-...

While on the national level, America looks unwilling to come to terms either with its addiction to oil or with the need to address global warming, locally, towns are taking on sustainability issues whether through programs such as New York City's PlaNYC, signing on to the U.S. Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement, or by tapping the know-how of their citizens in other ways. One such grassroots movement that travels under the "Transition Town" banner is spreading fast across the U.S., UK, and elsewhere with a strikingly practical and optimistic approach to sustainability.

NewsTrust.net - Blog: The Future of Energy: News Hunt Results

Submitted by paulbhartzog on Sat, 04/09/2011 - 22:01
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http://blog.newstrust.net/2010/06/energy-results.html

Paul B. Hartzog said:

The real story here is not advances in energy production, but the transformation of the entire energy landscape from large-scale centralized production to small-scale distributed networks of production. This is part of a general shift towards what Yochai Benkler called "commons-based peer-production."

It is interesting to note that Scientific American repeatedly investigates the important change: "How home solar arrays can help to stabilize the grid" and "Joining the Energy Underground: Residential Geothermal Power Systems."

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