At Home in the Universe
I’m using John Godley’s Filled In WordPress plug-in to allow people to register for Aardbron events.
However, when Filled In is activated, WordPress didn’t render some admin pages correctly anymore (Manage Posts, Manage Pages, etc.).
Got in touch with John, and he said: “Add the following to your .htaccess file:
php_value memory_limit 32M
And so I did and Filled [...]
Posted in aarde, book, computing, english, innovation, network, whole world on Oct 30th, 2007
Finally, an excellent video about the emergence of our global collective intelligence. Watch it on Shift Happens. It’s about .
Posted in architecture, chaordic, computing, creative, english, network, open source, smart software, typography on Oct 9th, 2007
Stumbled across a wonderful website yesterday with a lot of awseome and open source Flash applications that produce wonderful graphics, many of them fractal, complex. Check out Levitated.net—a friendly company.
Posted in computing, english, network, peer-to-peer, smart software on Oct 5th, 2007
Martijn van Steenbergen tipped me on The Storm Worm:
Some key points:
Storm is designed like an ant colony
Rather than having all hosts communicate to a central server or set of servers, Storm uses a peer-to-peer network for C2.
And even if a C2 node is taken down, the system doesn’t suffer. Like a hydra with many heads, [...]
Posted in architecture, chaordic, chaorganization, computing, english, network, peer-to-peer, smart software on Sep 18th, 2007
SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival: “PacoCheezdom writes ‘Intelligent Life has short summary of a demonstration by MIT professor James McLurkin of his new group-minded robots, which run an operating system called ‘Swarm OS’.
The robots are able to work together as a group not by communicating with all members of the group at once, but by [...]
Posted in architecture, computing, english, innovation, language, network, open source, peer-to-peer, smart software on Sep 7th, 2007
Refreshed my link with Gerald “tensegrity” de Jong, triggered by a blog entry from TED titled Creatures on the beach from the Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen which instantly reminded me of Gerald’s Fluidiom and Darwin at Home projects.
Gerald’s email signature also mentioned Groovy Actors:
In a nutshell it’s a natural next step, building further on object-oriented [...]
Posted in computing, english, language, network, open source, peer-to-peer, smart software on Sep 6th, 2007
A new programming language? Well, at least one I never heard of until today. It’s called Erlang and one of the interesting aspects are that it eases concurrent programming and distributed processes.
Erlang is a programming language designed at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory. Open-source Erlang is being released to help encourage the spread of Erlang [...]
Posted in community, computing, conscious computing, consciousness, crowd sourcing, english, network, whole world on Aug 27th, 2007
Converted my highlights from Pierre Lévy’s Collective Intelligence—Mankind’s emerging world in cyberspace to my wiki.
Pierre Lévy’s vision towards the noosphere…
Key words: nomadic earth, molar technologies, anthropological spaces, collective intellect, informational universe, commodity space, knowledge space, molecular politics, preceding spaces, collective intelligence, agent intellect, territorial space, intelligent city, fourth space, angelic body, intelligent communities, intelligent community, [...]
Posted in chaordic, computing, english, science, smart software on Aug 8th, 2007
Harry van der Velde will like this one…
The Future of Bridges: Self-Replicating, Irregular Designs: “Self-replicating bridges might be more robust, but also weirder looking, than the nearly magical pieces of civil engineering that human beings come up with.
(Via Wired News.)
Posted in agile, chaordic, chaorganization, community, computing, conscious computing, consciousness, creative, crowd sourcing, english, holacracy, innovation, open source, smart software on Jul 9th, 2007
Sanne Roemen en Daan Kortenbach doen een oproep om een coöp van briljante programmeurs op te zetten. Wat mij betreft breiden ze dat uit naar briljante ontwerpers, designers, architecten en projectleiders. En dan lekker agile aan de slag.
Als we dat nou eens naadloos kunnen samenvoegen met grote bedrijven op dit gebied. Een organisatievorm vinden waarbij [...]
Posted in aarde, architecture, chaordic, computing, conscious computing, consciousness, english, spiritual, whole world on Jul 1st, 2007
Now that the world is heating up, so are the discussions and debates on reducing resources required for computing. Reduced power, reduced heating, sleeping and suspending processors and processes.
Effective and efficient handling of our computing needs at minimal resource consumption in the complete life cycle of a network of computers has become the focus of [...]