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Telekommunisten – the worker-owned telephone company

Worker Owned and Operated

telekommunisten is controlled by it’s workers and committed to staying that way, we believe we can serve our customers best and at the lowest cost by remaining focused on meeting the needs of our employees and customers, not on profits for outside shareholders. Being worker-owned means that all the money you spend on our products goes directly to the maintenance and improvement of the service you receive.

Venture Communism

Venture Communism is a project to research, experiment with, and initiate social enterprises, particularly a rent-sharing based proposed form called a Venture Commune. The project also encourages dialogue and investigation of alternative economies and workers struggle against private property .

The goal is to promote understanding of the relationship between distribution of productive assets, political power and global exploitation and poverty and to investigate how worker-controlled enterprises can contribute to solving this problem, as well as to put such ideas into practise.

Several articles have been written and many on-line correspondences sent describing and discussing venture communism, as well as analyzing the nature of property generally.

Source: [[http://www.telekommunisten.net/about Telekommunisten]]—”’The Revolution is Calling”’.

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SixApart: Opening the Social Graph

[http://www.semanticwave.com/blog/archives/000282.jsp SixApart: Opening the Social Graph]:

:We think that the best way for you to manage your network is to stop thinking about all of the little pieces and to start focusing on the big picture: you and the people who matter to you. We think relationships mean more than email addresses or which service you’re signed on to at the moment. So we’ve created an experimental demo based upon open technologies OpenID, the Microformats hCard and XFN, and FOAF that allow you to see your entire network of relationships in one place – across services, across platforms, across the entire Web.

How wonderful! I’ve been wanting this for ages! Even started the [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Campfire Campfire] experiment a couple of years ago to address exactly this issue. I fully endorse opening the social graph.

(Via [http://www.semanticwave.com/blog/ Semantic Wave].)

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Enkel met het hart kan men goed zien

Vanochtend mijn schoonouders even opgehaald uit het oogziekenhuis in Rotterdam. Op de vierde verdieping aldaar een prachtige spreuk. Opgeknipt in twee stukken vind ik hem het krachtigst—normaal plakt een komma de twee zinnen aan elkaar:
:”’Enkel met het hart kan men goed zien”’.
:”’Het essentiële is onzichtbaar voor het oog”’.
::::—”Antione de Saint-Exupéry”

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SwarmOS Demonstrated at Idea Festival

[http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/17/1724253&from=rss 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 talking only to their neighbors, and model other similar behaviors performed by bees and ants. ‘[http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/17/1724253&from=rss Read more of this story] at Slashdot.

(Via [http://slashdot.org/ Slashdot].)

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Bill Clinton: Giving

[http://giving.clintonfoundation.org/ ]
[http://giving.clintonfoundation.org/ Bill Clinton published a book titled ”’Giving”’], focusing on philantropy, charity and volunteering.

I feel very much strengthened by this, as it resonates tremenduously with the core brand click ”'[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Aloha:klik Geef]”’™ from the [http://aloha.aardrock.com Aloha project].

Thank you Bill.

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Vrij van ik – ik ben vrij

E-go.png
Maak een eind aan alle fantasiën, stop alle gedachten en vooronderstellingen, laat varen het idee van het ik.

Weet dat er geen ik is die handelt, en ge zult de waarheid vinden die vrij maakt.

Kortom, “let your e-go”.

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Einstein on Buddhism

Einstein was exploring a new form of spirituality for the future, consider what he had to say about Buddhism:

:”Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion of the future. It transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity.”

Wonderful.

Via [http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/einsteins_god_o_2.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for a Secular Spirituality (Part 4)] on [http://www.intentblog.com/ intentBlog].

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Groovy Actors

[http://www.groovyactors.org/ ]

Refreshed my link with Gerald “[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensegrity tensegrity]” de Jong, triggered by a blog entry from TED titled [http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDBlog/~3/152990430/theo_jansen.php Creatures on the beach] from the Dutch sculptor Theo Jansen which instantly reminded me of Gerald’s [http://sourceforge.net/projects/fluidiom/ Fluidiom] and [http://www.darwinathome.org Darwin at Home] projects.

Gerald’s email signature also mentioned [http://www.groovyactors.org/ Groovy Actors]:
:In a nutshell it’s a natural next step, building further on object-oriented programming (OOP), where objects become active talkative peers.
:Imagine running thousands of concurrent programs on one computer where each program instance represents something or someone in the real world. Some things are passive and only react to events but lots of real world things also take initiative.
:That’s why parts of this kind of system can better be represented in software by “autonomous agents” or “actors” which frequently interact with each other.

And built using the Groovy language.

Just wondering why ”’Groovy Actors are limited to a single computer”’ rather than ”’autonomous peers distributed across thousands of computers”’. Love to have concepts from [[Erlang]] and [http://javaspace.org JavaSpaces] built in.

Love to see the Groovy Actors’ [http://www.groovyactors.org/examples/02.html Hello Storage] example implement the story of [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Wizard_Rabbit_Treasurer The Wizard, The Rabbit, and The Treasurer].

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Gödel op televisie

[http://whoisgodel.com/ ]
Martijn tipte me op een film over Gödel op donderdag 6 september om 00.15 uur op Nederland 2. De [http://www.wiskundemeisjes.nl/20070904/godel-op-televisie/ Wiskundemeisjes] schrijven hierover.

Opnemen en kijken dus.

Mooie quotes:
:”Tijd heeft zijn beste tijd gehad…”
:”Nu en over 40 jaar zijn hetzelfde, begrijp je?”

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Erlang distributed concurrent programming

A new programming language? Well, at least one I never heard of until today. It’s called [http://www.erlang.org/ 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 outside Ericsson.

The language syntax reminds me a bit of Prolog. And I wonder what the power would be if something like Erlang is combined with the elegant concepts of [http://javaspaces.org/ JavaSpaces].

I’m still longing for an elegant platform neutral programming language that has mechanisms for ”'”effortless” peer-to-peer”’ built in. In fact, our new social and wisdom fabric cries out for a new “programming” language (and perhaps OS) that catalyses p2p development on all layers, from information to human to social to wisdom and that fuels the noosphere.

One of the first things I’d do with it is create an evolutionary prototype of [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Armillaria Armillaria] with [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Wizard_Rabbit_Treasurer The Wizard, The Rabbit and The Treasurer] as an example. [http://www.google.com/search?q=stigmergence Stigmergence].

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The Science Delusion?

Wonderful rebuttal by Deepak Chopra: [http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/deepaks_article.html The Science Delusion? Review of Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion]. Materialism vs. spiritualism and God. And resonating with [[Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality]].

Thank you Richard Dawkins, for writing your “The God Delusion” for it creates enormous attention for this ever important subject. You make people like Chopra and myself dig deeper into consiousness, the universe, quantum physics, God, Allah, Buddha and more. We’re becoming more conscious and knowledgeable about it.

And it’s about time, since we’re rapidly evolving towards the ”'[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere noosphere]”’, catalyzed by the [http://www.amazon.com/Time-Technosphere-Law-Human-Affairs/dp/1879181991 technosphere] with the Internet as its most brilliant example at this time.

Spaceship Earth is entering its most risky trajectory when [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis metamorphosing] to its next order—extreme [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence emergence]. And just like the life-threatening phase during the metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly, albeit on a very large, global, scale.

”’May we all evolve into a global, and perhaps universal wisdom and happiness”’. And beware, these massive scale changes or ”’emergence”’ happens relatively abrupt. Buckle on.

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Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality

Wonderful and clear visions on Einstein and God, rational science and spirituality.

Chopra uses the term ”’secular spirituality”’. A pretty paradoxal pearl.

If Einstein pointed the way to a new form of spirituality through his comment on Buddhism in which he gave the key criteria for a “”’cosmic religion of the future”’.” Such a religion, he said, should:

*Transcend a personal God
*Avoid dogma and theology
*Embrace both the natural and the spiritual
*Establish itself on a personal sense of unity among all things

Read Chopra’s complete thread right from the source:
*[http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/08/einsteins_god_o.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 1)]
*[http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/08/einsteins_god_o_1.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 2)]
*[http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/einsteins_god_o_3.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 3)]
*[http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/einsteins_god_o_2.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 4)]
*[http://www.intentblog.com/archives/2007/09/einsteins_god_o_4.html Einstein’s God, or The Hopes for Secular Spirituality (Part 5)]

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Collective Intelligence

[http://wiki.aardrock.com/Collective_Intelligence Collective-Intelligence-Pierre-Levy.gif]

Converted my [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Collective_Intelligence 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, intellectual technologies”’.

Beware, it’s 100 KB.

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LiveJournal Creator Maps the Long Road to Open Social Networks

:[http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/ LiveJournal Creator Maps the Long Road to Open Social Networks]: “People are growing weary of registering and re-declaring their friends on every new social networking site. But Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal and OpenID, says that the tools to build a decentralized social network don’t yet exist. (Source: [http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/topheadlines/~3/146726716/brad-fitzpatric.html Wired])

Wow. About time. Since long I cherish the desire for a ”’scale-free distributed social network”’. Both [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Campfire Campfire] and [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Cheetah_Project_Proposal Cheetah] work in that direction, the latter for diabetics.

When will we have opened up our databases so you can update your personal information in a single action and everyone you want to are up to date too?

Talk about ”’trust”’. [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Armillaria Armillaria] can help to grow a ”’fully distributed social reputation system”’ to do just that. The [http://wiki.aardrock.com/Wizard_Rabbit_Treasurer Wizard Rabbit Treasurer] tells a small story of how this might work for the underlying data.

Love to work on a project like this. I’ll keep an eye on

(Via [http://www.wired.com/rss/index.xml”>Wired News].)