Open Journal Montreal

The western gorilla, a Chinese dolphin and even coral are all at the top of the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN) priority cases, according to the organization’s Red List released Wednesday.
Furthermore, one in four mammals, one in eight birds, one third of all amphibians and 70 per cent of the world’s assessed plants are also endangered.
“This [...]

WikiSym 2007
2007 International Symposium on Wikis
Wikis at Work in the World:
Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
October 21-23, 2007
Palais des Congres de Montral
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
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Registration is now open for WikiSym 2007, convening October 21 through 23
in chic, sophisticated, metropolitan Montreal, Quebec.
**Deadline for early registration is September 13th**
NO ORDINARY CONFERENCE
WikiSym is the only international scientific [...]

Much like my thesis actually, only with more editorializing, and Singularity talk, and is pleasantly shorter. Comes to me from here but was written by this gent.
To put it bluntly, software, really like all technologies, is inherently political. Even the most disruptive technologies, the innovations and ideas that can utterly transform society, carry with them [...]

With world leaders locked in a dance where they communicate through small and large acts of terror and torture, in a time tainted by the deep deep trauma of environmental collapse and the knowledge of our and our parents responsibility for it, it is no wonder truth gets badly treated in swings of hysteria and [...]

I got the call to action below from Pandora today – a cool web radio service that’s been infuriatingly tangled up and now quite choked by copyright decisions from Washington that are graspy and short sighted and patently unfair. They’re treating the internet like it’s property they own, instead of like a public communication space, [...]

Let’s think about Kiva for a second, ok? Kiva- the micro finance website you may have seen featured on the news, or on some local blogger’s site, like this one where I hit upon it. Kiva has some very cool technical abilities to literally connect people from drastically different economic brackets in different countries [...]