Why Wikipedia might be the most important invention ever

Manu Saadia on fusion.net :

[...] The more the internet crowds flocked to it, the better Wikipedia became. Thanks to the embrace and involvement of its users, and a software platform that was specifically designed for that collaborative purpose, Wikipedia gradually turned into an evolving, self-corrective and self-improving entity.

[...] It fits the definition [of a public good] to a tee. Wikipedia is non-rival, that is, my usage doesn’t limit somebody else from using it at the same time; and it is non-excludable [...]

"[...] As a public good, Wikipedia generates incredible positive externalities: it creates much more value to society than what it actually costs in money, in terms of power consumed by its servers and editors’ time. [...]"

Now that [my son] can type on his own, he searches Wikipedia himself. He is growing up knowing that any question on any topic has an answer online. The Encyclopedia is always there, in his dad’s pocket or on the family’s iPad. This is not just comforting. It is mind-expanding. It fosters wild and unimpeded curiosity: one question leads naturally to another question and another one and another ad infinitum. Knowledge becomes a game of chance, an expedition, with hypertext links and search boxes as propellers.[...]"

[...] Thanks to that other public good, the worldwide web, Wikipedia is allowing for something similar, but at a much quicker pace and on a vastly more massive scale. It is hard to predict what untold progress and social transformations lie ahead of us as a result of such intensification in the free flow of knowledge. [...]

17.1.2016, 12:15

The numbers of the day: 62 vs 50% and 1% vs 99%

18.1.2016, 23:50

Decentralised Jokes

amnonbarnea and bullno1 on reddit:

Q: I'm having trouble finding decent jokes about decentralization. help anyone?

A: Good ones are hard to find because they are all over the place.

29.1.2016, 13:50

Verpasst: Eine grosse Chance für ein krisensicheres Geld

29.2.2016, 14:12

Richard Moore on the Electric Universe and Climate Change

26.3.2016, 22:50

CoinFest 2016, April 5-10, Mont-Soleil

A decentralised gathering for decentralised currency

From April 5th to April 10th 2016 you are invited to come and join the CoinFest 2016 gathering on Mont-Soleil, Switzerland. You are also able to participate online, if you can’t join us at the Décentrale on Mont-Soleil. CoinFest will also take place in many other locations around the world. Check out the coinfest.org website for details on all these events.

WHEN : April 5-10, 2016
WHERE: DECENTRALE, MONT SOLEIL, ST-IMIER, SWITZERLAND

April 5, 18:00 CEST:
Bitcoin and the Blockchain - Introducing ourselves to the world of crypto currency.

April 6, 18:00 CEST:
We will join the following international hangout:
Andreas M. Antonopoulos at 18:00 CEST
and follow it up with the topic:
Distributed Autonomous Organisations - Entering the Matrix of the Softbots?

April 7, 18:00 CEST:
Bitcoin and Anarcho Capitalism - The good, the bad and the ugly.

April 8, 18:00 CEST:
The rise of the decentralised, distributed network platform. Afterwards, we will join these international hangouts:
Chelsea Barabas (MIT Media lab) at 19:30 CEST
Paul Snow (Factom) at 21:00 CEST
Susanne Tempelhof (BitNation) at 21:45 CEST
Enric Duran (FairCoop and Catalan Integral Cooperative) at 22:30 CEST

April 9, 14:00 CEST:
Faircoin and FairCoop, the earth cooperative for fair economy and its evolving ecosystem.
This will include the following additional extended online session:
Enric Duran (FairCoop and Catalan Integral Cooperative) at 16:00 CEST

April 10, 14:00 CEST:
Our local and global contributions to the emergence of this Social Permaculture Crypto-sphere.

We scheduled the following online gift circles. This is a perfect opportunity to come together and share our needs and offerings, enabling collaborations that will benefit all of our projects and activities.

Online Gift Circles:
On the April 10th at 16.00 CEST
On the April 10th at 18:00 CEST
See the following link to find out more about gift circles:
https://slack-files.com/T093TADBM-F09FPJUMD-a297362aab

This event is free.
For drinks and food you can make a contribution in Bonobo (our local alternative paper currency), in Faircoin or in Bitcoin .

Come and join us!

Use the sign up form on the top right of this page and the following links should help you to find your way here.
http://decentrale.ch/stories/539/
http://map.search.ch/mont-soleil-59
http://funisolaire.ch/e/horaires

Participate online

You will also have the opportunity to join us via a video conferencing stream if you cannot join us physically at the Decentrale. This virtual gathering place will be open for adhoc discussions and live streaming of what is taking place at the Decentrale from the 5th to the 10th of April. You are also able to join some preparation sessions during the next few days leading up to the event. Just get in touch with us and we get you connected.

To get the information on how to connect to the gathering’s stream and these gift circle calls, please submit the sign up form on the top right of this page . If you have any questions, please get in touch via email to gatherings@st-imier.org or call us on +41 329 41 41 41.

Stay involved

Going forward, the Decentrale will stay available as a resource hub and co-working space where we can collaborate and organise to move our projects forward. So, in a deep sense, this gathering, like all our gatherings, will never really end.

http://www.coinfest.ch

29.3.2016, 17:50

>>> Participate in the solutions of tomorrow!

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Manifesting
Freedom and Solidarity
since 1985

Chris Zumbrunn
chris@zumbrunn.com
t.me/zumbrunn
@zumbrunn@social.coop
Listening to synergy.radio



Décentrale Synergiehub
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Switzerland
+41 329 41 41 41
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> AJAX is everywhere
> Return Path Rewriting (RPR) - Mail Forwarding in the Spam Age
> Baby steps towards Javascript heaven
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> Visiting the world's smallest city
> How Software Patents Work
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> First Look At Solaris 10
> From Adam Smith to Open Source
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> Schweizer Sagen
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> Wrapping Aspects around Mocha Objects?
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> How do I set a DEFAULT HTML-DOCUMENT?
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> MochiKit Javascript Library
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> The current.tv disappointment
> Do you remember Gopher?
> What is Mocha?
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> OpenMocha 0.6 available for download
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> Anno 1996: CZV
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> Mont-Soleil Open Air Lineup
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> Mighty and Beastie Licenses
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> Finding Java Packages
> Helma Trivia
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> Moving beyond Java
> Yeah, why not Javascript?
> Homo Oxymora
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> Logging and other antimatters
> E4X Mocha Objects
> Stop bashing Java
> Tutorial D, Industrial D and the relational model
> I love E4X
> ECMAScript - The Switzerland of development environments
> Sketching image queries and reinventing email
> Track your comments
> coComment Roundup
> A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript
> A candidate for CSCSJS or a Mocha Fetchlet
> Consensus vs Direct Democracy
> Rails' greatest contribution
> trackAllComments
> Anno 2003: deployZone
> Anno 1998: crossnet
> Anno 1999: Der Oberhasler
> No Rough Cut :-(
> 40th Montreux Jazz Festival
> Welcome to Helma!
> Frodo takes on chapter 3
> Javascript 2 and the Future of the Web
> FreeBSD Jails the brand new easy way
> Helma 1.5.0 Release Candidate 1 available for download
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> Drosera steps in to debug Safari
> Building the Conversational Web
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> Helma 1.5.1 ready to download
> RFC 4329 application-ecmascript
> Helma 1.5.2
> Truly Hooverphonic!
> Fresh Rhino on Safari
> "The meaning of life is to improve the quality of all life"
> Mocha Inheritance
> Helma 1.5.3
> More on Javascript Inheritance
> See you at Lift'07
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> Jala for Helma
> Making Higgs where the Web was born
> Upcoming Helma 1.6, new reference docs and IRC channel
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> Fixing Javascript inheritance
> Helma ante portas
> Introducing Planet Helma
> Helma 1.6.0-rc1
> The last mention of Microsoft
> Bootstrap is out of the bag
> Rocket the Super Rabbit
> Helma warped around existing db schemas
> Using H2 with Helma
> Helma 1.6.0-rc2
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> The server-side advantage
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> Junction brings Rhino on Rails to Helma
> Helma 1.6 is ready!
> Rhino 1.6R6 with E4X fix and patches for Helma
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> Hold the whole program in your head, and you can manipulate it at will
> JSONPath and CouchDB
> Helma Conspiracy Theory
> So, what's up with World Radio Switzerland?
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> More praise for Helma
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> Helma powered AppJet - Takeoff!
> SimpleDB vs CouchDB
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> Update to Helma 1.6.1
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> Even more Server-side Javascript with Jaxer
> Openmocha and Jhino updated to 0.8
> Asynchronous Beer and Geeking and other opportunities to talk about Helma, Rhino and Javascript on the server-side
> Solar cell directly splits water for hydrogen
> Adobe's position on ES4 features, plus the Flex 3 SDK source code is now available under the MPL
> The Overlooked Power of Javascript
> A Quick Start to Hello World
> The Story of Stuff
> Earthlings - Can you face the truth?
> Larry Lessig's case for creative freedom
> Helma 1.6.2 ready to download
> Attila Szegedi about Rhino, Helma and Server-Side Javascript, and scripting on the JVM in general
> Helma Meeting Spring 2008
> Apple's position on ECMAScript 4 proposals
> ES4 comes to IE via Screaming Monkey
> SquirrelFish!
> Want ES4 in Helma today?
> ES4 Draft 1 and ES3.1 Draft 1
> Is AppleScript done?
> Brendan on the state of Javascript evolution
> Helma at the Linuxwochen in Linz
> Fresh Javascript IDE in Ganymede Eclipse release
> The A-Z of Programming Languages jumps to Javascript
> Ecmascript Harmony
> Large Hadron Collider
> Helma at the 2008 OpenExpo in Zurich
> Release Candidate 1 of Helma 1.6.3
> Helma 1.6.3 Release Candidate 2
> Helma 1.6.3-rc3 ready for testing
> Helma turns 1.6.3
> First Soleil on Mont-Soleil
> Anno 2004: CZV
> Server-Side Javascript Standard Library
> Is the Bespin web-based code editor the ideal future ServerJS IDE?
> New Eclipse Helma plugin project
> The best solution is that one isn't needed
> ReverseHttp and RelayHttp
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> Think different
> Crossnet - der kollektive Intellekt der Schweiz
> Anno 1992: Intouch i-station
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> Anno 1991: mediacube
> Anno 1993: Macro-micro navigator
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> Unus Pro Omnibus - Omnes Pro Uno
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> Before implementing a solution to a problem, always search for a workaround, because the workaround is often better than the original solution