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Human Potential

This Is Why Art + Technology is Always a Winner For Social Change

January 26, 2010

Tagged as: AT, graffiti, open source, projection, video

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen – on so many levels. Elias @curiousworks sent it to me. Please share widely.
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies.It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and [...]

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Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba story

November 11, 2009

Tagged as: William Kamkwamba, Windmill

Moving Windmills: The William Kamkwamba story

Posted this earlier, but really dug this story. If you haven’t seen it, you should. Amazing what William used to build his windmill – let alone the circumstances (and innovations!) that happened around his project.

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Community – 2007

July 3, 2009

…so many different styles of music you know?
Recently, I got this SWEEET track – a remix of another track called ‘Community 2007′ from Audio Soul Project. A duo I really like called Peace Division did the remix and a fellow named Ron Carroll penned the lyrics.
I think the lyrics really say it all.
Community 2007
lyrics by [...]

Community 2007 - Peace Division Remix [9:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2434)

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I Believe That We Operate Best Together: Let’s Prove This!

June 27, 2009

Hi internet! In the next 10 3 days, I am trying to raise $1500 (now just $1360 $819 thanks to Ellen, Aleem, Jan, Belinda, Anne, Ben, Tom, Paul, Laura, Mark, Darryl, Liz, Jo’el, Ryan, Mary, Elvia, Taylor, Emily and Kristin to fund an independent travel project through Europe.
It’s called We Operate Best Together. And it’s [...]

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Digital Democracy’s Handheld Human Rights

May 18, 2009

UPDATE: Digital Democracy Won a $5000 FACT Social Justice Award!
This past week, I got invited to be a Project Champion for NetSquared’s N2Y4 Mobile Development Challenge. With some nice great encouragement from Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward and Justin Massa, I decided to become the Champion for Digital Democracy’s Handheld Human Rights.
From the project [...]

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How To Create A Mission Statement For Yourself

May 17, 2009

When I served as an AmeriCorps CTC VISTA Leader, I mailed a package to all of my VISTAs introducing myself and giving them an exercise* I found invaluable during my own Year of Service. I called it a ‘Purpose Keeping’ exercise – basically, it’s a mission statement generator that uses this formula: i.e.
[your unique [...]

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Trade Community Service For Education or Debt Relief?

January 25, 2009

Danielle Martin

After serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA member for over two years, I wonder: have any other government departments or agencies considered a “trade community service for education or debt relief” model for accomplishing the tasks it’s set up to do? Why or why not? If so, are there other models that exist? Where? How?
Also, [...]

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Community As Your Operating System

November 17, 2008

Tagged as: community informatics, features, knowledge, memes, online communities, operating system, viral

I’ve had this idea floating around in my head for a couple weeks now: community as your operating system. If you need to find the answer to something or produce some kind of ‘knowledge object’ (I can’t think of a better word) you can run queries against your network of amateur experts – your very [...]

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Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

September 24, 2008

Tagged as: Alex Rutterford, Autechre, Marcel Duchamp, stutter, videos

Autechre – Gantz Graf
I’ve always thought these two pieces should be in conversation. The piece of the left is Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 . I’ve always loved the piece. It has influenced me in so much of the music that I make. The visual ’stuttering’ of the painting [...]

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Things I Am Learning About the Connection Between Passion and Purpose

June 27, 2008

Tagged as: purpose

The following is a brief list of things I’m learning about the connection between your passion and your purpose. Hopefully it grows as I continue on my path.
A purpose is most powerful when connected with your passions.
It is from your purpose that all other actions flow.
Sharing your purpose with others is generally [...]

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My Personal Manifesto

June 16, 2008

I’m thinking of writing a personal manifesto. These are the first inklings:

Maximize potential for happiness at any given moment.
Make more choices without overthinking the consequences too much.
Give time to recover/learn from said choices if outcome results in general feelings of guilt, nausea, despair or inadequacy.
Rejoice in said choices if result is empowering, healing, [...]

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Keyword Identity: Is It Meaningful for People To Organize By Keywords?

April 27, 2008

Tagged as: bicultural, culture, folksonomy, identity, Indonesia, transcultural

Is it meaningful for people to organize by keywords? I was recently invited to join:
http://www.myspace.com/indonesianet
I didn’t feel like I had very much in common with the folks who’s profiles I perused and was most likely found by doing a keyword search. I feel part Indonesian biologically, but not culturally. Indonesia is part of my biological [...]

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We and the Universe Are Made of Millions of Tiny Little Oscillations All Networked Together

January 17, 2008

Tagged as: Music, music cognition, neuroscience, oscillators, Time Wave Zero

i got this email from my good friend Alex the other day and we had some good correspondence (Alex is currently researching audio/music cognition in Holland – and yes, we do call each other baby):
“hey baby,
i’m reading this crazy neuroscience book right now, which is all about how rhythmic and oscillatory patterns of activity in [...]

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