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An open platform for developing, deploying, and accessing planetary-scale services
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Globule is a third-party module for the Apache Web server that allows a given server to replicate its documents to other Globule servers. It takes care of maintaining consistency between the replicas, of monitoring the servers, and of automatically redirecting clients to one of the available replicas. Globule also supports the replication of PHP documents. It runs on Unix and Windows systems.
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links for 2008-11-28
November 28, 2008-
Bamboo also has a renewal rate that no other plant can match. It has been known to grow 60cm in just 24 hours, reaching its maximum height in several years. Bamboo is also capable of regenerating itself upon harvesting without necessitating replanting, making it possibly the perfect renewable resource.
interesting use of natural material for computer casing
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analysis of curves showing history not repeating but there's some echoes in the pattern.
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i met Moritz at Aram opening party - very nice guy and interesting projects.
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links for 2008-11-11
November 11, 2008
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Rosa B. is a magazine produced by two of Bordeaux’s art institutions – CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art Bordeaux and the Bordeaux School of Fine Arts. Rosa B. will provide a common space of reflection and discourse on artistic practices, but also a point of intersection between, on the one hand, the School’s concerns for the transmission of knowledge, research, experimentation on new approaches and ways of thinking and doing, and, on the other, the efforts of the museum to define a precise, innovative cultural and artistic project that is able to convey to its audience the ways in which artists reflect on the world, apprehend it and transform it, through new works, exhibitions, publications and events.
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35 Tips Tricks To Manage and Handle Multi-Author Blogs you might want to check out
nice resource of plugins’ links to help setup a multi author wordpress blog
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Audit Trail is a plugin to keep track of what is going on inside your blog. It does this by recording certain actions (such as who logged in and when) and storing this information in the form of a log. Not only that but it records the full contents of posts (and pages) and allows you to restore a post to a previous version at any time.
Useful to manage multi author blog (like the future fontnest blog)
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links for 2008-11-10
November 10, 2008
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really neat plugin that helps to create custom fields in the wp admin - very usefull to fake worpdress into a cms
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Simple and easy to use wrapper to use the delicious API.
PhpDelicious is a PHP 5 library for accessing the del.icio.us API. It combines data from the main REST and JSON APIs and presents a consolidated interface. It also implements a file based caching system which eliminates the need to query on every request and ensures access to the API won't be throttled due to excessive requests.
would be nice to use delicious and its API to build the Wikipedia Reader Project
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The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and his historical existence is debated and disputed by modern historians.
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this post managed to list my contradictory feelings after the great victory of Obama in the US elections - it underlines the fact that everybody is overwhelmed by his/her own thirst of change and that the next greatest challenge will be not to deceive the amazing hope Obama created
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The Tone Generation is Ian`s continuing radio series exploring electronic music; a personal selection drawn from his records and cds, looking at different themes or composers in the era of analogue tape and early synthesizer technology.
Within the limitations of his collection and the half hour time slot, the programmes will hopefully act as a useful and enlightening overview of electronic music as it developed in many different countries, and will be of special interest to enthusiasts and students studying the history of analogue electronics, from the formative days up to the 1970s.Via clb on twitter
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found via BLDGBLOG - nice! [edit: especially the sheds in Series]
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Some notes on experimenting with the economics
November 09, 2008A few weeks ago, we launched the &, Ampersand Make Production, a project in which people are supporting the production of cultural products.
This is an experiment in the economics of production. Our first issue is a poster and a text: AMP001. The content is clearly influenced by the practice we developped to maintain and develop R-Echos (http://r-echos.net) and we called the issue “R-Echos issue 1”.
* Recently Charlotte from Manystuff asked us to give more details about the ideas around & - below I’m translating in english our answer to her request:
Financing and the notion of Crowd Sourcing
Instead of using a single source of finance, grant or sponsoring -we are seeking to establish a principle of distributed funding, like a p2p network. This principle is applied as well to the distribution since each share-holder/participant own a certain percentage of the real thing produced, and each of them is able to decide individually or collectivelly of the future of his or her share of the production.
A series of economic experiments
This project is for us a laboratory. The poster and the text of AMP001 (the first issue) are a first test tube. We are just starting to be able to draw early conclusions, it is for us a little bit like a reduced scale LHC: we are launching something and looking at the results depending on the parameters of the launch.
An extension of R-echos (http://r-echos.net)
R-Echos is a website, a selection of whatever we find, see, read and collect online, it is our daily best picks; it is a reblog that we have been maintaining for some years now. The poster of this first issue shows tangible objects that belongs to our every day life ans surround us: things on our desks, books in the shelves, visuals references that inspired us for some reasons - we consider those objects as being the sources of the project we develop and realise (like in programmation); we really consider R-Echos like being one of the source-code of Electronest.french version:
le financement et la notion de crowd sourcing
au lieu de s’en remettre à une seule source de financement, ou à un principe de sponsoring - nous cherchons à mettre en place un financement distribuée comme un réseau p2p. Ce principe s’applique également à la distribution, puisque chaque Share Holder possede un certain pourcentage de notre production et est en mesure de decider individuellement (ou cellectiveemnt) du futur de sa part de la production.
une serie d’expériences économiques
ce projet est un laboratoire pour nous. Le poster et le texte de AMP001, c’est une première éprouvette. On commence tout juste à pouvoir tirer des conclusions. c’est un peu comme un micro-LHC pour nous: on lance un truc, et on regarde ce que ça produit en fonction des paramètres de lancement
une extension de R-Echos — http://r-echos.net
R-Echos est un site internet, une sélection de ce que l’on lis/trouve online, nos “best picks” quotidien; c’est un reblog que l’on fait depuis quelques années déjà. Ce poster contient les objets qui nos entourent et nous inspirent — c’est un peu comme un code-source des choses que l’on fait, on considère le site de R-Echos comme étant un des codes-source de Electronest.* Here is also a short text I put on the facebook group a little while ago, it links the ideas of & and the ones of etoy.SHARE:
obviously, there’s some sort of inspiration taken from etoy.SHARE.
In the & Make Production project, shares are project based and they determine if the project is interesting enough to make it to the production step. if not shareholders will be able to decide how they want the money to be used: refund, re-investment in the next publication or in the structure itself, etc.
Shareholders are sharing the destiny of the project which we don’t control anymore.
Categories: electronest, experiments, ideas, internal, project, r-echos, republishing, tangible, thinking loud
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A couple of notes on the last interesting things i saw…
November 08, 2008
- went to Photographers’ Gallery (Soho archives, and Dryden Goodwin who remided me a lot of facial recognition graphs) and the Saatchi Exhibition (Revolution Continues - a very figurative selection of chinese artists - the piece in the “cellar” was the most exciting). Later in the day: went to the opening of the Royal Academy exhibition; saw (mainly and amongst other things) agrifashionista.tv and Urbania’s installation: a red room reporting on their various experiments about communal life and projects.
- went to the Friday’s DotDotDot lecture at Somerset House; link: DDD17 / talk.
- some quick notes:
- William James ‘Pragmatism’ published in 1907
- Naive Set of Theory DDD15 - “passing books with notes” (made me think about dogeared books; read below; I will probably add it later to the DBooks website)
- the notions of Rationalism (w), Empirism (w), Pragmatism (w)
- Gödel ‘On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia ’ published in 1931 in Vienna(google books)
- Einstein said that “one of the most interesting thing of working in the university of (Berkeley?) was the discussion with Gödel on the way back home” - or something like this.
- the notion of Naive, Intuition
- Paul R Halmos ‘Naive Set Theory’
- thought about making a website which like Dog Eared Books would list the films i like, quoting them; a sort of personnal memory. It comes from the fact that this year we have been increasingly watching more and more films every week (Amandine being back at university, we have access to the LCC’s library and their DVDs - just great!)
- watched (amongst other DVDs) ‘A Pervert Guide to Cinema’ - an interresting documentary on perversion trough a couple of selected movies; more specially: this documentary is a very nice Republishing piece along with commentaries: trying to organise the Tlktlk discussion on the topic of republishing and to set a list of guests.
- discovered about Edgser Dijkstra self re publication and Piet Schreuders’ Furore via Pierre.
- went yesterday to the Social Pasta: Maki, Kajsa, Alex (the rich one), Bearen and Momoko were cooking while we watched 2 films: one 20 minutes documentary by les Blanks ‘Werner Herzog eats his shoes’ (YouTube 1, 2) and Errol Morris’ film: Gates of Heaven. Amazing combination and the food as usual was incredible!. And they all had really nice shoes…
* the documentary is a beautiful support and encouragement at self initiated projects.- Werner Herzog: “I am more and more convinced that the only alternative to film making is cooking. Maybe there’s another alternative which is walking”.
He also said “I don’t believe you have the guts (to make your film), but if you do it, I come to brooklyn eat my shoes when you show the film”.Categories: event, exhibition, notes, republishing, talk, thinking loud
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