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openeverything focus + CC Salon
Last night we kicked off the openeverything focus series, a Berliner initiative to explore and promote “openness” in a range of fields and applications. About 30 guests joined us in christening oefb,...
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Openwashing
"be open. be free. be Berlin." Openwashing: to spin a product or company as open, although it is not. Derived from “greenwashing” There’s a troubling trend surfacing in the marketing world, one that’s...
View ArticleGoverning Openness
Openness is a philosophy that is being used as the basis of how various groups and organizations operate. It is a relatively new term to describe a general way of doing things. — “Openness.” Wikipedia....
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Commons Manifesto: Strengthen the Commons – Now!
A thesis paper, drafted during the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s interdisciplinary political salons, seeks to capture the complexity and importance of natural and knowledge commons. The manifesto,...
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Travel and Running: the most self-affirming things I know
All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber Travel and running, I find, are exhilarating. And lately I’ve been thinking about why. I...
View ArticlePurge! The Cult of Less
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FrWs2Y1llM] While I don’t consider myself to be some sort of ascetic or societal recluse, I’ve found that more stuff equates to more stress. Each thing I own...
View ArticleThe Entertainment Complex
The figure of Death presides over the front entrance of a carnival sideshow whose spectators watch performers undergo unspeakable degradations so grotesquely compelling that the spectators’ eyes become...
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Designing for Collaborative Consumption
TEDxKreuzbeg by Igor Schwarzmann / CC BY-SA Last night I had the honor of speaking at TEDxKreuzberg, which was a lot fun and the perfect opportunity to polish up some ideas and practice pontificating...
View ArticleThe Fetishism of Process
There’s a risk of making a fetish of process over product, of the act of collaboration over the artifact that results from it. How important is it that a product was produced through an open,...
View ArticleStill going strong
Love this Al Jazeera feature of Tao Porchon-Lynch, a 93-year-old yoga teacher. She was born in India, worked as a model and documentary filmmaker, and has taught yoga for over 45+ years. She holds the...
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