A collection of recent augmented reality and other innovations are laying the groundwork for the scaling of peer-to-peer sharing of physical assets. Read more »
On Monday, the National Security Archive, an open government think tank, released the results of a government-wide Freedom of Information audit. Read more »
Erik Hopp, the web dude who mainly built Shareable.net, loaned me a book that is taking over my mind. It's called Shaping Things, by the science-fiction novelist Bruce Sterling, and it came out in 2005. Read more »
A thought-provoking video about the evolution of remix culture. "This is basically a group of friends having an authentic social moment and screwing around together," says Julian Sanchez, describing a recent YouTube mashup. Read more »
Dacher Keltner is the director of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, where I worked for three years (and a contributor to Shareable.net). Read more »
In "Community-Supported Music," posted today on Shareable.net, Bernice Yeung describes how CASH Music is trying to develop a new model for digitally monetizing music, by directly connecting artists directly with listeners. Read more »
It is much safer to be feared than loved, writes Niccolò Machiavelli in The Prince, his classic 16th-century treatise advocating manipulation and occasional cruelty as the best means to power. Read more »
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