by gregoryheller | Jun 12, 2006 | Uncategorized
From Worldchanging Crowdsourcing describes the substitution of extremely low-paid or volunteer labor for what were formerly paying jobs: for instance, the substitution of computer science students and volunteer coders working on an open source project for paid software engineers working on a proprietary project. It should be noted that sometimes far more jobs are created overall in such a transcommercial...
by gregoryheller | Jun 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
Last night I went to see An Inconvenient Truth, the Al Gore movie about Catastrophic Climate Change. I saw it with a group of friends and we went out afterward for dinner. Go see the movie. Every American should see this movie. You cannot watch it and wonder how things would be different if Mr. Gore had faught a little harder after the election of 2000. But that aside, seeing images of the Katrina Aftermath made me cry, literally. I could not watch it. I had a dream last night about the movie, in which I was moved to tears by the facts laid out so eloquently by Mr. Gore. Seeing the Katrina aftermath, galciers melting, ice sheets disintegrating… George Bush and other members of the administration should be in jail. If their criminal neglect during Katrina does not rise to the level of High Crimes (let alone misdemeanors), I don’t know what does. Their ignorance to the facts around climate change are reason enough to impeach in my opinion. The animations of major landmasses being overrun by water, time lapse photography of bodies of water drying up, glaciers receding, video of ice shelves crumbling… It is all enough to drive you to despair, but can also energize us to unite around attainable goals for conservation. Go to ClimateCrisis.net, see what you can do. Watch the movie. Change some lightbulbs to Compact Flourescent. Lower your thermostat in the winter and raise it in the summer. Drive less, walk more. Buy some Trees for the Future (I have bought a grove of 1000 so far which will pull 25 tons...
by gregoryheller | Jun 1, 2006 | Uncategorized
The DefectiveByDesign.org campaign has really taken off! In about 3 days we had 1000 signups, in a week we had 1700! Thanks to the help of Diggers and SlashDoters! Well, we’ve decided that the target of the next action will be Apple because the iPod and iTunes music store make Apple the largest seller of DRM infected technology. On June 10, we’ll warn citizens in 6 cities of the dangers of DRM in Apple products. Sign Up Now to get the details about which cities will be in on June...
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