My del.icio.us bookmarks for September 4th through September 7th

These are my links for September 4th through September 7th:

• the evolution of social action networks | internet.artizans – “I get a real sense that we’re due for a step-change in the evolution of social networks, and I think the momentum is towards networks that enable action.” A great article (thanks to Sofia for point me at this). Great stuff. With lots of good links to fol
• uniteddiversity – We Are Everywhere. Together We Have Everything! – Join the united diversity mailing list now! Click here!
• The Greendream Company – “environmentally responsive architecture” – This is the website of my friend Alex. We should be working together, clearly. He gave me a great ego-stroke at our mutual friends bday recently too (he was very impressed my the breadth and depth of my knowledge) , which was nice 😛
• WWF Footprint Calculator – Yet another tool to measure one’s impact on. Quite a good one too 🙂
• Transition Penwith Home Page – “Transition Penwith is a new initiative that works to engage all sectors of the community in addressing two of the greatest challenges of our time: climate change and fossil fuel depletion.” Its a shame that very few of the Transition Town websites offer
• WP-Cache 2.0 – “WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make your site much faster and responsive.” This sounds like a must have wordpress plugin for (any potentially) busy sites. Very useful for the digg/slashdot effect.
• Sage: a feed reader for Firefox – “Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox. It’s got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don’t.” I might try this out. I’ve just started with Google Reader too though so maybe I’ll just stick with that. I rea
• News Aggregators – A large list of news aggregators and feed readers.
• Introduction and overview of BlogBridge – a free, open source and cross platform blog and rss readerBlogBridge – This site decribes itself as “The ultimate info-junkie system” so I took a look and I like what they’re doing. I might start my own guide there…
• What is RSS? – This is a pretty decent introduction. If you still don’t know what RSS is, read this. I’ve started writing a similar page myself over at https://uniteddiversity.com/what-is-rss/ and we’ve both included the cool Common Craft video introduction. 🙂
• WordPress Feedburner Plugin – A page on problogger about the WordPress Feedburner Plugin funnily enough. Feedburner has just recently been acquired by Google incidentally.
• vosnap – “It’s group voting…in a snap! Ask questions and get answers fast using text messages and emails. With vosnap, it’s decided.” Interesting. Suddenly everyone seems to be thinking about distributed decision making. About time 🙂
• Harvard Internet TV – A “Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Client” focused on TV/video player. I wonder how this compares to Miro (formerly the Democracy Player). Check it out. And bring it on! 🙂
• Internet bandwidth to become a global currency | Press Esc – “Internet bandwidth could become a global currency under a proposed model for the future of e-commerce that exploits a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application designed by a trans-Atlantic team of computer scientists.” A very interesting article.
• Snowball – Trac – “The Snowball Traceability Protocol is an extension to the popular BitTorrent protocol. It relies on industry-standard cryptographic signatures, and brings secure access control and reliable statistics to peer-to-peer file distribution.” This could end up
• Co-Op World – Co-Op world is an interesting network with similar goals to The Open Co-op. They are about to re-launch as “Cagora” but having watched some of their introductory video tours I’m not particularly excited to be honest. Still be interesting to see how it dev
• Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » WP SEO Tips: One, More, Time! – Details about some potentiall useful wordpress plugins that could help with search engine optimisation.
• manifesto · The Wireless Commons – “We have formed the Wireless Commons because a global wireless network is within our grasp.” This is a nice manifesto about spreading free open wireless/ wifi networks. I remember this from back in the day, but still very relevant. Investing in such infra
• AardRockâ��P2P and Human Evolution – A nice lists of thoughts about Peer to Peer and Human Evolution. Michel Bauwens and the P2P Foundation are supporters of our Commons Creation project.
• Good Capital – “Good Capital is an investment firm that accelerates the flow of capital to innovative ventures and initiatives that harness the power of the market to create sustainable solutions to some of societyâ��s most challenging problems. Our initiatives and fund
• Collective Intelligence – “Collective Intelligence is a global group of entrepreneurs dedicated to improving the efficiency of social ecosystems and accelerating the flow of capital to good.” Sounds quite good. I guess in some ways that is exactly what we’re trying to do with our
• home. – GreenDimes – This seems to be like Mail Preference Service (to get yourself removed from junkmail lists) in the UK, but for the US/Canada – its not free but you get trees planted too. Quite a nice site.
• Community Assets programme launched – Third Sector – A nice pot of money supporting the transfer of disused public assets to community groups. United Diversity is putting together a partnership to make a bid. Contact me if you want to get involved.
• WATTSON, a cooler shade of Green – Check out this stylish gizmo that shows you how much electricity your using in your home and is also a nice mood lamp. Pricey, but nice.
• The Green Gauge | Consumer and ethical living | Life and Health – A round up of greenness from The Guardian, including mention of the inspirational Transition Network.
• Love thy neighbour – Times Online – Apparently Community Spirit is back in fashion! Cool. This article in The Times Lifestyle magazine mentions Transition Towns and other cool stuff.
• Low Carbon Life – How to live a Low Carbon Life – Do something practical to reduce your own responsibility for climate change. This site and the accompanying book it a great resource to help you out. Lots of useful spreadsheets and tip sheets etc. Great site 🙂
• How to Live a Low Carbon Life £13.49 – Earthscan Shop – A great little book about How to Live a Low Carbon Life, surprisingly enough.
• Links: eco visitor centres & events – A nice list of links from the wonderful people at LILI (Low Impact Living Initiative) about nice eco places to go and stay etc.
• Land Roots – Space For Life – A nice list of links from our friends at Land Roots (all the lovely people they met at this years Big Green Gathering)
• Welcome to Countmein Homepage – A calendar of charity and similar events in UK, US, Canada and beyond.
• Watershed – A very nice bar, cafe, cinema and media centre in Bristol. I’ve currently there, using free wireless, drinking organic lager and looking out over the water 🙂