Northern Soul – This England Granada TV documentary about Wigan Casino, a famous Northern Soul club in Wigan. The doc combines footage of historical industry in Wigan with footage shot for the 1977 show. It’s a strange but oddly engaging trip. (tags: music) Stellarium A free open source plaetarium program. Now that the nights are warmer, and clearer around my place, this ought to come in handy. (tags: astronomy learning kids space)
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MindMeister – think together (tags: mindmaps organization collaboration mindmapping tools) Great selection of fake sheets for many pop songs (tags: music) PENNsound- Poetry mp3 archive A great archive of poets reading their work. (tags: poetry mp3) Lorenz Butterfly A beautiful engine to create a Lorenz Butterfly (tags: chaos complexity) Paul Hawken: the Movement is bigger that you think This is the first time in history that a large social movement is not bound together by an “ism.” What binds it together is ideas, not ideologies. This unnamed movement’s big contribution is the absence of one big idea; in its stead …
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Blog of Collective Intelligence: What Is My Collective IQ? – Boosting CI from Within George Por’s brilliant visulization of how harvesting boosts collective intelligence. (tags: collaboration artofharvesting design) Keeping your GMail Inbox size under control at Digital Inspiration Excellent hacks using search terms to take care of Gmail size (tags: hacks gmail tips)
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The Cosmic Blueprint Anyone who has stood by a fast flowing stream cannot fail to have been struck by the endlessly shifting pattern of eddies and swirls. The turmoil of the torrent is revealed, on closer inspection, to be a maelstrom of organized activity as new fluid struct (tags: self-organization organization) Edge 206 The Art of Powerful Questions
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Wise Democracy Victoria Wisdom Councils in Victoria, BC (tags: democracy dialogue) Servant of Chaos: Welcome to the Conversation Age An e-book in the making (tags: conversation) Mapping the Field: Arts-Based Community Development A fantastic article by Bill Cleveland (tags: arts community+development) Creekside: All in the family How BC’s public assets are being privatized by Enron (tags: business britishcolumbia enron privatisation) Links for Social entrepreneurs An extensive set of resources for the field (tags: social entrepreneur) The First Nations of the North West Coast- Coast Salish Connections to the environment, involvement in conservation The Northwest Coast is recognized as a land …