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If you are not sure if a new link belongs here, please check '''[[Links|Other Links]]''' for other alternatives.
If you are not sure if a new link belongs here, please check '''[[Links|Other Links]]''' for other alternatives.
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See first the [[essential projects]] that are doing what we are doing, and that we have little choice but to work with and improve.
 
 
==Possible sources/gateways of [[Content]]==
==Possible sources/gateways of [[Content]]==


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*[[w:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]] - A spin off from wikipedia. The free dictionary and thesaurus in every language if it gets done someday. [[GFDL]] also. Not much happening there now.
*[[w:Wiktionary|Wiktionary]] - A spin off from wikipedia. The free dictionary and thesaurus in every language if it gets done someday. [[GFDL]] also. Not much happening there now.
* http://www.responsibleshopper.org/ A project run by [http://www.coopamerica.org Co-op America] that has very convergent goal with us and they actually have a DB online with 350 big companies investigated. '''Truely worth a visit.'''


* http://www.disinfopedia.org/ -  a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. And yes, it's in the [[GFDL]] part of the world (Running [[m:Wikipedia3|Wikipedia3]])
* http://www.disinfopedia.org/ -  a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. And yes, it's in the [[GFDL]] part of the world (Running [[m:Wikipedia3|Wikipedia3]])


* http://badcorp.org/ - they have very interesting search engine for figuring out who owns who!
* http://www.theyrule.net/ - Topic map style visual presentations of interrelations of [[Companies]] [[Executives]] and stuff in the US mostly. Static mapping so they have an advisory about probably being out-of-date.
 
* http://www.theyrule.net/ - Topic map style visual presentations of interrelations of [[Companies]] [[Executives]] and stuff in the US mostly. Static mapping so they have an advisory about propably being out-of-date.


* [[Cookbook]]
* [[Cookbook]]


* [http://now.ohah.net/en/Earth_Reforesting_System "Earth Reforesting System"] - not sure if this is going to work, but, at least they started with mediawiki, so maybe they are just waiting for others to chip in, just like Consumerium did. Mostly in Japanese.
* [http://now.ohah.net/en/Earth_Reforesting_System "Earth Reforesting System"] - not sure if this is going to work, but, at least they started with mediawiki, so maybe they are just waiting for others to chip in, just like Consumerium did. Mostly in Japanese.
*[http://www.wikitravel.org Wikitravel] - a travel guide - boycotts should include not going places where people do rotten things, since tourism has an eco-impact and sends messages of approval too.


* http://www.environmentaldirectory.net/ - lists over 13.000 organisations dealing with environmental issues in the US
* http://www.environmentaldirectory.net/ - lists over 13.000 organisations dealing with environmental issues in the US
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* http://slipperycat.com - attempt to nail down ontology for game business - shows what a simple industry looks like from low level code up to production. - a '''stub''' at the moment
* http://slipperycat.com - attempt to nail down ontology for game business - shows what a simple industry looks like from low level code up to production. - a '''stub''' at the moment


* http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/opensource/greenscan/ - [[GreenScan]], an [[Adbusters]] project to create a hand-held barcode scanner with a simple output system. Scan a product: if you get a [[green light]], it is ok to buy. Red is bad. What they don't yet realize is that building a specific access device without a database and information infrastructure.
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===See also:===
===See also:===
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