Interesting projects: Difference between revisions

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Not-for-profit Projects

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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

Wikipedia - The free encyclopedia, all content is under GFDL.

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.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 Wikipedia3)

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 Static mapping so they have an advisory about probably being out-of-date.

Cookbook

"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.environmentaldirectory.net/ - lists over 13.000 organisations dealing with environmental issues in the US

Misc.

http://globalgreens.org - mailing lists automatically set up for any Green Party - or other groups obeying Global Greens Charter

http://crit.org - annotation software to 'mark up' any site on the web

http://smartmobs.com - discussion of mobile technologies for politics

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

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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.
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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.
-* 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://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]]
 * [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
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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://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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