A project out of Mozilla Labs, seeking to allow users to better convey information from one to another though use of multiple web API’s, better control their web browser with language rather than through a UI, and better build trust networks, to balance security with extensibility when dealing with other users.

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Like the New York Times, just online.

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One can find a gathering of news articles on various subjects such as greem technology, gaming technology, and more. There is a front page that takes from all these sources, and subpages for each specific topic. It also has job postings in the tech businesses, and puts together meet-ups for its community of technology executives, entrepreneurs and investors together several times a year through high-level executive conferences and custom networking events.

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A project to look at how tech is affecting learning and teaching, particularly in the humanities. The project’s results have been published, and much of the information in the published paper is available on the site.

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“Vectors is a new electronic journal that brings together visionary scholars with cutting-edge designers and technologists to propose a thorough rethinking of the dynamic relationships of form and content in academic research, focusing on ways technology shapes, transforms and reconfigures social and cultural relations.”

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“An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources. Among H-Net's most important activities is its sponsorship of over 100 free electronic, interactive newsletters ("lists") edited by scholars in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.”

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“This Handbook provides a survey of the field of collective intelligence, summarizing what is known, providing references to sources for further information, and suggesting possibilities for future research. The handbook is structured as a wiki, a collection of on-line pages, editable by their readers. The handbook is hosted by the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, but we hope that researchers and others from around the world will contribute to it.”

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“The Center for Collective Intelligence brings together faculty from across MIT to conduct research on how new communications technologies are changing the way people work together. Our basic research question is:  How can people and computers be connected so that—collectively—they act more intelligently than any individuals, groups, or computers have ever done before?” The site contains information about the specific research groups, as well as the working papers awaiting possible publishing.

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Related to the food project, this space is for contributions to the garden itself. People are encouraged to post any growing information or seasonal recipes they come by.

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An eclectic journal for academics and professionals around the world, supplying articles devoted to any use of computers to acquire, analyze, create, edit, or translate texts.

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