There has been a lot of discussion on the list about next generation permaculture design resources, partly driven by the discussion around Evan’s culture jamming the Tagari PDC online.
Some of my thoughts;
Design & Project Approach
Scaling permaculture projects from apartments, homes & gardens, streets & suburbs, towns, villages, farms, states, countries, now with Klimaforum09, the entire planet.
Wisdom, Knowledge, Information & Data
The Internet
The internet, and especially the World Wide Web, has changed information, publishing and knowledge. The internet advertising market is now bigger than TV, bigger than most other media advertising markets combined. Google is an advertising corporation with a search business.
Licensing Schemes
There are many publishing licensing schemes beyond the IP regime of simple Copyright. Creative Commons licences (with extensions possible i.e. CC+) , General Public Licenses and a host of other open-source and free licensing schemes.
Open-Content, Open-Source and Open-Business Models in the Open Society
Social Software and the Purpose Driven Web
Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, YouTube
Project and Task Management
OpenCore, TRAC,
Online Video
YouTube, Blip, TubeMogul, LiveStream, UStream, red5, plumi
Semantic Web, Wiki’s and Online Databases
Sourcewatch, Wikipedia, Chaordic, TimBL & W3C Semantic Web, Wikipedia, Freebase, MediaWiki, SMW+
Computer-Aided Design
AutoCAD, landscape
Eclipse
Data Models
XML, Semantic Web etc
Mapping and Geographic Information Systems
Google Maps, Google Earth, LASS, OpenGeo etc
Civic Action Tools
Sourcemap, MIT’s Civic Media Center, OpenCongress, TheyWorkForYou (MySociety)
Hyperlocal
Web Content Management
Blogging tools Wordpress, Moveable Type. Web application frameworks such as Plone, Drupal, DotNetNuke, Joomla. Environments like Django, Ruby on Rails.
The Corporate Internet
How much of the internet is commercial vs public ? how did this happen ? what is the history of the internet ?
The Google Complex - McBig Brother
Google’s privacy and anti-trust implications. Do No Evil. Symbiosis with Wikipedia. Advertising effect. Search formula. An open and public search system ?
Design Tools and Media
A Design Tool Ecology
how do all of these tools work together?
Interfaces
Face-to-Face
Web-Browser
Mobile
Software