Analog phone calls degraded with distance; we now have the Internet. Analog computations degraded with time; we now have PCs. But today’s most advanced manufacturing processes, whether additive or subtractive, remain analog because the materials themselves don’t contain information. Prof. Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, will present research on digital materials, and discuss its implications for the future of making things.

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So, while you wait for the new website and for new posts, I will post some videos, so you will not get too much bored.
Let’s start with “Revolution OS” a 2001 documentary film which traces the twenty-year history of GNU, Linux, open source, and the free software movement. You can watch it on Google Video or right here:

The aim of the event is to think and propose new projects, practices and usages for cities and citizens, based on existing examples of appropriation of information technology and communication (ICT) and of innovation originating from social demands. The interaction between digital technology, digital culture and citizens’ space provides opportunities for citizen action affecting many different areas and open up potentially more creative and innovative participatory dynamics. These innovations can be translated into new opportunities for socio-economic development and local cultural as well as for strengthening civic networks and their mechanisms of participation in urban governance. The local objective, therefore, from a global perspective and tools.

The news that gives me great satisfaction is that Ramon Sanguesa invitated me to participate as a facilitator for Group A, Productive collaborative innovation: concepts of open innovation in the social, technological and entrepreneurial field. So this will be a very important opportunity to confront, share and experiment the themes of open innovation for communities and cities through the role of facilitator (enabler).

The intention of the six groups is to enable spaces for conversation, discussion and planning for specific projects related to each of the six subjects. The objectives of the Group A are:

• to work on collaborative innovation for civic-based and business-based projects;
• explore the concepts of open innovation in the social, technological and entrepreneurial field;
• explore the open and collaborative design; see how the concept of the culture changes after the collaborative and innovative “digital culture”.

Before the event, the pages of each working group the contextual framework and potential contents and projects that may arise, as well as initiatives, are developed in the pages of each working group. Each can be edited by its facilitator and other people interested in attending the working group, while broadening the discussion in the respective discussion page.

Other good reasons to follow this event are the presence of Michel Bauwens from P2P Foundation and of Juan Freire.

Registration is free for the first 100 seats, and then, for organisational reasons, there are still 50 seats reserved with a registration fee of 50 euros. And during those days it will be possible to follow the conference through videostreaming on the website.

I hope you will participate in the website and in the Citilab!

I have been invited to the sci(bzaar)net event on 17th May 2008, organized by Gianandrea Giacoma (who runs the excellent Ibridazioni blog) in the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milan.

It will be a closed event, in order to preserve its discussion. But all the presentations will be recorded and uploaded in the website, which will eventually become more open after the event. Let’s say that the event will provide the first source code that later an open community could form around it on the sci(bzaar)net website. So, even if you cannot be there on that day, keep watching the website for its further development and participate in it!.

The main idea of this event is to study, confront and share knowledge about how science, research and scientific publishing can change if they will adapt themselves to the Web and Open Culture. I will give a presentation about how Open Culture can be seen as a culture of Open Systems, and how scientific research could be configured as an open and peer-to-peer community-based activity.

And, by the way, I designed and developed the website (except the logo, designed by Davide Casali)…in a very short time, so please don’t expect it to be a milestone! ;-)

…I forgot to mention that a Web 2.0 map was distributed along the Web 2.0 Spanish book. You can download it here. It is a Spanish map, and was designed by Internality.

You can download the map in different file types and dimensions here: http://www.internality.com/web20/.

Here it is the map as it is included in Scribd.

Mapa de la Web 2.0

I also add a study on Information Society in Spain that has been published recently and can be downloaded here

Now I’m working on a translation of some notes taken reading the Web 2.0 book, and soon I will published it online in a post…