Tag: commons

Know Your Watershed, Mapping Rivers, Mapping Our Commons

Dec 28, 2013

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by

danlatorre

in mass collaboration, publicmedia

Fresh water is more valuable than oil because humanity can live without one of these. There’s something about mapping water, about mapping rivers, that resonates so well with our online hyper connected lives. Maybe it’s because we take water for granted almost as much as we take all of our social connectedness for granted. Maps…
Renewing Networks: Egypt & “Losing Control”

Feb 13, 2011

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by

danlatorre

in mass collaboration, p2p organizing

(Image: “Thursday 10 February 2011 – Day 17 Al Qasr Al Aini Street, Cairo as doctors and nurses walk peacefully on one side of the street, others take video from mobile phones in the other side of the street.” photo by sierragoddess. cc-by-nd) A lot of the recent talk about what’s going on in Tunisia…