Some items of interest:
- The 3D Manufacturing Revolution (mainstream coverage at the NYTimes). This is very similar to the type of story you would see on personal computing in 1980 or the Internet in 1994. As with the two previous tech revolutions, this revolution will wreck the economics of certain types of work and enable others. What does this means to us? Hackers and entrepreneurs using these machines are going to make the re-localization of manufacturing possible. The hands on work this revolution enables, in combination with online design services (that produce original, repurposed, or customized schematics), will become wealth creation engines for resilient communities, particularly as D2 worsens. Build a hackerspace in your community to get ahead of the curve on this (these spaces will not only serve as incubators of new manufacturing jobs, they will compliment local production of food/energy through the production of new devices and they will also provide the tools necessary for a robust local defense if need be).
- Shareables. Open source magazine/research.
- A formula for constructing virtual communities (Phyles).
- Haystack. There's been lots of press on the anti-censorship software called "Haystack" and its hapless founder, Austin Heap. Danny O'Brian reports that Haystack is now dead as a project. Danny thinks that lax management and a refusal to accept help from outsiders are the culprits. I think it offers a lesson: Either a darknet project is completely open and it floods the target with variants/participants/innovation (hide in high volume noise) or it is completely secret where if it become public, it is dead (hide in plain sight).
- Damon Vrabel's Council on Renewal blog. Taking on debt-money.