GoodGNUs

• Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text!
  Org Mode - Organize Your Life In Plain Text!
  (tags: org-mode gtd emacs elisp lifehacks scheduling todo productivity tips tutorial howto orgmode)
• «Le libre ne relève plus de l’utopie» - Libération
  Mark Shuttleworth interview
  (tags: ubuntu shuttleworth freesoftware libre French francais)
• The Ultimate Drupal Toolbox: 150+ Themes, Modules & Resources « Noupe
  More great Drupal resource links
  (tags: links resources webdesign webdev drupal themes plugins tutorial modules web cms reference)
• Drupal Tutorials - Essential Drupal Social Networking Modules | DrupalSN.com
  The most comprehensive review of modules to build social networking into Drupal websites.
  (tags: drupal socialnetworking community module webdesign social hyperlocal webdev cms #tal09)
• useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design
  It’s not pretty, but it is essential
  (tags: usability nielsen web web2.0 css design webdesign accessibility html reference research articles navigation)

• The Hedon Blog
  Another of the remarkable hyperlocal blogs at #TAL09 - wish I had time to bookmark them all!
  (tags: blog local hyperlocal socialmedia tal09)
• Talk About Local » Un-Conference
  Great event yesterday, will blog tomorrow :)
  (tags: TAL09 conference events local hyperlocal socialmedia blog socialnetworking unconference)
• Pits’n’Pots – The Radical Press
  “For the news that matters in Stoke-on-Trent”
  (tags: blog hyperlocal tal09 potteries midlands)
• Pesky People
  “Pesky People is also going to be a campaigning website being developed to highlight how to complain about terrible access to websites. It will inform people of their rights, giving creative means to complain. It will cause trouble, it will change habits, it will empower. It will be fun. It’s totally run by Deaf and Disabled people.”
  It was my pleasure to meet PP’s Alison Smith at #TAL09
  (tags: tal09 blog accessibility webstandards webdesign web)
• Blog Local - lifting the lid on your local community
  Blog Local aims to lift the lid on your local community. Our sites act as a hub of local information, views, events, reviews and loads of other good stuff that comes bubbling up from under the surface. We open up local information and put it in your hands. To see an example of what we do, check out http://www.blogpreston.co.uk/
  (tags: blog local hyperlocal tal09 web2.0 socialmedia socialaction)
• Democracy Club: Transparency through volunteering
  Democracy Club is a new, independent network of volunteers who want to help internet-savvy transparency groups like mySociety and The Straight Choice to hold election candidates and representatives to account. Constituency volunteers wanted!
  (tags: democracy mp parliament westminster accountability sousveillance web2.0 socialmedia politics tal09)

• what consumes me, bud caddell » how to be happy in business - venn diagram
  (tags: lifehacks businessplan strategy design management visualisation niche)
• In the Beginning Was the Plan
  All too true
  (tags: project plan business management humour)

Wonderful to be spending a bit more time at horticulture and permaculture again - both with looking at the IT systems for Gaia University and, more practically, getting back into a bit of Edible Landscaping work. Yesterday I gave a talk on Edible Landscaping at Soutport Flower Show. It’s adapted from the 3 hour Edible Landscaping course I ran at HDRA in the mid-90s, and as I feel much useful content is omitted to makethe talk, I’m putting links to useful sites and books below (and in the comments) over the next few days.

The talk will also run today at 2.30pm (come along at 1pm to hear David Bellamy!), and tomorrow at 11.30am.

Books

Plants for a Future: Edible and Useful Plants for a Healthier World

Creative Vegetable Gardening Joy Larkcom

Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists and Vacant-lot Gardeners Are Inventing the Future Today. by Chris Carlsson

Websites

Heritage Seed Library - old & endangered varieties of vegetable seed

Plants for a Future - practical experiences with 7000 different useful & edible plants growing in the UK

• Great Repeal Bill - Wikiversity
  A proposed Bill to put before the British Parliament intended to abolish many of the restrictive laws and regulation believed to hamper individual freedom, civic society and business

  A wiki Bill, the Great Repeal Bill has been drafted by ordinary citizens in a collaborative effort. It is as much an initiative in open politics and move towards direct democracy as it is an effort in deregulation.

  (tags: politics freedom red-tape bureaucracy repeal grassroots wiki legislation constitution reform peoplepower community collaboration)
• TWITTER représente-t-il la mise en place tranquille et ordinaire du totalitarisme volontaire? « Le Carnet d’Ysengrimus
  Gilles Vigneault: On fabrique des chaises, on sait pas qui va s’asseoir dedans…
  From the comments:
  Ce que Twitter nous annonce, c’est un monde où bientôt tout le monde pourra savoir à tout moment exactement où tout le monde est et ce qu’il font dans l’instant présent.
  (tags: socialmedia twitter Orwell community)
• The World's Best Photos on "2009-07-29" Flickr Hive Mind Search
  Flickr Hive Mind is a data mining tool for the Flickr photography database, allowing search by: metadata tags; Flickr photography groups; Flickr users and their contacts and favorites; text annotation; the Flickr Explore algorithm for interestingness. Flickr Hive Mind can also be an effective tool to identify stock photography with licenses that allow non-commercial (and sometimes) commercial use.
  (tags: flickr hivemind search tools photography visualisation database datamining tags stock stockphotos creativecommons)
• Create your own private Twitter site using WordPress
  Using the P2 WordPress theme to create a private Twitter-like group
  Easier for some than hosting their own http://laconi.ca instance, perhaps
  (tags: socialmedia twitter wordpress theme web networking howto p2 microblog)
• Brands beware: Consumers don't trust their social media friends | Blog | Econsultancy
  Respondents have more trust in TV ads and expert online reviews than in their online friends, with 52% trusting television ads and 47% trusting expert reviews. But most surprising is how consumers respond to online friends versus banner ads, which are considered a weak branding source in many areas. But the 33% of people who trust their online friends is only slightly higher than the 31% who trust banner ads.
  (tags: socialmedia trust brands recommendations word-of-mouth consumerism advertising)
• CcSearch - CC Wiki
  Wiki entry on search.creativecommons.org
  (tags: creativecommons search wiki cc resources free media images photography)
• Wikimedia Commons
  "A database of 4,806,498 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute."
  (tags: multimedia media archive creativecommons photography stock community clipart)
• Creative Commons Search
  Creative commons search engine
  (tags: creativecommons cc search searchengine graphics media photography stock free copyright)

• The Extraordinaries: Will Microvolunteering Work? : NPR
  What a great idea - let's hope it seizes the imagination, & really takes off :-)
  (tags: micropayments volunteering 3rdsector web2.0 smartphone crowdsourcing kiva charity fundraising)

• Why I’m not voting Green : Dan Wilson : eBay expert, social networking, online community, ecommerce, stuff
  Amazingly wlllful misreading of Green policy from labour activist which seems based on some of the best bits of the Green's policies!
  (tags: green politics science badscience distortion misrepresentation bigotry anti-green)

• Wild Apricot Blog : Social Media for Non-Profits: 26 Great Slideshare Presentations You Can Use
  (tags: socialmedia slideshare presentation 3rdsector vcs howto resources)
• The Management Myth - The Atlantic (June 2006)
  (tags: management philosophy mba ethics capital balderdash)

During the final weeks of FACT’s Climate for Change exhibition, our Small Steps to Sustainability workshops have moved from Gallery 1 (as an after-hours social café “combining beer, conversation, and the jagged interface between technology, networks, and ’saving the world’”), to the[FACT]blog (no beer there, I’m afraid).

This means that I’ll be posting there with the final topics, but also summing up previous workshops’ discussions. Please contact me if you want to remind me of something we covered, or that I said that I’d follow up.

Posts will be appearing under C4C Featured Blogs on the[FACT]blog,or you can get directly to them by author, or by the SmallSteps tag.

Info is gradually being updated on the GoodGNUs #SmallSteps page, too. As to the next steps, there’s something in the pipeline, but it’s a fair way off being announced yet. Why not subscribe to the GoodGNUs’ feed to keep updated?

• How Michael Osinski Helped Build the Bomb That Blew Up Wall Street — New York Magazine
  “I wrote the software that turned mortgages into bonds.”
  (tags: economics crash recession depression wallstreet banking banks finance economy programming subprime mortgage crisis history)
• Frankenstory. The writing game where two heads are better than one.
  Frankenstory is super simple to play! You write the first part of a story below and send it on to your friend… the twist is they can only see the last few words you wrote! They write the next part and volley it back to you. Write two parts each and it’s finished. Now you can both read your FrankenStory in it’s full glory!
  (tags: collaborative storytelling creativity microfiction fun story share)
• How to Build a Green Team: The First Step to Sustainability | GreenBiz.com
  (tags: workingfromtheinside green corporation environment business)
• Comparison of Facebook, Ning and Elgg
  V useful feature-comparison of last year’s darling (Facebook); this year’s (Ning); & the do-it-yourself, Free Software social network platform: Elgg.
  Elgg comes off v well.
  (tags: elgg facebook ning socialnetworking socialmedia freesoftware opensource web2.0 social community blog 3rdsector)
• Over 200 MPs get behind planet-friendly farming
  An important campaign to complement bottom-up efforts on local food & sustainability with national & European legislation to end the madness of subsidising high-Carbon, intensive farming, & its consequent rainforest destruction.
  (tags: lowcarbon foodchain fixthefoodchain dairy meat vegan environment farming FoE)
• Writings of Richard Price
  Richard Price - the greatest (unknown) Welsh writer on Liberty
  (tags: welsh politics philosophy liberty)