Communication Agents Initiative - Articles Archive
from August 19, 2005 to February 5, 2004
Here is an idea for everyone interested in sharing ideas to change the world!
Libertes Philosophica or “the right to think” was a phrase coined by Giordano Bruno, a controversial Italian Renaissance philosopher who challenged the authorities by daring to think beyond the common beliefs ... read more
Mykljonzun - August 19, 2005
"Inside the frame..and they are living their lives in the frame...
Most of them, don't want to look... they don't want to find out if there is anything outside..."
About two months ago I have had the pleasure to meet and interview Jon Rappoport, an independent news ... read more
Robin Good - August 1, 2005
About a year ago, I was briefly consulted by Italy's RadioRadicale, to review and analyze a new challenging and very ambitious project.
The goal was the creation of a software-based technology platform to allow the easy editing, commenting, remixing and online re-distribution of all of the tens ... read more
Robin Good - July 19, 2005
Born with the intention of providing an alternative news venue for the younger generations, often very critical and alienated by mainstream news media, the Guerrilla News Network is a uniquely interesting hub of counter-information, articles, and voices from a growing group of awareness-increasing individuals.
One of the ... read more
Robin Good - July 17, 2005
Ever since blogs became popular in China, there have been a number of occasions where some blogs were threatened or shut down by telecommunications company or internet service providers due to their political speech.
Photo credit: Ophelia Cherry
These incidents not only brought risks to bloggers themselves ... read more
Robin Good - [via Slashdot] - June 22, 2005
"The lack of transparency in the world of opinion-making is an ongoing scandal. What we have today is a system of opinion laundering, where powerful interests try to create public support for their side of issues without disclosing the hidden agendas. Media organizations then publish or ... read more
Robin Good - Dan Gillmor On Grassroots - February 16, 2005
The change-agent information warriors the title refers to are those individuals who have taken on the challenging opportunity of becoming independent news reporters, online information watchdogs for what mainstream media is forgetting to cover every minute.
Some good steam is coming out of the Communication Agents Initiative, ... read more
Robin Good - November 30, 2004
All of us have great ideas from time to time. Most often, those bright sparks extinguish quickly, usually because a great idea unshared is nothing more than that - a great idea.
But if you have a great idea that you'd like as many people as ... read more
Robin Good - November 19, 2004
Do you want to be come an online entrepreneur, a small independent and sustainable publisher on the topic(s) that reflect your true interests and passions?
Flemming Flunch's Escape Velocity is a new blog out there that has just started laying out the right questions, the possible routes ... read more
Robin Good - Escape Velocity - November 14, 2004
..."But it was really the internet that allowed public health activists to do an end run around GSK's and the medical authorities' denials of the drug's risks. An explosion of websites dedicated to vivid accounts of antidepressant reactions told these campaigners about hundreds of thousands affected ... read more
Chris Gupta - September 28, 2004
"Change is frustrating for everyone in organizations. Leaders know that often survival depends on change. Most employees however see change only as a threat and resist change. Change is seen by most as involving great effort and that in the end it often fails. But there ... read more
Robert Paterson Weblog - [via Stephen Downes] - July 18, 2004
How much do I count in the spreading of new ideas? Am I a change agent? Can I really help this planet become a better place? Sepp Hasslberger, a change agent by explicit mission, author and editor of Health Supreme, comforts the many of you out ... read more
Robin Good - July 10, 2004
"Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key areas. Your resources ought to be solely concentrated on the [those who naturally play the roles of]Connectors, Mavens, and Salesmen. The world does not accord with our intuition. Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do ... read more
HappyFeetTravel - [via Bala Pillai] - June 30, 2004
Sepp Hasslberger, one of Robin Good's three independent news reporters participating in his Communication Agents Initiative, asks him seven direct questions on education, mainstream media, the arts, music rights and how to save the Internet. If you want to get a peek at Robin views on ... read more
Robin Good - June 20, 2004
Here is David Pollard's "list of forty actions -- technological, social, entrepreneurial, political -- that could create a new 'tipping point' to restore our planet's, and our, health." I find this list inspirational and of good use for those seeking a more meaningful and rewarding role ... read more
Dave Pollard - How To Save The World - June 10, 2004
The Buckminster Fuller Institute and the Cal-(IT)2 Game Culture & Technology Lab at UC Irvine are in the initial conceptualization of a massively multi-player game whose goal is to save the world. The game takes a bottom-up approach through missions in which players deploy large numbers ... read more
Celia Pearce - Planetwork - June 5, 2004
"The most effective way to successfully achieve the ambitious goal of building a socially just and environmentally sustainable global society from the ground up is to first focus on our immediate health and well being. One of the greatest absurdities of modern life is when we ... read more
Jeff Buderer - Ryze Page - May 14, 2004
Today wealth is created through knowledge. The more effective the knowledge flow in an organization, the more wealth created. Within companies and public work, knowledge flow must always be severely limited. This is because of the control required for public work. Knowledge Leveraging Compensation is a ... read more
Barry Carter - March 25, 2004
One of the problems we've got with social software is that it relies on a large architectural model. But this doesn't serve goal-oriented groups terribly well. I'm beginning to think that a better model is shipbuilding, where the goal is to provide groups with a place ... read more
Robin Good - Mopsos - February 5, 2004
NetAction provides some guidelines and resources to use email and the Web as effective, inexpensive, and efficient tools for organizing, outreach, and advocacy. Technology is a tool that can be used strategically to enhance grassroots organizing and outreach efforts related to political campaigns and public policy ... read more
Robin Good - NetAction [via Joseph Daisy] - February 5, 2004
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