The unexpected is the best source for inspiration. Peter Drucker Despite the commercial veneer and increasing degree of regulation it’s acquired in recent years, the Internet is still the best large-scale example of functional anarchy to come down the pipe in a long time. What...

People make the Internet. People make community. People make commonspace. No question. This being said, the tools that people use to construct commonspace matter– a lot. Why? Because the tools assemble the people, and the way they assemble them has a major impact on what we ca...

Success is nothing but being a quote. --Andy Partridge, XTC The Internet allows anyone to become a communicator of unprecedented power… or at least a communicator who gets some heartwarming recognition. Take your pick: you can be a USENET guru with answers for everything, a da...

It is truly written: the best hacks start out as personal solutions to the author’s everyday problems, and turn out to be typical for others. Eric Raymond The Cathedral and The Bazaar Why are people drawn to collective endeavours online? Why are they giving away crucial inform...

These business models presume generosity - or at least some basic drive to share. Why not? Some anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists argue that humans are hardwired for generosity, that our propensity for sharing was inherited from our primitive ancestors. The econom...

You don't invent the future, you unleash it by leveraging the global community mind. John Seely Brown, Xerox PARC Our heroes change along with our technologies. And thanks in part to the Internet, the Lone Ranger has ridden off into the sunset. Even if he hadn't, the Lone Rang...

In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked workers, people are speaking to each other in powerful new ways. Cluetrain Thesis #8 The real difference between the Internet and all preceding media forms lies in its relationship to the public. Online, people aren’t jus...

Two decades of critical thinking and breathless utopian rhetoric about the potential of online communities says volumes about commonspace. What's real and what's vapourware? Most of the existing books on the subject of online community (such as Howard Rheingold's The Virtual C...

Commonspace is a book about the people power of the Internet. It shows that the Internet isn't about dot coms, online malls or customizable coupons. It's about us. The collective us. The book was written by Mark and Darren at The Commons Group and most of it is available for f...

These two articles are an early look at some of the basic ideas behind the Networked Co-op concept. They argue that organizations and individuals working in the area of civil society networking can both provide better service and expand the 'market' by working together. Introd...

Case studies from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) Introduction It was a special time in history. Non-profits were still figuring out the fax machine. No one had heard of the Internet. A few brave souls using modems and activists to string computers togethe...

Developed by Commons and the APC, this guide provides civil society organizations with both an introduction to open source and a framework for finding software that will meet their needs. Designed to be accessible and helpful to non-profit managers and others responsible for h...

Chiromancja jest jednym z najstarszych sposobów przepowiadania przyszłości na podstawie cech ludzkich rąk. Za jej kolebkę uważane są Indie gdzie do dziś jest ona praktykowana. Na początku dwudziestego wieku chiromancja zyskała tak dużą popularność, że uznano ją za naukę.

W jaki sposób przekazywana jest religia? Religia wydaje się być zjawiskiem uniwersalnym kulturowo. Czy wierzenia religijne są zatem adaptacyjne czy są jedynie produktem ubocznym ewolucji naszego gatunku?

Myślenie ma przyszłość. Ta fundamentalna prawda życiowa nabiera coraz większego znaczenia w dzisiejszych czasach i warto niekiedy dłużej się zastanowić nad jej rozumieniem.