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See also Media, Search, Net/web media, Media, Data, Open data, Organising


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource - refers to all the materials available in our environment which are technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally sustainable and help us to satisfy our needs and wants. Resources can broadly be classified upon their availability — they are classified into renewable and non-renewable resources. They can also be classified as actual and potential on the basis of the level of development and use, on the basis of origin they can be classified as biotic and abiotic, and on the basis of their distribution, as ubiquitous and localised (private, community-owned, national and international resources). An item becomes a resource with time and developing technology. The benefits of resource utilization may include increased wealth, proper functioning of a system, or enhanced well-being.

The concept of resources has been developed across many established areas of work, in economics, biology and ecology, computer science, management, and human resources for example - linked to the concepts of competition, sustainability, conservation, and stewardship. In application within human society, commercial or non-commercial factors require resource allocation through resource management.

The concept of a resource can also be tied to the direction of leadership over resources, this can include the things leaders have responsibility for over the human resources, with management, help, support or direction such as in charge of a professional group, technical experts, innovative leaders, archiving expertise, academic management, association management, business management, healthcare management, military management, public administration, spiritual leadership and social networking administrator.



Whole Earth Catalog


  • Whole Earth Index - Here lies a nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand and the POINT Foundation between 1970 and 2002. They are made available here for scholarship, education, and research purposes.


  • The Internet Archive's Whole Earth collection - The first edition of the Whole Earth Catalog appeared In 1968. Conceived by Stewart Brand as a user-curated selection of the best tools and ideas for living beyond the limits of suburban/corporate America, the Catalog was iconoclastic, visionary and widely influential. Published between 1968 and 1972, it won the National Book prize and was cherished reading in nearly every commune and dorm room in America. So later editions appeared: The Whole Earth Epilog, the Next Whole Earth Catalog, the Whole Earth Software Catalog, the Essential Whole Earth Catalog, the Millenium Whole Earth Catalog, etc. But the Catalog format proved to be restrictive. Stewart wanted to accommodate longer texts and showcase original writing, so in 1974 the Catalog’s quarterly updates became magazines – CoEvolution Quarterly, then the Whole Earth Software Review and finally Whole Earth magazine, published until 2002. To mark the 50th anniversary of the Catalog’s debut, this online archive was created, offering today's and tomorrow's readers a taste of what the Whole Earth publications were like.

DMOZ / Curlie

  • Curlie - the largest human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a passionate, global community of volunteer editors. Historically known as the Open Directory Project (ODP) and DMOZ, it was founded in the spirit of the Open Source movement, becoming the only major directory that is 100% free. In accordance with our free use license, there is no cost to submit a site to the directory or use the directory's data.
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ - from directory.mozilla.org, an earlier domain name) was a multilingual open-content directory of World Wide Web links.It was owned by AOL (now a part of Verizon's Oath Inc.) but constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors. DMOZ used a hierarchical ontology scheme for organizing site listings. Listings on a similar topic were grouped into categories which then included smaller categories. DMOZ closed on March 17, 2017 because AOL no longer wished to support the project. The website became a single landing page on that day, with links to a static archive of DMOZ, and to the DMOZ discussion forum, where plans to rebrand and relaunch the directory are being discussed.


The WELL

  • The WELL - a cherished destination for conversation and discussion. It is widely known as the primordial ooze where the online community movement was born — where Howard Rheingold first coined the term “virtual community.” Since long before the public Internet was unleashed, it has quietly captivated some accomplished and imaginative people. Over the last three decades, it’s been described as “the world’s most influential online community” in a Wired Magazine cover story, and ” the Park Place of email addresses” by John Perry Barlow. It’s won Dvorak and Webby Awards, inspired songs and novels, and almost invisibly influences modern culture. Founded more than two decades ago in association with the Whole Earth Review, the service was recently purchased to be run by a group of its own long term active members. The outpouring of support confirmed that The WELL continues to cast a long cultural shadow. Not quite underground, though sometimes under the radar, for many people it’s a place you aren’t quite sure you’ve heard of, but suspect that you wish you had. For members, it’s the place to come up with the next interesting thing. Ultimately, it becomes a way to live.

Everything2

  • Everything2 - is really two things: the premiere instantiation of the Everything System, a nice database-driven postboard/weblog thingie which works like a Wiki only more so; and a pretty highly structured (in a low-key way) society of folks who like writing (actively and passively), pathos and (particularly) hypertext.

h2g2

  • h2g2 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition Find h2g2 Entries: search Edited Entries Only Advanced Search

Metafilter

  • Metafilter - a weblog that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members.


GitHub / List.community


RationalWiki

  • RationalWiki - a community working together to explore and provide information about a range of topics centered around science, skepticism, and critical thinking.

The Skeptic's Dictionary

  • The Skeptic's Dictionary features definitions, arguments, and essays on hundreds of strange beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous delusions. It also features dozens of entries on logical fallacies, cognitive biases, perception, science, and philosophy.

Snopes

  • snopes.com - founded by David Mikkelson, who lives and works in the Los Angeles area. What he began in 1995 as an expression of his interest in researching urban legends has since grown into what is widely regarded by folklorists, journalists, and laypersons alike as one of the World Wide Web's essential resources. Snopes.com is routinely included in annual "Best of the Web" lists and has been the recipient of two Webby awards.


wiseGEEK

  • wiseGEEK - a very straightforward website: we offer free and clear answers to common questions.

Explorable Explanations



Wikia

  • Wikia - the home of Fandom and the largest entertainment fan site in the world. Launched in 2006 by founder Jimmy Wales, with more than 360,000 Wikia communities and a global audience of over 190 million monthly uniques, we are the only complete destination for entertainment fans.

WikiVS

  • WikiVS - open, up-to-date comparisons



5000 Best

  • 5000 Best Tools and Services - Web services, cloud and PC tools, subscription plans, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, software products, outsourcing services. Non-free products only, from Alexa top-200k. The ranking combines popularity, usefulness, trustworthiness and price prediction.

Product Hunt

  • Product Hunt - surfaces the best new products, every day. It's a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations.


r/AskReddit

  • friends_of_/r/askreddit - A compilation of other subs for your redditing pleasure. Don't forget to check out the subreddits listed in the sidebar, too. Please be sure to check the rules of each subreddit before posting or commenting, and feel free to recommend to us some of your own or your favorite active subscribed subs.

Gnod

  • Gnod - The Global Network Of Discovery

SocialCompare

  • SocialCompare - Find original user-generated comparisons tables. Compare anything such as products, services, objects, software, websites, people... Your choices and decisions will be better and easier.




Halfbakery

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  • VoucherCodes.co.uk - brings together the best voucher codes, 2-for-1 restaurant vouchers, printable vouchers, deals and sales for hundreds of leading online stores to help save you more money.


  • SimilarSiteSearch - uses machine learning algorithms and social data to determine the topics of websites, which are used to find similar websites that have the closest matching set of topics. We also analyze multiple aspects of websites including popularity, language, and country of interests. We then combine them with user suggestions to compute the overall similarity scores.


  • Revyu.com - a web site where you can review and rate things. Unlike many other reviewing sites on the web, Revyu.com lets you review and rate absolutely anything you can name.


  • Powerbase - a free guide to networks of power, lobbying, public relations and the communications activities of governments and other interests. It is a project of Public Interest Investigations and Spinwatch





  • Radical Reference - Since 2004, Radical Reference has been providing online reference services to activists, journalists and researchers who requested help looking for information and resources. Over the years, we've answered questions that have ranged in scope from mail tampering in prison to the history of radical education to the future of librarianship. Yet as we’ve evaluated the quality and efficacy of this service, we’ve been confronted with difficulties of providing in-depth answers in a timely way. As a result, we've decided collectively to suspend this service indefinitely.



Prediction markets

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market - also known as betting markets, information markets, decision markets, idea futures or event derivatives, are open markets that enable the prediction of specific outcomes using financial incentives. They are exchange-traded markets established for trading bets in the outcome of various events. The market prices can indicate what the crowd thinks the probability of the event is. A prediction market contract trades between 0 and 100%. The most common form of a prediction market is a binary option market, which will expire at the price of 0 or 100%. Prediction markets can be thought of as belonging to the more general concept of crowdsourcing which is specially designed to aggregate information on particular topics of interest. The main purposes of prediction markets are eliciting aggregating beliefs over an unknown future outcome. Traders with different beliefs trade on contracts whose payoffs are related to the unknown future outcome and the market prices of the contracts are considered as the aggregated belief.


  • Manifold - A new way to get news and answers to real-world questions. Compete with your friends by betting on literally anything.


  • Polymarket - Bet on your beliefs. The World's Largest Prediction Market.


  • Metaculus - offers trustworthy forecasting and modeling infrastructure for forecasters, decision makers, and the public.



Measures

See also Science

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_measurement - a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same quantity. Any other value of that quantity can be expressed as a simple multiple of the unit of measurement. For example, length is a physical quantity. The metre is a unit of length that represents a definite predetermined length. When we say 10 metres (or 10 m), we actually mean 10 times the definite predetermined length called "metre". The definition, agreement, and practical use of units of measurement have played a crucial role in human endeavour from early ages up to this day. Different systems of units used to be very common. Now there is a global standard, the International System of Units (SI), the modern form of the metric system.

In trade, weights and measures is often a subject of governmental regulation, to ensure fairness and transparency. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) is tasked with ensuring worldwide uniformity of measurements and their traceability to the International System of Units (SI).


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrology - the science of measurement. It establishes a common understanding of units, crucial in linking human activities. Modern metrology has its roots in the French Revolution's political motivation to standardise units in France, when a length standard taken from a natural source was proposed. This led to the creation of the decimal-based metric system in 1795, establishing a set of standards for other types of measurements. Several other countries adopted the metric system between 1795 and 1875; to ensure conformity between the countries, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) was established by the Metre Convention. This has evolved into the International System of Units (SI) as a result of a resolution at the 11th Conference Generale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM) in 1960.

Metrology is divided into three basic overlapping activities. The first being the definition of units of measurement, second the realisation...ic or fundamental metrology, which is concerned with the establishment of units of measurement, Applied, technical or industrial metrology, the application of measurement to manufacturing and other processes in society, and Legal metrology, which covers the regulation and statutory requirements for measuring instruments and the methods of measurement.

In each country, a national measurement system (NMS) exists as a network of laboratories, calibration facilities and accreditation bodies which implement and maintain its metrology infrastructure. The NMS affects how measurements are made in a country and their recognition by the international community, which has a wide-ranging impact in its society (including economics, energy, environment, health, manufacturing, industry and consumer confidence). The effects of metrology on trade and economy are some of the easiest-observed societal impacts. To facilitate fair trade, there must be an agreed-upon system of measurement.


  • Droppings - If you went outside and lay down on your back with your mouth open, how long would you have to wait until a bird pooped in it?


News



  • Best Unbiased News Source - 1440 - We scour 100+ sources so you don't have to. Culture, science, sports, politics, business, and more—all in a five-minute read.




  • The Conversation - In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.


  • Futurity - Research News from Top Universities


  • ResearchBuzz – News and resources covering social media, search engines, databases, archives, and other such information collections. Since 1998.


  • Futurism - Science and Technology News and Videos





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  • The Pudding
    • Our Resources - Although we primarily publish visual essays here at The Pudding, we also produce resources for the data journalism and visualization communities.













Culture

See also Free/open


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_heritage - the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by society.

Cultural heritage includes tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, archive materials, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity). The term is often used in connection with issues relating to the protection of indigenous intellectual property. The deliberate act of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known as preservation (American English, or conservation (British English), which cultural and historical ethnic museums and cultural centers promote, though these terms may have more specific or technical meanings in the same contexts in the other dialect. Preserved heritage has become an anchor of the global tourism industry, a major contributor of economic value to local communities.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_interest - In social science and economics, public interest is "the welfare or well-being of the general public" and society. While it has earlier philosophical roots and is considered to be at the core of democratic theories of government, often paired with two other concepts, convenience and necessity, it first became explicitly integrated into governance instruments in the early part of the 20th century. The public interest was rapidly adopted and popularised by human rights lawyers in the 1960s and has since been incorporated into other fields such as journalism and technology.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_commons - a term typically used to describe international, supranational, and global resource domains in which common-pool resources are found. Global commons include the earth's shared natural resources, such as the high oceans, the atmosphere and outer space and the Antarctic in particular. Cyberspace may also meet the definition of a global commons.

"Global commons" is a term typically used to describe international, supranational, and global resource domains in which common-pool resources are found. In economics, common goods are rivalrous and non-excludable, constituting one of the four main types of goods. A common-pool resource, also called a common property resource, is a special case of a common good (or public good, whose size or characteristics makes it costly, but not impossible, to exclude potential users. Examples include both natural or human-made resource domains (e.g., a "fishing hole" or an irrigation system). Unlike global public goods, global common-pool resources face problems of congestion, overuse, or degradation because they are subtractable (which makes them rivalrous).

The term "commons" originates from the term common land in the British Isles. "Commoners rights" referred to traditional rights held by commoners, such as mowing meadows for hay or grazing livestock on common land held in the open field system of old English common law. Enclosure was the process that ended those traditional rights, converting open fields to private property. Today, many commons still exist in England, Wales, Scotland, and the United States, although their extent is much reduced from the millions of acres that existed until the 17th century. There are still over 7,000 registered commons in England alone.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_ownership - refers to holding the assets of an organization, enterprise or community indivisibly rather than in the names of the individual members or groups of members as common property. Forms of common ownership exist in every economic system. Common ownership of the means of production is a central goal of communist political movements as it is seen as a necessary democratic mechanism for the creation and continued function of a communist society. Advocates make a distinction between collective ownership and common property as the former refers to property owned jointly by agreement of a set of colleagues, such as producer cooperatives, whereas the latter refers to assets that are completely open for access, such as a public park freely available to everyone.[


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_property_law - the body of law that protects and regulates the disposition of culturally significant material, including historic real property, ancient and historic artifacts, artwork, and intangible cultural property. Cultural property can be any property, tangible or intangible, having special significance to a defined group of people, whether or not the group is vested with a traditional property interest. Cultural property laws may be international (such as international conventions or bilateral agreements, or domestic (such as federal laws or state laws).



  • https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanlore:About - a multi-authored website that any fan can easily contribute to. We want to record both the history and current state of our fan communities - fan works, fan activities, fan terminology, individual fans and fannish-related events. Because Fanlore is based on wiki software, you may edit pages to contribute your own experience, knowledge, and perspective on your community's activities, its members and histories, and the material it has produced. We have developed a set of policies based on principles of diversity, multiplicity, and on the value of fannish discourse - fans talking on fandom. It is managed by a committee. These policies are here to help contributors and administrators keep Fanlore accessible, tolerant, and diverse. They are flexible so that Fanlore can grow organically: we expect Fanlore to live and thrive and take us in directions that best reflect the communities we aim to serve. While Fanlore is first and foremost a space both by and for fans, one of our goals is to make its contents accessible and appealing to other parties, like academics, media people, or fans new to online fandom. We hope Fanlore can help these groups learn more about fandom and fan practices; we hope to become a resource and a space where fans are in control of their own representation to more mainstream sensibilities.

Logistics

See also Delivery

Software

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  • Floss Manuals - A community making great, flexible, user-friendly manuals together.We create booklets, course materials and manuals for creative, cultural and campaigning uses of Free Software.

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