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Guaka — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:44:01 +0000

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I had a dream. I woke up. It's 22:03. I think, I was in China in my dream. It's the same dream I had over the weekend. People were valking around with little devices. Recording reality. Broadcasting reality. A blind man was walking around, seeing. With this device. He had no eyes. We were losing control though. China, or I think it was rather BigCorps combined, were taking away our power to record and registrate what was going on. The blind man was giving up and appeared in whatever was TV and had given up the idea of seeing. While dreaming, I thought this was a dream about the future. But, this is happening now. It's 2007. New York City wants blocking normal people from taking pictures and recording videos. It's 2007, and apart from the loony artists and eletronic frontiermen, nobody cares. Do you? It's 2007, and our storage capacity is increasing and increasing. It'll be hard to find a phone without 8 GB soon. Do you think security companies are actuallying recycling their storage? Do you think governments are? They might, might have policies in place, and might follow them. But not in China for sure. And not in Googolia, Amazonia, or Yahoo. But why still care? I know some of you do, but I think it's better instead, to march along, no, run in front of them, and be there first! Right at the frontier. Storing our experiences to the max, giving them away to anyone who slightly cares. Privacy is a dream from the past. This is the age of Utubiquity is now. Let's free our phones, our dishwashers and cars, and equip all of them. Let's make the blind see, not thru gEyes or iSee, but with OpenEyes. I sure as hell know that whenever silicon enters my flesh it oughta be free and open. This should be the age of Communal Creativity. Done right there's nothing to fear. And I turn on the light at 22:24.

The Wiki Party - closer to reality

Guaka — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:11:52 +0000

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Last year I did a BoF at Wikimania 2006 about The Wiki Party, the idea to start a political party. Today Anu sent me a link to a Facebook group with this same title. I jokingly told people "when I'm 40 years old I will start this party if no one else did before then". Fortunately I won't have to, anymore. Of course, it's happenning in Finland. Olli Sirén was considering to run a campaign to the Helsinki City Council. From the main page of wikiparty.net:

Wikiparty is bringing new ways to do politics. It´s based on the idea of open politics. This site will be the international basis for this new party. The movement has started in Finland and will spread around the world in one form or another. Democracy is grown weak around the world. Voting percentages are in a steady decline. Let's put together a Wikiparty. A party that creates its political opinions in the same way that Wikipedia forms its articles. Let's try to think ways to systematically create political force. This party could vote for its representatives to different political parliaments. These "agents" of Wikiparty would interpret the ideas of Wikiparty to real voting situations and pass the ideas of the community to the parliament. This way we could challenge the traditional parties to a debate between weak and strong democracy. This kind of virtual community that aims to a real life political chance, could reach over national borders and grasp problems caused by for example globalization or climate change.

And yesterday I learned about Kaltura, a social-networky video editing tool, kind-of-a crossbred between wiki, and youtube with the promise to release their software under the GNU General Public license.

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The Wiki Party - closer to reality

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