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infed (the informal education homepage and encyclopaedia of informal education)

Our aim is to provide a space for people to explore the theory and practice of informal education, social action and lifelong learning.

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13 days ago by mwfogleman

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Twin Oaks Intentional Community Homepage

Twin Oaks is an intentional community in rural central Virginia, made up of around 85 adult members and 15 children. Since the community's beginning in 1967, our way of life has reflected our values of cooperation, sharing, nonviolence, equality, and ecology. We welcome you to schedule a visit.

Our 3-Week Visitor Program: The three week visit is a structured program designed to give the visitor some general education and experience in living at Twin Oaks. It is an opportunity for the visitor to consider membership and for the community to consider prospective new members, but you don't have to be interested in membership in order to participate in the program. The visit is a prerequisite to applying for membership, and visitors who are accepted for membership need to spend at least a month away from Twin Oaks after the end of their visitor period.

The fee for the three-week visit is on a sliding scale of $50-$250. This is used to pay for outreach and to offset expenses of the visitor program. We strongly encourage people with significant financial resources to pay at/towards the high end of the scale. If you can't afford to pay at the low end of the scale, we can make arrangements for a reduced fee.

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14 days ago by mwfogleman

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Twin Oaks Community, Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Twin Oaks Community is an ecovillage[1] and intentional community of about one hundred people [2] living on 450 acres in Louisa County, Virginia.[3][4] It is a member of the Federation of Egalitarian Communities.[5] Founded in 1967,[6] it is one of the longest-enduring and largest secular intentional communities in North America.[4] The community's basic values are cooperation, egalitarianism, non-violence, sustainability and income sharing. The community's initial inspiration was B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two, which describes a fictional behaviourist utopia.

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14 days ago by mwfogleman

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Welcome to MusicBrainz! - MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections

reference software opensource tools free music web web2.0 freeware audio organization community media social collaboration tagging metadata mp3 tags utilities search musicbrainz tag id3 cd itunes database tool ipod
april 2009 by mwfogleman

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Through BitTorrent's randomness, communities emerge - Ars Technica

The recording industry, no doubt gnashing its teeth at such research, will be even less pleased to note that it was all funded by Uncle Sam through a pair of National Science Foundation grants.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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GizmoStyle // We Love The Web : Linux enters the I’m A Mac/I’m A PC row with ‘We’re Linux’

We’ve all seen the various Mac v PC ads but no Linux ads as of yet. And why would we? - Linux does not have the bank balance to finance Hollywood style adverts - remember Microsofts Jerry Seinfeld ad campaign? $10 million for what? Well, that’s all about to change as Linux have announced five finalists who have made adverts for their ‘We’re Linux’ video campaign. I must admit, they probably aren’t TV ready…..yet. We’ll see what Linux decide to do when they announce the winner tomorrow (Wednesday evening Pacific Time). Here are the 5 videos:

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory - O'Reilly Radar

Imagine now what would happen if cities did throw their weight behind this kind of innovation? The landscape of those cities would change virtually overnight, with legions of new applications springing up to provide residents with every sort of information conceivable, making their decisions more informed, making their movements more coordinated, and ultimately making the cities themselves work better. This change would happen at a fraction of the cost of any proposals for change currently being considered by cities around the world. And much of that cost, for development and operation, would be offloaded from the city itself to the individuals building and using these services.

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april 2009 by mwfogleman

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TED | Talks | Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School

Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open t

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march 2008 by mwfogleman

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