By allowing the brains of these digital organisms to evolve freely in their model the researchers were able to show that  the transition to cooperative society  leads to the strongest selection for bigger brains. Bigger brains essentially did better as cooperation increased.

"The key to avoiding future riots is to have communities that work." Recommendations include fines for schools that fail to teach children to read properly; earlier and better support for troubled families; a "youth job promise" to get more young people into work; and primary and secondary schools to "undertake regular assessments of pupils' strength of character".

This paper aims to contribute to existing scholarship in the field of digital anthropology by exploring the physical and virtual experiences of gender amongst 30 Millennial-aged F/LOSS hackers, coders and hacktivists living in Europe.

A hellbanned user is invisible to all other users, but crucially, not himself. From their perspective, they are participating normally in the community but nobody ever responds to them. They can no longer disrupt the community because they are effectively a ghost. It's a clever way of enforcing the "don't feed the troll" rule in the community.

Working at street level in London, over a number of years, many of us have been concerned about large groups of young adults creating their own parallel antisocial communities with different rules. The individual is responsible for their own survival because the established community is perceived to provide nothing.

By applying research in artificial intelligence to problems in the philosophy of science, Paul Thagard develops an exciting new approach to the study of scientific reasoning. This approach uses computational ideas to shed light on how scientific theories are discovered, evaluated, and used in explanations

I wrote this handbook to document what I’ve learnt about developer support over 4 years in Google Developer Relations. If you care about the success of your APIs and your developer community, then this handbook is for you.

science.I/O is a place to comment on, recommend and submit academic work. It is a community of researchers and practitioners helping making science more open and collaborative.

The spatial implications of many recently-announced change are monumental: a number of its reforms and initiatives involve citizens and front-line staff actively redrawing the geography of service delivery. To understand the impact we need visuals to help us define and understand new geographies.

If there is a "cybernetic totalism" in Facebook, it lies in our own desire to make our own lives closed, self-regulating systems. The emerging database society reflects individualism, a desire for personal control, and hyper-consumerism. Facebook gives people the ability to categorize, organize, and experience the raw data of their social worlds.

Social networks are unique in that the user is both the product and the service. By this I mean that you are accessible as a service and working to create a product. This means that by using the facebook we give it life. We are the social network and if we choose to stop using it then it ceases to exist. Ask yourself how much are you worth to facebook?

Welcome to Q&A for statisticians, data analysts, data miners and data visualization experts

Welcome to Q&A for people studying math at any level and professionals in related fields

Shannon Hayes and the men and women profiled in her book do have radical ideas: that our families need homemakers, that children need real educations, that people need to become producers and not consumers.

“You have to destroy to rebuild. This cycle can serve as a calibration. Big chains discovered our magic and forced companies to feed them specialty product. We will cultivate the ‘next and new’ and capture the bug in the jar again.”

Civic Center champions civic engagment through stories, services, products, and public installations.

OpenProcessing is an online community platform devoted to sharing and discussing Processing sketches in a collaborative, open-source environment

the philosophies that lie at the core of open source as a movement are important, and, I think have much to offer to education more generally; furthermore, open source approaches to development can apply to things even more important than software, such as curriculum resources, school policies and even the curriculum itself. This brief paper seeks to explore some of these areas.

I spoke with Haughey this week about how he grew Metafilter from a side project into a profitable venture. In our conversation, he stressed three main things: build the site you want to use, listen to the community, and stay small."

this very topography of popular music in terms of underground versus overground, margins versus centre, has been steadily dissolved this decade, partly because of the web and partly because of the economic upheavals that have beset the music industry.

Find and enjoy videos, photos, music, and websites recommended by people who love the same stuff you do.

All told, it was 31.5 hours from idea to publication, and that’s with a few hours of sleep thrown in. I think this shows the power of print-on-demand in general, and MagCloud in particular, so I wanted to share my experience and show you how you can do it, too.

enables groups of any size to address complex, important issues and achieve meaningful results quickly.[citation needed] It functions best where more traditional meeting formats fail: in situations involving conflict, complexity, diversity of thought or people, and short decision-times. People have used it in widely diverse situations, from designing aircraft doors at a large aircraft-manufacturing company to engaging street kids in defining a sustainable jobs-program.

while the automation of decentralized manufacturing may seem like a gimmick at this point, these efforts are pioneering a process that may bear fruit. It would certainly be significant if:

- we could reach a level of automated, decentralized manufacture that could, utilizing only locally available materials, replicate itself
- we could use such decentralized manufacturing to--on a systemic analysis--reduce our localized dependencies on external systems
- we could use such decentralized manufacturing to save significantly on the energy required for transportation of products by, for example, only transporting the manufacturing system and then leveraging local materials to provide manufactured items to the locale

In the first of a regular monthly series of international street profiles, we popped down to Lamb's Conduit Street for a stroll and a little retail reconnaissance. Monocle's Saul Taylor reports.

Politics is ‘the art of the possible,’ right? I think what the Transition Initiative is doing is expanding what’s possible in people’s minds. It is expanding people’s ability to dream bold. And that’s what we need to do: dream bold. Because people have been limited by their own imaginations.”

Traditional communities still remember how to do a barn raising. Those of us who spend our time on the internet celebrate wikipedia, but most of us have forgotten how to do crowdsourcing in the physical world

StoryCorps is an independent nonprofit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another’s lives through listening

we summarise the background to the recession and the different approaches that governments around the world - national, regional and local - are taking, including what we call protective, future investment, localising and insulating responses. We describe some of the social and economic effects that are already visible, and what's likely to lie ahead.

Be as original/sensible/artistic/humoristic as possible when you create your bookmark. The goal is to provoke curiosity (to encourage people to visit libraries in hopes of discovering one of these bookmarks), to bring a new and exciting aspect to book reading in a world that is becoming increasingly digital, and to interact with other people.

We’ve designed The Extraordinaries to feel very much like playing a game. It’s got points, levels, and built-in competition. These game mechanics drive adoption and usage. The key difference is that by playing this game, the player does something useful for a nonprofit organization or public purpose such as:

Unfiction.com is a comprehensive resource for those interested in Alternate Reality Gaming, both from the players' perspective and from that of the puppetmasters. It is also intended as a gateway to be used in introducing neophytes to this unique genre of gaming.

Complexity Digest has been successfully networking the complexity community since fall of 1999.

The current crisis is global in scale (too big for any nation-state to handle) and far too complex to model. Worse, it morphs faster than governments can respond. This failure to return conditions to stability will cause a widespread and catastrophic loss in legitimacy for nation-states. As a result, a psychological shift is in motion, spreading at epidemic rates on a global scale, that will put loyalties to family, gang, community, church, etc. (in toto: primary loyalties) far above loyalty to nation-states

Music has the unique ability to create an infinitely changing experience via pure abstractions of temporal and spatial relationships, most simply perceived as rhythm and timbre. True, we may live in a material world, but within our shared experience, the abstractions of time and space are not imprisoned by the clocks and Cartesian coordinates of modern science

One focus for the pilot project is to develop a supplementary visit and delivery service for elderly immobile people.
In this case runners are paired with elderly immobile people in their area and visit them on a weekly basis providing a useful extra item such as a newspaper and some regular human contact.

In 1997 Runnymede established a Commission to consider the political and cultural implications of the changing diversity of British people. It set up five taskforces to specialise in each of the following areas: democratic institutions, culture, families, employment, and safety and justice.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings — to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

DSNI's approach to neighborhood revitalization is comprehensive including economic, human, physical, and environmental growth. It was formed in 1984 when residents of the Dudley Street area came together out of fear and anger to revive their neighborhood that was devastated by arson, disinvestment, neglect and redlining practices, and protect it from outside speculators.

Local entrepreneurs meet at Claire's to jointly and cooperatively innovate. The main focus of their effort is to remake Hardwick (a failed mining town) into a vibrant community through a revival of local agriculture. To do so, they are building a complex hybrid of local agriculture, business, technology, finance, and community connectivity.

This is interesting because the diagnostic criteria for a delusion excludes any belief that is "not one ordinarily accepted by other members of the person's culture or subculture", whereas these individuals have formed an online community based around their delusional belief, creating a paradox.

Fundamentally this is an experiment in how the web might be used as a space for collaborative close-reading. We don’t yet understand how to model a complex conversation in the web’s two-dimensional environment and we’re hoping this experiment will help us learn some of what we need to do to make this sort of collaboration as successful as possible.

Communities in control tells the story of power, influence and control and how people can use existing and new tools to access it. The White Paper looks at who has power, on whose behalf is it exercised, how is it held to account, and how can it can be accessed by everyone in local communities.

an anthology of forty-four essays brimming with the hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the Internet Age. How would completely reorganizing our system of representation work? Is it possible to redesign our government with open doors and see-through walls? How can we leverage the exponential power of many-to-many deliberation for the common good?

This book explains the mysteries and realities of money in clear and accessible prose, and reveals the true workings, and alarming fragility, of our existing financial system. It also describes concrete and realistic actions that individuals, businesses, social service agencies, and governments can take to enhance productivity and purchasing power, to protect local economies from the ravages of globalization, and to strengthen the bonds of community.

Involvement of the public in the act of science would shape the kind of science being done, perhaps increasing the impact of science on daily life. Community involvement in the act of research would also make science more understandable, and perhaps more familiar, to the public, because people would be engaged in its framing and communication.

simple and efficient instrument to strengthen urban creative initiatives by reusing abandoned buildings as workspaces. PRECARE facilitates the 'intermediary use' of abandoned buildings

I have to say, I find watching sign language completely enthralling. It always seems like a wonderful form of cognitive ballet to me.

In deaf life, people like Secretive aren’t strange at all. Among my closest friends are Waffle, Piano-player, Angel, and even Hand-rubber. And that’s just my work colleagues.

How are our experience of the city and the choices we make in it affected by mobile communications, pervasive media, ambient informatics, and other “situated” technologies?

an Arabic word meaning Community or Nation. It is commonly used to mean either the collective nation of states, or (in the context of pan-Arabism) the whole Arab world. In the context of Islam, the word ummah is used to mean the diaspora or "Community of

It certainly has a positive effect on the Muslim peoples, as this becomes a step towards the unity of the Ummah. We may compare the virtual Ummah to the real Ummah who gather at Makkah every year for Hajj: They represent all colors, shades, and nuances o

The war on drugs, drug politics, how drugs influence politics & (inter)national conflicts.

Whether you need a new logo, website, marketing materials or a custom illustration, just tell us what you need, when you need it and how much you'd like to pay.

The sculpture demonstrated a fascinating idea: given fewer rules, people actually behaved in more creative, co-operative, and collaborative (or competitive, as the case may be) ways.

the valuations inscribed in our market economy, the local architectonic microstructure, and especially the ways these things dock with our own homegrown psychopathologies all seem to conspire against it.

Five people mark the tipping point between a hobby and a nascent hyperintelligence.

We don't talk enough... Groups Near You helps people in your neighbourhood get to know each other

a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. The second is to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to most efficiently use the intern

Our aim is to provide a space for people to explore the theory and practice of informal education and social action learning. We want to encourage educators and animateurs to develop ways of working and being that foster association, conversation and rela

Vanilla is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible discussion forum for the web.

It's launching webcasts and podcasts to be more accessible to the teched-up community and encourage local residents to get involved in local democracy.

For those who prize beauty above all else, we brought together 10 of the prettiest social networks.

Beddington Zero Energy Development, is an environmentally-friendly housing development near Beddington, England.

These seven building blocks--identity, presence, relationships, conversations, groups, reputation and sharing--provide a good functional definition for social software. They're also a solid foundation for thinking about how social software works.

a networked game system set in an industrialised council estate whose inhabitants are attempting to create their own autonomous society in contrast to that of the regime in which they live.

The Honey Bee Network is supported by SRISTI (Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institution), which maintains the network's database of innovations

"Our mission is to build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community."

The Boxing Club regularly organises workshops and events in such varied fields as computing, film and video-making, journalism, education, curating and public history, with a strong educational ethos.

You know the feeling you get after reading a book that speaks to you, that touches your life, a feeling that you want to share it with someone else? BookCrossing.com gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forever!

You think about creating the next Last.fm, flickr, or Web 2.0 start up? You think London lacks opportunities to meet up and discuss those ideas?

To be truly WorldChanging, we're going to have to rethink social structures and our roles as individuals within them. The mix of Megacommunity with Let-Self-Change adaptation is hopefully a good start in a useful direction.

The intention of local currency, explains Gerald Wheatley, a founder of the Calgary Dollars project, is to promote a sense of community and to stimulate the local economy by ensuring that cash stays in the region

MIT researchers today unveiled a new social networking application that will make it possible for anyone on the Institute's 168-acre campus to locate anyone else, via their laptop.

Deptford.TV is an audio-visual documentation of the regeneration process of the Deptford area, South-East London. see

Since September 2005 we started assembling AV material around the regeneration process of the Deptford area, asking community members, video artist, film-makers, visual artists and students to contribute statements, feedbacks, critiques of the regeneratio

Uploaded data can be rated, commented and bookmared by other users, helping to sort the interesting (and accurate) wheat from the chaff. And graphs of data can be embedded into websites. So it is in fact a bit like a YouTube for Data.

A community mapping website, in our definition, is a service that gets its members to map and define places. Through crowd-sourcing, these sites are building a database/directory of local and nearby locations that their users can discover and visit.