have just came back from a conference on the Yasuni area of the Amazon, where in the last 30 years, petroleum enclosures have been threatening the common land of the Waorani and some of the last indigenous peoples still living in isolation in the Amazon. But maybe this juggling is really the manifestation of the fact that to coopt the commons one needs to leave the options open, so as to navigate the contradictions and jump in the moment when opportunity arises. Excerpt from a longer piece by Massimo de Angelis , on the occasion of a trip in Ecuador, and the opposition of the Yasuni people against oil drilling, in which he also gives details about the spiritual underpinnings of their struggle : “I am in Ecuador at the moment, where I arrived with my family 6 days ago for a three months trip in Latin America.

Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from friends, celebrities, companies, media outlets, fictional characters, and more. Soon, sites many of us visit every day will be able to recreate these open, engaging interactions providing a new layer of value for visitors without sending them to Twitter.com. Our open technology platform is well known and Twitter APIs are already widely implemented but this Twitter just announced @anywhere platform – notice who is missing? Google!

Behind any one of the smartphones, eBook Readers, netbooks and LCD-televisions that debuted last week at CES is almost certainly a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) application or platform. Readers can chose an open-format e-reader over an alternative that only allows them to download books in proprietary format. Owners of open-format e-readers can download public-domain content, An excerpt from an article by Lysandra Ohrstrom : “Free software has been embraced by commercial developers and is now powering a much wider range of embedded devices than any single proprietary program.