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Who is This?

Jon Lebkowsky is a consultant, author and activist who was cofounder of FringeWare, Inc. (with Paco Nathan). FringeWare, an early attempt at ecommerce and online community, published a popular "magalog" called FringeWare Review, and a literary zine edited by Lebkowsky called Unshaved Truths. FringeWare's email list, called the FringeWare News Network, established an international following for the organization, which also opened a store in Austin, Texas.

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Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine

The Journal for Participatory Medicine has just launched with a session at the Connected Health Symposium in Boston. According to the press release,"the Journal will be written and peer-reviewed by and for all stakeholders: patients, healthcare ...

From JON LEBKOWSKY, WorldChanging,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Esther Dyson,  AARP,  Richard Smith,  Yochai Benkler

Worldchanging Interview: Jean Russell on Thrivability

Thrivability builds on itself. It is a cycle of actions which reinvest energy for future use and stretch resources further. It transcends sustainability by creating an upward spiral of greater possibilities and increasing energy. Each cycle builds the ...

From JON LEBKOWSKY, WorldChanging,  8 Sep 2009

Worldchanging Review: Doug Rushkoff on Life Inc.

Doug Rushkoff had set out, as he told me in an interview on the WELL, to write one kind of book -- "about money as a medium, and the way centralized currency and corporate capitalism were accepted as given circumstances of business, rather than ...

From JON LEBKOWSKY, WorldChanging,  3 Sep 2009

A Declaration of Health Data Rights

The more I talk to other people the more I hear the same story. "The doctor did not listen." "The nurse did not read the chart." "The hospital kicked us out because our insurance was running out." It goes on and on. I ask all these wonderful people ...

From JON LEBKOWSKY, WorldChanging,  22 Jun 2009

Iran: The Whole World is Watching

I've been thinking a lot about the Chicago demonstrations of 1968 where they chanted "the whole world is watching." Really, that wasn't true then. But this time it's true ... and people throughout the world are not only listening but responding. ...

From JON LEBKOWSKY, WorldChanging,  19 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Thomas Jefferson,  Yahoo!,  Clay Shirky,  Creative Commons

The Worldchanging Star Trek Challenge

Classic space operas ignore the difficult realities of space travel, assuming that all the potential kinks have been worked out through and that future societies have developed new "black box" technologies (as in wormholes and their navigation, warp ...

From JON LEBKOWSKY, WorldChanging,  5 May 2009
Related Topics: Stan Lee

Liberating Voices

Our "pattern language" is a holistic collection of "patterns" that can be used together to address an information or communication problem. Each "pattern" in this pattern language, when complete, will represent an important insight that will help ...

From JON LEBKOWSKY, WorldChanging,  26 Jan 2009
Related Topics: Christopher Alexander

Evolution of the Web

Customers are major players in the arena of marketing - I would argue more so than the marketing professionals themselves now - so it is important to realize that and shift the marketing program to be more about how you interact and empower those ...

From JON LEBKOWSKY, WorldChanging,  17 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  LinkedIn Corp,  Twitter Inc,  Fast Company

Carbon Detectives

But the atmosphere delivers no monthly statement on greenhouse gas dynamics, so scientists have to tease out the information from disparate and often contradictory sources. The key task is measuring the sources, or emissions, of these planet-warming ...

From JON LEBKOWSKY, WorldChanging,  1 Dec 2008

The Last Viridian Note

Recent events have clearly established that the character of the times has changed. The Viridian Design Movement was founded in distant 1999. After the years transpiring – various disasters, wars, financial collapses and a major change in political ...

From JON LEBKOWSKY, WorldChanging,  19 Nov 2008
Related Topics: European Union,  eBay Inc.

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