Amazing article by Kevin Kelly about the rise of "The New Socialism".

Today there seems to be a new distribution model that is emerging. One that is based on people’s ability to publically syndicate and distribute messages — aka content — in an open manner. This has been a part of the internet since day one — yet now its emerging in a different form — it's not pages, it's streams, its social and so its syndication. The tools serve to produce, consume, amplify and filter the stream.

MIT Media Lab staff (the Open Ended Group) is working on a new kind of programming tool called Field. It connects everything. Not only various programming modules and components, but also different styles of generating, editing and testing code are provided. For example textual coding with auto-complete, visual coding, timelines, live-coding, flow-management etc.

The talk about the inevitable death of newspapers seems to have heated up in recent weeks. Overall, there seems to be a resignation setting in about their demise.

Making video a first class citizen of the Web. Super cool screencast showing a Firefox 3.5 demo.

The question that Grisby raised during his presentation is an important one: are native applications really the future of the mobile web? Applications built specifically for one device, such as the iPhone, aren't necessarily any more capable than those built using web technology. In fact, they can even tap into the functionality of the phone's hardware itself like the accelerometer and geolocation features. (Really!)

Bespin is the newest Mozilla labs project. It's aims to be a self hosted open web editor and is pretty freaking awesome.

20th century growth was dumb. The central, defining lesson of the macropocalypse is that 20th century growth wasn't built to last. Dumb growth is unsustainable - if the world grows the same way that developed countries did, well, there won't be a world. Dumb growth is unfair: it's growth that's an illusion for many; just ask the American middle class. And, ultimately, perhaps most dangerously, dumb growth is brittle: it falls too easily into collapse, reversing many of yesterday's gains; just ask Iceland.