Blogs

Why to Buy Your Carbon Credits from Grow Clean Air (GrowCleanAir.com)

Fri, 06/06/2008 - 19:36 — small world servers

Not only does Grow Clean Air make it easy and transparent to purchase carbon credits to offset whatever you need, they also keep up a steady flow of info on their website to inform customers and anyone interested in just exactly how everything in the TIST Reforestation Project works from start to finish.

Listen to the audio snipcast here.

In this brief (3 min 4 sec) audio snippet, Charlie Williams and Ben Henneke of Clean Air Action explain exactly what happens with the revenue generated through the sale of carbon credits (from TIST reforestation projects in Africa and India) here on Grow Clean Air. This is part of the effort to set a precedent for transparency in the carbon market amongst retailers of carbon credits as well as from the programs that generate these credits.

One of the amazing parts of Clean Air Action's revolutionary carbon model is the concept of the participants in the TIST Program (farmers) being partners in the venture, eventually receiving 70% of the revenue generated from the sale of bona fide credits to the international market!

Visit Grow Clean Air and offset your carbon footprint!

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Content Aggregator Goes Live

Fri, 06/06/2008 - 18:55 — small world servers

I have launched the content aggregator for Small World Servers in order to bring all the feeds together from the various and many websites hosted here.

Currently available as an initial step are feeds for:

unrev.org
Money Flows - Money Flows Feed
Free Language - Free Language Feed
Freestyle Language - Freestyle Language Feed

Web Entelechy
Grow Clean Air Carbon Offsets - Grow Clean Air Feed
Institute for Environmental Innovation (I4EI) - I4EI Feed

If you are interested in hosting, try Host Gator.

2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China

Sat, 04/05/2008 - 14:40 — small world servers

I've just create a site called Olympics in Beijing which uses Drupal and the FeedAPI module to aggregate all kinds of good info about the 2008 Olympic Games hosted in Beijing, China.

From Website

The 2008 Summer Olympics (simplified Chinese: 二零零八年北京夏季奥林匹克运动会; traditional Chinese: 二零零八年北京夏季奧林匹克運動會; pinyin: èr líng líng bā nián běi jīng xià jì ào lín pǐ kè yùn dòng huì), officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be celebrated from August 8, 2008, to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony commencing at 08:08:08 pm CST (12:08:08 UTC) at the Beijing National Stadium in Beijing, People's Republic of China, Shenyang and Tianjin), equestrian (in Hong Kong) and sailing (in Qingdao).

The Olympic games were awarded to Beijing, People's Republic of China after an exhaustive ballot of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on July 13, 2001. The official logo of the games, titled "Dancing Beijing," features a stylized calligraphic character jīng (京, meaning capital), referencing the host city. The mascots of Beijing 2008 are the five Fuwa, each representing one color of the Olympic rings. The Olympic slogan, One World, One Dream, calls upon the world to unite in the Olympic spirit. Athletes will compete in 302 events in 28 sports, just one event more than was on the schedule of the Athens games of 2004. Several new National Olympic Committees (NOCs) have also been recognized by the IOC.

The Chinese government has promoted the games to highlight China's emergence on the world stage, amidst concerns about environmental issues and the alleged human rights violations, particularly in Tibet. There have also been growing concerns of major nations boycotting the Olympics in protest of China's actions in Tibet. Earlier in 2007, former IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch has said that he believes that the Beijing games will be "the best in Olympic history."

Learn Spanish Product Discounts: Audiobooks, Software, Electronic Gadgets, Textbooks, etc

Thu, 04/03/2008 - 22:55 — small world servers

Free Language just launched a BETA version of a site to help Spanish learners find all kinds of products for learning the language. Check it out!

Learn Spanish Deals, Discounts and Specials

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Achte Ausgabe des Freistaates Sprache Letter ist Veröffentlicht

Tue, 04/01/2008 - 22:37 — small world servers

Whenever I publish a new edition of the Free Language Letter I re-publish it here for many reasons, mainly to bring attention to the Free Language website, but also to offer subscribers here a quick summary of the content I am researching and producing at Free Language. So here goes...

Welcome to the Eighth Edition of The Free Language Letter.

25 new free resources for 12 languages have been added to the site. There are not as many updates as usual because I have been working behind the scenes on the new overview pages for each language.

Quick View of What's Inside

New! Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese Overview Pages
Now Available: 34 Languages :)
New resources for Catalan, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish
New Social Language Learning Resources
New News Feeds in Catalan, French, German, Italian, Polish and Spanish
Featured Resource: Lingro Public Domain Dictionary and Online Translation Tool (and so much more)
Language Factoid

New! Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese Overview Pages

As I did for the Spanish language before the last newsletter, I have now completed four more language overview sections. Now you will find new homes on Free Language for Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese.

These overview pages are basically a single spot where all the resources for a given language are brought together for users to quickly view and navigate. I like to think they are quite packed with excellent resources for learning the respective languages. :) Some are more filled than others, and the overview pages do include an overview of the language, a list of resources for learning the language, podcasts, news resources, a tag cloud, InternetTV stations, recommended software, an aggregator link and feed and other such useful info.

Now Available: 34 Languages :)

With some of the major changes I have been working on, I have also slipped in a large number of new languages. Since the last newsletter, this includes Bengali, Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Filipino, Greek, Hausa, Hebrew, Hungarian, Latin, Polish, Swahili, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Before you get too excited, know that I cheated a bit on most of these and they list mainly resources for learning languages socially, and do not yet list specific resources for those languages. Catalan, Polish and Swedish are the exceptions with one specific resource for each plus the social resources. Specific resources for the rest will come as soon as I can manage!

OK, onto the latest resources added for specific languages and other such goodness.

Social Language Learning

Below are the latest additions to the social language learning section.

Babbel.com Virtual FlashCard Language Share Site w/English, French, German, Italian, Spanish Tools and Video Game-Like Interface
Palabea.net Palabea the Speaking World Social Language Exchange Network with Videolectures, Podcasts, Images, Docs
Worldia.net Worldia International Community for Making Friends to Learn and Teach Foreign Languages via Skype

News Feeds

Below are the most recently added news feeds that Free Language syndicates.

CaféBabel.com Café Babel Local European Political, Economic and Cultural News Magazine in Catalan and 6 Other Languages
CaféBabel.com Café Babel Local European Political, Economic and Cultural News Magazine in French and 6 Other Languages
CaféBabel.com Café Babel Local European News Magazine in German and 6 Other Languages
CaféBabel.com Café Babel Local European Political, Economic and Cultural News Magazine in Italian and 6 Other Languages
CaféBabel.com Café Babel European Political, Economic and Cultural News Magazine in Polish and 6 Other Languages
CaféBabel.com Café Babel European Political, Economic and Cultural News Magazine in Spanish and 6 Other Languages

Featured Resource

Lingro is a truly useful site with a decidedly free and open approach to multi-lingual dictionaries and online web translation. It provides users with quick and powerful online translation dictionaries and study tools, vocabulary lists and games. The site is "committed to building the Web's largest collection of open dictionaries."

I was struck by the straight-forward, no nonsense approach to open content. The site content is empowered and protected by the Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 License. In short, this means the multilingual dictionaries can be copied, adapted and distributed with proper attribution. Equally, content editors must allow their additions to continue to be worked with under the same license. Thus, in an open and free way, lingro appeals to the users for help in creating "relevant translations and definitions" for the these language translation dictionaries.

Since I published the original article, several new changes have been in the works at the Lingro headquarters. Here's a list on their blog of some of the major improvements. There is also a great sections for webmasters that explains how to integrate Lingro into your website. Also added is a new feature for showing each user's personalized reading/vocabulary profile.

They are really cranking it out over there and I send lots of good vibes to this crew that is working to improve Public Domain tools for language learning. :)

Continue reading about Lingro.

Language Factoid

Mandarin Chinese is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and south-western China. When taken as a separate language, as is often done in academic literature, the Mandarin dialects have more speakers than any other language.

Factoid thanks to Wikipedia.

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Free Language
http://freelanguage.org

mo.neyflo.ws is all about how money flows on the www

Sun, 12/30/2007 - 22:38 — small world servers

mo.neyflo.ws or money flows is the newest site on the Small World Servers web server and the second in the unrev.org network. unrev.org will be working symbiotik-lee with Conscious Manifestations to make unrev.org's information available online instantly to people worldwide using a few tricks cmanifestations has up her sleeves. Well, for the time being... but soon they will be free for all and indeed people already have inklings and bits, but nobody has put it all together in one place and clearly outlined the technical web information architecture.

Returning to mo.neyflo.ws, a new direction is emerging and unreving has begun. This unreving requires affording a mobile lifestyle, more specifically a 37' Ranger sloop minimalized with renewable energy devices and methods. In order for this to happen money must be flowing.

mo.neyflo.ws is a new implementation of an evolving technique that compromises my online life for the last 5 years. Using evolving methods discovered working throughout the years and first put to use on specific projects to enhance their online exposure - mainly via direct links from search engines thanks to relevant keywords in the content and mark-up - I have discovered/received/stumbled upon ... somewhat of an Web Info Arc.

Combine this with a change in approach to the material the website treats: Instead of researching and reviewing mostly free (as in freedom and as in beer) information on various topics, I am blatantly researching and making available mainly commercial products and information for creating a home business, working on the web, making a living online... all that litejazz - combined with motivational, practical, "spiritual" and scientific information from varied sources via divers medias.

This latter aspect of the operation will, naturally, be the most enjoyable for most publishers, for it doesn't involve weeding through sketchy and seedy sales pitches ;) filled with testimonials and promises of a bright futuro en línea. But we'll trudge through the Scheiße and bring out the real deal for all to see, comment on and ultimately decide for themselves... after becoming better informed.

These projects take time to get started... but the search engine magic is instantaneous. I unpassword-protected the site less than 24 hours ago and look at this. Google has already indexed an article I published only a couple of hours ago! All thanks to Drupal and a few modules.

So now I am expressly releasing publicity info on the many sites in the Conscious Manifestations and unrev.org networks.

Also wanted to eek a shout to Conscious Reggae and Pulp Popcorn. Those are two friends joining on the boat trip to South America in a couple of months. But that is merging off topic...

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New Direction for Small World Servers

Sun, 12/09/2007 - 04:12 — small world servers

Recent experiences in the life of Ley have spurred growth in a new direction for Small World Servers.

We are moving away from the "conscious" stuff - but only in a linguistic way. It now seems that "conscious" is self-evident in the work that is done through Small World Servers.

Small World Servers is the Web Space from whence the projects of a team of researchers emerge.

These projects are informative and useful in nature. They are also free to access - and will always remain that way.

This is why many of them have the word "free" in them, such as Free Language, Free Music Software, Free Reality, Free the Sounds and Free Wiki.

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Small World Servers

Web Hosting

Grow Clean Air Carbon Offsets

Why to Buy Your Carbon Credits from Grow Clean Air (GrowCleanAir.com)

Content Aggregator Goes Live

2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China

From Website

Learn Spanish Product Discounts: Audiobooks, Software, Electronic Gadgets, Textbooks, etc

Achte Ausgabe des Freistaates Sprache Letter ist Veröffentlicht

Quick View of What's Inside

New! Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese Overview Pages

Now Available: 34 Languages :)

Catalan

English

French

German

Italian

Japanese

Mandarin Chinese

Polish

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

Swedish