Outernet – a curated subset of the web broadcast from space
outernet.isPosting to see what HN make of this. A friend backed the Lantern Indiegogo campaign yesterday [https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-d...] which sounded exciting and useful. I love the idea here - core knowledge, news, crisis response stuff broadcast globally.
While I'm excited about this and will probably back the Lantern myself, the current Outernet could really use help with content. I downloaded the whole of the Outernet [328 MB compressed] and most of the stuff is of pretty dubious interest: "Two Randomized Trials Provide No Consistent Evidence for Nonmusical Cognitive Benefits of Brief Preschool Music Enrichment", or advances a pretty niche non-mainstream media outlook (the Corbett report podcast).
The broadcast currently contains 758 articles, of which 676 are Wikipedia pages.
The remainder are: - 15 gutenberg texts (e.g. Moby Dick, Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm, ...)
“Making (Up) an Archive: What Could Writing History Look Like in a Digital Age?” - outernet://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/11297828- 10 open access Harvard papers - 54 dw.de news articles and...There Can Be No Turing-Test--Passing Memorizing Machines - outernet://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/11684156
Corbett Report Episode 293 - The Ebola Effect - uternet://www.corbettreport.com/episode-293-the-ebola-effect/
The Place of the Gospel of Philip in the Context of Early Christian Claims about Jesus’s Marital Status - outernet://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/11041837
The Activity of Reason - outernet://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3415961
Corbett Report Episode 293 - The Ebola Effect - outernet://www.corbettreport.com/episode-293-the-ebola-effect/
Civilization Starter Kit v0.01 - outernet://opensourceecology.org/outernet://opensourceecology.org/outernet://opensourceecology.org/Civilization_Starter_Kit_v0.01.pdf
Two Randomized Trials Provide No Consistent Evidence for Nonmusical Cognitive Benefits of Brief Preschool Music Enrichment - outernet://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/11276120
The Collage of Humanity - https://collage.outernet.is/ Civilization Starter Kit v0.01 - outernet://opensourceecology.org/outernet://opensourceecology.org/Civilization_Starter_Kit_v0.01.pdf
Civilization Starter Kit v0.01 - outernet://opensourceecology.org/Civilization_Starter_Kit_v0.01.pdf
The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis - outernet://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/12016836 "Learning from utopia: contemporary architecture and the quest for political and social relevance." - outernet://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/10579145
Middle-Period Discourse on the Zhong Guo: The Central Country - outernet://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/3629313
Be Careful What You Ask For: Reconciling a Global Internet and Local Law - outernet://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/9696322
Thinking about prestige, quality, and open access - outernet://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/4322577