Consumerium is a not-for-profit project, developed under GFDL licence, using Wiki-software, to develop free software and infrastructure for storage, transport and display of product information to consumers and feedback to the producers to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible in the future.
April 26, 2002 Initial website describing the concept was published
June 8, 2003 Preparations for getting registered in Sourceforge get underway.
CONK! Encyclopedia: Consumerium(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Consumerium is a not-for-profit project, developed under the GFDL, using wiki-software, to develop free software and infrastructure for storage, transport and display of product information to consumers and feedback to the producers to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible in the future.
ConsuML (short for Consumption Markup Language) would be an XML grammar to be used for Project Consumerium.
At one time the goal of ConsuML was to further the application of Consumerium by allowing information to be transferred via short-range wireless (potentially Bluetooth) devices.
It was intended to provide information that consumers need to develop strategies for engaging in moral purchasing and moral living, to evaluate the morality behind their purchases, and to locate enterprises or products they need.
It bears much similarity to Consumerium project in its goals though the relation of these two is a problematic one since the trolls in Consumerium protest against the GodKing actions of banning the group of users known as 142 or 142.177 a priori.
This has caused a slow down in what was expected to be a fruitful co-existence between the two projects where Consumerium aims to provide future services and Consumerpedia could be used here and now to record and dispense information regarding moral purchasing and both could converge under GFDL in the future.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Consumerpedia (222 words)
Meatball Wiki: TrollingIsGood(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The Consumerium school's definition of trolls is notably lacking an aspect of "lying to and messing with people for a joke at their expense".
The Consumerium school may be said to think along the same lines as the SoftSecurity school of thought, but to also think that SoftSecurity doesn't go far enough.
The Consumerium school says that disruption is sometimes necessary, and therefore almost all disruption be tolerated (since no one is in a position to say which disruption is good and which is bad).
This may be the most fruitful place to discuss Unicode and the representation of pronunciation and such.
There is an even more strategic discussion on mediawiki features going on at Consumerium, where Vibber and Juho have discussed the need for authentication information to be part of the standard.
Authorship tracking and authentication of the veracity of comments, and group affiliations between authors (in a faction will probably have to be state of the art at Consumerium, given the latter's mission.
Greens - Consumerium(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The glossary arose from work towards a Green Documentation License, which may be used in the content wiki, since it will make reference to scientific and other validation, e.g.
There may or may not be similar validation requirements in the Consumerium License, but it seems likely.
The Consumerium Governance Organization will have to decide if the well-organized Greens should be allowed to write a lot of basic definitions, since ecosystem health is obviously the most basic survival issue on Earth.
From the commercial view point the goal of Consumerium Project is to enable consumers to take up new buying criteria beyond fundamental factors of price premium, availability and suitability and superficial factors like advertisements and product packaging for making their buying decisions.
This development trend has already and will continue to make companies search for other means of distinguishing their offerings from the competition besides just providing a better product for less money then last year.
Adapted from Consumerium article http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/Consumerium:Executive_summary under the clauses of GFDL
Consumerium - Stockepedia(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
From the commercial view point the goal of Consumerium Project (http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/Consumerium:Itself) is to enable consumers (http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/consumer) to take up new buying criteria beyond fundamental factors of price premium (http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/price_premium), availability and suitability and superficial factors like advertisements (http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/advertisement) and product packaging (http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/packaging) for making their buying decisions.
This development trend has already and will continue to make companies search for other means of distinguishing their offerings from the competition besides just providing a better product for less money then last year.
Adapted from Consumerium article http://develop.consumerium.org/wiki/index.php/Consumerium:Executive_summary under the clauses of GFDL
Metaweb:Projects - Metaweb(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
It may be wisest to work with Internet Encyclopedia on this, as it is English-only but also supports multiple point of view (like Metaweb).
Also, Consumerium is intent on developing a fair formal system of resolving multiple views into one version that an individual consumer can trust, based on their own personal values.
This may be useful in our content management too, if we actually care about the user seeing things they consider trustworthy to be a priority.
Open campaign(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Online services, such as Consumerium for the implementation of moral purchasing or MeatballWiki to improve virtual community and especially wiki governance
Disinfopedia is an open campaign to disclose propaganda techniques and participants.
Consumerium is an open campaign to implement moral purchasing.
So I think this is not a good thing to be implying, that it is somehow wrong to ask questions and have them answered as in an FAQ without names attached.
If you agree, you may want to write something like this Etiquette guide from Consumerium to establish what degree of interrogation of anonymous authors, or revealing of the data available to sysops, is to be tolerated around here.
A policy statement on this would be useful at this early stage.
Consumerium is a defunct not-for-profit project, developed under GFDL licence, using wiki software, to develop free software and infrastructure for storage, transport and display of product information to consumers and feedback to the producers to enhance the consumer experience, advance product development and to keep this planet as hospitable as possible in the future.
List of reference tables Please check this out if you can think of some list that is not included here
ConsuML(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
ConsuML was a project started in 2003 as a WikiMedia project.
While development of ConsuML has slowed after its induction in the Sourceforge network in 2003, Project Consumerium is still active.
The idea behind Consumerium is to promote responsible and informed consumer habits by exchanging information and opinions about companies and products.
Consumerium - iA wiki(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Welcome, newcomers to Consumerium, where fair trade, political consumerism, and moral purchasing trends, which all are essential to our philosophy, are coming together to create what we call moral purchasing power:
Consumerium is a not-for-profit project to focus that power.
This page was last modified 08:48, 31 August 2004.
www.infoanarchy.org /en/Consumerium (69 words)
Talk:Main Page - Stockepedia(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Are there any plans to cover more stock exchanges such as NASDAQ, EURONEXT and LSE or futures markets such as LIFFE?
We at Consumerium would be very interested in tapping into your quotes and merge your information with that of CorpKnowPedia and perhaps http://www.transnationale.org.
Especially preserving historical stock performance is an issue for us.
Valuable information, but damn hard to access when you really need it in the shop.
Looks like Consumerium is out to change that.
Like many open source and social software projects, their is very little on their site to give confidence that they will actually be able to build their dream.
