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February 2012
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- 22: The case for soft money
- 22: The Decentralized Provisioning of the Basic Necessities as the Fight of the Century
- 22: Tool of the Day: Turtle F2F
- 21: The 40th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
- 21: Trend of the Day: Cash mobs
- 21: Book of the Day: Sharing, Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age
- 20: Spinning the Online-Piracy Debate
- 20: Occupy Wall Street and the Peer-to-Peer Revolution: a discussion with Michel Bauwens Part I
- 20: Internet freedom and copyright law
- 20: Declaration for the Defense of Society and Democracy
- 20: Project of the Day: Fork Freedom
- 19: Conference on Global Censorship – Yale Law School – March, 2012
- 19: TrustCloud – Own your online reputation
- 19: Are we all Greeks?
- 19: Podcast of the Day: Peter Waterman on on Twenty Years of International Labour Computer Communication
- 18: Stop SOPA, PIPA and ACTA!
- 18: On Crop Mobs, and Starting One of Our Own
- 18: Book of the Day: Life’s Economic Survival Protocol
- 17: Call for Papers: #OccupyCriticalTheory
- 17: Trend of the Day: Free Coworking
- 17: Project of the Day: EcoFreek
- 16: Call for papers – The political economy of 3D printing
- 16: Three Ways to Bring Crowdsourcing into Mainstream Manufacturing
- 16: Podcast of the Day: MacKenzie and Pillay on the Epistemology and Spirituality of OWS
- 16: Special Issue of the Commoner: Care of/for the Commons
- 16: Essay of the Day: A New Way of Measuring Openness
- 15: Vinay Gupta: From Gandhian Infrastructure-Centric Politics to the Pirate Party
- 15: Issue on Open Educational Resources
- 15: Video of the Day: Copyright Piracy and the Web
- 15: Book of the Day: The Art of Community
- 14: Book of the Day: The Social Media Reader
- 14: The price of information: Academics are starting to boycott a big publisher of journals
- 14: Project of the Day: Friends of WikiLeaks
- 13: BitTorrent’s Future? DHT, PEX and Magnet Links Explained
- 13: Video of the Day: Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability
- 13: Essay of the Day: Thrivability as a Critique of Sustainability
- 12: Project of the Day: The WikiSpeed SGT01 as paradigmatic example of the new wave of open and distributed manufacturing
- 12: Statement by the Occupied Athens Law School
- 12: Book of the Day: Digitally Enabled Social Change
- 12: Green European Foundation Conference on the Commons
- 12: Movement of the Day: Economy of Communion
- 11: Essay of the Day: Commons: A framework and kaleidoscope of social practices for another possible world
- 11: George Dafermos on the Peer Governance of Open Source Projects
- 11: HitRECord – open collaborative production of creative works…
- 11: Pirate Bay Founders’ Prison Sentences Final, Supreme Court Appeal Rejected
- 10: Project of the Day: Hitrecord’s collaborative cultural production and 50% revenue-sharing model
- 10: Essay of the Day: Peer-to-Peer Themes and Urban Priorities for the Self-organizing Society
- 10: The Next Battleground in the War Over the Internet
- 10: The $20 Trillion Carbon Bubble, or why the fossil fuel industry is so adamantly opposed to renewables
- 09: Person of the Day: Ugo Mattei on the privatization of common goods and spaces in the European Union
- 09: Video of the Day: SOPA, ACTA and WIPO: where is the copyfight headed?
- 09: Project of the Day: Alpha Lo’s Gift Circles
- 09: Essay of the Day: The Commons as a Challenge for Classical Economics
- 08: Video of the Day: Mindful Maps Presents Collaborative Consumption
- 08: Essay of the Day: Anonymous as an Antinomian Movement
- 08: Discussing OWS: The Black Block is the cancer of the #OccupyWallStreet movement, argues Chris Hedges
- 07: Essay of the Day: Matthew Champion on Internet and Democracy
- 07: European Forum in Rome: Income, Common Goods and Democracy
- 07: Book of the Day: No Straight Lines
- 06: The Future of Learning in a Connected World
- 06: The Pirate Bay: Year of the storm
- 06: Book of the Day: The Urban Food Revolution
- 05: GPL enforcement sparks community flames
- 05: Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books
- 05: Book of the Day: The Leaderless Revolution
- 04: Person of the Day: Ezio Manzini on design for sharing and sustainability
- 04: Open Source eBook Reader and Mobile Media Device
- 04: The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents
- 04: Book of the Day: How to Get What You Want Through Community Self-Government
- 03: Video of the Day: Rick Falkvinge on Banks as the Future Victims of the Bitcoin Economy
- 03: Venture Capital Investments in P2P Companies
- 03: Person of the Day: Daniella Jaeger on Kickstarter
- 03: Interesting insights on coworking business models from the 2nd Global Coworking Survey
- 02: Solar Sinter Project
- 02: Essay of the Day: The Digital Divide in User-Generated Content
- 02: Video of the Day: How to join Anonymous
- 02: Empire vs. Jedi: The Strategic Implications of Drone Warfare
- 01: Person of the Day: Leo Burke, teaching the commons to MBA students at Notre Dame
- 01: Video of the Day: Arduino The Documentary
- 01: Book of the Day: Code Wars
January 2012
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- 31: Book of the Day: The Good of Everyone. The Sharing Economy as a Way Out of the Crisis
- 31: Essay of the Day: Marvin Brown on the Necessity for Civic Design
- 31: Video of the Day: ‘The Garage has gone global”, by Chris Anderson
- 30: Book of the Day: Triumph of the Commons
- 30: Essay of the Day: How Open Source Has Changed the Software Industry
- 29: Book of the Day: Consent of the Networked. The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
- 29: Essay of the Day: From Common Goods to the Common Good of Humanity
- 29: Video of the Day: Yochai Benkler on the Networked Public Sphere, its SOPA victory, and the MegaUpload case
- 28: Movement of the Day: Societal Constitutionalism
- 28: Essay of the Day: The key issue for newspapers is, “what do our core users want”
- 28: Discussing the P2P-driven Crisis of Value (3): Douglas Rushkoff on Getting Past Free Through Radical Abundance
- 27: Book of the Day: Too Big To Know
- 27: Discussing the P2P-driven Crisis of Value (2): Open Source Abundance Destroys the Scarcity Basis of Capitalism
- 27: Essay of the Day: Insurgent Citizenship and the Production of Enclosure vs. the Commons
- 27: Discussing OWS (7): The state of #OccupyWallStreet and its lack of reliable allies
- 26: Movement of the Day: the European Charter of the Commons Campaign
- 26: Discussing the P2P-driven Crisis of Value (1): The Deflationary Effects of the Web Economy
- 26: Essay of the Day: P2P Sensor Commons vs Top-down Smart Cities
- 26: Discussing OWS (5): Slavoj Zizek on interpreting #OccupyWallStreet as a Movement of the Salaried Bourgeoisie
- 25: The power of empathy: Peer groups help veterans, police and moms of kids with special need
- 25: Making Worlds: the convergence of #OccupyWallStreet and the Commons
- 25: Discussing OWS (4): From the Ideology-Led Organizing of the left to the Behavioural-Led Organizing of #OccupyWallStreet
- 25: Essay of the Day: The Feudal Aspects of the Social Capital Market
- 24: Book of the Day: From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
- 24: P2P Movement of the Day: The Manifesto for European Common Goods
- 24: It’s time for the Internet to interfere with traditional politics
- 24: P2P Essay of the Day: The Materiality of the Intellectual Commons
- 24: Discussing OWS (3): #OccupyWallStreet as a Culture Change Movement
- 23: P2P Video of the Day: Clay Shirky – Why SOPA is/was a bad idea
- 23: P2P Essay of the Day: Collective Sense-Making as Negotiated Agreement
- 23: Discussing OWS (2): #OccupyWallStreet and the Decline of the Professional Managerial Class
- 23: P2P Book of the Day: People Power and Political Change
- 22: Discussing OWS (1): How the #OccupyWallStreet Movement is Evolving from Networked Individualism to Empowered Communities
- 22: BitTorrent’s New P2P Protocol Could Fix the Internet’s Shoddy Streaming Video Quality
- 22: BlablaCar puts $10M in its tank for P2P ride-share site
- 22: P2P Video of the Day: Occupy Movie
- 21: The world economy is on the verge of a new recession, according to a report by the UN
- 21: SOPA: Lawmakers backing away from online-piracy bills
- 21: Jeremy Rifkin: Energy-sharing is the new internet
- 20: P2P Video of the Day: #WhileWeWatch – The gripping portrait of the #OccupyWallSt media revolution
- 20: Michel Bauwens: P2P and the Commons as the new paradigm
- 20: Joi Ito on the future of the MIT Media Lab
- 19: Mozilla Releases Version 2.0 of Its License
- 19: P2P Book of the Day: Betterness: Economics for Humans
- 19: Collaborative Consumption Reaches the Garage
- 17: Open Education and Freedom to Teach Computing
- 17: P2P Essay of the Day: On the Failure to Measure the Contributions of the Internet Economy
- 17: Vinay Gupta: The Authoritarian Cause Will Be Defeated by Its Own Cognitive Dissonance
- 17: P2P religion criticized by the Catholic Church
- 16: P2P Essay of the Day: Hacking_the_Food_System
- 16: Co-operatives ‘worth £1bn to Welsh economy’
- 16: Why Crowdfunding will never scale!
- 16: P2P Essay of the Day: Ten Peer Production Patterns (6-10) – Part 2
- 16: P2P Book of the Day: Life Without Money
- 15: Connexions: Fourth Annual Conference
- 15: P2P Project of the Day: the Local Motors XC2V
- 15: Iranian internet users to be cut off from World Wide Web
- 15: The MakerBot Replicator
- 14: P2P Essay of the Day: Ten Peer Production Patterns (1-5) – Part 1
- 14: P2P Project of the Day: StreetScooter, the open-source electric car, will be on Germany’s streets in 2013
- 14: P2P Book of the Day: The Information Diet
- 14: The value of improving connectivity in rural & deprived areas
- 14: P2P Video of the Day: Jeremy Rifkin on the Third Industrial Revolution
- 13: Michel Bauwens on Marxism, Capitalism and the Commons
- 13: P2P Video of the Day: Slavoj Žižek on the Occupy Movement
- 13: P2P Essay of the Day: Is Demonetization a Good Idea?
- 12: P2P Video of the day: Introduction to the Japanese Freeter Unions
- 12: Deep Trust, Shallow Trust, and Phyles
- 12: P2P Essay of the Day: Towards a System of Resilent Finance and Banking based on Peer Credit
- 11: P2P Book of the Day: Set Culture Free
- 11: Creating OSE Community in Germany
- 11: P2P Essay of the Day: Urban Affairs in India, the Right to the City, and Planning as Commoning
- 10: Richard Stallman Was Right All Along
- 10: P2P Video of the Day: David Graeber on the First Five Thousand Years of Debt
- 10: Mozilla rings in new year with 2.0 license overhaul
- 10: P2P Essay of the Day: Peer Production as neoliberalism
- 09: P2P Video of the Day: Militarizing the police in preparation of #OccupyWallStreet 2012
- 09: P2P Essay of the Day: Seeds and the Laws Against the Commons
- 09: Spain Implements Website-Blocking Sinde Law
- 09: The P2P Foundation Books of the Year 2011: Our annual top ten list of P2P books
- 08: P2P Video of the Day: Introduction to the Auroville Community
- 08: P2P Essay of the Day: Chris Cook on Economy 3.0
- 08: Critical Theories of Social Media
- 08: 2011: The Year the Free Ride Died
- 07: P2P Video of the Day: Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (an #OccupyWallStreet video update)
- 07: P2P Book of the Day: NaturesScope, for a new relationship ‘within’ nature
- 07: Free Software in climate change mitigation
- 06: Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside
- 06: P2P Essay of the Day: The Shared Patterns of Indigenous Culture, Permaculture and Digital Commons
- 06: P2P Video of the Day: Cory Doctorow on the coming war on general computation
- 05: P2P Video of the Day: Don Tapscott on Cooperation through Networked Intelligence
- 05: P2P Book of the Day: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy
- 05: Does the Gift Economy Undermine Economic Growth?
- 05: Individual and social motivations to contribute to Commons-based peer production
- 04: Peer-to-peer 3D Marketplace CGTrader Moving Out of Beta
- 04: P2P Movement of the Day: Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
- 04: Net Artists Warned Us About #SOPA 15 Years Ago
- 04: P2P Essay of the Day: Wikileaks’ Liquid Information Leaks for a Liquid Society
- 04: P2P Video of the Day: Discussing the Politics of the Occupy Movement
- 03: P2P Video of the Day: Daniel Bruch Duarte on the Brazilian Fora do Eixo Solidarity Economics Business Model
- 03: P2P Person of the Day: Shai Reshef On Educating The World
- 03: On the link between community, monetization, and gifting
- 03: Open Source Licensing Defuses Copyright Law’s Threat to Medicine
- 02: P2P Book of the Day: Jeff Vail’s Theory of Power
- 02: P2P Video of the Day: Smári McCarthy on the Industrialization of the Internet
- 02: How to stop SOPA? Occupy Hollywood. Here’s a plan. (#OccupyWallStreet update)
- 02: P2P Movement of the Day: A Model Community Bill of Rights Template for #OccupyWallStreet Communities
- 01: Descent into darkness, the assault against internet and civil rights
- 01: P2P Video of the Day: The coming war on general computation – Cory Doctorow @ #28C3
- 01: P2P Video of the Day: John Thackara on Post-Meltdown Design for Resilience
- 01: An analysis of the current moment an how it differs from previous crises
- 01: P2P Person of the Day: Richard Grossman
December 2011
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- 31: Samir Amin: the era of social compromise is over
- 31: Indian Government Files Biopiracy Lawsuit Against Monsanto
- 31: Hacking the food system
- 31: John Arqilla on the diagonal future of nations cooperating with networks
- 30: Framing the #OccupyWallStreet and other 2011 protest movements in the context of anti-power and counter-power
- 30: What should p2p sympathizers think of Ron Paul
- 30: A short story of occupations as a political tactic (#OccupyWallStreet update)
- 29: Flurry of local #OccupyWallStreet actions and successes show strength and staying power of movement
- 29: Chris Cutrone: a critique of resistance as sufficient politics
- 29: Dmytri Kleiner: Is capitalism compatible with free P2P Systems?
- 28: Radical openness in educational materials: The next step in Washington State
- 28: The Pirate Party, last-ditch effort to avoid a unavoidable revolution?
- 28: Slavoj Žižek interviewed on #OccupyWallStreet and its aftermath
- 27: Do the Greek Indignados lack a true politics of awakening?
- 27: Yet Another Study Shows That Weaker Copyright Benefits Everyone
- 26: Study: P2P effect on legal music sales not statistically distinguishable from zero
- 25: Noam Chomsky on Intellectual Property
- 24: Mozilla releases Learning, Freedom & the Web (e)book
- 23: #euhackathon ChokePoint Project release
- 21: Occupy Demographics and Political Participation Survey
- 21: Former Creative Commons CEO Joi Ito on the battles faced by CC licensing
- 21: GPL, copyleft use declining faster than ever
- 20: Why SOPA is unconstitutional
- 20: Open Source Ecology: Can open source save the planet?
- 20: TIME names “The Protester” 2011 Person of the Year
- 19: Clive Thompson on the Future of Printed Books
- 19: Final Draft of Brazilian Copyright Reform Bill Leaked by Forum Magazine
- 19: #Goteo: Validating an irrigation system for the commons
- 19: Creative Commons Version 4.0 – Public Discussion Launched
- 18: EU to Give Secret Anti-censorship Software to Human Rights Activists
- 18: Legal Scholars Release Critical Analysis of U.S. Proposals for Intellectual Property and Pharmaceutical Chapters of the Trans Pacific Partnership
- 18: UNESCO Introduces Global Open Access Portal
- 17: The First Ever Online Video Course on Peer-to-Peer Lending is Released
- 17: The Stop Online Piracy Act: Yet Another Stealth Maneuver To Control The Internet
- 17: Open Source, Dynamic Systems and Self-Organization
- 16: Cory Doctorow: Copyrights vs. Human Rights
- 16: From Instrumental Rationality to Collaborative Rationality
- 16: Swiss insist file-sharers don’t hurt copyright holders
- 15: Institutional Strategies for Open Education
- 15: Call for applications: Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme 2012
- 15: 1st Thematic Conference on “the Knowledge Commons” – 2012
- 14: Amazon Fire Not Really Open
- 14: Top scholars from reputed universities share courses online
- 14: The return of the operating system
- 13: Goteo.org: Crowdfunding the Commons in Spain
- 13: Interview with Michel Bauwens: A peer-to-peer economy
- 13: 3-D printer makes scaffolding for growing bones
- 12: A tale of two worlds: Apocalypse, 4Chan, WikiLeaks and the silent protocol wars
- 12: Michael Hudson on the crucial link between democracy and debt throughout history
- 12: To #OccupyWallStreet, an open letter on tactics and strategy, from Starhawk
- 12: No Copyright Intended
- 12: Fight the Blacklist: A Toolkit for Anti-SOPA Activism
- 12: WikiLeaks working on new whistle-blowing platform
- 12: Counterfeiting electronics: what it really means
- 11: Open source team creates apocalypse survival kit
- 11: How scary are GPL violations?
- 11: Net neutrality is too regulatory — but Stop Online Piracy isn’t?
- 10: Dmytri Kleiner against the ideology of gold
- 10: Premises for a new p2p economy
- 10: Michael Hudson: outlines of a post-#OccupyWallStreet progressive presidency in the U.S.A.
- 10: Open Education Resources: Feedback from the Social Web
- 09: Why Wireless Meshworks don’t work at scale
- 09: Stallman: Facebook IS Mass Surveillance
- 09: Raising money For “Lunatics” with Kickstarter
- 09: YaCy It’s About Freedom, Not Beating Google
- 08: Joi Ito on the internet as a (innovation) philosophy
- 08: Michael Hudson: why Obama is to the right of the Republicans, and what this means for the #OccupyWallStreet awakening
- 08: P2P Gift Credit Cards, popular born credits
- 08: Mayo Fuster Morell on the Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From Free Culture to Meta-Politics
- 07: Crowdfunding Nation eBook Now Available
- 07: How BitTorrent wants to save the Internet
- 07: The Personal Computer Is Dead
- 07: The Colbert Report on Stop Online Piracy Act with Danny Goldberg & Jonathan Zittrain
- 06: Three ways to dissimulate the conflict between the 1% and the 99% (#OccupyWallStreet update)
- 06: Michael Hudson on why the core issue today is Debt (#OccupyWallStreet Teach-In)
- 06: New publisher of computer books embraces e-books and authors, not DRM
- 06: Should #OccupyWallStreet protestors have applied hermeneutic philosophy?
- 05: P2P History (7): Some examples of peer-to-peer issued money in the Middle Ages
- 05: A Foreign Policy based on Collaborative Power
- 05: Reclaiming the Right to Insolvency
- 05: Open Source, Abundance and Open Innovation
- 04: Brazilian Petition to support OER policies
- 04: Global Chokepoints: new activist coalition monitors censorship through global copyright enforcement rules
- 04: Why America Doesn’t Need More Tech Giants Like Apple
- 03: #OccupyWallStreet as an Augmented Revolution
- 03: What we can learn from the pirates
- 03: RespectMyNet: Internet Restrictions on the Table of EU Regulators
- 03: When does #OccupyWallStreet’s consensus-based governance model become dysfunctional? Some insights from chaos theory.
- 02: #OccupyWallStreet Art & Design
- 02: P2P History (6): The technology of the Revolutions of 1848 and the evolution of augmented action up to #OccupyWallStreet
- 02: The Soundscape of the #OccupyWallStreet Protests
- 01: P2P Partner State Theory vs. TIMN Network Theory
- 01: Can Social Media Help us Predict the Future?
- 01: P2P History (5): a history of protest camping
- 01: George Monbiot on the psychopathologies of the 1%: a review of the scientific evidence
November 2011
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- 30: The Implicit Critique of Technology in the #OccupyWallStreet movement (2): Materiality and prefigurative politics
- 30: Book of the week (2): Why Tackling Property Rights and Democratic Planning are a environmental necessity
- 30: The principle of contribution vs the principle of community
- 29: Surviving the atemporality of internet technology by becoming multi-temporal
- 29: The Implicit Critique of Technology in the #OccupyWallStreet movement (1): combining hi and low tech
- 29: An update on the Spanish Indignados: not dead, just distributed (#15M update)
- 28: Dual currencies for dual human impulses
- 28: Book of the week: The Rise of the Green Left and the Commons, by Derek Wall
- 28: On the connection between Tahrir Square And The #OccupyWallStreet Movement
- 28: A potpourri of #OccupyWallStreet Videos (6)
- 27: In Brazil, a Mint Idea Gains Currency
- 27: The historical importance of the Italian referendum and victory for the water commons
- 27: Paramilitary Policing From Seattle to #OccupyWallStreet
- 27: Why such a level of coordinated and militarized attacks against #OccupyWallStreet campers?
- 26: Recovering local cultural values: De-growth in political practice
- 26: The competing functions of #OccupyWallStreet
- 26: Why Bitcoin is a Foundational Change That Won’t Go Away and Could Change Everything
- 26: Connecting the #OccupyWallStreet Movements and The Spanish May 15th Movement
- 26: Occupy Everywhere: Michael Moore, Naomi Klein on Next Steps for the #OccupyWallStreet Movement
- 25: The two solid victories of the #OccupyWallStreet movement
- 25: P2P Foundation what is it good for?
- 25: Lauren Anderson: the “We” of the our collaborative age will replace the “Me” of the industrial age
- 25: John Robb on The Art of Pathogenic Warfare and the Wall Street Immune Disease
- 25: Tahrir square reoccupied as Eygpt fights to defend the revolution
- 24: The Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From free culture to meta-politics summary
- 24: A potpourri of #OccupyWallStreet Videos (5): the spirituality of #ows
- 24: P2P History (4): 1968 and #OccupyWallStreet as bifurcation points in the world system
- 24: Documentary on the internet’s hidden physical infrastructure
- 24: Movements today are truly global: The Tahrir Square – #OccupyWallStreet connection
- 24: Paradigmatic of the p2p age: multiple viewpoints on police pepper riot at UC Davis (#OccupyWallStreet Video Update)
- 23: Updates on the Situation in Egypt: What is Happening
- 23: Provoking Facebook censorship through professional trolling
- 23: Community-oriented microfunding
- 23: John Bonifaz on Revoking Corporate Personhood (#OccupyWallStreet Video Update)
- 22: The Spanish Revolution & the Internet: From free culture to meta-politics
- 22: Michel Bauwens gives a ‘p2p’ palestra in Rio
- 22: Should #OccupyWallStreet Protesters Lay Claim to the New Top-Level Domains for Cities?
- 22: #OccupyWallStreet as the start of a new Progressive era, or is it a Revolution?
- 22: Richard Douthwaite on ‘spending’ instead of ‘lending’, money into circulation
- 21: Book of the Week – Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design
- 21: To feel Like Paying
- 21: Climate change (2): changing the empathy-exterminating mindset to #OccupyWallStreet’s Climate Justice
- 21: Kristen Christian on Bank Transfer Day (#OccupyWallStreet Video Update)
- 21: Bernard Lietaer on the need for Monetary Democracy and Diversity
- 20: Provisioning and direct democracy infrastructures at #OccupyWallStreet
- 20: Global action networks: a 21st-century global governance model
- 20: An account of total policing in the UK
- 20: Debating violence in Oakland’s #OccupyWallStreet Assembly
- 19: Naomi Klein: What climate change demands (1): Policy
- 19: Monique White and Nick Espinosa on the Occupy Homes Movement (#OccupyWallStreet Video Update)
- 19: Should #OccupyWallStreet adopt the Debt Strike?
- 19: Where does Money come From (2): exposing common myths about money
- 18: #OccupyWallStreet Teach-in by William K Black: unindicted fraud and the 1%
- 18: Juliet Schor talks on the plenitude of the commons economy at #OccupyWallStreet
- 18: Where does Money come From (1): The consequences of a privately-created money system
- 18: A Post-Growth Economy FAQ
- 17: Who invented the iPhone: The public and common origin of private innovation
- 17: Discussing the Assemblies and Consensus of #OccupyWallStreet (4): benefits of slow speech
- 17: Moving from Binary to Ternary Thinking
- 17: The Spirituality of #OccupyWallStreet (2): the Logic of Usury vs the Logic of the Gift
- 16: The Second Axial Age: Beginning to recognize our roles as global beings.
- 16: Discussing the Assemblies and Consensus of #OccupyWallStreet (3): Visioning Emergent Leadership
- 16: Creative Commons is to Free Culture what Shareware is to Free Software
- 16: P2P history (4): 1848, 1968: when new communication technologies converge with new energy systems
- 15: G1000: Deliberative democracy in Belgium
- 15: Contrasting #OccupyWallStreet and the Tea Party
- 15: Discussing the Assemblies and Consensus of #OccupyWallStreet (2): Consensus is not Self-Management
- 15: P2P history (3): Rick Falkvinge on the three historical origins of the Pirate Party
- 14: Toward a Common Theory of Value
- 14: Eli Pariser: Beware online “filter bubbles”
- 14: Discussing the Assemblies and Consensus of #OccupyWallStreet (1): Is Consensus vs. Majority All There Is?
- 14: P2P history (2): The printing press as first p2p revolution
- 13: Occupy as a New Societal Model
- 13: P2P history (1): A history of the Socialisation of Production
- 13: The Spirituality of #OccupyWallStreet (1): Buddhist and Jewish Reflections
- 13: What is the P2P Foundation all about? The Gordon Cook Interview series
- 12: Deadly Monopolies: Harriet Washington on the Corporate Control of Life Itself
- 12: How Virtual Private Networks keep Occupy Wall Street communicating
- 12: A warning to #OccupyWallStreet: anticipating the Phase of Demobilization of previous Assembly-based movements
- 12: #OccupyWallStreet and the issue of power: on not confusing Power-to and Power-over
- 11: A potpourri of #OccupyWallStreet Videos (4)
- 11: The MuA Project | Monuments at risk: Press Release
- 11: Producing for our own consumption: generalizing the Scott Bader experience
- 11: How Much of the Economy is Friction?
- 11: The world-historical importance of #15M and #OccupyWallstreet: Using Lateral Power to Transform the Political/Economic Landscape
- 10: Arthur Brock & Eric Harris-Braun explain the Metacurrency Project at #OccupyWallStreet
- 10: Shared ownership vs. peer to peer rentals
- 10: #OccupyWallStreet Electoral Reform: Eva Waskell and the Election Integrity Movement
- 10: The Latin American connections to #OccupyWallStreet
- 09: P2P Microfinance’s thousand points of light: Kiva’s Intercontinental Ballistic Visualization
- 09: P2P and Utopia: the values of the new civilization
- 09: McKenzie Wark: #OccupyWallStreet as an Occupation, not a Movement
- 09: The “one demand”: Robert Steele’s powerful proposal to the #OccupyWallStreet Electoral Reform Committee
- 08: An introductory series on “peer to peer” urbanism (bio-urbanism)
- 08: Community currencies are complementing alternative currencies’ weaknesses
- 08: Charles Eisenstein talks Re-Envisioning Money to #OccupyWallStreet
- 08: Lessons for #OccupyWallStreet: Why Did the Neighborhood Assembly Movement in Argentina Disappear?
- 07: Changing power through incapacitation
- 07: Introducing the ‘odious debt’ principle: Three #ows policy proposals from Prof. William Black
- 07: McKenzie Wark on how #OccupyWallStreet re-introduces “The Political” where none existed before
- 07: #OccupyWallStreet as the first mass movement of global consciousness
- 06: How the privatization of the public sphere criminalizes/encloses the #OccupyWallStreet protest commons
- 06: Economics 101 for #OccupyWallStreet
- 06: Ralph Nader at Freedom Plaza: The Importance of the Public Commons
- 06: Ambient Connectivity – How 19th century business policies keep us from communicating
- 06: Noam Chomsky on the Need to #Occupy the Future
- 05: 5 Values to Profess Beyond the #OccupyWallStreet Protest
- 05: Managing Without Growth and the Economics of Flow
- 05: Unitierra and the Indigenous revolt against schooling in Mexico
- 05: #OccupyWallStreet as a political commons
- 04: Local Foreclosure Blockade Movements in the U.S.
- 04: Can we have post-peak oil thrivable societies?
- 04: To OWS: Withdraw Consent and Starve the System
- 04: On businesses that sustain the commons
- 03: Why does #OccupyWallStreet succeed and endure where previous movements failed?
- 03: The intellectual heritage and foundation to #OccupyWallStreet: the Madagascar connection
- 03: The five levels of the global commons
- 03: Juliet Schor: Plenitude
- 03: New book by Dean Baker: Making Markets Progressive
- 02: An account of conflict (resolution) at the #OccupyWallStreet New York camp
- 02: Jeremy Rifkin on the real nature of our triple crisis: peak globalization, peak oil, and 3 degrees climate change
- 02: Why is networked science stalled?
- 02: Desktop Regulatory State
- 02: Tim Gee on Building Counterpower: are there lessons for #OccupyWallStreet?
- 01: Authority Creates Stupidity
- 01: Robert Steele launches Electoral Reform campaign for #OccupyWallStreet
- 01: A potpourri of #OccupyWallStreet Videos (3)
- 01: The #OWS Occupations and their Spatialities
October 2011
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- 31: The beginning is near : The year 2011 marks the end of the End of History
- 31: What Is Free Culture?
- 31: The Ethics of Sharing
- 31: Pirate Service Makes Textbook Rentals Last Forever
- 30: Towards a new spirituality for business: challenging consumerism
- 30: Antisocial tracking practiced by ‘social’ media
- 30: How do we achieve a civil(ised) economy?
- 30: #OccupyEverywhere as response to economic permafrost and political stagnation
- 29: A potpourri of videos on #OccupyWallStreet (2)
- 29: Measuring the fluid value of distributed contributions
- 29: Mira Luna on the State of the Solidarity Economy
- 29: Paul Hartzog on turning the Internet into a real ecosystem by enabling interoperability
- 28: Rethinking Darwin to uncover the Evolutionary Roots of Morality
- 28: Tactical and Strategic reflections on #OccupyWallStreet: is it wise to only use peaceful protest tactics?
- 28: Turning financial and corporate risk management into a commons
- 28: Kickstarter campaign for the Global Village Construction Set
- 28: On the indispensable copying of architecture (magazines) in China
- 27: A reflection on Pirate Party policy and politics
- 27: Consensus Hand Signals and the Human Microphone at the #OccupyWallStreet Protest Camps
- 27: Is Google censoring its search results for political reasons?
- 27: Why Self-Organized Networks Will Destroy Hierarchies
- 26: Crowdsourcing democracy through social media
- 26: The World of Free and Open Source Art
- 26: We are the 1 percent – We stand with the 99 percent
- 26: “The Fragile Beauty of P2P Movements in South Korea”
- 26: The Revolutionary Role of a Transnational Counterparty
- 25: Chris Hedges on the significance of #OccupyWallStreet: tinkering with the corporate state is no longer sufficient
- 25: Money As Debt II: promises unleashed (full movie)
- 25: The anthropology of horizontalism at #OccupyWallStreet
- 25: Greek crisis strengthens complementary currency networks …
- 24: Book of the Week: Open Design Now!
- 24: We need social hacking, not just technological hacking
- 24: Android not so open – but alternatives are developing
- 24: Why default is not a catastrophe: the example of Argentina
- 24: Occupy Wall Street – Organizing a Better Society
- 24: Mark Ruffalo explains Occupy Wall Street
- 24: Net Neutrality Resolution Adopted in EU Parliament
- 23: Michael Gurstein: rethinking the linkage between online and offline through the #OccupyWallStreet mobilizations
- 23: In Norway: Comparing Dugnad Community Volunteering to P2P
- 23: What the UNDP can do about ‘re-thinking property’ and the land question in the South
- 23: Reflections on Occupy Wall Street and Contactcon (part 1)
- 22: Money and Slavery, Debt Obligations and Hierarchy
- 22: John Hagel: how value moves from content to context
- 22: The P2P-driven fall in transaction costs and the coming Micro-Ownership Revolution
- 21: What’s the cause of the Great Recession: debt or a fall of profit?
- 21: Umair Haque: at the heart of the eudaimonic life and economy stands meaningful and impactful engagement
- 21: Moving from a sharing to a solidarity economy
- 20: Grace Boggs on Detroit as the exemplar of the Next Revolution
- 20: Gar Alperovitz on the Evolutionary Reconstruction strategy for social change
- 20: Details on the German Pirates
- 20: The Science Code Manifesto
- 20: How do we achieve a True Cost Economy?
- 19: Growth through scarcity?
- 19: Are the #OccupWallStreet Working Groups functioning optimally?
- 19: P2P and #OccupyWallStreet: It’s not just technology, it’s the people
- 19: Direct democracy as proposed by the Greek ‘Syntagma’ movement
- 19: Policies for a Shareable City
- 18: Gar Alperovitz on Reforming the Corporation for a New Economy
- 18: A potpourri of #occupywallstreet videos
- 18: The Declaration of Economic Democracy: 6 proposed demands for the #OccupyWallStreet Movement
- 18: Fukushima – citizen monitoring finds strong, Chernobyl-level, contamination in Tokyo
- 17: Steve Keen on why only a debt jubilee can avert the next Great Depression
- 17: Dave Pollard on the long term prospects of the ‘metamovement’
- 17: Tim Rayner on the characteristics of #OccupyWallStreet as a swarm movement
- 17: For a return to a humanist, peer to peer, bio-architecture and urbanism
- 16: Gideon Rosenblatt and Lawrence Lessig: What to think of the framing of the #OccupyWallStreet movement as a ‘Tea Party of the Left’?
- 16: Ending the Beauty Deficit Disorder of Neoclassical Economics
- 16: Immanuel Wallerstein on the nature of the current bifurcation
- 16: Book of the Week: Towards the hyperconnective society
- 15: Understanding the Consensus Methodology at Occupy Wall Street
- 15: John Robb: we are entering a new era of Reformation
- 15: Slavoj Zizek on Occupy Wall Street: a moving speech
- 15: The tactical and strategic innovation of the #OccupyWallStreet Movement
- 15: On the coming synergy between food movements
- 14: Are Non-Reformist Reforms the way forward for #Occupywallstreet ?
- 14: Towards a ‘maker journalism’
- 14: On balancing horizontal and vertical (spiritual and psychological) development
- 14: An example of the suppression of free thought in the economics profession
- 13: John Robb on Real Open Source Leadership at #OccupyWallStreet
- 13: An assessment of the costs and benefits of a great debt-write off for European countries
- 13: Behind the #OccupyWallStreet mobilizations: the fading of the creative class
- 13: Michael Hudson on #OccupyWallStreet: “Wall Street has become a Criminal Organization.”
- 12: The Social Return on Professions: bankers destroy £ 7 of social value for every pound they generate
- 12: Scenario 2030: Open Designs and Distributed Manufacturing
- 12: A critique of the #OccupyWallStreet tactics: Leaderlessness does not mean a lack of direction
- 12: The Slow Business Manifesto
- 11: International Open Data Hackathon 2011: Better Tools, More Data, Bigger Fun
- 11: John Charney on the Chilean Winter and the persistence of the Student Revolt
- 11: The Diminishing Prospects of Science after Peak Oil
- 11: The Brooklyn Bridge case: how the police adapts to leaderless resistance
- 11: What happens when talent trumps capital?
- 10: Namasté Solar – Energy Cooperative with a new twist
- 10: Does #OccupyWallStreet need an alternative ‘protest’ currency?
- 10: Peer Production in Art: Matrioska
- 10: Building Digital Commons – Barcelona, 29-30 October 2011
- 10: Three conclusions on the global importance of #OccupyWallStreet
- 10: OCTOBER 15TH UNITED FOR #GLOBALCHANGE
- 09: The potential for left-right, right-left alliances against corporate power after “OccupyWallStreet”
- 09: Charles Eistenstein: Currencies, Governments, and the Commons
- 09: Vandana Shiva: We must replace food dictatorship with food democracy
- 09: Jean-François Noubel on Defining Free Currencies
- 08: Why Wikileaks is good …
- 08: Global participatory mobilizations want to go beyond the ‘captured’ democratic model
- 08: Alternative hedonism and the global aspects of well-being
- 08: Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
- 08: The Statement Released By The Wall Street Protesters
- 07: Contact Summit: How Can Technology Accelerate Social Evolution?
- 07: What Europe Must Do against the All-Out Speculative Attacks
- 07: The governance and leadership mechanisms of the open source #OccupyWallStreet protest
- 07: Check your Vibes – Twitter-like App used at ‘Occupy Wall Street’
- 06: Bounded Input Bounded Output – How to design a stable currency
- 06: Princeton bans academics from handing all copyright to journal publishers
- 06: Umair Haque: The Protests and the Metamovement
- 06: Moving towards a peaceful ‘war of manoeuvre’ in a global class warfare
- 05: Boaventura de Sousa Santos at the WSF (2): Sociology of Emergences
- 05: The commons and the growth issue
- 05: Who should be involved in whole system conversations
- 05: David Graeber: Why are people occupying Wall Street?
- 04: Boaventura de Sousa Santos at the WSF (1): Sociology of Absences
- 04: Stowe Boyd on Hacking the Food System: Social Food- Taking Food Back From Corporations
- 04: The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice
- 04: The New York City “General Assembly” at #OccupyWallStreet: what’s the process
- 03: Universities: Past & Future — 14-16 October 2011
- 03: The U.S. military and their command of the commons
- 03: Debtors’ of The World Unite! The Initiative to form an International Debtors’ Party
- 03: Open Science – Making It Work
- 03: Policies to Promote Public Knowledge Goods and Knowledge Commons
- 02: The spiritual underpinnings of the Mondragon project
- 02: Local ownership of energy: the benefits of municipalisation
- 02: Open Commons Linz
- 02: Countering financial power through people’s debt audits and debt courts
- 01: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest
- 01: Social and educational potential of FPGA design for the masses
- 01: Juliet Schor on the Plenitude Economy
- 01: Alf Hornborg: We need an economy with two incommensurable currencies
September 2011
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- 30: The enclosure of the genetic commons
- 30: On the necessity to internalize costs in a true cost economy
- 30: Hilary Wainwright maps the new structures of feeling
- 30: Children as Digital Brokers
- 29: Farmer to Farmer: The Truth About Gm Crops
- 29: The Geopolitics of the Open Government Partnership: the beginning of Open vs. Closed
- 29: Why do it yourself is also green
- 29: The Characteristics of Participatory Learning
- 29: A call to support OccupyWallStreet
- 28: What the victory of the German Pirates means for the rest of the world
- 28: Douglas Rushkoff – Toward a Peer-to-Peer Economy
- 28: A manifesto for participatory learning
- 28: “Painfully frank trader” says: ‘Governments do not rule the world, Goldman Sachs does’
- 27: Unresolved legal issues hamper the development of sound open hardware licenses
- 27: Art-leaks.org
- 27: Catching up with Puerta del Sol in Madrid
- 27: Five Educational Trends for the Next Decade
- 26: Book of the Week: Barefoot in Cyberspace
- 26: A potpourri on the commons
- 26: David Graeber on forgiving American poor people’s debt.
- 26: Why is copyright a monopoly?
- 25: Hastily Formed Networks: Collaboration in the Absence of Authority
- 25: P2P Panelling for the Electronic Arts in Istanbul
- 25: GDP, Sloanist Management Accounting, and Central Planning
- 25: Berlin Pirate Party Success
- 24: The Future of Peer Production: An evening of discussion with Michel Bauwens
- 24: Of Ants, Networks and Nodes
- 24: Oxcars and FreeCultureForum 2011 – 27 to 29 of October 2011, Barcelona
- 24: Sprawl, Car Culture and the Interventionist State
- 23: Exploring the Tech DIY of ‘Hackerspaces’
- 23: Slavoj Zizek on the ‘P2P’ bio-urbanistic approach of Nikos Salingaros
- 23: Pacification by Capuccino, the geographic unconscious, and the Right to the City
- 23: Book of the week: “Life Rules” (Part 3)
- 22: Michel Bauwens at Designs on E-Learning
- 22: Democracy in the Workplace
- 22: Wikileaks And The Battle Over The Soul Of The Networked Fourth Estate
- 22: The next issue of eLearning Papers will be devoted to Designing for learning. Send your contribution!
- 21: Unemployment Is The Cure
- 21: Peer Production and Capitalism
- 21: The current Indian model of development vs. Gandhi’s proposals on Trusteeship
- 21: Subversive apps help citizens fight state silencing
- 21: Why cooperative banking is better than microfinance: ownership and control matters!
- 21: Book of the week: “Life Rules” (Part 2)
- 20: Healthy selfishness and partnership parenting
- 20: Open Reciprocal Production, Resource-based economics and the World Game
- 20: Cities Under Siege Discussion
- 20: The emergence of the influence economy
- 19: Looking into OccupyWallStreet protests in NY
- 19: Torri Superiore – Medieval Italian Village Becomes a Self-Sufficient Eco-Community
- 19: The modern trend to monetize everything ignores civilizational wisdom
- 19: Homebrew Industrial Revolution Serialization: Chapter Seven, last installment
- 19: Book of the week: “Life Rules” (Part 1)
- 18: The Egalitarian practices of immediate return societies
- 18: The American Revolution of 2012
- 18: Presenting “panoply”, a p2p-inspired economic proposal
- 18: Ken MacLeod Interviews Cory Doctorow on Makers
- 17: Emlyn O’Regan on Paid and Unpaid Labor
- 17: Making the internet more private – the example of Syria
- 17: Peer to Peer compared to Transhumanism: what are the politics of the future?
- 17: Towards non-authoritarian spirituality
- 17: Global Revolution Channel
- 16: Do we really need jobs?
- 16: #15SHM Hub Meeting Barcelona
- 16: The Role of Technology in Current Ecological Problems
- 16: CfP: Contemporary Social Science – The Social Dynamics of Web 2.0
- 15: A critique of the scarcity-paradigm of western conservationists in the South
- 15: P2P Essay of the Year? The Radical Implications of a Zero Growth Economy
- 15: A festival to democratize audiovisual production in Bogota in September
- 15: The Tea Party as a death cult
- 14: On outdated tests, technology and learning
- 14: The Commons in Marx’s Thinking: not what you think …
- 14: What kind of management for cooperatives?
- 14: “A self-standing financing model to help sustain the non-market digital commons” with Philippe Aigrain
- 13: When dominator systems can’t respond to the challenges of the time, mutuality-based systems become a necessity
- 13: Mexican indignados join the fray
- 13: The right copyright policy for Europe is not IP maximalism
- 13: CulturaDigital.Br Festival
- 12: The New Model Army – How the US Copied al-Qaida to Kill It
- 12: The important role of Social Media in solving humanity’s Collective Action Problems
- 12: Why are conservatives the only ones criticising capitalism’s failings?
- 12: Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living
- 11: How Open-Source Genomics helped defeat German E-coli outbreak
- 11: How ethical is the hacktivism of Anonymous? (or why DDos can be a legimate tactic)
- 11: The end of the machine that produces fear?
- 11: The Political Economy of Waste (5): Waste in the production process and through marketing
- 10: Just transition as union-driven proposal
- 10: PayPygg – send money through Twitter
- 10: Open Data, Open Society 2nd report is now available online
- 10: The Political Economy of Waste (4): Waste through overhead and accounting systems
- 09: The distribution of musical taste and its effect on creativity in music
- 09: TextbookRebellion wants open and cheap textbooks
- 09: The Political Economy of Waste (3): Waste through Subsidies and Radical Monopolies
- 08: First official Social Forum – Indignados approachment
- 08: Israel re-awakening through its social movement
- 08: How should we organize ourselves in the 21st century?
- 08: The Do It Yourself (DIY) Guide to Credentialing
- 08: The Political Economy of Waste (2): Waste from Artificial Scarcity Rents and Guard Labor
- 07: Puerta del Sol/Syntagma joint statement
- 07: Why you should come to ContactCon and help create a truly free internet
- 07: The Political Economy of Waste (1): History
- 07: P2PU’s School of Webcraft
- 06: GPLv3 is great to promote open innovation, but not enough to protect our constitutional communication rights
- 06: Fukushima nuclear disaster still active – media is silent
- 06: Joi Ito: Designing institutions with Transparency in mind
- 06: Series recap: the Commons, Market, Capital and State debate
- 05: The attack on higher learning as de-democratization
- 05: Open Data: Emerging trends, issues and best practices
- 05: US protest movements inspired by public space occupation
- 05: Intellectual Property as an Artificial Property Rent
- 04: Josep María Antentas on the effect of the Spanish 15M movement on representative democracy
- 04: Towards a public policy in support of a social sharing economy
- 04: Jaron Lanier: we should monetize, not demonetize, the contributions of civil society
- 04: Resolving the dilemma: Technology as alienation vs. Technology as emancipation
- 03: Understanding the transformative potential of the present historical moment
- 03: Is there a politics and economics of happiness?
- 03: More Thoughts on Social Currency, Part II
- 03: Kevin Carson on the curse of Artificial Property Rights
- 02: On Couchsurfing becoming a B Corporation: the controversy
- 02: #India #anti-corruption: what kind of movement?
- 02: Is there a third way in Asia centered around the commons?
- 02: Lib/Dem driven censorship in the UK: In the 21st century, power comes from the blocking of the message
- 01: More Thoughts on Social Currency, Part I
- 01: #chile #estudiantes: the amazing Chilean student mobilization
- 01: Going beyond the nation-state through humanistic globalization
- 01: Stop the racketeering by Academic Publishers!
August 2011
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- 31: ChokePoint Project Ars Electronica Update
- 31: Stalled youth at the heart of a global political awakening
- 31: From Machinic to Organic Organisations
- 31: Transitioning (6): Re-thinking Money Creation and Fostering a new Ecology of Currencies
- 30: Peer production as distributed aggregation of capital
- 30: Land as community property
- 30: Future of Hope documentary on Iceland
- 30: German Village Produces 321% More Energy Than It Needs
- 29: Bifo: “So far, the result of the collapse of neoliberal politics has been its consolidation”
- 29: Book of the Week: The Commons of Soil
- 29: Transitioning (5): Deepening Economic Democracy and Encouraging New Forms of Entrepreneurship
- 29: Natural World: A Farm for the Future
- 28: Key values of the 15M Movement
- 28: “Growing Cities” documentary on urban farming
- 28: What can we do about the state of the world?
- 28: Writing a Global P2P Constitution of the Peoples
- 27: The prospects for crowdsourced credentialling replacing university accreditation
- 27: Transitioning (4): Introducing an Economic Transition Income
- 26: Campaign for Commons Literacy — a fresh wind of social renewal
- 26: Joe Brewer: Global Revolution in Alternate Reality?
- 26: The Shining Example of Iceland and their people’s reaction to the financial meltdown
- 26: Bernie Sanders on an offensive for working families in the U.S.
- 26: Book of the Week: Share or Die (3)
- 25: Does the death of big media mean the death of big ideas?
- 25: Ownership, peer subjectivity, and learning
- 25: Transitioning (3): Fostering New Governance through Participatory Coordination and Communalism
- 24: David Bollier on the Value Proposition of the Commons
- 24: Radical as a radish: on the politics of urban gardening
- 24: Book of the Week: Share or Die (2)
- 24: Imagine the Future of Money by Jaromil
- 23: Drones, Open Source Warfare, and Peak Armaments
- 23: Understanding the condition of biolabour under biocapitalism
- 23: The War on Individual Property and Common Sharing by the IP Maximalists
- 23: Transitioning (2): Fostering New Governance through the Creation of a World Transition Organization
- 22: Four challenges for the Open Source Spaceflight Hardware Movement
- 22: Exploring Community Resilience published
- 22: Global Class Warfare: Global Capitalist Class vs. New Transnational Labour Class
- 22: Book of the Week: Share or Die (1)
- 21: Hungarian interview on p2p infrastructures and ChokePoint Project
- 21: The Role of Open Methods in the Development of the First Airplane
- 21: Urban Roots: documentary on urban farming in Detroit
- 21: Transitioning (1): De-growth and an Economic Kyoto Protocol
- 20: The Challenge of Open and Decentered Learning and Knowledge Creation
- 20: On the direct relationship between money and energy supply
- 20: Ugo Mattei on the State, the Market, and the Commons
- 20: Commercial vs. civic government
- 19: A nine minute presentation of the Open Source Ecology project
- 19: Is empowerment the key Pirate Party value?
- 19: Six crucial actions for the makeover of our society and economy
- 19: The emerging cooperative counter-economy in the U.S.
- 18: Why is Nike moving towards open corporate data?
- 18: John Michael Greer on Resilience vs Efficiency
- 18: David Li on the merger of open hardware with Chinese Shanzai manufacturing
- 18: Sharing as the Creed of Material Spirituality
- 17: Mushin Schilling on the (Ethical) Economy 3.0
- 17: Esko Kilpi on the Knowledge Commons and the new Network Inequality
- 17: On the relation between declining energy an debt
- 17: The urban aspects of the Spanish 15M movement
- 16: Understanding the financial crisis (2)
- 16: From Open Book Management to Negotiated Coordination
- 16: Marc Pesce: Please Mr. Cameron, pull that master switch
- 16: Balancing Individualism and Communitarianism
- 15: Yochai Benkler’s conference at Wikimania 2011 Opening session
- 15: Marching for Democracy #15M #3meses
- 15: Understanding the continuing financial crisis
- 15: Book of the Week: Integrity at Scale
- 15: WikiHouse – An Open Hardware Building System
- 15: The Gupta State Failure Management Archive – a public resource for hard times
- 14: 6 Reasons Why Filesharing Will Go Down in History as the Greatest Thing Ever to Happen to Music
- 14: And When Even The Death Penalty Doesn’t Deter Copying — What Then?
- 14: Communitarianism in a Market Culture
- 13: Slow Media and the reconfiguration of time in the post-media era
- 13: Not all that’s open and p2p is gold: a case of hyper-neoliberal openness in education
- 13: A three-fold strategy for social change
- 13: Seltzer Says Internet Providers Will Now Be Copyright Cops
- 12: On the enclosure and depletion of spiritual capital
- 12: Introducing the Transparent (T-) Corporation
- 12: Can a resource-based economy work?
- 12: 10 Things to Know About Net Neutrality
- 11: Leadership and the Swarm
- 11: The Great Splintering: on the London Riots and the destruction of the social contract in post-meltdown Europe
- 11: The 10% Tipping Point of Ideas in a Population
- 11: Open Video Conference 2011
- 10: Freedom Conditions for Cloud Computing
- 10: Do cyber-protests deserve years in prison?
- 10: Transforming corporate forms through currencies
- 10: Open Object’s People Powered Database
- 09: Private Property is Not the Right Solution for the Natural Commons
- 09: Umair Haque on the new corporate road to serfdom
- 09: Egypt and Beyond: the evolution of revolution
- 09: John Robb on disastrous global central planning through corporate monopolization
- 08: 26 propositions on networking, labour and solidarity under/against/beyond a globalised and informatised capitalism | P. Waterman
- 08: Towards global policy frameworks: Eleven Structural Problems of the Current World System
- 08: The maturation of the P2P Exchange Economy 2.0
- 08: Book of the Week: Labor is not a commodity, but a commons
- 07: The Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
- 07: Ezio Manzini on Grassroots Efforts for Sustainable Design
- 07: Adam Arvidsson and Nicolai Peitersen on the Ethical Economy (new book)
- 07: Anonymous: we will use our culture and technology against their economic shocks
- 06: Review of “Subjectivity in the Ecologies of P2P Production”
- 06: People take Puerta del Sol back #solrenace
- 06: Saskia Sassen on open sourcing urbanism
- 06: On the enclosure and depletion of social capital
- 06: What Is Networganising? – UnionBook
- 05: Japanese social media reveal the seriousness of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
- 05: Book of the Week (3): David Graeber’s on Humanity’s ‘primordial debt’
- 05: Urban-agricultural and cultural renewal in Detroit
- 05: The P2P of Zion (2): Social Economy developments within the Mormon Church
- 04: The RDLS, Zionic Theology and the Social Economy: p2p developments within the Mormon Church?
- 04: Blackout Resilient Technologies Village at CCCamp, August 10-14, 2011
- 04: How the internet creates ecological/relational forms of awareness
- 04: Edward Miller: Arguments for the Land Value Tax
- 04: The debate within the Israeli social justice movement
- 03: Assange and Kimura: Transforming human culture and the ideosphere through collective intellectuality
- 03: Police occupy Puerta del Sol #spanishrevolution #nopararemos
- 03: Book of the Week (2): David Graeber’s take on the fake economics and their Imaginary Myth of Barter
- 03: Elinor Ostrom on Going Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons
- 02: The insuffficiency of efficiency
- 02: Thinking about propertization and the commons
- 02: Mozilla: Open Source Competition for Android?
- 02: Arab Spring inspires Israeli social justice movement
- 01: Vertaisrahasto.fi: innovative Peer Fund for scientific research in Finland
- 01: Archon Fung on Transparency and Democratic Control
- 01: What Role for Users in a More Social Peer-to-Peer?
- 01: Book of the Week: David Graeber’s First Five Thousand Years of Debt
- 01: Video from the RealDemocracy movement: One World, One Revolution
July 2011
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- 31: Debugging the profit motive
- 31: The snowflake model: Marshall Ganz on how technology has changed organizing revolutions
- 31: Together: a union approach to precariat
- 31: An ideological history of the urge to own
- 30: A tale of vision and leadership
- 30: From systems of co-determination to full industrial democracy?
- 30: Ellen Brown on economic, financial and monetary transformation
- 30: Is the austerity wave related to Peak Oil and a lower return on energy?
- 29: Launch of Anonymous-inspired political groups
- 29: Rethinking corporate structures away from the shareholder paradigm
- 29: Book of the Week (3): the Situationist tactic of ‘detournement’
- 29: Open Source Ecology: Towards 50 GVCS Tools by 2013
- 28: The past and future of the democratic archive: from the ancient Greek “Metroon” to Wikileaks
- 28: Anonymous – Join Us
- 28: Beyond ‘potemkim’ carbon markets, towards true sustainability metrics
- 28: Stop the enclosure of the food and health commons
- 27: Mondo.net: structurally enabling mass p2p activity
- 27: Barriers to Open WiFi
- 27: David Ronfeldt engages with the “Partner State” (2)
- 27: Book of the Week (2): Treating all culture as collective property and a gift
- 26: A sustainability proposal: Demand-Side Reduction Cooperatives
- 26: Amir Taaki on Bitcoin
- 26: The call for a debt jubilee
- 26: “Share or Die”, the story of the precarious generation
- 26: Michael Hudson on financial terrorism and Europe’s slide to neo-feudalism
- 25: #madrid #tomalaplaza #23J #24J
- 25: David Ronfeldt in Dialogue with the Partner State Concept
- 25: Social Media Are Re-embedding Cultural Production into Concrete Social Relationships
- 25: Book of the Week: A Situationist blast from the past
- 25: Tim Wu on the age of internet monopolies
- 24: Sustainable Agriculture and Off-Grid Renewable Energy
- 24: Does the great disruption also mean ‘big government’?
- 24: Eduardo Galeano on the pregnancy of this moment in time
- 24: On the difference between the Middle Eastern and European mobilizations
- 23: A comprehensive critique of the weaknesses of Bitcoin
- 23: David Brin’s case for fourfold openness and transparency
- 23: How should social movements respond to the crisis in Europe?
- 23: Sustainable Fisheries Are Community-Led
- 22: Book of the Week (3): Towards civil democratic institutions in a world of watershed commons
- 22: #spanishrevolution update – #stopretallades & #marchaindignada
- 22: Can organic agriculture attain ‘miraculous’ productivity?
- 22: Paul Gilding on the Great Disruption: Effective Global Default is only a matter of time
- 21: What is Abundance-Based Money?
- 21: Crowdfunding as the trojan horse of the commons
- 21: Users to Begin Regaining Control over their Data in October 2011
- 21: Understanding the new non-representational politics that are animating the new social movements
- 21: Vinay Gupta on what’s wrong with global governance and what we can do about it
- 21: Common Property Rights and Abundance (Diagram)
- 20: Book of the Week (2): Towards a Commodity Ecology
- 20: Introduction to the New World of Alternative Currencies
- 20: Towards a Labor Commons: Considering Employment as a Common Pool Resource through Social Accounting
- 20: The political role of generating artificial debt crises
- 19: WikiLeaks’ Brilliant MasterCard Commercial Parody
- 19: Community Wireless Networking as a Culture and Economics of Autonomy
- 19: The open content economy now reaches one sixth of U.S. GDP
- 19: At Syntagma, the higher square of protest and the lower square of reconstruction
- 18: Book of the Week: Toward a Bioregional State
- 18: Stephen Fry: Sharers are not criminals
- 18: Open Hardware at the Open Knowledge Conference 2011
- 17: Report on the internationalisation of the #Europeanrevolution
- 17: Anonymous launches three-phase plan
- 17: Jobs for a frugal economy
- 17: Clay Shirky on why journalism needs to be publicly supported
- 16: Is Culture a Commons … or is it Free?
- 16: The convergence of networked and sovereign power: what is the role of the emerging “Genetically Modified Grassroots Organizations”?
- 16: John Robb on Conducting Economic Insurgencies through Open Source Business Ventures
- 16: What are popular assemblies and why are they recurring now?
- 15: Introduction to Transfinancial Economics (3): Some Outstanding Implications of Transfinancial Economics
- 15: Overdose: a documentary on the next meltdown … the one that’s on its way
- 15: Are our deep ‘mod ecologies’ threatened by the shallow ‘app ecologies’?
- 15: Who’s reponsible for the meltdown?
- 15: One Day in the Life Inside The Tahrir Sit-In
- 14: Syntagma Assembly warns against the theft of Greek public property: privatisation plans are null and void
- 14: Towards a Technological, Social, and Legal Infrastructure for Secure Leaking
- 14: Peereconomic update: an interesting experiment in ‘paid usership’
- 14: Thomas Greco on the nuts and bolts of creating a credit-commons- based local exchange system
- 13: Introduction to Transfinancial Economics (2): the role of Facilitation Banks and Electronic Transaction Monitoring
- 13: Mapping out the value exchange spectrum (2): applying Gregory Rader’s quadrant view
- 13: Naomi Klein on the need for integrating the precautionary principle in our addiction to risk
- 13: Book of the Week (2): Sacred Economics, Disintermediation and the P2P Revolution
- 12: Richard Hames on the need for new ways of thinking complexity and change
- 12: On the necessary concept of ‘transition’ to get from here to there
- 12: Mapping out the value exchange universe (1), a quadrant view from Gregory Rader
- 12: The basic orientation of p2p theory towards societal reform: transforming civil society, the private and the state
- 11: Introduction to Transfinancial Economics: Part One, The Core Concepts
- 11: Collaborative Change? – Commons, Networks, Exchange
- 11: Book of the Week: Charles Eistenstein’s Sacred Economics is out!
- 11: Creativos Conecta2 – Promoting Free Culture
- 11: Al Jazeera and Jerome Roos expose the corporate media’s myth-making on Greece
- 10: Amy Goodman, Slavoj Zizek, and Julian Assange: the great Wikileaks debate
- 10: #15M Spanish protest movement – 47 evictions stopped
- 10: Five variables that are creating a social movement ‘with no name’
- 10: Openwatch – turn the tables on surveillance
- 10: Reasoned Localization and Selective Deglobalization
- 09: Saving Fukushima’s Children from Radiation
- 09: The emergence of a movement against corporate personhood in the U.S.
- 09: Michael Hudson explains the rationale for high taxes on unearned income
- 09: Bernard Lietaer and Christian Arnsperger on reinventing the financial system
- 08: A critique of home schooling by Stephen Downes
- 08: The economic benefits of shorter working hours in a new ‘non-economic’ conception of time
- 08: The Bitcoin Epoch: It is Akin to the Printing Press Revolution
- 08: Energy efficiency beyond the market: the Nordic way of citizen and municipal co-ownership
- 07: From an Economics of Power and Greed to an Economics of Compassion and the Common Good
- 07: The four phases of a Post-Peak Oil future, and how to prepare for the ecotechnic future
- 07: The Ever-Growing Role of Social Media in Social Change (& the Response)
- 07: On the necessity of ‘mediation’ for economic and social transitions
- 06: Neural interview: from peer 2 peer to face to face
- 06: The emerging ecology of Anonymarts
- 06: The reign of the bondholders
- 06: Findings on the positive role of complementary currencies (thesis of the week, part 2)
- 05: Bitcoin, a post-meltdown currency for the rich?
- 05: Did the p2p movements originate in the South?
- 05: John Perry Barlow on the necessity of defending free speech against intellectual property monopoly
- 05: Peak Oil and the Future of Urbanism
- 04: Debtocracy: the documentary that is moving Greece
- 04: On the history of #spanishrevolution: how the digital turned on the analog
- 04: Exploring the relations between therapy and p2p: towards a psychological commons
- 04: Thesis of the Week: Increasing Local Economic Sustainability through Complementary Economic Systems
- 03: The Syntagma movement as a new demand to the state?
- 03: Free Technology Community Portal
- 03: Telecomix: Hacking for Freedom during the Arab Revolutions and after
- 03: Emerging ‘new economy’ networks in the U.S.
- 02: Open design comes of age (3), third of a series by Massimo Menichinelli
- 02: The Mesh Potato Village Telco communications revolution in Africa
- 02: Case study of a community economy: The Alliance to Develop Power in western Massachusetts:
- 02: Protecting Freedoms Online: La Quadrature’s Proposals
- 01: A revival of the cooperative economy in the U.S. and in the UK
- 01: A Tea Party for the left: the American Dream movement
- 01: The (anti-) politics of thrivability in Reykjavík, Iceland
- 01: Slavoj Zizek on the Arabian Revolution
June 2011
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- 30: Chemical attack by Greek police at Syntagma Square: the end of social democracy
- 30: Open design comes of age (2), second of a series by Massimo Menichinelli
- 30: Common Healing: Kevin Hansen announces new Commons documentary
- 30: From an Economics of Power and Greed to an Economics of Compassion and the Common Good
- 29: The revolt against financial predation in Greece is a historic turning point in the awakening of European peoples
- 29: Kevin Carson on Bitcoin and the Phyles: dystopia or utopia?
- 29: Blue Labour’s relational state, a partner state?
- 29: Colombia, chronicle of a Social Controversy Foretold: the story of copyright bill 241
- 28: Open design comes of age, first of a series by Massimo Menichinelli
- 28: We need public clouds to complement private clouds
- 28: The cyberstrike: online aspects of the June 30 anti-austerity mobilization in the UK
- 28: Towards post-futurism … What do we do after the ‘death of the future’?
- 27: Digital Reverse Development: How the South is teaching the West
- 27: Wiki Management at Synaxon
- 27: Bifo on the crisis of European civilization and the cognitarian insurrection
- 27: Eben Moglen on the four forces that have coalesced to destroy internet freedom
- 26: Hierarchies and networks in a corporate context
- 26: Some policy characteristics of a commons-based society
- 26: Adam Arvidsson and Michel Bauwens on Open Source Design
- 26: Van Jones on the politics of outrage and love
- 26: Catalysing the p2p revolution? Discovering the change potential of 200m cultural creatives
- 25: Peer to Peer Urbanism, Fractal Hierarchy, and Future Permatecture
- 25: Open Sourcing the Vedas through Transontology?
- 25: Afther the green revolution, time for the ‘brown’ and ‘blue’ revolutions
- 25: Open Hardware Summit 2011 – Call for Submissions
- 25: Bernard E. Harcourt on the illusion of self-regulating ‘free markets’
- 24: Jeff Jarvis on end to end journalism and the ‘death of the article’
- 24: The problem with advertising
- 24: The argument for re-introducing Steeply Graduated Income Taxes
- 24: 1848, 1968, 2011: the long term effect of the bottom-up revolution
- 23: A cultural intelligence critique of Kurzweil and Lanier
- 23: Phillip Mueller on digital Neo-Machiavellism: Openness as strategy in a many-to-many world
- 23: Former intelligence operative calls for p2p revolution
- 22: Democracy 4.0 #spanishrevolution
- 22: Jane Jones on going through postmodernism to a p2p relationality
- 22: How a new type of social movement is transforming Detroit
- 22: Refuting the ideological warfare used to justify the invasion of Greece
- 22: The First Social Cyberwar as the class warfare of the 21st cy: On the convergence of hacktivism with social movements
- 21: Insights into the Spanish assembly movement
- 21: Catalan Police Sabotage Peaceful Protesting
- 21: We Volume 5: special issue on ‘flat’ leadership
- 21: An Analysis of Social Media’s Power for Social Change
- 21: The state of the art for Widely-Distributed Batteries for Renewable Energy
- 20: The Philosophy of Peer Learning: Educational Philosophy and Theory
- 20: The emergence of a ‘nuclear knowledge movement’ in Japan
- 20: Spanish Citizens Reject Pact of the Euro
- 20: Debunking Gladwell’s ‘The Tipping Point’
- 20: Activism Without Leadership: the Invisible Network of Britain’s Eco-Activist Subculture
- 20: Towards Decentralized Renewable Energy: policy lessons from California and the U.S.
- 19: Short history of the recent events in Greece, and what they portend
- 19: Transitioning towards an economy of meaning
- 19: Shanzai!! How China’s Cell Phone Pirates Brought Down Middle Eastern Governments
- 19: What crowdsourcing really means and why we shouldn’t like it
- 18: Call for papers: Expanding the frontiers of hacking
- 18: Jerry Brito on Bitcoin and the End of State-Controlled Money
- 18: A report on the rebirth of Hellenic democracy in Athens
- 18: Richard Stallman on the U.S. Government’s monitoring of the Internet
- 18: Mobilization of the precarious movement in Italy this Sunday, June 19th
- 17: Book of the Week (3): Why we need Demurrage
- 17: The minimum wage, demurrage and the economics of labor
- 17: Transforming human relationships for the p2p age
- 17: Updating the wave theory of social change: entering the 6th information revolution in human history
- 16: The meaning of the Greek mobilizations: the emergence of peaceful popular insurrections
- 16: Dmytri Kleiner interviewed on the Telekommunisten Manifesto
- 16: The democracy that is born in the European occupied squares
- 15: Book of the Week (2): The History of Stamp Scrip
- 15: Compilation of images and music dedicated to #spanishrevolution
- 15: Towards #participatorydemocracy
- 15: Wikying public policy making
- 15: Vertical Integration and Moore’s Law for Atoms
- 14: The values of real democracy
- 14: Flattr contributions now open on p2p blog
- 14: Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Seven: The Alternative Economy As a Singularity
- 14: Robin Good on Digital Curation
- 13: #15M to #19J Spain Rallies for Protests
- 13: Democratic mobilizations in Europe – seeds 4 a commons-based society?
- 13: Book of the Week: How New Currency could change the world
- 13: P2P: a new model for enterprise and for society – a conversation with Michel Bauwens
- 13: The new wave of anti-corporate hacktivism
- 13: On Anagorism
- 13: A critique of the Peer-to-Peer Potlatch meme
- 12: Slouching towards Protopia
- 12: The Zapatistas after 17 years
- 12: P2P Labor Organization
- 11: Anonymous to governments: Let us explain your delicate situation
- 11: The amazing bike-sharing program in Hangzhou, China
- 11: Special research issue: Distributed Leadership for Interconnected Worlds
- 11: Generation OS13: new must-see documentary by Anonymous
- 11: The Ripple mutual credit and payment system: Will It Work?
- 10: Towards commons-oriented urban planning
- 10: Setting the historical record straight: copyright was designed by distributors, to subsidize distributors not creators.
- 10: Are the Pirate Parties a serious and important political force?
- 10: Anonymous demands referendum in Greece
- 09: Chris Cook: the Commons as a Corporation
- 09: Exploring the psycommons
- 09: Anima Mundi documentary on Permaculture, Peak Oil, Climate Change and the Soul of the World
- 09: Why we need a European approach to the Democracy Real mobilizations
- 08: #tomalaplaza continuation – Spain
- 08: Can the commons bring us “beyond growth”?
- 08: In the Rockies, the War against the Wolves
- 08: Facebook and the Unions
- 08: Greece the new Argentina: John Holloway on the desperate excitement in Athens
- 07: #SpanishRevolution, something truly joyful.
- 07: Kfé Innovación – a simultaneous distributed P2P discussion
- 07: Guy Fawkes in Egypt: the cultural role of Khaled for Vendetta movies prior to the uprising
- 07: Changing Models of Ownership
- 07: The new student rebellions in the UK and beyond
- 07: Umair Haque on Building a 21st Century Economy
- 06: Sketsites, gender violence, and the misogyny of Facebook
- 06: Grassroots mapping
- 06: The resurgence of autonomous farming in Mexico and Latin America
- 05: Voces con Futura – P2P poster bank for the #revolutions
- 05: María Carrión on Camp Sol’s lessons for true democracy
- 05: Analysis of Blue Labour: From Individual Morality to Ethical Institutions
- 05: Scenarios for Future Transitions: A P2P response to Global MegaCrisis scenarios
- 05: Tahrir Square as a meme uniting the new cycle of struggles
- 04: #SpanishRevolution on multistory
- 04: Tummelvision – engaging and collaborating in a networked age
- 04: P2P Pattern Discoverers
- 04: Michael Hudson on the Autonomy of the Financial System and Accrued Interest
- 04: The state of free culture, 2011: Towards Institutions for the Cultural Commons
- 04: Egypt and beyond: Skype not secure as an activist tool?
- 03: From #spanish to #european and #globalrevolution
- 03: The Shanzai Electric Car Revolution in China
- 03: What is open design thinking?
- 03: Kachikachi – Quantum dosimeter radiation detection
- 03: The continued role of cyber-activism in Egypt
- 02: OKCon 2011 – Update
- 02: Lecture on the sustainability of open design
- 02: Minimum Demands of Barcelona Protest Camp
- 02: Are self-organized networks a dangerous and mistaken idea?
- 02: Governance for the Global Commons: Recognizing Planetary Boundaries
- 02: Los Invencibles de la plaza Cataluña 27/05/2011
- 01: Vote of The People’s Assembly of Syntagma Square
- 01: Thesis of the Week (2): Four scenarios for the future of the alterglobalization movement
- 01: Pirene Lab III – P2P Living Lab in the Pyrenees
- 01: Spotting Unidentified Revolutionary Objects (U.R.O’s)
- 01: The Ecuadorian proposal for a Forest Commons
- 01: Amicable networks and the peer governance mechanisms at Puerta del Sol
May 2011
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- 31: The social media challenge in Singapore
- 31: Software + data as business models
- 31: The communication commons against corporate social media and the ‘recuperation’ of the Internet by capital
- 31: The education of the French citizens movement at the Bastille, May 29th
- 30: Background to #spanishrevolution #asambleabarrios #europeanrevolution
- 30: Thesis of the Week: Alternative Futures of Globalisation and the Emergence of a Planetary Self
- 30: Using sound canons against partying students
- 30: P2P Foundation wins Ars Electronica award for Choke Point Project
- 30: Towards post-growth economics and politics
- 30: From Syntagma Square, Athens #europeanrevolution
- 29: Twitter’s Online Oral Psychodynamics
- 29: David Bollier on commons-based innovation
- 29: How to avoid openwashing?
- 29: Spain is Ground Zero for the P2P Revolution
- 28: The good news of the Hargreaves UK Intellectual Property report
- 28: Dutch Scientists say GSM could be networking tool
- 28: High engagement postings on the P2P Foundation blog
- 28: John Perry Barlow tells it straight to the G8: Innovation needs to be freed
- 27: Police Violence Dismantling Barcelona Camp #spanishrevolution #acampadabcn #yeswecamp
- 27: Launch of the School of Commoning in London
- 27: Smári McCarthy: Traditional free speech rights are obsolete, towards the IMMI approach
- 27: Book of the Week (3): Towards an interconnected Collaborative Civilization
- 27: Bringing the political economy back into the city
- 27: Twitter’s increasing enclosures
- 26: Urbanism as hacking: the digital generation’s tactical urbanism
- 26: Media dynamics in TV vs Twitter: “Twitter news curation is the anti-playstation for wars”
- 26: Can Ripple credit routing develop into an actual currency?
- 26: Online and blended learning is NOT automated delivery of facts, and NOT less work for teachers
- 26: Spanish Protest Movement Beyond Ruling Party Defeat
- 25: The Sony Effect: Information War and Class Struggle 3.0
- 25: Book of the Week (2): Gordon Cook on the need to understand and strengthen the vital Global Research Networks
- 25: The dark euphoria of the next ten years
- 25: Introducing the third commons
- 24: Mark Pesce on the Promises and Pitfalls of a Sharing Society
- 24: Why is Open Hardware inherently sustainable?
- 24: Rethinking taxes and welfare in a cryptocurrency world
- 23: Mushin Schilling on sharing vs. the Cartesian fallacy of separation
- 23: Peer production in art
- 23: Book of the Week: Gordon Cook’s Report on the Core Global Research Networks in their relation to the edge
- 23: Constructing, living, and demanding Participatory Democracy in the #spanishrevolution Camps
- 22: #spanishrevolution – Conceptual Map of #acampadasol Madrid
- 22: The #spanishrevolution’s Icelandic moment: Message from Hordur Torfason to the protesters in Spain
- 22: G8 vs. Internet
- 22: Analysis of the May 15 movement in Spain
- 22: Al Jazeera’s Network Revolution: a timeline and account of the cyberwar accompagnying the Arab uprisings
- 22: Wikipedia as an Epistemological Revolution: from individualist expert to collaborative knowledge
- 21: The Sangham seed and p2p lending movement in India
- 21: An alliance between labor and enterpreneurs
- 21: Youth Revolution 2011: Voices from the #15M May 15 Spanish mobilizations
- 21: Declaration of Principles – Barcelona Protest Camp
- 20: Two interviews on open design and economical sustainability
- 20: Edgar Cahn on the two impulses of human nature and corresponding money systems
- 20: Yoga to the People
- 19: The global commons and the defense the soils, the seas and the skies against commodification
- 19: 2021: the tipping point for peer to peer banking and government taxation
- 19: #acampadabcn Barcelona Occupation
- 19: Kafka in Brazil: Minister Ana de Hollanda’s non-transparent copyright reform consultation process
- 18: Isabella Lövin – Pillaging the Sea: another tragedy of the Commons
- 18: Douglas Rushkoff’s canonization by the Church of Life After Shopping
- 18: Soil and Health – The Online Open Source Library
- 17: Details on social media and peer governance of Yemen’s young protesters
- 17: Barcelona Protest Camp #acampadabcn
- 17: Is clean atmosphere a ‘public trust’?
- 17: Maintaining critical infrastructures on the other side of the oil peak
- 16: Idealism is realism: why you have to overestimate Humanity to make it capable of the best
- 16: Prelude, a peak oil novel
- 16: Is bee die-off related to mobile phone radiation?
- 15: How three concurring media systems aided the unfolding of the Arab Spring
- 15: Blaming Locke and his Failed Metaphysics of Private Property
- 15: Milan, May 17: Le dinamiche di produzione in rete, collaborative, aperte, decentralizzate, orizzontali
- 15: Bifo on How the Cognitivat Will Lead to an Unprecedented Socio-Cultural and Informational Revolution
- 14: George Siemens on Massive Open Online Courses
- 14: Towards distributed and collaborative learning infrastructures
- 14: The Desktop Regulatory State: Kevin Carson’s new book on Open Source Government
- 13: Nick Dyer-Whiteford on the emancipatory potential of digital commons
- 13: Towards emphatic education
- 13: “There is no other”: Increased “super”interdependence leads to super-cooperation
- 13: London P2P Event May 14: Governance in worker cooperatives, p2p networks, and commons
- 13: From open (city) government data to participatory city budgetting
- 12: Slavoj Zizek on cloud computing as corporate enclosure of the ‘general intellect’
- 12: Video on the Open Commons experience in the Linz region of Austria
- 12: Zizek: Is Charity Immoral?
- 12: Yochai Benkler receives Ford Foundation ‘Visionaries Award’
- 11: What’s the nature of the Wikipedia bureaucracy?
- 11: Beyond idealism: university-level training in free technology
- 11: Cory Doctorow on techno-optimism and techno-pessimism
- 11: Is digital technology reshaping the political landscape?
- 11: Nigel Shadbolt – Lessons from the UK Open Data Initiative
- 10: Three bottom-up eco-actions that could reduce western individual footprint by 75%
- 10: Bolivia’s ‘Mother Earth’ law – not an easy sell
- 10: The politics of urban gardening
- 10: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive: a milestone book on open design
- 09: Kevin Flanagan on Irish hackerspaces
- 09: An interview with Julian Assange
- 09: Vandana Shiva: Post-Fukushima anti-nuclear resistance in India
- 09: Bitcoin in the real world – supply and demand
- 08: A study of the eCars Open Source Hardware Community
- 08: Can our civilisation really change?
- 08: The ephemeralization of value
- 08: Jan Servaes talks to Vandana Shiva: biodiversity, seed commons, eco-agriculture and social justice
- 08: Michel Bauwens interviewed on “Culture File”
- 07: Authority and Power within Anonymous
- 07: Thinking about corporate internet platforms, their politics, and the commons
- 07: Michel Bauwens Interviewed by Furtherfield
- 07: MondoNet, a global wireless mesh network
- 06: The gradual disappearance of open wireless networks is a tragedy of the commons
- 06: From self-directed to networked-directed learning
- 06: Games Go to War
- 06: Everything Open and Free: A model for Hacking Everything
- 05: Franz Hörmann on the End of Money
- 05: Trusts Today (2): Turning failing newspapers into publicly owned trusts?
- 05: New Book: “The Why and How of Open Education – With lessons from the openSE and openED Projects”
- 04: Remembering commons activist Jonathan Rowe
- 04: Trusts Today (1): Replacing Private Trusts with General Public Trusts
- 04: Open Source Ecology Brochure
- 03: Is Zeitgeist 3 about the commons?
- 03: The emergence of an ethic and wisdom and communion
- 03: The subjectivity and intersubjectivity of voluntary peer networks
- 02: Book of the Week: Utopian and Critical (P2P) Visions on Energy
- 02: From Open Business Models to a Commons-Oriented Economy
- 02: Is there a scientific basis for peer to peer economics?
- 02: Comic for kids about Free Software
- 02: PR company copyrights term “radical media”, threatens to sue activists
- 01: Why is Facebook ‘disappearing’ anti-cuts sites in the UK?
- 01: Michel Bauwens at Re-rooting digital culture – media art ecologies 13/05/11
- 01: The role of state in social transitions
April 2011
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- 30: Michel Bauwens talking at #minefield
- 30: The solar engineering school for women in Tilonia, India
- 30: Jay Rosen’s Eight Theses on Horizontal Journalism
- 30: Markets without Capitalism as part of P2P economics (2): Kevin Carson’s transition proposals
- 29: Introducing the … Klerotarians: reviving democracy the Athenian way
- 29: Paul Treanor on the defects and anti-innovation effects of open societies
- 29: The place of heteregeneous and egalitarian markets in a hybrid and plurarist P2P Polity
- 28: The Recombinant Ladder of the Pirate Party’s Policy Making
- 28: Managing City Domain Names as Neighborhood Commons
- 28: Neal Gorenflo on the sharing economy as complementary to the market economy
- 27: Student-led teaching in 12th Century Italy: the case of the University of Bologna
- 27: Is the P2P Foundation a level 3 actor? Meta-level strategies for social change.
- 27: Contesting Abundance: Shared for the Common Good or Monopolized for Private Profit?
- 26: Symbionomics video interview with Rachel Botsman on shared infrastructures for collaborative consumption
- 26: Replacing Cap and Trade and Carbon Taxation with Cap and Reward systems
- 26: Jose Arguelles’ Manifesto for the Noosphere
- 25: The problem with ‘platforms’
- 25: Social ‘Nutrition’ Labels – Consumers keep an eye on company behavior
- 25: Every Guest A Host: Inside A Nomad-Base
- 24: Copying is not theft
- 24: Russian Wildfires, Crisis Mapping, and the role of peer-governed social networks in areas of limited statehood
- 24: Spiritual self-sufficiency vs. interdependent interbeingness
- 23: How Twitter Users Respond to a Crisis
- 23: The Partner State Approach: A First Definition
- 23: Huffington Post contributions as open source participation
- 23: Michel Bauwens at Re-rooting digital culture – media art ecologies 13/05/11
- 22: The peer to peer origins of the medieval university
- 22: Venessa Miemis’ Open Web Manifesto
- 22: Marcin Jakubowski on open heartware technology as open-sourced blueprints for civilization
- 22: Cory Doctorow and the war against sharing
- 21: Is “Blue Labour” sufficiently inoculated from Blairite neoliberalism?
- 21: A business model for peer learning based on complementary currencies
- 21: Making is Connecting
- 21: “Go Open Access” film series
- 20: A critique of the 1,000 true fans business model for creativity
- 20: Via Campesina opposes International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources as legitimizing seed theft
- 20: Bolivia set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans
- 20: World brain and global game – or the ‘save the world game’
- 19: Save our Sydney Ferries: “Privatisation is Theft”
- 19: Thresholds and abrupt social change
- 19: ContactCon: a counter-conference for building a P2P counter-infrastructure
- 19: The two rules of commonwealth economies
- 18: A conference on the Open Commons Region Linz experience
- 18: We’re breaking the Central Covenants of Successful Economies
- 18: The arguments for internet-induced openness
- 18: Food and water as key ingredients of the coming civilisational eco-crisis
- 17: Open Access Policy Kit
- 17: P2P Distribution Model Working for Yes Men
- 17: Why Self-Organized Networks Will Destroy Hierarchies — A Credo by Kevin Carson
- 17: Iceland insures better recovery through refusal of financial diktats
- 16: News about Intellectual Property in the TPP
- 16: Take Action contact your MEP to stop Copyright Term Extension
- 16: An update from Tunisia and its ongoing revolution
- 16: The love economy (3): Lisa Gansky on the ecological potential of p2p object sharing
- 15: The love economy (2): The political appropriation of happiness in the UK
- 15: How Companies Participate in a Company-led Open Source Project
- 15: Alternative Exchange Systems in Contemporary Greece (review)
- 15: Designing Products to be Shared
- 14: The love economy (1): Hazel Henderson on compound interest as a violation of the 2nd law of thermodynamics
- 14: Sage Commons: open source genomics
- 14: The Users are the Suppliers
- 14: Opening up crowdfunding as a mechanism for equity investment
- 14: Participatory Unionism for Participatory Public Services
- 14: A manifesto on Peer-to-Peer energy production
- 13: Life at the End of Empire, documentary
- 13: The Open Money situation: an updated assessment by Matthew Slater
- 13: Alchemergy: alchemy as the underlying glue for revolution
- 13: Material vs. immaterial resonance in spreading social change: the issue of speed
- 12: Beyond the market/state dichotomy (2): Andreas Exner on the new Zeitgeist
- 12: Sustainable fisheries trusts against overfishing
- 12: Spiritual Machinima as Digital Alchemy for Personal and Social Change
- 12: Zizek on the awakening of a new authentic left in Europe
- 11: Free Software cooperatives: the GCoop case
- 11: Beyond the market/state dichotomy (1): Douglald Hine on the right and wrong critiques of the “Big Society” project
- 11: Marvin Brown on the civic, the private, and the commercial
- 11: The history (and future) of humanity’s relationship with nature
- 10: Open Process: the core of peer production, the core of the new society
- 10: Maine Town Declares Sovereignty over Food
- 10: Silke Helfrich: Connecting Commoners Across Continents
- 10: A (Weberian) critique of the consensus view of peer production
- 09: The State of the Art of Complementary Currencies and its Open Source Software in 2010
- 09: The paradox of corporate platforms as tools of social revolution
- 09: Ugo Mattei on the State, the Market, and some Preliminary Question about the Commons
- 09: Riace – Complementary Currency helps integrate asylum seekers, refugees
- 08: An updated assessment on the ‘hacking the state’ strategy (2), by ‘Poor Richard’
- 08: The Five Protestant Solas and the Hacker Ethic
- 08: The swarm as a method of work organisation
- 08: Dutch twitter-based anti-bonus campaign sets an example for the world
- 08: Josef Jacotot’s Peer to Peer Pedagogy of Equality
- 07: Re-using market and state forms (planning) with p2p purposes in mind
- 07: The four rules of a Open-by-Rule Community
- 07: An updated assessment of the ‘hacking the state’ strategy
- 07: Business models for DIY Craft
- 06: Day against DRMs
- 06: Hacking the State
- 06: Replacing Efficiency with Reliability
- 06: Epistemological Aspects of the Alterglobalization Movement: The Practice of Unknowing
- 05: The corporation: a business automata that runs our lives and has become a ‘dominant species’
- 05: Replacing systems management with complex responsive processes in peer to peer work environments
- 05: Business models for Fab Labs
- 05: Paolo Virno on Collectivity as a precondition for Individuality
- 04: A #NextNet Proof-of-Concept
- 04: Zeynep Tufekci on the Role of Social Media in the Middle East Revolutions
- 04: Towards a bio-urbanist policy for the Basque region
- 04: Compound Interest, exponential growth and the 2008 Meltdown
- 04: On the importance of local victories for social change
- 03: Towards a Reputation Economy: a response to Adam Arvidsson
- 03: Chomsky refutes “libertarian” “anarcho”- capitalism
- 03: Android should no longer be considered open source: a pattern of enclosure by Google
- 03: The role of peer to peer media in the Tunisian Renaissance
- 02: Analyzing mixed socio-economic systems
- 02: Time-Lapse Video of Global Protests
- 02: Ervin Laszlo on Leadership for Social Change
- 02: From degrowth to altergrowth
- 01: A strategic framework for demonetization
- 01: Ched Myers on Jubilee Economics
- 01: Collective Intelligence Means Smarter Working
- 01: David Bollier: Time for a political approach to the commons
March 2011
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- 31: Is Bitcoin a Rube Goldberg machine?
- 31: Dmytri Kleiner on the Price and Value of Free Culture
- 31: Humanizing the cosmos, a critique and counter-critique
- 30: Network Growth and Decay Model
- 30: New Open Source Ecology custom search engine and widget
- 30: Bill St. Arnaud’s call for a National Public Internet
- 30: Cooperation is always political
- 30: P2P Funded project: Understanding Today’s Economic Transformation
- 29: The Pirate Party’s solution for the global job crisis: valuing the swarm economy
- 29: How to distinguish civic society from the private sector?
- 29: New report by David Bollier: The Future of Work
- 28: Four years of Open Source Ecology at the Factor E Farm: a 4-year status report
- 28: The Decline of the Commons? Not Really.
- 28: Book of the Week: The Divine Right of Capital
- 27: Documentary on DIY, Do-It-Together Britain
- 27: Critical Studies in Peer Production: an update before the launch
- 27: New publication: Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube.
- 26: Symposium “Watching the Media”
- 26: Why the four forms of intersubjectivity need each other
- 26: The Protocol Wars of 4chan, Anonymous, and Wikileaks
- 25: Homebrew Industrial Revolution: Chapter Six (Second Excerpt)
- 25: Open Government: Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards
- 25: A message from Einstein in 1949
- 25: A case of Wikipedia manipulation: the Koch brothers
- 24: Value in Prosumer practices- and in the Information Economy
- 24: Degrowth in a context of infinite growth
- 24: The 20th anniversary of Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons
- 24: The Spirit of Davos vs. the Spirit of Porto Alegre
- 23: Should we worry about capitalist commons?
- 23: The Wisconsin tipping point: rousing speech by Dennis Kucinich in Madison
- 23: Chrematistics are masquerading as economics
- 23: A serious problem with BitCoin: it wastes energy
- 23: Homebrew Industrial Revolution: Chapter Six, First Excerpt
- 22: Son of ACTA: meet the next secret copyright treaty
- 22: P2P and Deliberative Democracy approaches compared
- 22: Book of the Week: Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution
- 22: The disintegration of work
- 21: Academic MindTrek 2011
- 21: An update on collapse thinking and preparedness
- 21: What’s the right attitude for living in a complex, chaotic, unpredictable system?
- 21: Open Education: Changing Educational Practices
- 20: Is ignoring copyright the best strategy against IP monopolists?
- 20: Disempowerment of labor: enough is enough
- 20: Successful Global Commons need Social Capital on a global scale
- 20: Wikileaks, Hacktivism 2.0 and the Threats to National Sovereignty and Empire
- 19: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2011
- 19: Reportage on a Seed Commons project and p2p farmers network in the Andhra Pradesh region of India
- 19: Business Models for Open Hardware
- 19: Every technological benefit is also a handicap: media effects on youth learning
- 18: Property Rights in the Commons: The ubiquity of mixed systems
- 18: Going from weak ties connections to engagement relationships
- 18: After Japan: Time for an Energy Revolution
- 18: The SSG Framework for Cloud Manufacturing: bringing modularity to matter
- 17: Landmark legal ruling: The Supreme Court of India Defends the Village Commons
- 17: Robin Dunbar explains the Dunbar Number
- 17: Dominic Muren on production without factories
- 17: The internet, market domination, and the public utility vision
- 16: The shock doctrine as applied to the American states
- 16: Real Cities, Real Transformations
- 16: Free College Textbooks for Ohio Students
- 16: A resource shared is a resource squared
- 15: CopySouth Rio papers released
- 15: FTA announces guest lecture by Richard Stallman and other news
- 15: Book of the Week: The History and Future of Civic Humanity
- 15: The ecological commons: Seeing the Environment as Our Common Heritage
- 15: Steps towards a new legal framework for indigenous communities
- 14: Some thoughts on workplace groups | Netzwerk IT
- 14: Participatory Sensing as a new form of P2P Regulation
- 14: Miguel Caetano on the self-organized precarity movement in Portugal
- 14: Elizabeth Eisenstein and Siva Vaidhyanathan on the emancipatory role of the print revolution
- 14: New issue of the International Journal of the Commons
- 13: Responding to Dr. Tufekci’s article on leaderlessness
- 13: P2P University accepting course proposals
- 13: Berkman Center launches the Digital Public Library of America
- 13: How Developing Countries Can Manage Intellectual Property Rights to Maximize Access to Knowledge
- 12: Interview: On Marvin Brown’s ‘Civic’ Economics of Provision
- 12: The role of citizenship, institutions, and the state in social change
- 12: Fight Back!: exploring the horizontalism of the UK anti-cuts movement
- 12: Academic Knowledge, Open Access and Democracy: A Call for Action
- 11: The Solar Commons in Phoenix: where the sun shines for everybody
- 11: The tipping point in Madison, Wisconsin
- 11: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography 2010 now available under CC license
- 11: Rebuilding Egyptian Media for a Democratic Future
- 10: Journal of Community Informatics: Call for Papers for Special issue on Open Data
- 10: The play struggle of the hackers, and capitalism
- 10: Activism before and after social media: the case of Jordan
- 10: Book of the Week (2): Jay Walljasper on how commonism is replacing neoliberalism
- 10: Media Piracy in Emerging Economies: the report
- 09: The history and future of internet-enabled activism
- 09: Internet and organizing: the example of Coalswarm
- 09: Platform Politics Conference
- 09: Madison in Egypt (2): Stopping the financial coup d’etat and the greatest heist in democratic history
- 08: Digital Opportunities for Democratic Governance in Latin America
- 08: The new International Environmental Communication Association
- 08: Characteristics of the digitalized youth leaders of recent uprisings
- 08: Book of the Week: All That We Share – A Field Guide to the Commons
- 07: OER, Toothbrushes, and Value
- 07: Clay Spinuzzi reviews “Networks and States”
- 07: The Debate of Copyright and Job Creation
- 06: Gordon Cook on the Fragility of the Current Internet
- 06: Research Suggests that File Sharing has a Positive Effect of Film Audiences
- 06: Corporations are not Persons
- 05: Factors and counterfactors that make social media crucial for successful uprisings
- 05: Interview with Michel Bauwens in Argentina
- 05: Why cutting public services is not really necessary
- 05: Kevin Kelly on How Value Is Generated in a Free Copy World
- 04: Debating the role of the state and civil society in P2P Theory
- 04: What Egyptians learned from social media coordination, and how this can be used for further governance
- 04: From Weak Ties to Organized Networks, Institute of Network Cultures
- 04: Campesino to Campesino: the ‘p2p’ farmers to farmers movement
- 04: Free Culture Forum – Organization/Action
- 04: P2P as a planetary spiritual transformation, born out of darkness
- 03: Report on the real role of social media in Tunisia and Egypt
- 03: Exporting the lessons of the Arab uprisings, a model to us all
- 03: Sony’s war against user innovation
- 03: Seeing class from the air: the role of Google Earth in the Arab uprisings
- 02: Why is the strategy of ‘containment’, in order to derail social movements, no longer working?
- 02: The row over connectivist learning theory
- 02: Osiris software – Establish serverless p2p communications portals
- 02: Madison in Egypt
- 01: Network Robustness and the Next Net
- 01: Open Data Cook Book
- 01: Fieldnotes from the Bangkok Fashion Scene
- 01: Extending our civil rights to the virtual realm
- 01: Mark Pesce on Hyperempowerment, the fourth characteristic of the age of connection
- 01: Book of the Week (2): excerpts from Insect Media, our animal internet
- 01: How Human Ingenuity, DIY Technology, and Global R&E Networks Are Remaking the World
February 2011
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- 28: Mark Pesce: The Age of Hyperintelligence
- 28: Matt Taibbi: “Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail?”
- 28: FCForum Declaration: Sustainable Models for Creativity
- 28: Details on the cyber revolt in Lybia and the role of the revolutionary media cells
- 27: Dyndy.net: the future of money
- 27: Mark Pesce: When hyperdistribution comes after hyperconnectivity
- 27: Book of the Week: Insect Media, the anti-McLuhan book
- 26: A conservative-progressive alliance around the protection of working families?
- 26: Mark Pesce: The Age of Hyperconnectivity
- 26: Axiology – The Economics of Spaceship Earth
- 26: After the Arab uprisings, what has changed for neoliberal Empire?
- 25: The root cause(s) of food price inflation
- 25: Throughout history, the use of media has been crucial for political and social struggles
- 25: Selling out free labour: the case of the Huffington Post
- 25: The radical potential of nowtopian struggles
- 24: Manuel Castells on internet-led and facilitated change in the Arab World
- 24: In response to rushed amendments to Irish Copyright law
- 24: Towards Iconomics: the Creative Currencies projects in Latin America
- 24: Prospects for a leaderless revolution in the U.S.A.
- 24: Why the Wikileaks backlash is futile
- 23: Social media and social revolution: the great debate
- 23: The three most valuable, common sense, conclusions about social media and politics
- 23: The great stagnation? Or: why internet productivity gains have been demonetized
- 23: A Critique of the Abstraction and “Numbers Only” Approach of Mainstream Economists
- 22: Towards a Distributed Internet
- 22: Building a new education system, from the p2p ground up …
- 22: The ‘Inside Out’ Open Mesh Network
- 22: New funding mechanisms for the P2P movement(s)
- 22: Open Government vs Open Governance
- 21: Background on the anti-freecultural policies of the new Brazilian Minister of Culture, Ana de Hollanda
- 21: Preferential attachment in p2p networks: is that really the issue?
- 21: Dakar: the alterglobalization movement and the commons
- 21: Carl Schmitt updated for the age of the Party of We
- 21: Jeff Jarvis: thanking the Gutenberg of Arabia
- 20: Roberto Verzola on counter-(peer)productive laws
- 20: Book of the Week: Internet Architecture and Innovation
- 20: Does human nature need to change for a p2p transformation to occur?
- 20: What to do when the ‘internet kill switch’ hits? Lessons from Egypt
- 19: Elements of the grassroots economy, and its counterfeits?
- 19: On leaderlessness and the digital generation in the Middle East
- 19: A new history of hacking, hacktivism and hackerspaces
- 19: Christian Fuchs: A Critique of the Liberal Bias of Wikileaks
- 18: What is a really free school?
- 18: Regime Change in the ‘Arab Spring’ is a System Change
- 18: How the new forms of common value creation challenge both the market state and state capitalism
- 18: Shann Turnbull on transforming capitalism through trusteeship governance
- 18: Debating the Iron Law of Bureaucracy and the Power Law: Knowing Networks as an alternative to scale-free networks
- 18: Food sustainability in Hackney, UK
- 17: On the goodness of technology
- 17: Brian Holmes on the current conjuncture of Empire: 15 years of chaos
- 17: Launch of a U.S. Public Banking Institute
- 17: On the relationship between leaderless peer networking and hierarchical structures: the case of Egypt
- 16: The history and revival of pro-market, anti-capitalist left libertarianism
- 16: An update on BIBO, financial stability standards, and the debt-virus hypothesis
- 16: Rick Falkvinge on the information freedom wars: Tear Down This Firewall!
- 16: The Tahrir Square tipping point as Revolution 2.0 (2): the mechanics of the Facebook moment
- 15: Misrepresenting Complex Systems
- 15: Want a new identity, here’s where you can buy one
- 15: The shadow workers of the iceberg economy, the other ‘invisible hand’
- 15: Empire and its Discontents: The Tahrir Square tipping point as Revolution 2.0
- 15: On monetary transformation: Thomas Greco in conversation with Daniel Pinchbeck
- 15: Book of the Week (2): Umair Haque on how to become a ‘constructive capitalist’
- 14: Governments vs. Freedom of Assembly
- 14: Frank Pasquale: The A2K movement and the necessary reform of financial capitalism
- 14: Is there a P2P approach to market regulation?
- 14: Sugata Mitra’s new experiments in self-teaching
- 14: The Rise of Maptivism (2): Cairo
- 13: The Rise of Maptivism: London Protests
- 13: Could the money system be the basis of a sufficiency economy?
- 13: The Evolution Will Be Socialized – The Contact Summit
- 13: The end of the vacuum: the larger implications of Tunisia and Egypt for the whole world
- 13: From the YOYO Ethic of Individualism to the WITT Ethic of Commoning
- 13: Book of the Week: Umair Haque’s New Capitalist Manifesto
- 12: Social business design: from relieving logic to an enabling logic
- 12: Science Does Sharing!
- 12: Janelle Orsi on the four degrees of sharing, and their respective requirements
- 12: P2P Aspects of the Arab Uprising (3): the real history of the role of blogs and Facebook in Egypt
- 11: Strong vs weak ties are the wrong dilemma: the internet’s role in deep relationships
- 11: Clay Shirky on how Wikileaks has changed and transnationalized democracy
- 11: Is Google Blacklisting Torrent Searches? I don’t think they are…(yet?)
- 11: Egypt: the second revolution without representation (2): P2P Aspects of the Arab Uprisings
- 11: J. Martin Pedersen on Information Exceptionalism
- 10: Egypt: the second revolution without representation (1)
- 10: The water commons approach as an alternative to the water resource wars
- 10: A 3-point critique of Zeitgeist, Moving Forward
- 10: The state of the access to knowledge movement
- 09: The logic of the market versus the logic of the commons
- 09: In Iran: economic reforms usher in a de facto Citizen’s Income
- 09: Interview with Egyptian blogger Sandmonkey
- 09: The third form of property: public, private, common
- 08: University cuts, creative industries, and the digital economy: a conversation between Tiziana Terranova and Jussa Parikka
- 08: Open letter to President Dilma Rousseff in support of the work of the Brazilian society and government for the cultural commons
- 08: Patents are Hindering Cures For Paralysis, Diabetes And Blindness
- 08: Understanding the logic of ‘intervallic periods’, i.e. periods with riots, not revolutions
- 08: Manufacturing consent in architecture
- 07: International Forum on Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era – Organization and Action (FCForum)
- 07: Creative professionals gain magical super powers
- 07: Social Media and Social Revolution (4): Learning from Iran
- 07: Eco-climatic background to the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings
- 07: Book of the Week: towards an economics of provisioning
- 06: Franz Nahrada on the launch of the Demonetization initiative
- 06: Chris Carlsson on assertive desertion: What Critical Mass is all about
- 06: Free Rice through Seed Banks – An Interview with Dr. Debal Deb
- 06: Social Media and Social Revolution (3): why the ‘how’ of media are so important
- 05: An answer to Internet blackout during a popular uprising: pre-programmed mass movements
- 05: U.K. labour can use its neo-traditional roots for contemporary renewal
- 05: Towards a dialogic orientalism
- 05: Successfull examples of land value tax reforms
- 05: Wikilawyering and the bureaucratisation of Wikipedia
- 04: Towards a Peer-to-Peer Strategy for Social Change
- 04: What’s ailing Europe, and what’s bubbling below the surface?
- 04: Herbalism: Open Source Medicine
- 04: In Brazil: First System of Equitable and Solidarity Trade in the world
- 04: Social Media and Social Revolution (2): the discussion continues
- 03: Science journalism in the age of crowd
- 03: How will OpenLeaks work?
- 03: The process of catabolic collapse of our industrial civilisation, phase two
- 03: Reportage on the internet activists in Cairo
- 02: Students move towards a mutualistic self-organized peer learning space
- 02: An open letter to a pro-copyright author
- 02: Free Technology Academy: towards a shared master curriculum on Free Technologies
- 02: P2P Governance Dynamics in the Egyptian Uprising
- 02: Social Media and Social Revolutions: what is their relationship?
- 01: If Your Government Shuts Down The Internet, Shut Down Your Government.
- 01: Tunisia, Egypt: Digitally Driven Asymmetric Conflict
- 01: Message from Telecomix internet hacking community to Egypt, and the peoples of North Africa and the Middle East
- 01: The China secret: public, not private, credit
- 01: Three Critiques of the Digital Commons
- 01: Ulises Mejias: The Twitter Revolution Must Die
January 2011
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- 31: Women and the commons
- 31: Thomas Greco: The debt crisis is global and needs a structural solution through credit commons
- 31: Cory Doctorow reviews the Net Delusion
- 31: Tunisian Minister, Sami Zaoui, on the internet-enabled “bloodless revolution”
- 30: A (video) celebration of the revolution in Egypt
- 30: Book of the Week: 100 cases of Changeability
- 30: The great currency debate: public fiat money vs. gold-backed money
- 30: Ralph Nader and Ron Paul: an unusual progressive – libertarian alliance against corporatism ?
- 29: From Lockean to common property: reviving the Swedish Meidner plan
- 29: The role of the teacher in an ecology of open learning
- 29: How deregulation killed the bees
- 29: Money is a relation, not a commodity: from private borrowing to public credit
- 28: Real community-based microcredit banks are not the culprits
- 28: Starfish – A User Owned Distributed Network
- 28: David Harvey’s critique of Eleanor Ostrom’s Commons approach
- 28: The first Fablab house
- 27: The status of the global village movement in 2010
- 27: Rosemary Bechler on Paul Hirst and the Pluralist State
- 27: How to achieve sustainable monetary systems?
- 27: Vote for Thimbl at Drumbeat
- 26: Let’s go open-source with digital patterns making
- 26: Serval – Software to network mobile phones
- 26: Objections to 100% reserve requirements for private bank lending
- 26: Neal Gorenflo: Radicality and moderation in the struggle for the construction of commons
- 25: Joe Griffin on the science of human well-being
- 25: Chris Cook’s critique of trusteeship and trust law
- 25: In the UK: Community Supported Bakeries and Breweries
- 25: Waking up to the Limits of Energy Growth
- 24: Destroying the urban commons of the poor in Motala Heights near Durban, South Africa
- 24: Open Source Rice Farming platform takes off
- 24: What does Wikileaks mean for trade union activists?
- 24: How to Resist Contagion in the Age of Networks
- 23: Book of the week: @ Is For Activism
- 23: Empathy as the real invisible hand of history
- 23: The emergence of Red-Letter Christians
- 23: An integrative view of collective intelligence
- 22: Characteristics of social business design for the maker generation in the workplace
- 22: Balancing the individual and the collective: the option of 19th cy. ‘civic socialism’
- 22: The Marginalization of the Commons and What To Do About It
- 22: The legacy of Brazil’s pioneering digital culture policy, and why it should be protected.
- 21: Social Media, Social Business Design, and the Cloud Company
- 21: The impact of online video sharing on accelarated collective learning
- 21: On the madness of Smithian economics
- 21: In Brazil, IP Counter-Revolution has begun: Ministry of Culture starts undoing Lula’s legacy
- 20: The role of central bank ‘credit pump-priming’ (QE) in food inflation and the Euro-bond crash
- 20: Restoring democratic governance through Associative Democracy
- 20: Distributed P2P energy plays vs. Green Capitalism
- 20: Gerald Celente predicts global youth revolution in 2011
- 19: Do social media undermine the quality of our intimate relationships?
- 19: Is it really the beginning of the end for Facebook?
- 19: Reading Evgeny Morozov’s Net Delusion after the Wikileaks affair
- 19: Does the use of the internet automatically force us to accept certain values?
- 18: Dutch study confirms: Mobile electro-magnetic radiation affects the health of trees, animals, human brains, and fertility
- 18: Manual for open source brands
- 18: Do open access commons exist?
- 18: Tunisian cyberspace as a terrain of struggle
- 17: The participatory turn as the most significant philosophical turn since Kant
- 17: Book of the Week: a (new) history of the internet
- 17: Reporting from the Hyderabard Commons Conference: assessing the comparative threats from market and state
- 17: Can digital organisms can yield biologically significant results?
- 16: International Village Conference, Berlin, May 13-14, 2011
- 16: Three conditions for a stable panarchical system
- 16: Open Action Network – get in on the action!
- 16: The role of the internet and netroots in recent UK social movements (with Tunisia update)
- 16: The decaying commons in India
- 15: Daniel Pinchbeck: When reform becomes impossible, does revolution become inevitable?
- 15: Share or Die: Call for submissions for planned Generation Y Resilience Handbook
- 15: A critique of information exceptionalism
- 15: Brigitte Kratzwald: Towards a constructive approach to commoning
- 14: P2P practices as condition for the next long wave
- 14: Common Course – registration open
- 14: Peer to Peer, Piracy and Gigs
- 14: Documentary: the consequences of Peak Oil and Climate Change for the future of our economy and civilization
- 14: Umair Haque on the structure of the Meaning Organization
- 13: The Open Data Movement needs to pay attention to the ‘effective use’ of open data
- 13: Wikileaks’ Lesson: Decentralize!
- 13: Property is a social relation
- 13: How Wikileaks mainstreams hacktivist youth culture: how Wrong Hands revealed Linden Lab spy operation in Second Life
- 12: The advantages of seeing free software as property
- 12: Self-publishing comes of age
- 12: A (Japanese) Tale of Money That Changed Our Future, by Kenji Saito
- 12: Book of the Week (2): What is the Nature of Freedom in A2K demands?
- 11: The Play Ethic, Ten Years After
- 11: The Solidarity Economy in Japan: a status report
- 11: Community Resilience in Detroit: out of the ashes comes opportunity
- 11: Douglas Rushkoff calls for new ‘true’ internet
- 10: Towards a productive use of sociopathy: money and social change
- 10: Book of the Week: Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property (1)
- 10: Martin Pedersen’s analysis of Yochai Benker as advocate of a capitalist commonism
- 10: A critique of ‘realistic pessimism’
- 09: A reply to Eric Harris-Braun’s critique of collapsism, by Brian Davey of Feasta
- 09: Arduino, the documentary, is out
- 09: Last Mile Meshwork Cooperatives
- 09: The dangers of reductionism in network theories
- 08: Clay Shirky on changing forms of Hierarchy & Leadership
- 08: Wikileaks in the context of the open data / open information movements
- 08: In Taunton, Mass.: Use of Eminent Domain to protect local assets against outsourcing
- 08: A critique of collapsism as an ideology
- 07: Peter Linebaugh on the Social and Etymological History of the Relation between the Concepts of ‘Communism’ and the ‘Commons’
- 07: Property, Commoning and the Politics of Free Software
- 07: From the Long Tail to the Long Take: How Tweets and Texts (Can) Nurture In-Depth Analysis
- 07: Alex Steffen on the reversal of physical globalization
- 06: Net Neutrality as a ‘Diplomatic’ Communication Right
- 06: Tribler – Decentralized Bit Torrent Client with a Social Dimension
- 06: A P2P approach to personal money management
- 06: Contemporary enclosures in Peter Linebaugh’s new historical essay on the commons
- 05: Websites Black-out as Drastic Internet Censorship is Introduced in Hungary
- 05: On Commons Architecture
- 05: Ten Theses About Global Commons Movement
- 05: David Rovics sings the Commons
- 05: Details about the P2P Foundation’s Book of the Year for 2010: Civilizing the Economy
- 05: New P2P Research List
- 04: What’s wrong in the design of local money initiatives
- 04: P2P as the theory of the new class of knowledge workers
- 04: Towards social accounting
- 04: The Ten Best P2P Books of 2010
- 03: David Bollier on Framing the Commons
- 03: New ministerial appointment a setback for free culture in Brazil
- 03: Why Do Open User Interfaces Suck?
- 03: Book of the Week: Dark (Art) Matters, Radical Social Production in the Contemporary Art World
- 02: Comments on P2P Urbanism
- 02: How Wikileaks has exposed the existence of a ‘dissent tax’
- 02: OpenWear: Report on Sustainability, Openness and P2P production in the world of fashion
- 02: Documentary on ‘local living economies’
- 01: Evo Morales on Climate Change
- 01: The New Year’s Message of the P2P Foundation: What Digital Commoners Need To Do
- 01: Silke Helfrich on Framing the Commons
- 01: Assessing the goals and strategies of the A2K movement
December 2010
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- 31: Can a multitude of small projects save the world?
- 31: Recognizing the tangible aspects of the intellectual and cultural internet freedoms: the buy a satellite project
- 31: How legislation is always linked to transgression
- 31: The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto
- 31: Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Five: The Small Workshop, Desktop Manufacturing, and Household Production (second excerpt)
- 31: Legal challenges to collaborative consumption
- 30: The problem with the Conservative ‘Tory’ Mutualism in the UK
- 30: Evo Morales on Climate Change
- 30: Are Social Media Replacing Corporations (and even government?)
- 30: Kevin Carson responds to Greer’s “End of the Internet” prediction
- 29: Against Profit Maximisation
- 29: Dwolla enables money transfers through Twitter and Facebook
- 29: Wikileaks as an ‘exploit’ against ‘protocollary power’
- 29: Against Corporate Personhood
- 28: The end of network neutrality for the mobile internet
- 28: David Bollier on How NATO Misconstrues the Commons
- 28: Announcing the Remix the Commons Video Series
- 28: Hope for a post-cynical Europe
- 28: Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Five: The Small Workshop, Desktop Manufacturing, and Household Production (first excerpt)
- 27: Herman Daly on the Tragedy of Artificial Scarcity
- 27: Yochai Benkler on open source (media) economics
- 27: The twelve basic trends of the p2p economy
- 27: The continuing torture of ethical giant Bradley Manning
- 26: George Monbiot on right-wing libertarian astroturfing
- 26: Book review: The Art of Not Being Governed
- 26: International Review of Information Ethics Call for Papers
- 26: Julian Assange: Corporations offer no Civic Freedoms
- 25: Ellen Brown on the Case for a Public Credit System
- 25: Rachel Botsman explains collaborative consumption
- 25: David Frost interviews Julian Assange
- 25: Charlie Stross: Let a Thousand Utopia’s Bloom
- 24: Lawrence Bird Interviews Michel Bauwens about creation, the city, and p2p dynamics
- 24: The Cloud OS as really existing global supercomputer
- 24: The destruction of the universities in the neoliberal age
- 23: Discovering Gaza bloggers
- 23: Using ‘quantitative easing’ for productive investments instead of unproductive bailouts
- 23: The Commons and the Public
- 23: Douglas Rushkoff: What Wikileaks tells us about the need for a second, “People’s Internet”
- 22: A status update on the free culture movement in Ireland
- 22: Is the Commons a anticapitalist concept?
- 22: Penser les Communs, Michel Bauwens à Berlin: french-language interview on the commons
- 21: The endangered status of the commons in South Asia
- 21: Commons advocate David Bollier launches new blog
- 21: An update on the Reenchanted World: the Greening of Religions through Sacred Earth Theology
- 21: Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Four: Back to the Future
- 20: The emergence of a libertarian left in the U.S.
- 20: Google’s “Open Books” are less open than Amazon’s “closed books”
- 20: WikiLeaks and Network Politics
- 20: Richard Stallman on the Anonymous campaign as legitimate online mass protests, not hacking
- 19: What is Open Source Buddhism?
- 19: WikiLeaks: Networked Action for a Networked Age
- 19: Richard Stallman in support of collective licensing in Brazil
- 19: Profiles of the new generation of web radicals
- 19: Jeff Jarvis proposes 6 basic rights for cyberspace usage
- 18: The Oxcars 2010 free culture awards video
- 18: Empire against Republic: What explains the neocon rage against Wikileaks?
- 18: ‘No Chains’ for the Thai ‘Dignity Returns’ sweat-free garment labour cooperative
- 18: P2P Theory vs. socialist theory: How does real change occur?
- 17: A p2p ecology for p2p learning: a Second Life presentation of P2P Foundation resources
- 17: Hilary Wainwright on the Big Society
- 17: OpenLeaks as a more distributed version of Wikileaks?
- 17: Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Three: Babylon is Fallen (third installment)
- 17: How Commercial Social Networks Hinder Connective Learning
- 16: Why Amazon’s civil rights desertion has ominous implications for democracy
- 16: The Open Bank Project
- 16: The IP threat to the self-repair movement, a concrete example
- 16: Jay Rosen on the need for distributed Wikileaks after the death of the Watchdog Press
- 15: The new paradigm of cooperative and decentralized development
- 15: The public as a commons
- 15: Analysing the Political Tactics of the Filesharing Communities
- 15: The nation-state, and its geo-political panic to Wikileaks’ asymmetrical competition
- 14: Clip Kino events in Chiang Mai and Bangkok
- 14: Patrick Lichty on ‘Molecular’ Communal Media
- 14: Understanding the cap and share ‘commons’ approach to energy expenditure
- 14: Ron Paul on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom
- 13: Details about the asymmetrical infrastructure warfare of Wikileaks
- 13: An update on ecovillage communities
- 13: Operation Payback as non-violent political action
- 13: Debating and critiquing the concept of ‘free and open’
- 12: How to experience open enlightenment?
- 12: Russian & Eastern/Central European cyberconflict research update
- 12: The New Digital Economy and Sustainable Urbanism
- 12: The danger of the tethered internet
- 12: The great transition plan to take back control of the economy
- 12: How Wikileaks shows the truth about our democracy
- 11: The weak points of the open internet: DNS and Cloud Storage
- 11: Property, existential security, and abundance
- 11: David Korten: what to do if Wall Street can’t be reformed?
- 11: The anthropology of peer production (2): the Emergence of the Free-Goodness Model of Human Interaction
- 11: Thomas Powers on the end of the closed world
- 10: A cultural change in the world of design
- 10: Preparing for the demise of the nation-state: what’s next?
- 10: Clay Shirky on the right balance between transparency rights and secrecy rights
- 10: The Transition Movement in the U.S.
- 10: Towards quadriform societies
- 10: Alternative donations to Wikileaks via Flattr + Operation Payback video
- 09: From Abstract Labour to Doing
- 09: 26 Propositions on Networking, Labour and Solidarity
- 09: Operation Payback – Anonymous hackers support Wikileaks their way
- 09: Wikileaks: Stop the crackdown petition
- 09: Vandana Shiva on Ending the War against our own Planet
- 09: Wikileaks as Napster Redux, and why even its defeats breeds the victory
- 08: Role of Alternative Digital Media in Contemporary Activism
- 08: Bringing local activism, open mapping, and open data together
- 08: Assange editorial in Australia
- 08: Preparing for the End of Growth
- 08: What Wikileaks shows about the failure of contemporary journalism and the failure of the state
- 07: Transparency, not secrecy, is the right default option
- 07: Reviving Europe’s dead urban fabric through participatory ‘biophilic’ architecture
- 07: Derrick Jensen on “deep green resistance”
- 07: The internet is a boon for artists associated with the “new” music industry
- 06: What is the size of the sharing economy today?
- 06: WikiLeaks in torrent space – the genie is out of the bottle!
- 06: Amazon’s decision to censor Wikileaks endangers press freedom for all cloud computing users
- 06: Wikileaks support
- 06: Overview of ‘humanitarian open source’
- 06: P2P Foundation mailing list getting the Wikileaks treatment from belgian firm Alfahosting
- 05: Mass-mirroring Wikileaks
- 05: An anthropological introduction to peer to peer
- 05: The best arguments pro and con Wikileaks so far
- 05: The logic of the market is competition, not profit maximisation: cooperatives as a counterweight to corporatism
- 05: An open source car that actually undoes ecological damage?
- 04: The Community Gardens of Taipei
- 04: What would happen if banks fail? Lessons from an earlier Irish banking crisis
- 04: The shift to, and the size of, the sharing economy
- 03: Wikileaks (3): Transparency favours ‘good’ business
- 03: Event: Global Open Data Hacking Day
- 03: Are civil society movements ‘oppressive’? Jai Sen on Engaging Critically with the Reality and Concept of Civil Society
- 03: US seizes filesharing domains – p2p advocates consider distributed routing
- 02: The renaissance of the global student movement and the end of the post-ideological generation
- 02: Netarchical ideologies and the corporatization and marketisation of free collaboration
- 02: Wikileaks (2): on its aim to defeat ‘authoritarian conspiracies’
- 01: John Curl on the history of cooperativism
- 01: Wikileaks (1): the secrecy tax*, or the triumph of Monitory Democracy
- 01: Study: foundation-managed open source projects do better than corporate managed ones
November 2010
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- 30: On the need for a new vocabulary and political language
- 30: Innovating through the Common
- 30: How does the idea of p2p and the commons differ from the socialist tradition?
- 29: Productive Paradigms in the Digital Era: on two-sided markets and peer production
- 29: Internet Time (2) Integral Time Awareness
- 29: Manufacturing Contempt through the Commoditization of Practically Everything
- 28: Summary theses on the emergence of the peer to peer civilization and a new political economy
- 28: Internet Time (1): Stowe Boyd on the enduring myth of attention scarcity
- 28: First article about open hardware ever published in a Spanish-language national newspaper?
- 28: On the licensing (and other) difficulties of open hardware: upcoming book by John Wilbank
- 27: Heidi Williamst on the human genome: the study that broke the myth of the innovation effect of Intellectual Property restrictions
- 27: Short video on social commerce for Italian participants of the Ethical Economy Summer School
- 27: Niko Paech: Elements of a post-growth economy
- 26: Examining the ethics of human rentals and the moral need to create cooperatives
- 26: Milano’s Radio Popolare Interview on P2P
- 26: Beyond Democracy – Video Project
- 25: Intellectuals in an Age of Transition
- 25: Interview with an engaged fashion designer
- 25: From an era of transmission to an era of communication
- 24: Can state services ever be transformed into a commons?
- 24: The Microfinance Fallacy
- 24: The next “five year plan” of the P2P Foundation: constructing livelihood through phyles
- 23: Researching the Self-Provision Model for Online Community Platforms
- 23: A general public license for seeds?
- 23: Discussions beyond the dichotomy of ‘downloading is theft’
- 22: Seeks: P2P Search – Do we need it?
- 22: Bringing the discussion on The Commons to Dakar In February 2011 at the World Social Forum
- 22: Shifting the tax burden from buildings to land
- 21: Short video introduction to the Threadless crowdsourcing/manufacturing process
- 21: Common Ground in a Liquid City: the Commons in the City
- 21: 10 hypotheses about abundance and the commons
- 20: My Agenda and Emphasis for the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly – Smári McCarthy
- 20: An animated introduction to the commons
- 20: P2P business trend visualization
- 20: Aligning with true conservatism
- 20: Towards a quality of life for all species: the nowtopian redesign of our world through meaningful work
- 19: New bottom-up planning experiments in Australian Urbanism
- 19: The Commons as condition for prosperity: new report from the Boll Foundation
- 19: Chris Carlsson on the build-in anti-criticality of the TED format
- 18: Will mass marketing become obsolete? Collaborative Consumption and it’s impact on the future of advertising
- 18: SEGUNDO CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN EN LÍNEA Y CULTURA LIBRE MOODLEMOOT2010
- 18: The first real P2P Political Candidate
- 18: The DIY Micromanufacturing Revolution in Baltimore
- 17: Our spimal future: fablabbing in 2030?
- 17: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology
- 16: Jean-Michel Cornu on digital fabrication
- 16: How a community build a car: the Local Motors story
- 16: The history of alternative schooling and homeschooling
- 15: Not so happy at Drumbeat Barcelona?
- 15: Managing the Commons: Voluntary cooperation and monitoring lead to success
- 15: The Self-Repair Manifesto
- 14: The struggle for a Berlin Riverbank Commons
- 14: An assessment of the International Commons Conference in Berlin: year zero of a global political/policy-oriented commons movement
- 14: Response to Brian Davey of Feasta: How Immaterial Abundance can assist a Steady State Economy
- 13: Wikileaks, the New Network News Ecology, and the Super-Empowered Individual
- 13: The ‘Capitalist’ Commons as Plan B to save the system from fundamentalist neoliberalism?
- 13: Brian Davey: Beware of Fake Abundance
- 12: James Quilligan on Cap and Rent for Climate Change
- 12: Distributed Manufacturing Milestone, or Hula Hoop?
- 12: Towards open source place-making
- 12: Critical Art Ensemble on the import of garage biology today
- 11: Felix Stalder: Opposing the Cultural Flatrate
- 11: Public domain healthcare campaigns vs. patent-based healthcare campaigns: contrasting Polio (success) with AIDS (failure)
- 11: Be Love > Do Good > Have Everything : on the difference between neutralists and synergists
- 10: Symbionomics: the economics of the information age?
- 10: Web 4.0 as the next stage in the internet’s evolution?
- 09: Some Thoughts on the Commons for reflection by the Commons movement
- 09: With peer to peer technology, everyone can be a bank
- 09: Andy Clark on the Web and the Extended Mind
- 08: Trust and the Relationship Economy: Interview with Jerry Michalski
- 08: Holarchy vs. hierarchy
- 08: Facebook’s Expansion into Your Life (or how social media feeds of the social)
- 07: Geert Lovink, free culture, and the threat of amateurisation
- 07: Book on a new translocalism: Recovering the commons through the recovery of public spaces
- 07: Elements of financial reform for peer to peer liquidity
- 06: Mark Elliott on stigmergy, citizen wikis, collaborative environments
- 06: The Art of Murmuration
- 06: Ripple, the open alternative to Paypal?
- 05: The fourth stage of open source commercialization
- 05: A BetterMeans for open collaboration
- 05: Richard Telofski — Insidious Competition
- 05: An overview of open business models
- 04: An interview with Isaac Mao on the concretisation of Sharism in China
- 04: Sharism or Radical Giving?
- 04: Tom Haskins on “Evolving into P2P strategies”
- 04: The Society Of Openness Comes Of Age
- 03: An update on the maker movement in Africa: Interview with Mark Grimes
- 03: Beyond State Capitalism: The Commons Economy in our Lifetimes
- 03: Filesharing has stimulated innovation and creativity, says new research
- 02: Q & A with Douglas Rushkoff on taking control of our tech
- 02: Hilary Wainwright on the fakeness of the Big Society
- 02: Interview with Federico Mena Quintero, of Gnome, on P2P Urbanism
- 02: Economies of the Commons 2 – Paying the costs of making things free
- 01: China’s ‘networked authoritarianism’
- 01: The importance of community trust in the new neighborhood sharing systems
- 01: New Book: The Telecommunist Manifesto by Dmytri Kleiner
October 2010
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- 31: Update on social business design: from systems of record to systems of engagement
- 31: Political net agnosticism: worrying about the present and future enclosures of the internet …
- 31: How do you know you’re making a difference?
- 30: Eben Moglen on the Commons as an Actor in Transforming the Global Political Economy
- 30: New documentary, ReMade: The Rebirth of the Maker Movement
- 30: Collective Creation (3): crowdsourced recording of Radiohead
- 29: Big Society’s troubles in the UK
- 29: Vandana Shiva on Monoculture as Chemical Warfare
- 29: Collective Creation (2): Sour’s collective online choreography
- 28: Free Culture does not stand for Zero Income
- 28: Collective creation (1): A live concert by an avatar featuring songs written by users using synthesizer software
- 28: Poor Richard’s Trilogy (Part 3)
- 27: Douglas Rushkoff (2): Promoting openness without selfishness, towards a new ethics of collective sharing
- 27: The Italian fashion interview: from interdisciplinarity to transdisciplinarity
- 27: Peer-to-Peer Sharing in Product Service Systems
- 27: Poor Richard’s Trilogy (Part 2)
- 26: Progress update: the Future of Money project
- 26: Jennifer Sertl on social business design and the need for a new breed of ‘transleaders’ (book)
- 26: The Future of Money video
- 26: Poor Richard’s Trilogy (Part 1)
- 25: Taking ‘gifting’ outside the liberal market paradigm
- 25: Incubating the Social Web
- 25: Book of the Week: Douglas Rushkoff on seizing Protocollary Power: “Program or Be Programmed”
- 24: A non-apocalyptic vision of 2012, documentary by Daniel Pinchbeck and João Amorim
- 24: The Amazing Power of Peer Learning
- 24: The City as Collective and Individual (2)
- 24: OXCARS (The biggest free/libre event ever) and International Forum on Access to Culture and Knowledge in the Digital Era – Organization and Action (FCForum) are back!
- 23: In defense of grounded optimism: Clay Shirky on Open Culture and the Democratization of Media
- 23: Big Society: threat to the state, or threat to the market?
- 23: A collective parading around as an individual: the Self as City
- 22: Interview with Stefano Serafini on P2P Urbanism
- 22: Stephen Downes on the evolution of open source learning management systems
- 22: Open Source Space Program
- 21: Towards Radical Urban Resilience: Toolbox for Sustainable City Living
- 21: File Sharing Grows Up and Grasps the Economics of Content
- 21: On Open Education and Market Forces: Education is not a commodity but a vital social good
- 21: Join us at the Oxcars and Free Culture Forum in Barcelona
- 20: Dean Shareski on the Shariness Factor and Sharing as a Moral Imperative
- 20: Peter Lipman on the pitfalls of the Big Society
- 20: Social Enterprises in the Transition
- 19: Umair Haque on the new leadership
- 19: Neal Gorenflo: Catalyzing the shift towards a new peer economy
- 19: A Brief History of P2P Urbanism
- 18: Peer Journalism Steps-up and Covers the Congo Civil War
- 18: The Problem of Funding Early Stage Social Ventures
- 18: Book of the Week: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption
- 17: Open Notebook Science: Interview with Jean-Claude Bradley
- 17: Top Ten Constituents of New Commons Economy
- 16: From Strategic Niches to Phase Transition
- 16: Twelve Contemporary Commons Observations
- 15: The Value Lost by Destroying the Public Domain
- 15: Michel Bauwens interviewed on blog radio by Yvette Dubel
- 14: Towards open money that is specifically designed for peer production, and not for the traditional economy
- 14: Follow us on Twitter
- 14: Towards a Convergence of Free and Slow Culture in Global Relocalisation, based on a Common Change in Values
- 14: Case study on the Wikihow business and community “mission enterprise” model
- 13: Book of the Week (2): which postnational identities in the network era?
- 13: Social media, broadening empathy, and activism
- 13: Beyond alternative currencies: towards asymmetric account systems for gift-based markets
- 12: Introductory Animation to Complementary Currencies
- 12: Phyles for platforms: Comparing the Corporate and the Mission Enterprise Model for the infrastructure provision of online communities
- 12: Why are neoliberal myths still dominating EU policymaking?
- 11: Governance issues between community and organization in Wikipedia and Creative Commons
- 11: Mitchell Tseng on Shanzai and Open Manufacturing
- 11: Book of the Week: From Nations to Networks
- 10: The emergence of the New Corporate Venices
- 10: Silke Helfrich on the International Commons Conference in Berlin
- 09: Digital Zionism as distributed, de-territorialised socialisation
- 09: Thimbl – enabling distributed social networking
- 09: Manfred Max-Neef on the Five Principles of Economics
- 08: Venessa Miemis reviews Collaborative Consumption
- 08: Is the ‘splinternet’ for real?
- 08: The Network Aspects of Tea Party Movement
- 07: The Facebook and Social Network Privacy Mess: Why we need a Open Social Web
- 07: The Interface of the Commons and the Private Sector
- 07: Transparency as a Competitive Advantage for Alternative Currencies
- 07: Tackling debt pushing, not money creation, through Jubilee Shares
- 06: Replacing Corporations and Cooperatives by Discovery Networks?
- 06: Janelle Orsi calls for Sharing Lawyers
- 06: Book of the Week (2): The power of networks and “cyberthrongs”
- 05: The moral economy of the farmer, and the problem with profit maximisation
- 05: An integrated vision of Industrial Revolution 3.0 based on Open Design
- 05: The social commerce wars and beyond: choosing between Metcalfe, Reed, and the new Phyles
- 04: Book of the Week: Phyles, Economic Democracy in the Network Century
- 04: On human cooperation with other species
- 03: Design is power: A review of issues around the concept of protocollary power
- 03: Using Protocollary Power for Insuring Diversity: the gender-friendly design of the LilyPad Arduino
- 02: Red Pepper on the free culture movement and the Barcelona free culture summit
- 02: Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of peer production ideology
- 01: Social change and social media: why the revolution won’t be twittered
- 01: Assessing the Open Hardware Roadmap
September 2010
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- 30: Peer production as radical subjectivation
- 30: Jeff Jarvis on the benefits of publicness
- 30: How We Work to Build the P2P Foundation Knowledge Commons
- 29: Seminar 2010 | Co-creation, co-governance and peer-to-peer production of public services
- 29: Announcement: Partnership FTA + P2P Foundation
- 29: Glyn Moody: Why you can’t steal software
- 29: P2P services and freedom of choice in mental health care
- 28: The Nature of the State after the Meltdown of Neoliberalism
- 28: John Robb on the netarchical exploitation of cognitive slaves
- 28: Eben Moglen: It’s time to turn on the ‘freedom’
- 27: Book of the Week: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life
- 27: The Complex Ethics of Genetic Engineering – An Interview With Phil Bereano
- 27: “Production Centered Local Economies” vs. “People Centered Local Economies”
- 26: The Epic vs Lyric Mode of Action and Innovation
- 26: The Solar Market Garden of the Solar Electric Light Fund
- 26: Rural Cooperation and the Online Swarm as neotraditional cooperative practice in Finland
- 25: Ripple p2p payment system invites beta testers
- 25: Third System Associations as prefiguration of P2P Politics
- 25: Cooperatives and the state: the case of Venezuela
- 24: A New Social Contract for (Open) Science?
- 24: A P2P search engine
- 24: The cooptation of commons and coops by the mainstream logic
- 24: Five conditions for a successful civilisational transition (2)
- 23: Emergence, Crisis, and Replacement of the Era of Decentralized Networks
- 23: Three issues around the commons and cooperatives
- 23: Five conditions for a successful civilisational transition (1)
- 22: Discussion: Hierarchy in Peer Production
- 22: Book of the Week (2): Knowledge and Learning in the Age of Innovation
- 22: Design in the Age of Sharing
- 21: Phyles: the new neonomadic p2p business structure for the network age
- 21: POiU – p2p nation has money, marketplace and promotes cooperation
- 21: The new cooperativism
- 20: How openness requires secrecy
- 20: Book of the Week: Education in the Creative Economy
- 20: David Bollier reviews “Common as Air”
- 19: Jeremy Rifkin on the Science of Empathy
- 19: Explorations Towards a Vocabulary of a More Open Politics
- 19: 500 million on facebook – will diaspora have a chance?
- 18: The radical potential of nowtopian struggles
- 18: Istvan Rev on the civilisational import of the free software movement
- 17: Definition of Peer-to-Peer Urbanism
- 17: John Holloway on the Revolt of Doing Against Labour
- 17: Remi Sussan: Hacking the Sacred project
- 16: The Gurstein Open Data update: end-user requirements for effective usage
- 16: Thinking about autonomy and self-management
- 16: French Government Looks to Mass Spyware to Control P2P Software
- 15: Book of the Week: The New Economics of True Wealth (2): Plenitude as transformative strategy
- 15: Tom Crowl on Creating Communities
- 15: GitHub and the breakout of ubiquitous forking
- 14: How commons’ rights differ from legal rights
- 14: The insuffiency of the open data approach
- 14: Leadership as Holarchy: leading/following in peer governance
- 13: Book of the Week: Plenitude, The New Economics of True Wealth (1): Author’s introduction
- 13: Most retweeted P2P Theory items
- 13: Some theses on how p2p relates to the attention economy
- 12: U.S. military pioneers distributed manufacturing
- 12: Most retweeted internal resource pages at the P2P Foundation
- 12: Richard Stallman on Cloud Computing
- 11: Why bikesharing should not be privatized
- 11: Most retweeted P2P Foundation articles
- 11: Michael Maranda & Tim Rayner’s call for Open Stewardship
- 10: Eben Moglen on the Economy of the Commons in the 21st Century
- 10: Burning Man’s Open Source Cell Network
- 10: Institutional innovation through Moonshots that instill higher purpose in society
- 09: The Gordon Cook Interview (5): The role of the P2P Foundation
- 09: Rich Carlson’s critique of Integral Theory as an ideology
- 09: The end of venture capital and the beginning of peer-funded, “slow money” based production using shared designs and low-capital machinery
- 08: The Gordon Cook Interview (4): Peak Hierarchy and Open Agriculture
- 08: A response to the “clicktivism” critique
- 08: The constraining role of IP and Patents (2): case study on why Germany overtook England in the 19th century
- 07: The Gordon Cook Interview (3): from the commons to open and distributed manufacturing
- 07: Community vs. Centralized Development, a comparison
- 07: Matthew Taylor on the Ethical Economy as the 21st Cy. Enlightenment
- 06: The Gordon Cook Interview (2): phase transitions, scarcity, and abundance
- 06: Eric Hunting on “The Case For Open-Source Design: Can Design By Committee Work?”
- 06: The resilience of the cooperative model during the financial meltdown
- 06: From the digital divide to the data divide?
- 05: The Gordon Cook Interview (1): On the origins of our engagement with P2P
- 05: Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures and Generational Responsibility
- 05: Sharing Is Contagious: An Infographic on the Rise of Collaborative Consumption
- 05: Counterfeit goods not socially negative, says UK report
- 05: The constraining role of IP and patents (1): case study of steam engine innovation
- 04: Beyond internet censorship circumvention
- 04: Power as Integration
- 04: Production sharing without barter and money: is it possible?
- 03: Towards urban resilience
- 03: Why are Matrifocal Societies Using Dual Currencies?
- 03: John Michael Greer on intensive agriculture after post-”peak phosphorus”
- 02: On the divergence between the Transition and Green Wizards projects
- 02: Karl Hess on social technology
- 02: Steve Keen: Why the meltdown will last
- 01: Thesis: If computing is linked to the financial meltdown, then only a new computing regime can solve it
- 01: Eric Reasons: Value is not Capital
- 01: Umair Haque: The Generation M consensus and the Forcorporations
August 2010
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- 31: How does the idea of p2p / commonism differ from the socialist tradition?
- 31: Is our civilization in free fall?
- 31: Data Roads: turning Internet routing upside-down
- 30: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
- 30: FLOSS as a Commons
- 30: Dale Carrico on libertarianism, redux
- 29: Documentary: “A new we”, on ecovillages in Europe
- 29: Alan Rosenblith on Fractal Sovereignty
- 29: An update on the SolaRoof project
- 28: Is network theory the ideology of Empire?
- 28: Dale Carrico’s epigrams on empire and peer to peer democratization
- 27: The spiritual basis of inequality
- 27: Mike Leung on the case for abolishing human rentals
- 27: Video: Resisting market solutions to resource management
- 26: What is the true meaning of the ethical economy?
- 26: Why electronics recycling is energy stupid, BUT open hardware and modular design is energy smart
- 26: Towards a World Day of the Commons
- 26: The 3rd Free Culture Research Conference
- 26: Peter Linebaugh on the Principles of the Commons
- 26: A Response to Dale Carrico
- 25: The new triarchy: the commons, enterprise, the state
- 25: Towards a law for sharing: the Sustainable Economies Law Center
- 25: All Creative Work Is Derivative
- 24: Consumption as an investment in partner-producers
- 24: Communal Councils: experimentations in participatory democracy in Venezuela
- 24: Cultural Policy Should Support Organized Networks
- 24: FABRICATE – CALL FOR WORK
- 24: Call for Solidarity: Bradley Manning Support Network
- 23: Introducing open business models
- 23: Book of the Week: against intellectually inspired spiritual authoritarianism
- 23: Critiquing Stewart Brand’s Californian Ideology
- 22: Gordon Cook: comparing the P2P Foundation approach to John Robb’s global guerillas
- 22: Some Remarks on Open Business Models and the Economy of the Commons
- 22: Against ‘left’ cyber-utopianism
- 21: From the Berkeley Open Science Summit
- 21: What is open statecraft?
- 21: Dale Carrico’s critique of libertarianism
- 20: Openness has no ROI and needs new customer-value oriented metrics
- 20: Michel Bauwens at Ethical Economy Summer School
- 19: Peer learning notes from Bogota
- 19: Wikileaks in its own words
- 18: Eric Hunting on the Open Structures Project
- 18: Karatani: The two forms of resistance in the the spiritual counter-economy: circulation boycott and associationism
- 17: A critique of MoveOn and the clicktivism of political marketeers
- 17: The spiritual gift as the basis for the counter-economy
- 16: Can we raise $500 in 5 days?
- 16: Introducing Dadamac: enabling networked learning, mostly in Africa
- 16: Video: How Is Political Struggle Related to Peer Production
- 15: What Networks Are (and What They Are Not) A Response to Galloway’s Position Paper
- 15: Video: the Grand Coalition of the Commons
- 14: FOSS Development and Patents
- 14: The Trias Internetica, three different roles in the society of the network age
- 14: Video: the value proposition of p2p
- 13: James Quilligan: beyond Marx towards a developmental theory of the commons
- 13: Drilling Down into the Economics of Copyright
- 13: Book of the Week (3): Emerging relational spiritualities and “overcoming selfish Buddhism”
- 12: The Yasuni Forest/Petroleum Commons project in Ecuador
- 12: How the new forms of common value creation challenge both the market state and state capitalism
- 12: Digital artisans as the ‘class basis’ of openness?
- 11: Are citizens ready for Open Data and Government?
- 11: Book of the Week (2): Democratising mysticism as positive, but dangerous, legacy of the new age
- 11: Some thoughts on openness in design and manufacturing
- 10: Work after globalization and the new organizational realities
- 10: Project Vigilant – how the US government skirts privacy laws
- 10: Crowdsourced curation, reputation systems, and the social graph
- 09: New Unionism, the Precariat, and social networking
- 09: Book of the Week: Gregg Lahood’s critique of new age narcissism
- 09: Family Educator Commons
- 08: Why we need a wikileaks for social media: Marke Pesce on the launching of the Plexus project
- 08: Chomsky and McKibbon on Climate Change
- 08: Whither government regulation in a highly complex age?
- 07: Thomas Greco on post-meltdown investing after the “new normal”
- 07: Scientific Evaluations versus Peer-to-Peer Social Learning: developing South-South learning networks
- 07: Video interview: three aspects of peer to peer politics
- 06: Book:The Mesh-Why the future of business is sharing
- 06: The new peer feminism of the radical homemakers movement
- 06: Digital Development Strategies as Though Local Economies Mattered
- 06: Mike Leung’s Worker Cooperative Credit Union project
- 05: A critique of Matt Ridley’s meme-based social darwinism
- 05: Nowtopia: Let a million urban farming flowers bloom
- 05: Using patent-free zones for open innovation
- 04: Arduino the Documentary
- 04: The distributist critique of wage labour
- 03: John Medaille’s book review: a progressive/conservative interpretation of how markets work
- 03: A spiritual interpretation of cloud computing and network consciousness
- 02: Video: Capitalism – illustrated
- 02: Why net neutrality is so crucially important
- 02: Analogue Copying and the Relevance of Patents
- 01: P2P Medicine: How Patients and Doctors can collaborate to improve medicine
- 01: Network Genetics, Network Evolution
July 2010
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- 31: Participatory Management practices at Mondragon
- 31: Does human nature need to change for a p2p transformation to occur?
- 30: A Model for P2P Warfare
- 30: The betrayal of the internet founding principles in the new corporate architectures
- 29: A Road Not Taken – Cybernetic Socialism in the USSR
- 29: Interviewing open source design pioneers
- 29: Progressing on the p2p political front
- 28: First Open Science Summit launches tomorrow!
- 28: The intersubjectivity of P2P: the The Gift Economy vs. Communal Shareholding
- 28: Kevin Carson responds to Greer’s “End of the Internet” prediction
- 27: Eben Moglen on the Civil Rights and Privacy Implications of Social Networking in the Cloud (and what can be done about it)
- 27: Technology and Evolution: How Software Evolves
- 27: Explaining the paradox: why is the “information society” destroying universities and precarizing knowledge workers?
- 27: Open Source Ecology: Getting Ready to Build
- 27: More on John Michael Greer
- 26: From a market orientation to a mission orientation
- 26: Piracy and film business models
- 26: Resurgent Detroit
- 25: The case of Newcastle city (UK): Hilary Wainwrignt on the need for Democratic Public Service Reform
- 25: Andy Robinson on p2p relationalities vs. institutionalization
- 25: A bright front-end, a dark back-end: the new realities of privacy and surveillance under netarchical capitalism
- 24: Will the internet survive energy contraction?
- 24: Dmytri Kleiner’s Critique of Peer Production Ideology
- 24: First open commons region in the world: Linz, Austria
- 23: “Changing the soul of people”: P2P Culture Wars and the fight against the imperialism of market reason
- 23: What comes after the declining nation-state?
- 23: Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Three. Babylon is Fallen (second excerpt)
- 23: An Old Idea Whose Time Has Come Again
- 22: Peer to peer, democracy, and the state
- 22: Dale Carrico responds to Cory Doctorow: “Technology” Is Not a Force for Either Liberation or Oppression
- 21: Video:Patent Absurdity – how software patents broke the system
- 21: Rachel Maddow on the Obama Years
- 20: The Differences and Commonalities Between Shared Code for Immaterial Production and Shared Design for Material Production
- 20: Using emerging, open source fab technologies and other innovations to build local self-reliance
- 20: Finding the ancient lore of the early appropriate technology movement for the creation of a new Gaianomicon
- 19: KiteGen – Community based wind power generation
- 19: An early report on the re-enclosure of free online journalism
- 19: U-Cubed: A new model for occupational networking? (+ labor, unions and internet recap)
- 18: Monopolisation as anti-innovation, and some alternative approaches
- 18: Family education or homeschooling as a commons-based economy
- 18: The Wizard of Oz and the Great Depression of the 21st Century
- 17: Open Education is NOT an institutional alternative
- 17: New Online Local Currency System With Ecommerce, Mobile Phone Capability
- 17: When copyright goes bad
- 16: From Ecological Economics to just plain Physical Economics
- 16: P2P, capitalism, socialism, and beyond
- 16: OpenPCR, a new open source biotech tool
- 15: Cory Doctorow: Technology Can Be a Force for Liberation
- 15: Can (and should?) Openness be Defined as a Litmus Test?
- 14: The mycelial approach to social change: networking transformations instead of achieving ‘hierarchical’ reform
- 14: How much inequality is compatible with a commons approach? Southern anti-poverty strategies based on rough social equality
- 13: Three scenarios for future connectivity in Europe
- 13: Rise of the prosperians: beyond stimulus or austerity
- 12: Short interview with Joon Sang Baek on P2P
- 12: The interstitial approach to politics: taking advantages of the cracks
- 11: Things you should know about the problems with the CouchSurfing organization
- 11: Damanhur’s theatre of possibility
- 10: Three new and emerging open source business models
- 10: A new place for civil society?
- 09: Towards a new type of public services
- 09: The link between poverty, (de)centralisation and (non)connectivity
- 08: Personal genomics anyone?
- 08: Peak oil, capitalism and philosophy
- 08: The state of Open Source 3D Printing at the Maker Fair
- 08: The Frutos de Utopia project: alimentary chain as a common good
- 07: Alan Rayner’s critique of economic rationalism underlying both individual competitive capitalism and coercively cooperative collectivism
- 07: A defense of the open core business model
- 06: Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment
- 06: The Spiderweb Project – a citizen-owned WiFi mesh network
- 06: Mamading Ceesay: Introducing Samuel Bowles’ work on (in)equality
- 05: P2P Community Policing
- 05: Central Bank of Ecuador Supports Complementary Currency Development
- 05: Chris Carlsson on Nowtopian p2p resistance and creativity
- 05: The maker generation as an educational revolution
- 04: How to use for the gamers’ collective intelligence for social good
- 04: David Bollier on the Academic Commons
- 04: The era of extreme neoliberalism and the end of the European social state
- 03: Eva Waskell and the Election Integrity Movement (2): a personal statement and appeal from Eva
- 03: Faroo – a distributed P2P search engine
- 03: Stephen Downes on the threefold opening of education
- 02: The commons and the left political parties
- 02: A critique of steady-state capitalism
- 02: All Rights Reserved All Wrongs Reversed
- 02: When The Pirate Bay Meets CAD Files
- 01: Understanding Carrying Capacity
- 01: Can state services ever be transformed into commons?
- 01: New donation pool to raise funds for Ripple development
- 01: Elements of an integrated sharing infrastructure
June 2010
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- 30: Eva Waskell and the Election Integrity Movement: The Privatization of Democratic Elections via Computer Technology
- 30: Do-It-Yourself: Building a homemade nuclear reactor
- 30: Onwards to a ‘third’ Group-Sharing Resource-Based ‘Economy’
- 29: The Value of Nothing, book review by David Bollier
- 29: Community Currency Design Workshop in Scotland
- 29: A tale of two tomatoes: the rationale for proximity-based urban farming
- 29: Understanding Michael Ruppert’s Collapse Scenario
- 28: PeerBook: Student develops new social networking software
- 28: The Great Reset, book review by John Hagel
- 28: David Ronfeldt’s continued investigations of governance and state forms
- 27: The open core business model is NOT open source
- 27: Cognitive Surplus, book review by Evgeny Morozov
- 27: Introducing the food justice movement
- 26: Superfluid – exchange goods, services or simply favors…
- 26: Open Source Banking Software – MyBanco
- 26: On oil spills and natural resource commons
- 25: Inclusiva-net ebooks on networked culture and peer production
- 25: Andres Duany on neighborhood-based and funded Agricultural Urbanism
- 25: Internet Utopians vs. Internet Populists
- 25: How cooperation and collaboration may be “gamed”…
- 24: Stavros Stavrides on the politics of the Commons
- 24: Open source activism and individual targeting
- 24: Policy book: The future control of food
- 23: John Robb on open source wars, hollow states and local resiliency
- 23: Distributed microgeneration of energy not yet good for the environment?
- 23: Kopirajt: Exhibiting free culture in Hungary
- 22: Interview with Massimo De Angelis: The Commons, Marxism and Capitalism
- 22: What really is, sustainability? An economy modeled as an open thermodynamic system!
- 22: Chow: urban farming in Oakland, California
- 21: How Different Is Your Bow-tie?
- 21: Open Science Summit July 29-31 Berkeley
- 21: Chinese workers use of digital organizing tools
- 21: A Shift: a documentary on FabLab in The Netherlands
- 21: Notes on a Plural Future Spirituality with Plural Identities
- 21: Ethical Economy Summer School
- 21: Icelandic Modern Media Initiative press release
- 20: Henry Jenkins: defending the value of fan-based peer production
- 20: Commons-based Urbanism (2): introducing the Komunal approach
- 20: There is an alternative: “Coop Video”
- 20: The Commons in a taxonomy of goods
- 19: Secrecy is hurting drug research
- 19: Vinay Gupta: Changing the culture of violence and speaking truth to power
- 19: Open Source: Value Destruction vs. Value Creation
- 19: P2P Urbanism (1): Three ways of exclusion, three ways of autonomy
- 18: Policy proposals for making the public (wireless) airwaves more useful to the public
- 18: “2nd International Congress of E-Learning and Free Culture: MoodleMoot 2010″ with Michel Bauwens
- 18: From rurban to urbal: how to make cities more sustainable
- 18: The “Incredible Edible” free food project at Todmorden town
- 17: Panarchy Is What We Make Of It
- 17: Video: Collaborative Consumption
- 17: WebM – Open Source Video for the Web
- 17: Immaterial Value and Scarcity in Digital Capitalism: how semiotic transactions develop values independently of physical assets
- 17: Introduction to the Pirate universe
- 17: The end of the age of abundance?
- 16: Book of the Week: conclusions on the (political) Engineering of Abundance (2)
- 16: Bitcoin P2P Cryptocurrency now in public beta
- 16: Call for Papers, Network Politics: Objects, Subjects and New Political Affects
- 16: A critique of the conservative Big Society program
- 15: Junto and the ‘pay it forward’ business model
- 15: Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Three. Babylon is Fallen (first excerpt)
- 15: The Media as Battleground for Consciousness
- 15: From the Green Revolution to the Brown Revolution
- 14: Transition vs. Transformation
- 14: Book of the Week: The Economics of Abundance
- 14: Application Content Infrastructure bypasses Internet Backbone, opens way for P2P ‘last mile’ net
- 14: Towards an open smart grid for distributed energy
- 13: Worldbike video
- 13: An introduction to transfinancial economics
- 13: Third CopySouth Workshop International Conference on Copyright Issues
- 12: “Digital Activism Decoded” book available for download
- 12: Open Data, Open Society: a research project about openness of public data in EU local administrations
- 12: Superuse: a recycling design community
- 11: ICEGOV2010 – 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
- 11: Shanzhai: the illegal Chinese version of open and distributed manufacturing
- 11: One social web – linking social networks
- 11: Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Two. Moloch (second excerpt)
- 10: Lambeth’s Cooperative Council and cooperative municipalism
- 10: Towards a new productive paradigm: when walking makes the path
- 10: Challenging the Learning 2.0 formula
- 09: Book of the Week (2): Understanding the digital activism divide
- 09: The Force of Evolution
- 09: Peer Governance as a third mode of governance
- 08: Mesh Potato – Roll out your own telco
- 08: Video Codec Copyright Battles
- 08: From Do It Alone to Do It Together
- 07: Geert Lovink on free culture and artists revenues
- 07: Book of the Week: Understanding Digital Activism
- 07: A critique of Kamenetz’ Edupunk book: in praise of institutions
- 06: Games for and against empire
- 06: Internet and Voting
- 06: P2P Strategies in the Late K stage of Globalization
- 06: Umair Haque: Towards an ethical economy based on allocative and creative advantage
- 05: Crowdsourcing and the new alienating nature of work
- 05: Massimo Menichinelli on the State of Open P2P Design in 2010
- 05: Raj Patel on Mexico’s Slow Politics
- 05: Glaxo to Crowd Source Malaria Drug Research
- 04: Property Outlaws
- 04: Software Patents – will Defensive Patent Licensing help?
- 04: The skyrocketing cost of evil in a hyperconnected world
- 04: Thai and Argentine workers launch global sweatfree garment brand
- 03: Free eBook of Martin Ford, The Lights in the Tunnel
- 03: Four Propositions about the no-growth economy
- 03: Crop Mob and Farmsharing videos
- 03: Localize production. Virtualize everything else. A collection of citations on open design and manufacturing
- 03: Does the current “Peer Review” system invite deception?
- 03: “Heart of Dryness” and Peer-to-Peer Water Networks
- 02: Is Facebook a utility? and what are the alternatives?
- 02: The high road towards p2p is dying, prepare yourself for the low road
- 02: Introducing Bildr, a lego for makers?
- 02: Visualizing the open manufacturing value stream and cooperation network
- 01: DIY Britain on the growing resilience movement
- 01: The dangers of relational inflation: a social media bubble?
- 01: The role of social media in the Thai crisis
- 01: Adding information to energy to counter climate change
May 2010
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- 31: Craig Venter synthetic life fallout: P2P pharmaceuticals and fuels?
- 31: From Enterprise 2.0 to Social Business Design
- 31: Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance
- 31: Learning from the copyright free fashion industry
- 30: Michel Bauwens at Rosario University in Bogota, Colombia
- 30: What exactly would constitute connectivist dynamics?
- 30: Introduction to the MetaCurrency project by Alan Rosenblith
- 30: The couchsurfing experience, the first five years
- 29: Arriving in Bogota … impressed by transportation urbanism
- 29: Four Rules against the False Abundance of the Eternal Growth Economy
- 29: The El Cumbre conference report: 4) neotraditionalist degrowth vs. left developmentalism
- 29: EU Vote on 1st June: Copy-left or Copy-right?
- 28: The Twenty Rules we need for Open Civic Networks
- 28: The El Cumbre conference report: 3) the contradictions and paradoxes of the Bien Vivir concept
- 27: El Cumbre Conference report: 2) Should we talk about “Mother Earth”
- 27: How Dutch Pragmatism Nurtures a 21st Century Economy
- 27: People are not capital
- 27: Moral capitalism for better economics: Umair Haque’s Betterness Manifesto
- 26: Report from the El Cumbre Rights of Mother Earth Conference: 1) context and conclusions
- 26: Open innovation vs. user innovation: what’s most encompassing
- 26: Users are not commodities: A bill of privacy rights for social network users
- 25: On the difference between free speech and free beer: free culture as “people want to be free”
- 25: Book: Towards a Economics of Abundance
- 25: The Growth of Peer-to-Peer Product-Service Systems
- 24: Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter Two: Moloch–The Anatomy of Sloanist Mass Production (first excerpt)
- 24: Anti-inflationary sovereign credit against financial predation: the answer for Greece and Europe
- 24: Two Assessments of the situation in Thailand
- 24: New book: Sharing and the Creative Economy
- 24: Goteo: research on creative currencies and p2p-financing
- 23: A groundswell of sharing
- 23: Against competitive education
- 23: Money and the dangers of abstraction
- 23: ICT for development
- 22: Is peer production a real mode of production?
- 22: P2P, Peak Oil and the degrowth scenario
- 22: Three generations of bikesharing
- 22: Analysis: Most Developing Countries Stand to Lose from a Worldwide Patent System
- 21: Toward a Commons-based Framework for Global Negotiations
- 21: Social Networking in the cloud – Diaspora to challenge facebook
- 21: Cory Doctorow. For the Win
- 20: The Power of Pull
- 20: 13 “million dollar babies”: Open hardware business takes off
- 19: A Mute Special on Struggle in Education Today
- 19: Recovering groupness but retaining individuality
- 18: Groping for the common
- 18: Does the commons need the state?
- 17: The Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter One (second excerpt)
- 17: The subversion of gaming
- 17: Is the p2p approach utopian?
- 16: Why Open Digital Standards Matter in Government
- 16: Solidar – a nature congruent money system for peace
- 16: The Digital Commons interview
- 15: Autonomous Learning, Sustenance, and Culture in the US Midwest: Invert the Logic of The Zombies
- 15: Open Source hardware research: Pendulum pump
- 15: VIRT3C: Conflict on Virtual Networks
- 15: Individuality, Relationality, and the Collective in the P2P era
- 14: Twitter, Jainism, and Wisdom 3.0
- 14: Open Source and Climate Change
- 14: A brief history of P2P education in the visual arts
- 13: The battle for public water in Italy: an anticipation of European water policy and a test of political maturity
- 13: Announcing a Sky Charter
- 13: Watching You, Watching Us, Watching YouTube
- 12: Ezio Manzini: design for community-centered sustainable open/social innovations and scenarios
- 12: What is the internet’s mode of consciousness?
- 12: Book: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
- 11: Human subjectivity and P2P Usage
- 11: Portrait of a commoner: Silke Helfrich
- 11: P2P and Communism
- 10: Namibia’s successful basic income experiment
- 10: Identifying and Understanding the Problems of Wikipedia’s Peer Governance
- 10: The Homebrew Industrial Revolution, Chapter One
- 10: Community Gardens: are they effective?
- 10: Supporting The Minister of Science and Technology of Portugal’s statement
- 09: An update on the Open P2P Design (dot.org) project
- 09: A definition of freedom appropriate to the p2p age?
- 09: Time Scales for P2P Oriented Change: the 2030 scenario
- 08: Recommendations for the resurgence of civil society
- 08: Is the EU leading the world in eParticipation ?
- 08: The 100% Reserve Requirement for Banks: a proposal by Herman Daly
- 07: Networks: what comes first, what comes last
- 07: The Idea of a Red Tory (2): why conservatives can’t be peer to peer (Andy Robinson)
- 07: Stigmergic collaboration vs. collectivism
- 06: Android is the most closed system ever, or: the art of the open source facade
- 06: Obstacles to open source hardware (5): Patents are NOT the issue, argues Sam Rose
- 06: The Idea of a Red Tory (1): report on a debate with Philip Blond
- 05: Book of the week (2): Wikiworld, obstacles and stages to knowledge freedom
- 05: Restoring Generativity to Science: the Science Commons approach
- 05: Mass collaboration projects in Australia
- 04: The China Future: Using CNC’s to make Anything
- 04: Horizontalism in Argentina
- 04: #talkingabout: P2P Foundation
- 04: Video: sharing neighborhood goods
- 03: What are integral politics?
- 03: Book of the Week: Wikiworld, the political economy of digital literacy
- 03: Hygienic, spatial and class-based social racism in the Thai polity
- 03: The dawn of product-service systems
- 02: Three Times Exodus, Three Phase Transitions
- 02: Timothy Wilken’s recipe for change: Giftegrity, Ortegrity, Synocracy
- 02: Use communities and sharing infrastructures are vital for sustainability
- 01: Series recap: the Commons, Market, Capital and State debate
- 01: An update on the Reenchanted World: the Greening of Religions through Sacred Earth Theology
- 01: Complexity and catastrophy vs. resilience and ‘failing gracefully’
April 2010
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- 30: The iPad: the end of copy-paste ‘commonplacing’?
- 30: The Fair Tracing project
- 30: Book of the Week: Escape Routes (2): What is postliberal sovereignity?
- 29: The Ning retreat: a wake up call to build autonomous infrastructures
- 29: Beyond Left and Right: Peer-to-Peer themes and urban priorities for the self-organizing society. By Nikos A. Salingaros
- 29: The transformation of community activism into economic activism and the revival of cooperatives in the U.S.
- 28: OpenCourseWare: IS OPENNESS ENOUGH?
- 28: Who are the red shirts? Details on the thai commoner (phrai) movement
- 28: Solidarity University launches Commons mapping project
- 28: Thomas Greco: We need an Objective Measure of Value
- 27: Policy making as cooptation?
- 27: Seettu in Sri Lanka: (Neo)traditional finance against neoliberalism
- 27: The financialization of the university
- 26: Commons, Market, Capital and State (7): water commons, community and state (part two)
- 26: Book: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
- 26: Book of the Week: Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century
- 26: Daniel Suarez. Daemon and Freedom
- 25: Interview with Neal Gorenflo of Shareable
- 25: Commons, Market, Capital and State (6): water commons, community and state (part one)
- 24: Appeal to EU: Patents Inhibiting Knowledge Diffusion For Green Technology
- 24: Commons, Market, Capital and State (5): network vs. state
- 23: The P2P Values Video
- 23: Commons, Market, Capital and State (4): a critique of free market ideology
- 22: Introducing a biocultural approach towards Traditional Knowledge Commons licensing
- 22: P2P and the Role of Exclusion II: the case of Wikipedia
- 21: IPN: A Peer-to-Peer Network Approach to Psychological Work
- 21: Charles Leadbeater: should the UK go back to the 17th cy Diggers’ sense of community?
- 20: The Five Commons- An invitation to 21st Century wealth-generating ecologies
- 20: Why business is good for the free software commons
- 20: Here Comes…Insect Media
- 19: The free culture interview
- 19: A double review of: The Firm as Collaborative Community
- 18: Government and P2P: Dutch video presentation
- 18: The reconstruction of a resilient peasant economy in the 21st century
- 17: Commons, Market, Capital and State (3): the really really free market approach?
- 17: The best open standards are simple open standards
- 17: Social dynamics and rankism behind the Thai crisis
- 17: Resilience: Patterns for thriving in an uncertain world
- 16: Obstacles to open source hardware (4): the public patent proposal
- 16: P2P healthcare cost sharing amongst conservative Christians
- 16: Kachingle – do voluntary payments to blogs have a chance?
- 15: Four scenario’s for the 21st century
- 15: What does an open source approach to education look like?
- 14: How essential is anonymity to peer to peer relationality?
- 14: Commons, Market, Capital and State (2): Commoning as resistance and disruption
- 14: A premature obituary of online video sharing and amateur video culture
- 13: The collapse of complex societies, and what it means for media in a p2p age
- 13: Commons, Market, Capital and State (1): The commons as system-confirming paradigm
- 13: Open Source Approach to Public Policy and more
- 13: refarm the city :: open source tools for urban farmers
- 12: The spiritual aspects of permaculture: partnering with nature
- 12: Funding for creatives in a peer to peer world
- 11: Apple’s anti-generative strategy creates distorted ecosystem
- 11: The commons in Europe and Latin America
- 10: The commonsware publishing model
- 10: The role of technology in the ongoing protest movement in Thailand
- 10: US Court Decision is Setback for Net Neutrality
- 09: Roman Catholic Women Priests and A Million Christians for Social Justice: egalitarian movements within the Catholic and Evangelical Churches
- 09: Charles Eisenstein’s new book: Sacred Economics
- 08: Is the collectivist left guilty of the rise of individualism?
- 08: Hilary Cottam: Participatory systems for the partner state
- 07: A new platform for dialogue on the commons: Earth Commons Rising
- 07: The crisis of value in stock photography
- 06: Open Standards, Open Source , European Interoperability and the EU
- 06: The Cleveland Model and Micromanufacturing: An Opportunity for Collaboration?
- 06: The Future of Money
- 06: Machiavelli 2.0: The Four Fundamental Principles of the Network Society
- 05: Sharing economics in Haiti
- 05: New Journal: Critical Studies in Peer Production
- 04: The state of digital manufacturing
- 04: Obstacles to open source hardware (3): the MakerBot derivatives controversy
- 03: How new currencies can change the world
- 03: With whom can we work together: is it possible to ally progressives and conservatives around P2P themes and priorities?
- 02: Maja van der Velden: An appeal for cognitive justice in the Wikipedia
- 02: The grand alliance for the commons: the task of 21 cy. politics
- 02: Cooperative Economy in Salinas
- 01: The problem with pharma patents, and the solution
- 01: Obstacles to open source hardware (2): IP, lack of adequate open licenses, patents
March 2010
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- 31: From carsharing to p2p car cost-sharing
- 31: Obstacles to open source hardware (1): The lack of open-source culture among component makers
- 30: Three Works on Technological Unemployment and Abundance, Part Four: Martin Ford’s Agenda and Mine
- 30: Architecture and Design is Policy
- 30: Myths and realities about job losses in Europe due to illegal downloads
- 30: From Resilience to Thrivability
- 29: Three Works on Abundance and Technological Unemployment, Part Three: Martin Ford
- 29: No patents for life forms – Bolivia takes the lead
- 29: Responsibility in open vs. closed systems of cooperation
- 28: Three Works on Abundance and Technological Unemployment, Part Two: Adam Arvidsson
- 28: The practice and theory of the gift circle in Fairfax, California
- 28: JCOM special issue on User-led and peer-to-peer science: Commentary
- 27: Three Works on Abundance and Technological Unemployment: Part One–William Dugger and James T. Peach
- 27: JCOM special issue on User-led and peer-to-peer science: Articles
- 27: Periodisations of power from Sean Cubitt: Nations, markets, networks
- 26: Towards a World Day of the Commons, a proposal
- 26: A relational critique of behavioral economics
- 25: European civil society organizes an unprecedented protest action at the Summit of the EU Ministers of Culture
- 25: Digital Economy Bill: UK preparing to censor internet
- 25: A new social contract for open media
- 24: Towards a new social contract for filesharing and artists’ incomes
- 24: Red Toryism as peer to peer conservatism
- 24: Prototyping as social manipulation
- 23: DIY Bio FAQ
- 23: Game Modding – Indoctrinating the Next Generation of Content Creators?
- 23: Peer-to-Peer Collaboration and Networked Learning (CFP)
- 22: Thinking Network Politics Conference
- 22: Call for Papers for “Exploring Produsage”, A Special Issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
- 22: Water famine requires a return to water wisdom
- 21: Is “de-institutionalization” a condition for open education?
- 21: Alain Badiou’s political theory and its implications to the p2p approach
- 20: Traditional Spirituality and Modern Commons
- 20: Peering, Virtual-Geography and the Shape of the Internet
- 19: Petroleum Commons and Indigenous Commons: Real and distorted commons in Ecuador’s Amazon region
- 19: Peer to Peer energy production and the social conflicts in the era of “green development”
- 18: Teacher 2.0: distributed learning and their disruption of the old institutional models
- 18: Adrian Bowyer’s Open Source 3D Printer: showing the RepRap
- 17: Open Koffie Speciaal!
- 17: Ecovillages as intentional communities
- 17: The Catholic view on cooperatives
- 16: Financial transparency instead of fair trade certification?
- 16: The post-postmodernist era of terminal crisis and phase transition
- 15: Tribes, p2p and collective intelligence
- 15: Netsukuku and the construction of a p2p cloud
- 15: Forban – simple local-link opportunistic p2p free software
- 14: The real meaning of currencies: flow tv
- 14: UrbanLabs OS – a co-created operating system for the city
- 14: The social impact of Playbour
- 13: The spirituality of networked creativity
- 13: Towards Keiretsu publishing coops?
- 12: Lecture by Michel Bauwens in Athens
- 12: Dwolla low cost transfer system to take on bank, credit card fees
- 12: Smartmobbing a beat frequency
- 11: Special issue on the microbial commons
- 11: Peer to peer cinema at Clip Kino
- 10: Hillary Wainwright: profile of a commoner
- 10: John Robb: extending the law of asymmetric competition to the whole economy
- 09: Future Internet and Society: A Complex Systems Perspective
- 09: Tribes vs. P2P
- 09: Dominic Muren on the three pillars of Humblefacture
- 08: Al Jazeera on the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative
- 08: Bolivia’s position about life forms patentability
- 08: Peter Linebaugh on the principles of commoning
- 08: Developments and enclosures in open source mobile
- 07: Langdon Winner: from cyber-libertarianism to cyber-communautarianism?
- 07: Mobile vs. Internet for the Global South: continuing the debate
- 06: When is a commons not a true commons: boundary conditions
- 06: A Flickr commons of shareable p2p graphics
- 06: “Intellect” as a Component of Price
- 05: Is Our Monetary Structure a Systemic Cause for Financial Instability?
- 05: Innovating through commons use: community-based enterprise
- 05: From the Regulatory State to Voluntary Certification Networks
- 04: Are digital books as good or better than physical books at protecting you and your rights as a reader?
- 04: The Beta Generation: defaulting to the open design option
- 03: Financial Crisis—Environmental Crisis: the link with ‘green money’
- 03: The emergence of the radical homemakers movement
- 02: Netsukuku: Fractal address system for a p2p cloud
- 02: Free Culture X Conference Workshops notes
- 02: Debate on the for-free economy
- 01: Adrian Chan on the new paradigms of streamtime sociality
- 01: Should public services be mutualized?
February 2010
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- 28: Book: Property Outlaws: How Squatters, Pirates and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership
- 28: Riane Eisler’s Roadmap to a New Economy
- 28: Summary theses on the emergence of the peer to peer civilization and a new political economy
- 27: Opting for community-oriented free software business models
- 27: Free software in embedded devices: protect your rights
- 27: Peak Moment TV: guide to resilient communities
- 26: Toward a New Multilateralism of the Global Commons
- 26: Facebook is evil, says Eben Moglen
- 26: The age of panspectric surveillance and its effects on dispersed subjectivity
- 25: Copyfarleft and Copyjustright
- 25: The Makers-again: or the need for keynesian management of abundance
- 25: Will big business privatise the monetary commons?
- 25: A hamster’s message to believers in infinite growth
- 25: The Politics of Design and p2p Democratization
- 24: Most retweeted P2P Foundation articles
- 24: Review: Cory Doctorow, The Makers
- 24: Pharmaceutical industry questions whether maximalist IP is in its own interests
- 24: Mark Rutledge for Cap and Share models for sustainable energy commons
- 24: UK Labour to choose mutualism as core political message?
- 23: Pirates and Piracy: special issue of darkmatter journal
- 23: RepRap — Manufacturing for the Masses
- 23: Ludwig Schuster on the need for a New Monetary Pluralism
- 23: A collaborative approach to funding early stage social ventures
- 22: Report from the Washington DC Free Culture X Conference
- 22: The two economies
- 22: SKDB: An infrastructure for DIY manufacturing?
- 22: Is free software private property?
- 21: Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures & Generational Responsibility
- 21: P2P-oriented net.art (2)
- 21: Transitioning to money system reform
- 21: The prehistory of open source: episodes in collective invention
- 20: Call for papers: International Journal of Internet Research Ethics (IJIRE)
- 20: The Net.Art Commons (1)
- 20: Industrial agriculture and energy consumption
- 20: Video: Extrinsic vs Intrinsic motivation
- 19: 10 Proposals To Achieve a Open and Free World
- 19: Five key steps towards a food system that can address climate change and the food crisis
- 19: Brewster Kneen on questioning the ‘tyranny of rights’
- 18: P2P Metaphysics: One, None, and the Many
- 18: On the convergence of open/p2p movements
- 18: WikiSym 2010: Call for papers
- 17: The Article Processing Charge and the Integrity of Open Access Publishing
- 17: Peer production and venture capital
- 17: A proposal for a open hardware business model
- 16: A critique of the self-organization ideology
- 16: Iceland could become a internet and press freedom haven
- 15: Book of the week: the shift to the era of Open Collaboration
- 15: The Indian tradition of open knowledge sharing
- 15: The inaugural conference of the VIRT3C group
- 14: Contrasting viewpoints on copyright
- 14: P2P and distributism
- 13: Network culture and its effect on democracy
- 13: Introduction to the new (p2p) economics
- 13: Dialogue with Ryan Lanham, Andy Robinson, and Michel Bauwens on “Intellectual Property”
- 13: Flattr introduces voluntary social micropayments
- 12: How networked culture differs from postmodernism
- 12: The desperation behind ACTA: copyright is already socially and culturally dead
- 12: The debate around post-scarcity
- 12: Dialogue with Richard Stallman on “Intellectual Property”
- 11: Comparing business paradigms
- 11: Sharing the surplus vs. engineered scarcity
- 11: Centre for Creative Collaboration: Collaborative and emergent
- 11: From a greed society to a generosity society?
- 11: The Democratising of Science: Research in the p2p age & Why the climate email hack may turn out to be a good thing
- 11: Creative Eco-Technologies need your help!
- 10: 15 reasons why the commons are becoming the new paradigm
- 10: Re Purpose: neat Canadian documentary about hardware hackers
- 10: Progress and stalemate of the new paradigm
- 10: Is the very logic of exchange unjust?
- 09: The community-focused approach of Architecture for Humanity in Haiti
- 09: When states become hollow, they become brands
- 09: An extraordinary bibliography on participation
- 09: Panarchical governance: towards a state that isn’t a state
- 08: Will the P2P revolution harm workers?
- 08: The Tea Party as an open source insurgency
- 08: There is no alternative but the alternatives: replacing anti-capitalism by post-capitalism
- 08: Book of the Week: a book sprint on collaborative futures
- 07: The case for scarcity and a critique of the Transition Towns movement
- 07: Edgar Cahn explains time exchanges
- 07: The contradictions of privacy in an age of netarchical capitalism
- 07: Jurgen Habermas on the post-secular age
- 06: Critiques of Crowdsourcing
- 06: How the Falun Gong’s anti-censorship software helped the Iranian protestors
- 06: Defending Greece against failed neoliberal policies through the creation of sovereign debt for the productive economy
- 06: Please support the CubeSpawn project
- 05: Open Green Tech and open business models for climate-change oriented technology transfer
- 05: Economics and its failure to recognize the social externalities that create value in the first place
- 05: Under the radar, a new internet movement politics is emerging
- 05: Designing for resource sharing
- 04: The crisis camp model and p2p emergency aid
- 04: The revival of the coop movement in the UK
- 04: The case against iPad and Apple as a temporary fluke
- 04: The role of capital in a worker co-operative
- 03: Open Lab tackles neglected diseases
- 03: What makes online communities work successfully?
- 03: Deliberative democracy as an antidote to the deficiencies of mass participation?
- 03: The state of desktop manufacturing
- 02: Abundance Creates Utility But Destroys Exchange Value
- 02: Open Book Management at the Springfield Remanufacturing Company
- 02: A sensible approach to the state?
- 02: Collaborative Virtual Environments and Immersion in Distributed Engineering Contexts
- 02: Issues of scale in industrial vs. peer production
- 01: Discovering Distributism
- 01: Jeffrey Smith on the Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods
- 01: Local Motors, the first open source car to hit production
- 01: Book of the Week: Renewing our relationships with other natural beings
January 2010
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- 31: Horizontal gene transfer at the basis of natural evolution
- 31: Paul Hartzog on Managing the Commons and their Contradictions
- 31: An ethical critique of pollution as a right
- 31: Outlaw biologists vs. DIY bio-hackers
- 30: From Owning to Flowing
- 30: Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias
- 30: There is still no usable open hardware license
- 29: Is P2P left or right?
- 29: Expanding our sense of self
- 29: Using social media to organize Canadian democracy protests
- 28: P2P Hierarchy Theory: Riane Eisler’s partnership way
- 28: iPad DRM is a dangerous step backward. Sign the petition!
- 28: James Purnell’s new direction for UK Labour Party
- 28: Four arguments against the illusion of philanthrocapitalism
- 27: The concept and thesis of netarchical capitalism
- 27: Opera Unite turns your laptop into a p2p server
- 27: Open Source Induction Furnace, Torch Table, Multimachine
- 26: John Heron: The Rise and Downfall of the Guru phenomenom
- 26: See you next month in Murcia!
- 26: Capital, risk, and p2p dynamics
- 25: Book of the Week: Social Business Design
- 25: Eye Writer – A Creative Solution for People suffering from ALS
- 25: The grassroots economy of 2018 in 3:15 minutes
- 24: Jorge Ferrer on avoiding comparison and choosing for Equipotentiality
- 23: Open Source Mobility: Riversimple’s Network Hydrogen-Car
- 23: Why you never see people complaining about “knowledge overload”…
- 23: John Heron on the concept and history of relational spirituality
- 22: Some Insights on Peer Governance
- 22: In dialogue with David Bollier: the commons and the market
- 21: Gerard Fairtlough’s triararchical typology of corporate power systems
- 20: Trends in distributed science and biology
- 20: How open manufacturing is related to the end of neoliberal globalization
- 19: Transforming humanity towards emphatic consciousness
- 19: The next internet: will it trade privacy for security?
- 18: Tom Atlee: Strategic synergy between individual and collective
- 18: Book of the Week: Planned Obsolescence
- 17: Collaborative community will only thrive most where out-competing depends on out-cooperating
- 17: Varieties of Open Source Religion
- 17: Treshold-based, internet-enabled political activism
- 16: From one society to another: the laws of change for major phase transitions
- 16: Commons in a taxonomy of goods
- 16: Is “meaningful capitalism’ a realistic possibility?
- 15: From FABWiki to a CloudForge for the open fabrication community
- 15: The state of filesharing 2010: moving towards radical decentralization?
- 15: Psychological requirements for a cooperative ethical economy
- 15: The hacker movement is coming out of the cupboards
- 14: 2010 ‘social-media mediated’ trends for online activism, social enterpreneurship, nonprofits
- 14: The Homebrew Industrial Revolution is now an eBook!
- 14: Requirements of the new P2P Literacy
- 14: The 4-day work week experiment in Utah
- 13: The revival and reconfiguration of communal systems in Latin America, and how they differ from the ‘commons’
- 13: Network conditions for a Diagonal Economy
- 13: P2P Food Renaissance
- 13: The Innovation World Is Not Flat
- 12: Peter Suber on five years of open access
- 12: Jeff Vail: 2010 as the year of the start of catabolic collapse
- 12: Update on the Collaborative Firm
- 12: Could American Democracy survive 13 million foreclosures?
- 12: Debate on the fossil to renewable energy (EROEI) transition
- 11: Green New Deal and Climate Justice
- 11: Collabforge’s report on government online engagement in Australia
- 11: Partnering community banks with state banks: the North Dakota Solution
- 11: Yochai Benkler on the emergent science of sharing
- 10: Towards open standards for (multiple) digital bodies management
- 10: A collection of citations on peer to peer “selfhood”
- 10: Why carbon taxes would be better than cap and trade
- 10: Co-workers as peers: the Mondragon principles of “Sovereignty of Labor”
- 09: Bolivia and Venezuela’s Achievements after reclaiming energy resources for public benefit
- 09: Is Brazil a Partner State?
- 09: The tragedy of the distorted commons
- 08: Remarkable essay on the role of labor in a coming age of resource scarcity
- 08: Strategies for social movements after the meltdown
- 08: Volunteers Needed To Help Map the Distributed Manufacturing Ecosystem
- 07: Relational technologies vs. inner technologies
- 07: The Incremental Housing Strat project and the and the Adaptive Architecture of the Slums
- 07: New environmental coalitions for distributed energy infrastructures
- 06: On Avatar: plants do really talk to each other
- 06: A kickstarter appeal by James Jones for the Cubespawn project
- 06: Towards an integral, p2p approach to posthuman destinies
- 05: On the global scaling of small group dynamics in the Diagonal Economy
- 05: A speed presentation on government-supported digital culture ‘commons’ initiatives in Brazil
- 05: The Emergence of an Equally Shared Parenting Movement
- 05: Crisis, personal transformation, social engagement
- 05: Animals as Peers
- 04: Book of the Week: Mind Your Elephant, by Tomi Astikainen
- 04: Shareable magazine on the Rise of a Sharing Industry
- 04: Revisiting the sustainability/resilience of suburbs
- 04: Towards Public Open Source Services, An ingenious P2P Funding proposal by Jeff Lindsay
- 03: Online privacy – is it just theater?
- 03: Is car-sharing environmentally counter-productive?
- 03: Reclaiming the Streets as a commons
- 03: Launch of the Solidarity University in Vienna
- 03: Openness has a treshold
- 02: The tactics of protest are changing
- 02: Greenwashing or conscious capitalism?
- 02: Tom Athanasiou the Greenhouse Development Rights framework for effort sharing on climate change
- 02: 3rd Ward in Brooklyn: a successfull maker place and community
- 01: The 10 lenses of collaboration
- 01: Slow Money for sustainable Local Food Systems
- 01: Hazel Henderson on Policies and Economics for Real Wealth
- 01: Launching a solar commons
December 2009
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- 31: The Evergreen Cooperatives of Cleveland, Ohio
- 31: 2010: the year of Zombie Capitalism
- 31: 2010 will be the year of the new currencies
- 31: Towards a global innovation commons against climate instability
- 30: Re-inventing Suburbs
- 30: IP counterproductive for science and innovation
- 30: A Collection of Citations on Open, free, participatory, and commons-oriented learning approaches
- 30: Towards a New Multilateralism for the Global Commons
- 29: Cooperation and hierarchy in the collaborative firm
- 29: What type of blog is this?
- 29: Umair Haque: Evolving leaders to builders
- 28: The 10 best P2P (nonfiction) books of 2009
- 28: Derrick Jensen on the Decolonizing of our Minds and the New Subjectivities of Change
- 28: David Harvey on the need for a (p2p-less!) “co-revolutionary theory”
- 27: The next finance: socially responsible trading networks and their alternative trading systems
- 27: Interview with David Eaves on Open Government
- 27: The 10 Most Important P2P Trends of the Year
- 27: Eliot Spitzer calls for an open source investigation of AIG and the bailouts
- 26: Ellen Brown: Greece, Iceland and Latvia should follow Argentina’s lead
- 26: David Loy on the Relationship between Individual and Collective Awakening
- 26: The commons and the market: the debate
- 26: Should P2P Metaphysics adhere to the spiritual concept of Manifoldness instead of Oneness/Wholeness ?
- 25: The State of Distributed Labour
- 25: The commons are not immune to issues of power
- 25: The deep changes in Iran
- 24: A new Commons Manifesto
- 24: Open Everything TEDx Brussels Video
- 23: Video on the Transition Town movement
- 23: Social Implications of Local Fabrication
- 22: 10 points on the mandatory use of open standards in Hungary
- 22: Participatory Aspects of Radical Orthodoxy
- 22: Open API-based business models
- 21: If business can invest one trillion in green, why not governments?
- 21: Production Sharing without exchanging
- 21: Why Patents Should Be Abolished
- 20: A spiral evolution towards communal forms?
- 20: Commons-based Peer Production, Education, and the issue of Open Accreditation
- 20: The Internet in Numbers
- 19: Copylefting hardware: issues and difficulties
- 19: Solipsis: Welcome to the Metaverse
- 19: Towards the Co-Production of Public Services
- 18: DIY Biology, Synthetic Biology, and biosecurity
- 18: What 3d modeling software is everyone using and why?
- 18: The Manchester Manifesto: Who owns science?
- 17: The Unemployed Exchange Association (UXA): Grassroots Economic Development in the 1930′s
- 17: Beyond the infinite growth corporation: 3 new types of companies for sustainable growth
- 17: Regarding the book “The Blue Economy”: is it too technocratic?
- 16: The Social Economy and Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Time for an Alliance
- 16: Red Toryism: have the conservatives discovered P2P?
- 16: Sharing with value creators through Open Pay?
- 16: Can open education learn from open software?
- 15: Emerging Alternatives to the Shareholder-centric Model
- 15: The Liberator and Post-Scarcity Economic Development
- 15: On the prospects and strategy of peer-to-peer energy
- 15: The (atmostpheric) commons and (climate) justice
- 15: Ecorev 33: the exit out of capitalism has already begun
- 14: Transitioning to a more just decentralized economy
- 14: The long tail of stuff: towards the democratization of the means of industrial production
- 14: Reclaiming the sovereignity of communities through innovative legal strategies
- 13: Mondragon and the Market
- 13: The Energy Co-op Solution
- 13: Open up patents for development and mitigating climate change: a concrete proposal
- 12: The Evolutionary Case for the ‘Survival of the Kindest’
- 12: Pharmaceutical companies pay to delay pay-offs keep generic drugs out of the market
- 12: The P2P infrastructures
- 12: New Models for Shared Leadership
- 11: ACTA: A Global Threat to Freedoms (Open Letter)
- 11: The political economy of P2P energy
- 11: Monitoring the trend towards open and distributed manufacturing
- 11: Francis Ayley on Using Local Currencies for Replacing Scarcity with Trust
- 10: P2P Labor after post-fordism
- 10: The story of the Vancouver carsharing coop
- 10: New issue about P2P energy production
- 09: 19 Institutions for a transition towards a P2P Civilisation
- 09: John Thackara on the transition to a green and ethical economy in the countries of the South
- 09: Report from the Open Hardware Camp
- 08: Green tech as a commons: are patents good for climate change?
- 08: Don Tapscott on the Global Citizen Engagement Initiative
- 07: Declaration of Open Government by Australia
- 07: Shaping and generating powerful relationships at work
- 07: Government Policies in Support of Open Innovation
- 06: An introduction to the economics of abundance (2): the demand side
- 06: New version of openArtist released: an annotated multimedia Linux distro with focus on ease of use
- 06: On the nature of the new social movements
- 05: An introduction to the economics of abundance (1): the supply side
- 05: Seven Policy Switches for Global Security
- 05: Rob Carlson on open-source biology, buying DNA online and the problem with patents
- 04: Robert Karp: Completing Capitalism by Liberating Land from the Market
- 04: ‘P2PFOUND CITIES’. Project Proposal for the Reconstruction and the Preservation of Abruzzo
- 04: The RepLab initiative: Machines making Machines
- 04: Free Beer, Free Software, Free Culture
- 03: Forward Foundation @ Media Ecologies Workshop
- 03: Why people are joining Common Security Clubs
- 03: BIBO – A Standard for Stable Currencies
- 03: The commons as a common strategic perspective
- 02: In search of the historical roots of P2P: the cosmobiological tradition
- 02: Education is a Commons!
- 02: Lessig against the scourge of institutional corruption
- 01: Against Money Relativism
- 01: Increasing the public credibility of climate science through transparency
- 01: Hazel Henderson: Investing in Climate Prosperity
November 2009
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- 30: Paul Grignon on the Esssence of Money
- 30: On the insufficiency of lifestyle changes
- 30: Book of the Week: The Sharing Solution
- 30: P2P and the Social Cloud
- 29: The three revolutions in human productivity
- 29: Varieties of authoritarian spiritual abuse
- 29: The coming revolt of the guards, by Howard Zinn
- 29: The Rally Fighter: a crowdsourced car
- 28: Frank Pasquale’s Assessment of Algorithmic Authority
- 28: The operating system of money is obsolete
- 28: Towards open source living
- 28: Andrew Harvey launches ‘networks of grace’
- 27: Peak Globalization and the (historical) logic of relocalization
- 27: Construction or resistance?
- 27: A visit to Wörgl
- 27: Putting the commons to work: the next market wave
- 26: Internet-based environmental organizing brings down price of solar
- 26: Open Infrastructures I: conference report
- 26: Ethical value creation and the economy: an Italian case study
- 26: Rethinking agriculture with Charles Fourier
- 25: Comparing our weightless economy with that of the foragers
- 25: Special issue of OSBR on Value Co-Creation
- 25: Online conflict in the light of mimetic theory
- 24: Controversy in Second Life as it Removes Free Content From Web Search under Pressure of Top Merchants
- 24: Are spanish judges exemplary digital rights defenders?
- 24: The EU Commission and IPR: the wrong fork in the road
- 24: P2P Approaches to Politics: some choice citations
- 23: Dealing with (e-)waste, the scarcity of social equity, and the potential for abundance in the knowledge economy
- 23: John Wilbanks: how open science differs from open source software
- 23: Open Everything P2P Presentation for TEDx Brussels
- 22: The emergence of algorithmic authority
- 22: Strong IPR regimes counterproductive for climate change technology transfers
- 21: Car sharing as an example of post-capitalist cultural change
- 21: US Steelworkers team up with Spanish/Basque cooperative Mondragon
- 20: The “Inner Democracy” of Leadingship
- 20: Measuring p2p Networks (Hint; It’s not easy!)
- 19: What is the impact of open education on the university?
- 19: A Design for A Peer Comments System
- 18: Africa: the return of the Commons
- 18: Free Software and Free Culture in Brazil
- 18: Book review: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America
- 17: The peer funding of green ventures
- 17: The new cellular economic theory points to an economy of sharing
- 16: The Emergence of Commons Trusts as Policy Framework
- 16: Launch of the Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge
- 15: Distributed energy infrastructure and alternative economies for social and cultural networking
- 15: Needlessly expensive patent funding may derail climage change efforts
- 14: Maia Maia: A Coupon Currency for Carbon Reduction Initiatives and the Failure of Micro-initiatives
- 14: Creation of a UN Lobby for Global Governance of the Commons by the People
- 14: Andreas Wittel: Funding a Material Commons for Social Innovation
- 13: From the old communalism to the new?
- 13: A proposed (draft) statement on P2P Values
- 13: If you like us, fund us (2)
- 13: Saskia Sassen: Investing in a new infrastructure for distributed capitalism
- 12: Is the long tail being undermined by an online monoculture that is ‘worse than mass media’?
- 12: Building alliances for a P2P world
- 12: Social media: re-introducing centralization through the backdoor
- 12: Five reasons why the new capitalism must be ethical
- 12: International coalition for civil rights of citizens and artists in the digital era
- 11: The great internet/p2p deflation
- 11: Brian Holmes: the next phase of capital
- 11: Robin Wood on Shifts in Value Exchange as related to phases in Human Development
- 11: If you like us, fund us
- 11: Building Torrent Family Trees (Beta)
- 10: Proprietary software is a black hole of knowledge universe: Why all knowledge should be free
- 10: How real is green capitalism, and what does it mean for the precarious?
- 10: Every abundance creates its own scarcity: from blockbusters to snowballs
- 09: The role of promoters in open innovation
- 09: David Bollier: towards a digital republic
- 09: Deglobalization as an opportunity
- 08: Michael Goldhaber’s thesis on the ‘post-capitalist’, Attention-Centered Economy
- 08: The travails of the sharing generation in the hierarchical workplace
- 08: The Problem of Growth as Related to Hierarchy
- 07: How the internet reshapes healthcare and e-patients
- 07: The externalized generation and its connectivist education needs
- 07: Rebecca Moore on Mapping Tools for Indigenous People
- 06: Launching P2P Research Clusters
- 06: Why Creativity Needs Shorter Copyright Terms
- 06: Does the local and distributed economy need patents?
- 06: The crisis of value is for real: Return on assets has declined by 75% since 1965
- 05: Don’t enclose our broccoli! (No Patents on Seeds and Animals campaign)
- 05: The Long Tail of Respect
- 05: On the Open Design of Tangible Goods: 6 case studies examined
- 05: Beginning to Rethink the Ethics of Higher Education in Light of P2P
- 04: Special Issue: NeoGeography and Web 2.0
- 04: On Defining a Post-Industrial Style (3): Emerging examples
- 04: Social networks for sentiment analysis
- 03: Special Issue: Open R&D and Open Innovation
- 03: On Defining a Post-Industrial Style (2): some precepts for industrial design
- 03: A sophisticated treatment of code politics in Web 2.0: from black box platforms to constrained worlds
- 02: The Free Culture Forum in Barcelona: towards a People’s charter for cultural freedom in the digital age
- 02: On Defining a Post-Industrial Style (1): from Industrial blobjects to post-industrial spimes
- 02: Massively collaborative science: the success of the Polymath experience
- 02: Cory Doctorow on Shareable Publishing
- 02: Internal adoptions of open source practices by companies
- 01: Towards a Global Emergency Infrastructure
- 01: Will Barnes and Noble kill the Kindle?
- 01: “The Cosmonaut”, a new Open Movie project
- 01: The new voice of the sharing culture
October 2009
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- 31: Jonas Andersson on the Emergence of Pirate Politics
- 31: Open Hardware Camp in London on December 4
- 31: Politics, Participation and Technics in Web 2.0
- 30: Wikipedia and Research Ethics
- 30: The revival of a P2P relationship with nature
- 30: Documentary: The End of Poverty
- 30: Book: Building a Whole Earth Economy through Right Relationship
- 29: Reforming GDP metrics, an assessment
- 29: The social enterpreneurs controversy
- 29: Eric Hunting on Defining Post-Industrial Design
- 28: The toll of inequality
- 28: Hazel Henderson on Green Finance
- 28: Leapfrogging towards post-industrial development
- 27: Book of the Week: Cooperative economics from an evangelical point of view
- 27: Student support for open access reaches 5 million
- 27: A tribute to the Levellers, True Levellers, and The Diggers of 1649
- 27: Has Leviathan been open-sourced?
- 27: “Forge lock in” is not the problem. It’s the choices that people make, that are the problem.
- 26: A P2P Revolution in Healthcare?
- 26: Conflict in Adoption of Collaborative Networks: Call for Papers
- 26: Revisiting Social Welfare in P2P
- 25: Cory Doctorow. Makers
- 25: P2P Foundation Online Influence Markers
- 25: Gerd Leonhard: Towards a Digital Music License, in the UK and the world (Open Letter to Peter Mandelson)
- 25: Progress on the dataportability front
- 24: Open City New York: an update by Matt Cooperrider
- 24: The Planning of the Meltdown
- 24: A call to the Pope to support Open Access
- 23: The economic rationale for ‘collaborative goods’: complementing Ostrom
- 23: Why Monetary (Re-)Design is Important
- 23: Supporting indigenous communities and biodiversity against the enclosure of the commons
- 22: Are Generic Biologics Impossible?
- 22: The mutualization of news: the Guardian’s Trafigura case
- 22: Where Freeloading Fails
- 21: Openmoko: Open Phone, Open Software
- 21: Controversy about Kiva’s P2P Microlending model
- 20: Freedom of Speech: Peer-Style
- 20: Open Sourcing Progressive Campaigns through Data Portability
- 20: Debating Transparency: The Perils of Openness in Government
- 19: Open BitTorrent Trackers
- 19: Overlooked economic undercurrents in the U.S.
- 19: Creatives for Net Neutrality: launch of European campaign
- 19: 1Mb Broadband Access Becomes Legal Right In Finland
- 18: Pyramid version of Open Everything visualization, by Purin Phanichphant
- 18: Deep Packet Inspection and Internet Censorship
- 18: The death of the market state, the commons and integral capital
- 17: The Three Laws of Open Government Data
- 17: Design aid and sharing: from South to North?
- 17: Is P2P Traffic Declining?
- 16: Life security through mutual aid: the U.S. Common Security Clubs
- 16: Documentation of the 4th Inclusiva-net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes
- 16: Global Privacy Standards in a Global World; November 3, 2009 in Madrid, Spain
- 15: Citizen engagement + openness = improved p2p cities
- 15: The Shift from Human-Centered to Resource-Centered Design
- 15: Is Capitalism starting a love affair with the commons?
- 14: The stationary state of human civilisation
- 14: European Internet Rights and Amendment 138: The Parliament betrayed by its negotiators
- 14: Austin Brentley: My Brush with P2P Production in Renewable Energy Research (2)
- 13: Austin Brentley: My Brush with P2P Production in Renewable Energy Research (1)
- 13: Decentralising via The Pushbutton Web
- 12: Who owns green tech?
- 12: An Initial Proposal for a p2p Book Award
- 11: Enernet – The Internet of Energy
- 11: Ramon Sangüesa – The Citilab Model?
- 10: The coming age of scarcity industrialism
- 10: Mises and the Neo-Marxists: Paleotechnic Blood Brothers?
- 10: Platform-based manufacturing, act 2: CloudFab
- 09: Report: Sustaining Democratic Communities in the Digital Age
- 09: Introduction to cooperative games
- 08: P2P and the Role of Exclusion I: Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons
- 08: Telepathology: a true medical commons approach
- 08: The Power of Code in software and money
- 07: Sharing research with Mendeley
- 07: The Commons as a new narrative for the 21 century
- 07: What would an Alliance between Commoners and Neo-capitalists Look Like?
- 06: Digital Labor conference
- 06: Local and Small versus Big and Central –the Case of Power
- 05: CFP: A critical view on Peer-to-Peer energy production and distribution
- 05: Paul Hawken on the meaning of ‘natural capitalism’
- 04: Opening up aid and development information
- 04: Cloaked sites: the trojan horses of regressive politics
- 03: A social cloud for a peer economy
- 03: Howard Rheingold on the democratic potential of the internet
- 02: The Vow of Wealth: living with only free currencies now
- 02: Why personal consumption politics are not enough
- 01: Distributed Manufacturing (2): the potential of the Multimachine
- 01: The Five Capitals Model policy framework
September 2009
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- 30: P2P and value creation
- 30: Book of the Week (2): Case studies of networked politics
- 30: Distributed Manufacturing (1): the importance of modularity
- 29: From pioneering Australia: E-participatory budgetting
- 29: Social networking as a p2p endeavor
- 29: The cooptation of user participation
- 29: Governance, labour and property modalities for outcome-based enterprise
- 28: Estimating the Development Cost of Open Source Software
- 28: Book of the Week: Judy Rebick’s Transforming Power
- 28: Centralized Grids as a condition for Distributed Energy
- 28: Between collapse and post-scarcity
- 28: Shanzhai: Flexible Manufacturing for the Next Generation
- 27: Kevin Kelly’s Information Mysticism
- 27: Breakout Cornellà Beta 28/09/09 Everyone welcome!
- 27: Empty archives: why do scientists have such a hard time with (data) sharing?
- 27: Exploring the Diagonal Economy
- 26: Open sourcing the supply chain
- 26: Join our conference on collaborative platforms for open manufacturing
- 26: The common immateriality of traditional and post-industrial eras
- 25: Triumph of the commons
- 25: Vaccine skepticism gone viral
- 25: von Busch: P2P Fashion as harbinger of Industry 2.0 models
- 25: Civil War in Cyberspace
- 24: P2P Architecture? The HIB Modular Building System
- 24: Exposing the spiritual authoritarianism and exploitation of Andrew Cohen
- 24: What is the Common: An International Conference
- 24: Operation Revelation to save network neutrality in Europe
- 23: German Internet Manifesto with 17 theses on the future of Journalism
- 23: Beyond siloed proprietary platforms: the new rights of the people-centric web
- 23: The return of the Age of Water
- 22: Derek K. Miller on Digital Executors
- 22: Open Declaration on Public Services 2.0 in Europe
- 22: Pirate Philosophy as neoliberalism
- 21: P2P and non-selfish individualism
- 21: Varieties of Augmented Government
- 21: Creating a political framework for the free culture movement: FC Forum Barcelona October 29 to November 1
- 20: We Must Protect Net Neutrality in Europe
- 20: Wikinomics and its discontents
- 20: What’s so Open about Open Capital?
- 20: Cybernetics for resource based economics
- 19: Whuffie Bank rewards reputation and online generosity
- 19: SME’s, local development, and mutual credit systems
- 19: A milestone for distributed manufacturing: 100k Garages
- 18: Against the deliberate cultivation of narcissism in personal development
- 18: The Argentinian interview
- 18: Launch of Open P2P Design bookshop
- 17: What are Space Guidance Widgets?
- 17: Legal challenge against the private ownership of human genes
- 17: Open platforms as faux commons
- 16: The decentralisation of Pirate Bay filesharing
- 16: Top-down and bottom-up design as complementary
- 16: Pirate democracies and market dynamics
- 15: The digital currencies are here
- 15: We need Open Scholars
- 15: Open Process academic publishing: towards the peer production of academic peer review
- 15: Against conditional love parenting
- 14: Franz Nahrada on ten years of Open Everything
- 14: Do NGO´s prepare for Open Everything?
- 14: A statement on P2P and Post-Scarcity Thinking
- 14: Crisis and the The Ethical Economy II
- 13: Humans vs. machines:why Terminator got it wrong
- 13: A proposal for democratic regulation
- 13: Calling for a New Renaissance
- 12: Passionate creatives and their long march through the institutions
- 12: Collaborating with the Australian Crowd for Better Policy Development
- 12: From sustainability to thrivability
- 11: The balance of forces: why are popular movements so weak?
- 11: Pre vs. post-web content economics
- 11: Case studies of Co-creative Labour
- 10: The unitary democracy of peer governance, vs. the adversary democracy of representation
- 10: The ethical cultivation of peer producers through norms, dialogue, and conflict
- 10: Climate Change: from burden sharing to benefit sharing
- 09: Reviewing is the new advertising
- 09: A cautionary tale on catch share fishing
- 09: Online activism and environmental change in Africa
- 08: Civilisational competition, social change, and P2P
- 08: Open Everything Mindmap and visualization
- 08: The re-emergence of cooperatives worldwide
- 08: The End of Economic Growth
- 08: The transition towards renewable energy
- 07: UN reports urges open-innovation-friendly IP for climate change
- 07: Community Participation in Nature and Resource Conservation
- 07: The crisis of neoliberalism, ethical civil societies, and the new progressive relationalism in the UK
- 06: Reciprocity and power towards nature in northern Latin America
- 06: James Boyle on Cultural Agoraphobia
- 06: Information feudalism and permanent rent in the cloud
- 05: Stanford University photo scientists launch open source ‘frankencamera’ platform
- 05: Madronna Holden on the congruence between resilience thinking and the partnership view
- 05: Conflict in Adoption of Collaborative Networks
- 04: Never Mind the Policy: Can Filtering Technology Stop p2p?
- 04: eCorolla running
- 04: Open design communities, entrepreneurial coalitions, and the partner state
- 04: How to Make the Commons Work: The 4i Method
- 04: The Commercial Open Source Business Model
- 03: Wave of unexpected factory occupations follows meltdown
- 03: The return of the ethical economy- in five installments (to start with..)
- 03: Local Peak Oil Resilience Strategies
- 02: Urban agriculture for food security in Cuba
- 02: Every person should have one share of the atmospheric commons
- 02: Sam Rose on plausible change strategies
- 01: Bifo on how to prepare for the new barbarian age
- 01: The three economies and their entropy
August 2009
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- 31: Kevin Kelly’s Information Metaphysics
- 31: Jeff Vail on the Diagonal Economy and the Rhizome Organisation
- 30: DataSF
- 30: The social history of the MP3 music revolution
- 30: James Quilligan: 21st century commons, the new social charters, and the State
- 29: Rural revolution in Colombia goes digital and p2p
- 29: Explaining Greenxchange’s open innovation model
- 29: OPEN 2009 – Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium – Helsinki – November 5–6, 2009
- 28: Peer to peer ‘unclasses’
- 28: Metacasting and the new mixed media realities
- 27: The revival of homegrown urban agriculture
- 27: Participatory Leadership
- 27: Independent Film Company Responds To BERR Consultation | TorrentFreak
- 27: How p2p Works: An Introduction
- 26: We need a p2p architecture for money too!
- 26: Cyberspace as a military commons
- 26: 2065: P2P vs. Hollywood
- 25: Responding to the Maghrebi/Genovese challenge
- 25: Technological inventions and human history
- 25: The power of affinity: there’s nothing virtual about online communities
- 24: John Heron: there can be no participatory epistemology without mutuality
- 24: How a Community Stopped Worrying about Journals and Learned to Love Repositories
- 24: The persistence of scarcity in virtual worlds
- 23: Chinese group buying explained
- 23: Crowdsourcing in Government: the Next Stop Design Bus in Utah
- 23: Twitter’s intersubjectivity
- 22: After destructive capitalism, can there be a constructive capitalism?
- 22: How California could solve its fiscal crisis through sovereign credit
- 22: Our network on Twitter
- 21: Book of the Week (3): Activist lifestyles
- 21: Planning through the market?
- 21: What property rights in virtual resources might look like
- 20: MAGHRIBIS & P2P: ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DEFINITION
- 20: The Power shift at Wikipedia and its deterrent effect on participation
- 20: The meltdown of the state under neoliberalism through New Public Management
- 19: Book of the Week (2): Direct action and direct democracy
- 19: Five Geopolitical Feedback-Loops in Peak Oil
- 19: From corporate publishing, via self-publishing, to cloud publishing
- 18: A new book on Independent Media in Chinese Societies
- 18: Should a free RSS Cloud replace Twitter?
- 18: Open Source Wikipolitics
- 18: Douglas Rushkoff on the end of movements
- 17: Crisis at the Factor E Farm (2): Stefan Meretz
- 17: The political critique of superlativism
- 17: Book of the Week: David Graeber’s Ethnography of Direct Action
- 16: The emergent tradition of participatory research in the social sciences
- 16: Pat Mooney on Nanotechnology and the Enclosure of the Chemical Elements
- 16: Elisabeth Husserl on Sufficiency vs. Abundance: together we have everything
- 15: Peter Bihr on the politics of the German Pirate Party
- 15: Potsdam Institute calls for Global Agricultural Commons
- 15: From Cloud Computing to Freedom-based Utility Computing
- 14: Re-opening the Commons
- 14: Franz Nahrada on Videobridging for Virtual Village Universities
- 14: The case for building free software cooperatives
- 13: Imagining a commons-based approach to the development of culture
- 13: Cloud computing, Vendor Lock-In and the Future
- 13: Inaugural Conference of the Internet and P2P Research Group
- 13: Peak Oil and the Meltdown (3): the alt.energy transition
- 12: Will the Web bankrupt government?
- 12: Book of the Week (2): Towards collaborative democracy
- 12: Peak Oil and the Meltdown (2): the volatility trap
- 11: Trade exchange and credit clearing is not barter
- 11: The U.S. as the New Argentina?
- 11: Peak Oil and the Meltdown (1): the role of oil scarcity as trigger
- 10: Crisis at the Factor E Farm
- 10: Book of the Week: Wiki Government
- 10: Indigenous community-based aspects of the Bolivian movement
- 10: 20 Theses against green capitalism
- 09: Government By Goldman Sachs: the video
- 09: How long will this meltdown last? Until 2038?
- 09: The True Cost Economics Manifesto
- 08: Bernard Lietaer on the role of complementary B2B currencies in this crisis
- 08: Principles of ethical social enterprise
- 08: The use of social network analysis in labor conflicts
- 07: Changing from the outside in …
- 07: The real snow crash: utopian charge and dystopian dangers in the Metaverse
- 07: P2P PIONEERS vs. PROTO-CAPITALISM: MAGHRIBIS & GENOESE TRADERS
- 07: Money without banks: lessons from Ireland
- 06: Sharing works best for corporate innovation
- 06: Economic Free Software Perspectives
- 06: The devastating record of GMO foods
- 05: The limits of Keynesianism
- 05: From Social Media To Social Business Design
- 05: Open hardware for health: what’s needed?
- 05: Distributed energy in Thailand and the Pacific Northwest
- 04: Dana Blankenhorn on Stephen Chu’s open source energy future
- 04: Trusts, the Commons and Capitalism
- 04: Natural vs. Artificial Profit
- 04: Mutual aid in Lopez Island, Washington State
- 03: Proposal For A Universal Declaration On The Common Well-Being Of Humanity
- 03: The biggest pirates are the biggest spenders
- 03: A critique of NGO’s role in Empire
- 03: Paul Fernhout: for a right meshwork between organic and industrial agriculture
- 02: The Crisis in Agriculture & Food: Conflict, Resistance, & Renewal
- 02: How the Mozilla Foundation leads its voluntary contributors ‘from behind’
- 02: Were the medieval Maghrebi traders P2P pioneers?
- 02: Dama: Mali’s Gift Economy
- 01: Michael Hardt: for a politics of the common
- 01: Open source communities vs. corporations
- 01: Is Cloud Computing dangerous for innovation?
- 01: Creation of the Free Culture Forum
July 2009
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- 31: Mutiny on Spaceship Earth
- 31: Sharing food: the Fruit Tree Project
- 31: Hooked on Growth: documentary on the post-growth economy
- 31: Open Source Cloud Computing?
- 30: Objectivity without Transparency is Arrogance
- 30: Open Sailing – an organic approach to homesteading the sea
- 30: The ethical economy of socially responsible outsourcing
- 30: The jobs we need, and those that we don’t
- 29: Are free ideas and Peak Oil compatible?
- 29: Peer to peer science, network effects, and consilience
- 29: Steven Vedro launches peer-based blessing community
- 29: How the Internet killed California’s economy
- 28: Food localisation and the culture of the audit (vs. regulation)
- 28: The zigzag path of collaborative community within the firm
- 28: Thomas Diener’s proposal for a FairWare system
- 28: Carrotmob activism
- 27: Dean Baker: the market is not the problem!!
- 27: The creative city mythology of Richard Florida
- 27: A Red and Green Coalition
- 27: Len Krimerman on solidarity and subjectivity
- 27: The DIY podcast/webcast revolution
- 26: Value Creation outside the Cash Nexus
- 26: The six discontinuities of human evolution and the participatory universe
- 26: What is co-housing?
- 26: Barcamp Transparency
- 26: Facebook and your data
- 25: Strategies for enhancing the evolution of cooperation
- 25: Can we re-size civilisation?
- 25: The Solidarity Economy and the Commons: report from the Graz “Solcom” workshop
- 24: Technological determinism vs. human choice
- 24: The disaster in waiting of the non-commons approach to climate change
- 24: A rundown and typology on Citizen Science projects
- 23: Dominicans and their Banks of Piety
- 23: The status of open government efforts in the U.S.
- 23: Three scenarios for post Peak-Oil societies
- 22: How proprietary software could kill Obama’s health reform
- 22: Anti-social production? Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social production
- 22: The gift in the circle, and the market around it
- 21: Richard Eoin Nash: For-profit publishing (as it is) cannot be saved
- 21: Herman Daly on the darkness of growth
- 21: Chrome OS not positive for user freedoms
- 20: As we are shaping media, the media are shaping us
- 20: GreenXchange: creation of an open design/patent commons
- 20: Call for papers – P2P energy production and distribution
- 19: Will the Chinese ‘Communing’ trend go global?
- 19: Participatory developments in South East Asia
- 19: A critique of the arcology model
- 18: To Whom Does the World Belong?
- 18: Regulatory capture by the Goldman Web
- 18: What exactly does the P2P Foundation do?
- 17: Where does food come from? (Canada)
- 17: Why “intellectual property” is a misnomer
- 17: Metrics for the Planetary Commons
- 16: Shared work policies against the meltdown
- 16: Reclaiming the Housing Commons
- 16: The deepening meltdown must be matched by increased resilience
- 16: Great Use of Data Part 3: RewiredState.org | Be Vocal
- 15: Building ecologies of collaboration
- 15: “The Pirate Party is a real net community”
- 15: From free trade, via fair trade, to scalar trade?
- 14: The struggle for the Water Commons
- 14: The Spirituality of Twitter
- 13: Yes!, to the burgeoning new economy
- 13: The Promise of Open Media
- 13: The plausible promise of open hardware
- 12: Updating our insights on the deepening meltdown
- 12: The Switch to Local Manufacturing
- 11: Open source hardware and entrepreneurship
- 11: Coming food crises and falling states
- 10: Reporting on the Crottorf Consultations on the Global Commons
- 10: Russia and the next long wave
- 10: The pope and the ethical economy
- 10: Wikipedia and Google
- 09: Pope Benedict’s encyclical denounces excessive assertions of IP rights in knowledge
- 09: Microgrids more efficient than large national electric superhighway?
- 09: Toward a Public Alternative in Digital Archiving and Search
- 08: Participation Camp Report
- 08: Freeters and their political impact
- 08: Search Engine Secrecy and the Public Sphere
- 08: Peter Sunde on the Pirate Bay sale
- 07: Beyond Competition: Preparing for a Google Book Search Monopoly
- 07: Guernsey’s Monetary Experiment
- 07: Wikipedia and Conflict
- 06: Technologies of Flocking in Iran (and elsewhere): lessons to learn
- 06: Before the “downfall”: A secret meeting of the RIAA uncovered
- 06: Classical capitalism, peer production, and the consequences of limited demand
- 05: The trap of Communicative Capitalism
- 05: A field typology for intersubjective development
- 04: Peer to peer and its alliances
- 04: This is our world: A participatory nomadic documentary
- 04: Meeting with Amelia Andersdotter of the Swedish Pirate Party at Citilab
- 03: The difference between the public domain and the commons
- 03: Workshop: Can peer production make washing machines?
- 02: Open source community for liberating gov data | DIYcity
- 02: Program – 4th Inclusiva-net Meeting: P2P Networks and Processes – Medialab-Prado Madrid
- 02: The Portuguese digital and collaborative learning revolution
- 02: The Amateur Class, or, The Reserve Army of the Web
- 01: A call for a global network of city arcologies
- 01: The continued importance of unions
June 2009
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May 2009
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April 2009
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- 30: Defining the core principles of P2P-based collaboration
- 30: Is the P2P movement reaching the early phases of mass mobilization?
- 30: Cooperatives more resilient in the meltdown
- 30: Tim O’Reilly calls for DIY government and civic action
- 29: Bifo and MacKenzie Wark in Conversation
- 29: Hack-Up.org
- 29: Citizen reporting in Quebec
- 29: Changing money down under: Thomas Greco in New Zealand
- 29: Creation of a Circular Exchange Trading System
- 28: Trying to Track Swine Flu Across Cities in Realtime
- 28: A critique of the Pirate Bay
- 28: Failing business models for user-generated content
- 28: The new reality of statelessness: the state form is becoming a burden
- 28: Transitioning, resilience, and participation in Sandpoint, Idaho
- 27: AN UNSCHOOLING MANIFESTO
- 27: A culture critique of the primitivist wing of the permaculture movement
- 27: Pirate Party is becoming a serious political force
- 27: The emergence of the post-piratical era and the future of P2P
- 27: Ryan Lanham: dissolving universities?
- 26: The emergence of a fashion ‘maker’ industry in Argentina
- 26: Louis Wolcher and Massimo de Angelis on the Meaning of the Commons
- 26: Amazon not so kind with Kindle users
- 26: Is there a simpler way?
- 25: Governmental transparency: from 1.0 to 2.0
- 25: Neighborhood-based solar energy purchasing
- 25: Chris Cook on the necessity for a Peer to Peer Credit Architecture
- 25: Urban Commons (3): Community Land Trusts
- 24: The role of internet and other media in Thailand’s strife
- 24: John Robb on the need for scale invariance in resilient communities
- 24: The Urban Commons (2): Vida Urbana’s campaign against foreclosures
- 24: The morality of filesharing: why the Pirate Bay founders are p2p heroes
- 23: Peer governing social networks: Citizen of Facebook?
- 23: iMalls Global: globally networking local communities?
- 23: Pirate Bay Judge possibly disqualified!
- 23: Six policies for the revitalisation of the Urban Commons (1)
- 23: Estonia’s Bank of Happiness
- 22: The deep cause of evil in psychological disfunctionality (1): introducing ponerology
- 22: Towards master partnerships for the shared custody of intellectual property
- 22: Is P2P anti-institutional?
- 22: Brazil cracks down on sat-hackers
- 22: Raoul Victor on Money and Peer Production (2): the transition
- 22: The Renaissance of New Communalism
- 21: Is the P2P economy already bigger than the “information economy”?
- 21: Principles of social technology
- 21: The end of paper, open gates to on-time democracy (not about journalism)
- 21: Raoul Victor on Money and Peer Production (1): introduction
- 20: Comments not allowed at your council website? Here’s how to answer back
- 20: Electronic handicrafts: A chance for regional workplaces?
- 20: Urbanism 3.0 moving into a P2P direction?
- 20: Women’s Contribution to Free Software Development
- 19: Marshall Ganz and Sally Kohn: The Future of Community Organizing
- 19: Franz Nahrada on blended work for global villages
- 19: Criminalizing the Informal Economy through Cost Plus Regulations
- 19: A call to economic activism
- 18: WarszawaGratis.info – free culture in Warsaw, Poland
- 18: Sam Rose on the end of Walmart
- 18: Going after the meltdown/bailout profiteers
- 18: Pirate Bay Found Guilty, 1 year in prison
- 17: Where does bigness come from?
- 17: Scred: Open accounting and meaningful banking for communities
- 17: First European Open Data Summit: 5-7 May, Brussels
- 17: Crowdsourcing + generative tools = crowdgeneration
- 17: Survey of online business models of web applications
- 17: Evolver: a social network for change
- 16: GroundOS aims to give users control in cloud computing
- 16: The operator-centric mobile model is over
- 16: Saskia Sassen on the meltdown, and the way out
- 16: Peer to peer and libraries are not that different
- 16: Ronja: case study of a failed open hardware project
- 16: The decentralized intelligence of plants
- 15: The philosophy of the meta-currency project
- 15: For a P2P-based taxation reform based on unearned income
- 15: Indian Theatre Resists Copyright
- 15: IT Conversations | Emerging Communications | Michel Bauwens
- 14: Why I’m throwing down the gauntlet to our councils over RSS feeds « Mash the State
- 14: Google Sticks Up for Privacy, Disables Uploads on YouTube Korea
- 14: Online coverage of Thailand’s Red Shirt Crisis
- 14: Rebooting the Russian heartland through Global Villages
- 14: Transitional P2P-housing for rebuilding Abbruzzo communities
- 13: ChangeCamp Edmonton
- 13: Globalization vs. localism: an assessment
- 13: Dama: the Malian gift economy
- 12: An update on the c,mm,n open source car project
- 12: Digital Economies and the Politics of circulation
- 11: Douglas Rushkoff on the history of centralized currencies
- 11: Self-designated storytelling: how social media is influenced documentary film-making
- 10: Mash the State
- 10: Nine proposals for Finance 2.0
- 10: Beyond the Open Cloud to Free Network Services
- 09: How does real change occur: P2P Theory vs. socialist theory
- 09: Embracing Piracy
- 09: The sad sad story of Horacio Potel
- 08: Critical Information Studies For a Participatory Culture (Part One)
- 08: Towards a ‘conscious modularity’ for open science
- 08: Physical Design Co. – Putting the ‘fab’ in ‘prefab’.
- 08: Spanish Internet community unites against new anti-P2P Minister of Culture
- 08: Launch of the P2P Research Group
- 07: Should we be afraid on online spying: Privacy vs. transparency
- 07: Open Companies need Trust Metrics
- 07: Open letter on p2p rights to European Parliament
- 06: Data retention endangers democracy
- 06: James K. Galbraith’s proposals for the meltdown
- 06: Slideshare presentation on P2P
- 06: The Future of Our Cities: Open, Crowdsourced, and Participatory
- 05: How do societies change? (2): video
- 05: DIYcity Challenge #7: Open Data!
- 05: Franz Nahrada: How do societies change?
- 04: The Collaborative Web between open and closed science
- 04: The emergence of hacker spaces worldwide
- 03: Replacing crowdsourcing with smartsourcing
- 03: Video: Introduction to Peer Production
- 03: ACTA – Sharing equals Counterfeiting?
- 02: Peer production against the meltdown
- 02: Open Hardware and Design
- 02: Open Innovation for Renewable Energy
- 01: The 3D printing debate: for all, or not?
- 01: Launch of the Medicines Transparency Alliance
March 2009
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- 31: Extraordinary fourth Oekonux conference marks milestone for P2P movement
- 31: Energy descent and the Transition Town strategy
- 31: Best keynote of the year so far: Sascha Meinrath on Policy Hacking
- 31: Uk investments in renewable energy in sharp decline
- 31: Open-Source Healthcare
- 30: Vinay Gupta on Ending Poverty With Open Hardware
- 30: User-led Science – A special issue of the Journal of Science Communication
- 30: Extractive vs. Productive Anti-meltdown measures
- 30: Dave Pollard: a meditation on a world without property
- 29: Alternative Economy Cultures: Helsinki, April 3 to 5
- 29: Narb: People Filtered Art for the Ubiquitous Museum
- 29: The danger of unified globalization
- 28: Barcelona, March 31: Liberté, égalité, P2P
- 28: The dark side of hyperconnectivity
- 27: The Open Rights Group: Telecom Package in second reading – dangerous amendments?
- 27: Umair Haque and Douglas Rushkoff on the Geithner plan
- 27: ICTlogy » e-STAS 2009 (VII). Round Table: John LeSieur, Vivek Vaidyanathan, Raul Zambrano
- 27: Regression and progression as responses to the crisis
- 26: Barcelona discussion on the role of the new hybrid centres for art, science and technology
- 26: Alarming energy inefficiency in new manufacturing
- 26: Predatory power after the meltdown
- 26: Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary shake-up
- 25: P3P, the new Holy Grail of online content?
- 25: The participatory way to food for all
- 25: Places to Intervene in the Meltdown process
- 24: How the EU is bargaining away the Internet
- 24: Freeing Yoga from both tradition and enclosure
- 24: Transforming the Relationship Between Citizens and Government: Making Content Findable Online
- 24: Open Money systems are not about market making
- 23: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Announces Availability of Schedule and Route Data
- 23: HEALTHCAMP PHILADELPHIA 2009
- 23: Open Money as a necessary next step for democracy
- 23: Asia needs a Social Innovation Stimulus plan
- 22: Catalonian Parliament 2.0
- 22: MIT Will Publish All Faculty Articles Free In Online Repository
- 22: What drives growth: capital, profit, interest?
- 22: EC2 for Poets – Dave Winer explains how to create a server in the cloud
- 22: March 18, 2009: the tipping point that signals the beginning of the end?
- 22: What free culture is about
- 21: Can Social Networking Change the Face of Public Health?
- 21: An update on crowdsourcing and the spec model controversy
- 21: Regulatory hurdles for the open source hardware bank?
- 21: Yochai Benkler on the new news infrastructure
- 20: Themepunks by Cory Doctorow: the way new maker economy is already here …
- 20: DIY City: an Operating System for a User-Driven City
- 20: The dark side of cybernetics: Pat Kane reviews Suburbia
- 19: The New Proposed Telecoms Package. Who will control the Internet?
- 19: Derrick de Kerckhove on Citizen Innovation
- 19: The Obama backlash: are his policies ‘hooverite’?
- 19: Joytopia: a German thank-you money
- 19: Rufus Pollock on progress and obstacles to Open Knowlege
- 18: Vivarium – A Proposal for a Modest Experiment in P2P Architecture
- 18: Argentinian professor risks jail for spreading the texts of Derrida
- 17: Does money need a back-up? The Petro as Value Standard
- 17: New Financiers for global financial reform
- 16: Douglas Rushkoff’s Life Inc. is (almost) out
- 16: Dale Carrico on Obama as P2P President
- 15: Jeff Vail’s call for a scale-free energy policy
- 15: Reconstituting a distributed manufacturing base after the meltdown
- 15: Volunteer (or pool) needed to save P2P Research list
- 14: See Michel Bauwens in Milan 19th March
- 14: The economics of open source hardware need a OSHW bank
- 14: Emilia-Romagna as a model of sustainable manufacturing
- 14: The Art + Politics of P2P in Bristol on March 24
- 13: Filesharing as a irreversible cultural revolution
- 13: Lifting the ban on parliamentary video quotes in the UK
- 13: Parallel visions of peer production
- 13: Martin Wolf on the end of an era and the future of capitalism
- 12: Unauthorized Copies Are Not Necessarily “Counterfeits”
- 12: UK Government wants to kill net neutrality in EU
- 12: “Best” Science Blogs, Open Laboratory 08 available
- 12: Eric Hunting on the Open Source Urbanism workshop at Wintercamp
- 11: Are social networks really dumbing us down?
- 11: Piracy and the decline of the state
- 11: Book of the Week: Chet Bowers: are computers an anti-commons?
- 11: The maturation of network cultures as counter-institutions
- 10: Dowward to tribes, or upward to networks?
- 10: Linking Money to Food
- 10: How online communities differ from social networks
- 10: Darknets going mainstream through ease of use
- 10: A landmark book by Thomas Greco on the End of Money
- 09: Peer governance and Wikipedia (1)
- 09: Moving towards open design and open manufacturing
- 09: Book of the Week: Critical Essays on the Enclosure of the Cultural Commons
- 09: Russian cyberspace as an alternative social sphere
- 08: Three myths about peer review
- 08: P2P Answers the Meltdown: Nathan Cravens
- 08: Technologies of humility for a second enlightenment
- 08: Ideas for a radically distributed start-up
- 07: Defending Wikipedia’s methodology
- 07: Will 2009 be a year of hunger?
- 07: Pirate Bay trial update (2)
- 07: For a solidarity-based theory of public goods
- 06: In the long run, open data may be more important than open source
- 06: Peer-funding journalism through collective licensing?
- 06: Why central banks have lost their leverage
- 06: George Caffentzis’ tale of two Commons (5): Conclusions
- 05: Virtual and physical p2p spaces as a policy against the meltdown
- 05: A revolution in responsiveness
- 05: Knowledge is a Commons
- 05: George Caffentzis’ tale of two Commons (4): the Rise of the Neo-Hardinian Scholars
- 04: An update on the Geospatial Web
- 04: An Open Letter to Obama on the Cap and Dividend
- 04: George Caffentzis’ tale of two Commons (3): Is the Commons a anticapitalist concept?
- 04: Do we need closed systems for lean economies?
- 03: A strategy to advance Open Manufacturing
- 03: A proposal for Agriculture Supported Communities
- 03: The trial of The Pirate Bay in Sweden
- 03: George Caffentzis’ tale of two Commons (2): The Commons and Primitive Accumulation
- 02: A report on catch share fishing
- 02: A call for open and participatory design
- 02: George Caffentzis’ tale of two Commons (1): history and revival
- 01: The strategy for change? There is none but you
- 01: Akis Gavrilidis on the meaning of the Greek koukouloforoi movement
- 01: Venezuelan term-limits: could lifting them be democratic?
- 01: A history of anti-filesharing strategies
February 2009
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- 28: Clay Shirky on the Falling Barriers to Group Action
- 28: Video presentation of the Science Commons
- 28: David Bollier: Kevin Kelly’s sharing economy is limited to market forms
- 28: 4th Oekonux conference on “The World of Peer Production”
- 27: Where’s the Pub: how open street mapping parties work
- 27: Hacking the WTO-GATS for global public goods provision
- 27: An Open Capital framework as a solution to the financial meltdown
- 27: Experiments in participatory regulation
- 26: The Tumblr controversy: putting users in charge of their own moderation
- 26: The Epistemology of Wikipedia
- 26: Common security clubs in the U.S.
- 26: A conference for the Open Video movement
- 25: Co-design in education, the design of outdoor learning and play spaces
- 25: Openness and Development
- 25: Sitebanning in Wikipedia
- 24: Creative Commons in Asia: not such a boon
- 24: On the connection between money and energy
- 24: P2P Foundation receives Millenia Award as ‘bridge maker’
- 24: Victorian bushfires: the Good , the Bad and the Ugly side of the social Web
- 24: For interoperability, protocols are better than API’s
- 23: Android, the iPhone, and the law of asymmetrical competition
- 23: Clashing debt cycles, clashing meltdown narratives
- 23: Building a Open Village Construction Set
- 23: The “rent after foreclosure” solution as an alternative to bank bailouts
- 22: Eric Hunting on Usman Haque’s: the possibilities of open source architecture
- 22: The ‘Semantic Web’ vs ‘Emergent Semantics’ on the web
- 22: Dale Carrico responds to James Hughes interpretation of transhumanism
- 22: Market incentives vs. volunteering in Second Life
- 21: Network speed as a challenge to government
- 21: Launch of We Magazine Volume 2
- 21: Peer Believing
- 21: Timescales for p2p emergence
- 20: Robert Brenner’s analysis of the meltdown
- 20: The three determinants of openness: access, ownership, participation
- 20: Public Media 2.0
- 20: Debating Internet Collectivism (3): towards a non-totalitarian commons?
- 19: Open Design and Mass Customization in Architecture: Open Source Building Alliance from MIT
- 19: An open source approach to urban planning
- 19: Debating Internet Collectivism (2): Jeremy Gilbert on going beyond fundamentalist individualism and collectivism
- 19: Can distributed renewable energy solve the energy crisis, right now???
- 18: What really happened to the bike-sharing program in Paris
- 18: Debating Internet Collectivism: Cathy Fitzpatrick
- 18: Is a digital commons sustainable without corporate support?
- 18: Bitcoin: new open source P2P e-cash system
- 17: Towards zero-configuration p2p clouds
- 17: Only (democratic and green) cities can save us from climate catastrophe
- 17: Obama’s inauguration was the first ‘crowd-curated’ event in history
- 17: Unequal exchange of labor: at the heart of the mutualist argument
- 16: Book of the Week (3): David Bollier on What needs to be done
- 16: Is vendor relationship management doomed to fail?
- 16: Solitude and connectivity
- 16: Towards a commons-based taxation?
- 15: The peer production of politics in the EU
- 15: The Take: the tale of a chocolate factory in Argentina
- 15: Do we need more free software cooperatives?
- 15: Ways to follow P2P Foundation updates
- 14: Citizen reporting – how to make sense of a crisis
- 14: Book of the Week: David Bollier’s Digital Republic (2)
- 14: A critical meditation on the Google Earth experience, by Anna Munster
- 14: Virtual Private Networks against Internet Censorship
- 13: A progressive interpretation of transhumanist politics
- 13: Open Instant Messaging may lead to new revolution in filesharing
- 13: Alvin Toffler in Japan?
- 13: Peer production = cool mobilization
- 12: Integrating the three strands of the alterglobalization movement
- 12: Book of the Week: The Viral Spiral of the Commons movement
- 12: Peer producing DNA
- 12: Three proposals for achieving open government data
- 11: The beginning of the rebirth of social movements
- 11: A good source on collaboration
- 11: The necessary critique of transhumanism
- 11: Harnessing Online Campaign Workflows for Governance
- 10: A connectionist explanation of the Semantic Web
- 10: A call for Open Government in Canada
- 10: The netroots vs. Obama: what should they do?
- 10: Conflict arbitration at the Wikipedia
- 09: A worldwide infrastructure for interconnected objects and environments
- 09: The TwoShirts gift-giving community
- 09: Book of the Week: Networking Futures
- 09: Will “Customization” companies be able to survive?
- 08: Towards an open source agroecology
- 08: Hacking Heaven is Out!
- 08: Marvellous interview with Eric von Hippel on User Centered Innovation
- 08: Geospatiality and community
- 07: Raoul Victor on the Corporate Commons and other forms of hybrid peer production
- 07: In a dematerialized economy, sharing is better than owning
- 07: Not a problem of ‘not enough’ liquidity, but of ‘too much’ of it
- 07: Manifest for the recovery of common goods of humanity
- 06: The Long Descent (3): The failure of Lifeboat communities
- 06: Basement Interviews of advocates of open and free movements
- 06: Clay Shirky on the New Style of Peer Leadership
- 05: Disintermediating YouTube: Mozilla’s steps towards Open Video
- 05: George Monbiot explains complementary currencies
- 05: A new generation of digital cultural centers for cities
- 05: Open Source INSOSHI – The Next Facebook?
- 04: The Long Descent (2): The Survivalism of things vs. the Transmission of skills and values
- 04: Groundcrew: software for the real-time coordination of constructive crowds
- 04: The Evolution of Domination After Eden
- 04: Open sourcing business, hardware, and government
- 03: New breed of internet-connected TV threatens cable
- 03: Should we worry about the information triumvirate?
- 03: It is time to establish Abundance as a field of study
- 03: How the netroots helped Obama’s rise to power
- 02: Book of the Week (1): The Long Descent: A User’s Guide to the End of the Industrial Age
- 02: How the markets really work
- 02: How does Kiva work: the (video) story of a loan
- 02: Towards a Peer Production of a Macroeconomic Architecture
- 01: Introduction to the Geospatial Web
- 01: Jeff Vail on energy and hierarchy
- 01: Virtual political districts for participatory government
- 01: Dave Pollard’s gnostic approach to worldchanging
January 2009
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December 2008
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November 2008
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- 30: Women participation in online communities
- 30: Broadband may create energy crisis
- 30: Xavier Comtesse on the new ‘direct territories’
- 30: Programmable money proposal: request for comments
- 29: The fifth solidarity
- 29: Eric Hunting on Adaptive ‘P2P’ Architecture (5): Conclusions
- 29: The Hub: a place for open-source and peer-to-peer programming
- 29: A critique of the Gore “New Green Deal”
- 28: Do resilient communities represent a move towards a higher complexity phase transition?
- 28: Adaptive Architecture (4): Current Adaptive Building Technology
- 28: New Kosmos Journal issue on Social Enterpreneurship
- 27: Jared Diamond on societal collapse and what we can do about it
- 27: Adaptive Architecture (3): It’s role in collaborate community development
- 27: Living off the grid
- 26: Four solidarities plus one: the pluralistic society
- 26: Eric Hunting on Adaptive Architecture (2): Types of Adaptive Architecture
- 26: Free Software and Human Rights
- 25: Finance and Social Production
- 25: Introduction to Adaptive Architecture, Collaborative Design, and the Evolution of Community
- 25: ITQ’s for fishing: a market or a commons solution?
- 25: A strategy for change based on the knowledge of alternatives and new values
- 24: Book of the Week: Bioteams
- 24: Open source in healthcare
- 24: Massimo Menichinelli: Open P2P Design as enabling Open P2P Systems
- 23: Germ form theory (3): pitfalls of interpretation
- 23: Global Commons Goods as Policy Platform for a new global compact
- 23: Thomas Greco on the Obama years
- 22: P2P and Utopia (v 0.1) in Greek
- 22: Obama and the high road to the peer to peer society
- 22: Germ Form Theory (2): what stage for peer production?
- 22: Abundance as a field of study (2): a typology
- 22: SELF Coursebook: Introduction to Free Software
- 21: A bumper year for digital rights: annual review of the Open Rights Group
- 21: How do we evolve to a P2P society: Germ Form Theory (1)
- 21: Abundance as a field of study (1)
- 21: Banning the Wikipedia bans as a governance tool
- 20: Thingiverse: new open design directory
- 20: Shann Turnbull on transforming capitalism through trusteeship governance
- 20: Contribute to: How to rob a bank when money does not exist project
- 20: Episcopal Theological Support for the Free Software Movement
- 20: Jeff Vail on the decentralization of suburbia
- 19: MyBo: details about Obama campaign’s network strategy
- 19: Untangling a case study of benefit-sharing
- 19: Jeff Jarvis: the Open Internet as a Civil Right
- 19: The problem with corporate sharing practices …
- 18: Google censors bloggers for copyright police
- 18: Launch of P2P University: how p2p is it?
- 18: Launch of Resistance Studies Network
- 18: Towards open social news (and social networking) sites
- 18: Can open source innovate better than corporations?
- 17: The Music of Abundance
- 17: Event: P2P and the Rise of Green Capitalism
- 17: The common as an alternative to public and private ownership
- 17: Revamping IntegralSpirituality.org away from integral orthodoxy
- 17: Causewired: new book on peer to peer philanthropy
- 16: The war against abundance in the physical world (2): towards policies for abundance
- 16: The difference between peer production and open source
- 16: Obama and IP: what to expect?
- 16: What use is intellectual property on a dead planet?
- 15: Spontankultur: a research report on Social Production and Cultural Policy in Malmö, Sweden
- 15: The war against abundance in the physical world (1)
- 15: The Commons as a New Sector of Value-Creation
- 15: From Cloud Computing to the One Machine
- 15: From Outsourcing to Commons Sourcing: the Third Wave of Business Transformation
- 14: Copyright and para-copyrights
- 14: The professionalization of p2p video politics
- 14: The financial evaluation of reputation
- 14: Announcement: The Networked Politics seminar
- 13: Will Obama be an open source president?
- 13: Italian conversation with Tiziana Terranova on peer to peer
- 13: Know Thy Enemy: the strategy and tactics of IP maximalists
- 13: Alternative Media Global Project’s Map
- 12: 20 proposals to get beyond the crash
- 12: Book of the Week: Digital Virtues (2): The Catholic Church, Technology, and Free Software
- 12: The Art of Participation exhibition in San Francisco
- 12: Nef’s realistic policy prescriptions for the meltdown
- 11: Italy: TFF promotes Direct Democracy
- 11: A new politics of expression: the Video Republic
- 11: An estimation of the value of open source software code
- 11: Is it time to go beyond Wikipedia?
- 11: User-Driven Innovation in the Nordic Countries
- 10: Is Guifi.net an alternative independent internet?
- 10: Book of the Week: Digital Virtues, part one
- 10: Stefan Meretz: Seven theses on Common-ism
- 10: Discussing the Ethical Economy, chapter 1
- 09: Harvard Business Review discovers the Ethical Economy
- 09: The art of creating intentional spaces
- 09: Arboricoli, village in the trees, and the seeding of Global Villages
- 09: Research on Open Source Software Foundations
- 08: Individual consciousness is not enough: the case for virtual collective selves
- 08: Healthcare as a Commons
- 08: A P2P Power Grid based on Rice Husks for Rural Areas
- 08: Open spectrum victory in the U.S.
- 07: Why the One Machine won’t take over
- 07: Digital property forms as a right to access
- 07: Douglas Rushkoff launches Radio Bottom Up for Obama Era
- 07: Citizen Renaissance and the limits of Green Consumerism
- 06: Open Gaming: status report
- 06: Jumping straight to post-literacy
- 06: Creation of a Brussels Unofficial P2PFoundation FanClub
- 06: The Open Cafe, a way to live Peer-to-Peer locally
- 06: Google/Publisher’s settlement may be a disaster for U.S. public libraries
- 05: How cell phones could break the money monopoly
- 05: Franz Nahrada on the revival of networked rural hubs in Europe
- 05: Democratization of Knowledge, P2P alternatives and more in Ecuador
- 05: The importance of neotraditional approaches in the reconstructive transmodern era
- 04: Michael Wesch on Anti-Teaching
- 04: Launch of Open Science mailing list
- 04: Low energy lifestyle lessons from Cuba
- 04: Personal Fabrication for Dummies
- 03: Not just a financial crisis but a crisis of the system as a whole
- 03: Will Australian hyper-politics defeat censorship legislation?
- 03: Book of the Week: Michael Thompson’s Theory of Governance
- 03: Launching the Ethical Economy Book
- 03: The importance of invisible architectures for generating collective wisdom
- 02: The Financial Markets As A Commons
- 02: On the danger of not losing one’s friends
- 02: An update on open hardware directories
- 02: 11 Arguments Against so called “Intellectual Property”
- 01: The Linguistic Colonization of the Present by Past Thinkers Who Were Unaware of Environmental Issues
- 01: Higher Education in the Era of Cloud Computer
- 01: The anthropology of P2P filesharers
- 01: How to make your own stuff
October 2008
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- 31: A critique of local resilience movements
- 31: P2P Solar Energy will create a value crisis for the electricity providers
- 31: An infrastructure to protect free E-Speech
- 31: Carlota Perez at TTU (Part I): “The theory of great surges”
- 30: VideoBridge, international version
- 30: Ethics, Finance and Crisis,
- 30: How The People Formerly Known as the Employers are exploiting ‘free’ media workers
- 30: Current status and difficulties of consumer-driven design
- 30: Discussing programmable money
- 29: Sustainability Issues of Virtual Worlds
- 29: We need to open source intentional geo-engineering
- 29: RiP: an open source documentary on Remix Culture and its Copyright implications
- 29: PureDyne a Linux Distro for Artists by Artists
- 29: P2P Spirituality Interview
- 28: The WIR Economic Circle Cooperative in Switzerland: a status report
- 28: A cultural critique of Second Life
- 28: Urban Ghosts
- 28: Debating copyright law in Giessen, Germany
- 28: Open Genomes: voluntarily sharing your health data
- 28: The flattening of knowledge by the simulacrum of “information”
- 27: Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network: Commons in the air…
- 27: Open-Source Wind Farm Design Software
- 27: Open Everything in London on November 6
- 27: Thesis on Open P2P Design
- 26: Update on the Bagley Wikipedia controversy
- 26: Open hardware as the next wave
- 26: eBay should opensource Skype
- 26: Most recent P2P lecture and video
- 25: Practical advice on surviving a meltdown
- 25: Open Source Ecology Compressed Earth Block Proposal
- 25: DistriBrute: P2P Powered Desktop Deployment
- 25: New book: Egalitarian and Hierarchical Impulses in Institution Building
- 24: A Vision for a peer-to-peer Blessing Community: Steven Vedro’s My Blessing Circle Blog
- 24: Thomas Greco reviews Zeitgeist Addendum
- 24: Herman Daly on why a Steady-State Economy requires 100% reserve requirements
- 24: The future of research networking in Europe: towards a pan-national virtual network of peers
- 23: The Dharavi Slum in Mumbai: a case study in new p2p urbanism?
- 23: A Website with a Constitution
- 23: On not confusing value and money
- 23: The higher productivity and innovation potential of cooperatives
- 23: The Venus Project as ‘Old’ Futurism?
- 22: Chris Cook: proposal for a new financial system after the meltdown
- 22: Eric Hunting on post-industrial resource-based economic systems with social credit
- 22: Seven Solutions In Favour of a Free Culture of Citizens Who Share
- 22: Does P2P require institutionalization?
- 21: Peer to peer, logistics, and culture
- 21: Nabuur communities, development through online communities
- 21: The Oxcars for a Free Culture
- 20: Peer Financing Development
- 20: Community Supported Manufacturing – Careers in Global Village Engineering
- 20: A voice for open engineering
- 20: How the financial meltdown will affect peer production and social innovation
- 19: The computer metaphor of political struggle
- 19: A typology of Living Labs
- 19: Geoff Cox’s Antisocial Notworking project: the Web 2.0 is not conflictual enough
- 19: Bottom-up Open Educational Resources
- 19: Open source not a business model, but a development and distribution model
- 18: Perverse incentives and the U.S. housing crisis
- 18: A Canadian call for openness and transparency in politics
- 18: Visualizing affordable housing in Spain
- 18: The individual and collective in networked collective action
- 17: The madness of current Copyright legislation
- 17: Cool or Cash? The emergence of Private Virtual Worlds
- 17: First french-language video on P2P?
- 17: Networking Protest: technical formats vs. organisational formats
- 16: Howard Rheingold’s Invitation to the new Social Media Classroom and Collaboratory
- 16: LittleShoot – Open Source P2P File Sharing
- 16: A critique of conservative techno-libertarianism
- 16: A structured brainstorming session on Civilisation 2.0
- 16: The other meltdown: climate change
- 15: Raoul Victor: on the role of money in the transition to a peer society (2)
- 15: Update: Spanish-language material on Peer to Peer
- 15: The social basis of McCain
- 15: Towards a post-industrial ‘p2p’ aesthetics based on modularity
- 14: Participatory consultation on the future of Melbourne
- 14: The leapfrogging potential of open design
- 14: Celebrating free culture and music: the What CD
- 13: What´s cooking in Venezuela?
- 13: Robin Good: Is Web 2.0 Really Democratic?
- 13: Locabucks against the liquidity trap
- 13: Book of the Week: The Internet of Things – should we fear it?
- 12: A bricolaged policy response to the financial meltdown
- 12: The mechanics of sharing physical design information: an appeal for global cooperation
- 12: How well is the P2P Foundation doing online?
- 11: On the progressive aspects of cloud computing
- 11: P2P-oriented city initiatives and Barcelona’s Citilab
- 11: The Value Shock
- 11: How ‘open’ and participatory policies transformed Medellin
- 11: Open Accreditation through a Open Achievements API?
- 10: Liquid Publications as an alternative to Peer Review
- 10: The new cultural economy and the cultural commons
- 10: Social Media Aggregators
- 10: Educate yourself about the monetary system
- 09: Smart Grids, P2P Energy, and Global Warming
- 09: Leadership in Open Innovation Communities
- 09: The importance of peer to peer facilitation and learning leverage
- 08: Modular housing and P2P Urbanism
- 08: P2P as a post-capitalist mode of production: video interview
- 08: Transforming education towards peer learning
- 08: The influence of money on peer production and governance practices
- 07: Walden Bello´s Primer on the Financial Meltdown
- 07: Open Source Ecology project looking for volunteers
- 07: The Climate Energy Challenge: a 7 step stragegy
- 06: Does open facilitation favour groupthink?
- 06: The collective intelligence of precognizant dreaming
- 06: The Transition Handbook – now GFDL at Appropedia
- 05: How to turn virtual designs into physical objects?
- 05: Debating Peer Review and its more open Alternatives
- 05: Barbara Marx Hubbard: we are not dying, but being born
- 04: Special Issue on Open Educational Resources
- 04: Progressive conditions for financial and economic reform
- 04: The consistent failure to monetize the immaterial economy won’t go away
- 03: Community Workshops as the Neighborhood Path to Distributed Peer Production
- 03: Is leapfrogging at all possible?
- 03: Socialgraph targeting as peer to peer marketing
- 02: David Korten on the US financial crisis and buy-out
- 02: Vasilis Kostakis: the Commons as the condition for the Basic Income
- 02: The distinction between free speech and free beer is eroding
- 02: After the US meltdown of 2008, China’s in 2015?
- 01: The Open Left as Third Left
- 01: Douglas Rushkoff on the planned nature of the credit crisis
- 01: The constellation model of social change
- 01: Raoul Victor: on the role of money in the transition to a peer society
September 2008
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August 2008
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July 2008
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June 2008
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May 2008
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April 2008
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March 2008
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February 2008
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- 29: Book of the Week: Hacking Capitalism. Part Three: From class struggle to play struggle
- 29: Podcast: Interview with Michel Bauwens, P2P and spirituality
- 28: Stan Rhodes: Advertising is waste
- 28: Charles Leadbeater’s book on mass innovation, We Think, is out!
- 27: The Medium is the Mess…
- 27: Book of the Week: Hacking Capitalism. Part Two: Hacking as a labour movement
- 26: Arguments againsts patents and copyright
- 26: Chris Cook’s critique of Carbon Trading : If you want to keep a donkey healthy, you don’t regulate what comes out of it, but what goes in
- 25: Book of the Week: Hacking Capitalism. Part One: presentation
- 25: Marcin Jakubowski: an appeal for global collaboration on open product development.
- 24: Chris Cook on a structure for Market 3.0, part three: Market Corporations
- 23: Erik Davies reviews Steven Vedro’s Digital Dharma
- 23: Chris Cook on a structure for Market 3.0, part two: Regulation 3.0
- 22: Drew Endy on the need to open source synthetic biology
- 22: Chris Cook on a structure for Market 3.0, part one
- 21: Stan Rhodes: 3 fundamental arguments against the continuation of copyright restrictions
- 21: Announcement: First Issue of Resistance Studies journal
- 20: Steve Bosserman on Common vs. Differentiated Value
- 20: A P2P critique of Transhumanism
- 19: Steve Bosserman on Economic Sustainability in a world of Open Design
- 19: From free software to the free drugs movement
- 19: Rethinking music
- 18: Franz Nahrada: A Vision for Global Villages
- 18: The P2P Foundation launches its first ever social network
- 17: Jason “jz†Liszkiewicz on community-interest-driven technologies
- 17: Bottom-up vs. top down: modalities of peer governance
- 16: Social advertising won’t work because it has no salience
- 16: Open Source in Asia faces special hurdles
- 15: Overview of peer-based business models
- 15: Participatory Design in India: Urban Typhoon workshop
- 15: Christian Siefkes on possession (not property) as the basis of the commons
- 14: Companionism: introducing democracy in the corporation
- 14: Marcin Jakubowski: A call for open engineering and a commons coalition for P2P Energy
- 13: Ministry of Truth
- 13: Promoting open and free video and television platforms in Europe (Miro tour)
- 13: Christian Siefkes on Decision Making and Conflict Resolution in Material Peer Production
- 12: Case Study: Florence Devouard, Wikia, and the Wikipedia admins
- 12: Proposed OSE specifications aim to guarantee truly open physical peer production
- 12: Christian Siefkes on Local Associations for organizing material peer production
- 11: Why Danah Boyd is depressed and angry, and so am I, about scientific lockdown by publishers
- 11: Solidarity-based productive chains
- 11: Christian Siefkes on Distribution Pools
- 10: Peer production is distributive, not just collaborative
- 09: UnMoney Convergence: landmark meeting between open money and digital identity advocates
- 08: Ecomm 2008 conference will report on wireless revolution in the making
- 07: Raoul Victor on peer to peer and extensive global development
- 07: Video: Inconvenient Stories, an interview with Human Rights Watch at DLD
- 07: Umair Hacque: when data is valueless, open beats closed, and good beats evil
- 06: Mark Pesce on the impact of hyper-empowered politics
- 06: Wikipedia Governance: the power of admins
- 05: On the trustworthiness of Amazon book reviews
- 05: Announcement: The Free Knowledge, Free Technology Conference
- 05: Mark Pesce on the death of mass media
- 04: Eben Moglen on business and the commons
- 04: Kevin Kelly on business models in a world of free copy-ability
- 03: Henrik Ingo on good and evil in the Web 2.0
- 03: Christian Siefkes on Distributing Effort Through Weighting Labor
- 02: Axel Bruns: Going beyond’s Facebook’s Anti-social Web
- 02: Christian Siefkes on hint-based stigmergic systems
- 01: A New Framework for Co-creating Business and Social Value
- 01: From open organizations to open enterprises
January 2008
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December 2007
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November 2007
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October 2007
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September 2007
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August 2007
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July 2007
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June 2007
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- 30: French company offers 20 years of free solar energy
- 30: Criteria for the design and implementation of the next generation of post-Enlightenment institutions
- 29: Peer to peer organizational forms as form of power
- 28: Political Economy and Business Science: the final denial of humanity
- 27: New & Noteworthy: The Art of Free Cooperation
- 27: Reforming Asian economies: peer to peer, threefolding, and associative economics
- 26: Power and control in peer production (Response to Adam Arvidsson, conclusion)
- 25: The Crisis of Value: P2P Essay of the Year
- 25: The Real Wealth of Nations acknowledges unacknowledged wealth
- 25: The coming crisis of capital accumulation, and its solution (Response to Adam Arvidsson, 2)
- 25: The three forms of P2P based economics (Response to Adam Arvidsson, 1)
- 24: Adam Arvidsson: The advantages of peer-based measurement systems
- 23: The dark side of P2P and its freedom (Clay Shirky)
- 23: Adam Arvidsson: The new ethical economy is beyond measure
- 22: Adam Arvidsson: The monetary economy vs. the ethical economy
- 19: Namahn P2P interview available on iTunes
- 18: Polymorph: Hacking Business Models
- 16: Genevieve Vaughan on the difference between gifting and exchange
- 16: Pat Kane: from well being to well becoming
- 15: Robin Good TV Calls For Grassroots News Reporters
- 14: One Loaf Per Child
- 14: iCare: A Peer To Peer Charity Marketplace Online
- 13: An open question about the developing countries and the Third World
- 12: Assignment Zero, open-source journalism
- 11: Video:Software and Community in the Early 21st Century
- 10: Cosma Orsi on the Political Economy of Solidarity and the Partner State
- 10: Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
- 09: Video: a three minute film on 500 years of female portraits
- 09: Should we worry about Web 2.0 takeovers?
- 09: Peer governance: towards non-representational democracy
- 08: Video: Free Hugs Campaign
- 08: Why should a company go open source?
- 08: Book of the Week: Devices of the Soul, conclusion
- 08: Communities of Practice and Open Business
- 07: On The Need For Business Stewardship, and Open Services
- 07: Book of the Week: Devices of the Soul, part 4
- 06: Is P2P left or right, part 3
- 06: Book of the Week: Devices of the Soul, part 3: Re-enfleshing the machine
- 06: Defence with the crowds
- 05: Is P2P left or right (part II)?
- 05: Book of the Week: Devices of the Soul, part 2
- 04: Powerful Eyes, Many Eyes
- 04: Book of the Week: Steve Talbott’s Devices of the Soul
- 01: BarCampBank in Seattle
May 2007
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April 2007
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March 2007
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- 31: From free software to free culture: towards new definition of free cultural works
- 30: Overview of P2P technology
- 30: P2P Book of the Week, Excerpt 3: Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, by Allison Fine
- 29: P2P Book of the Week, Excerpt 2: Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, by Allison Fine
- 28: Adventures in Local Knowledge Production
- 28: Actics, a way to measure the social impact of companies and organizations?
- 27: Peer to Peer Identity and OpenID
- 27: P2P Book of the Week, Excerpt 1: Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, by Allison Fine
- 27: Experts vs. amateurs: what we can learn from Citizen Science
- 26: P2P Book of the Week, Introduction: Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, by Allison Fine
- 25: Philippe Aigrain: what are the conditions for the commons to thrive?
- 24: P2P Money Inquiry
- 24: Invitation to the Open Business Community
- 23: Danah Boyd on Narcissism
- 22: Guaranteed Income conference, Cambridge UK, April 28
- 22: Video:Jean Baudrillard over Grand Theft Auto
- 21: Towards an immanent spiritual life?
- 21: Book of the Week: Xavier Comtesse’s Direct Economy, part 2
- 20: Slaves have never been this cheap!
- 20: A new proposed P2P-based business model: collaborative content distribution
- 19: Book of the Week: Xavier Comtesse’s Direct Economy
- 18: The sceptical arguments against open hardware
- 18: New book: Digital Dharma
- 17: Open sourcing pharmaceuticals: how realistic is it?
- 16: From Walled Garden strategies to Community Switching Costs
- 16: Five myths about Linux?
- 12: A friend to friend infrastructure for an altruistic economy
- 12: Report from NSF
- 11: creativity hypes
- 11: Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
- 10: Ubiquitious computing: video of Ben Cerveny at LIFT on “the luminous bath”
- 10: Next Layer: new book in progress on Open Source Culture
- 09: New P2P Podcast interview at Open Views
- 09: Andreas Schiffler: What’s wrong with Second Life, part 2
- 08: Net Neutrality: cool video with a historic angle on net neutrality
- 08: Why crowdsourcing isn’t peer production
- 08: Diffuse Innovation and Venture Capital
- 07: Solar energy is inherently distributed (towards a P2P solar energy grid)
- 07: Introduction to Adventure Economics and P2P lifestyles
- 06: Gwendal Simon: what’s wrong with Second Life: there is no distributed power
- 06: Richard Stallman on peer production, 3
- 05: Richard Stallman on peer production, 2
- 05: Book of the Week: Adam Arvidsson on Ethics and the General Intellect, 6
- 04: Richard Stallman on peer production, 1
- 04: Who will dominate communities: users, or brands
- 04: Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
- 03: Fouad Riaz Bajwa on Neo-Connectivity & Neo-Communities
- 03: (The) Audience (2.0) at Swarming Media
- 03: Crowdsourcing: is it better to focus on the 1% of passionate users?
- 02: Book of the Week: Adam Arvidsson on Ethics and the General Intellect, 5
- 02: "We”Tube: The Future of YouTube
- 02: Linking open source design to open source production
- 01: Adam Dada: DRM-free and open music models make more sense for small bands
- 01: Book of the Week: Adam Arvidsson on Ethics and the General Intellect, 4
February 2007
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January 2007
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December 2006
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- 31: Recommended links for December 2006
- 31: The Shifting Hub
- 31: DRM is death and has broken the IP consensus
- 30: Commonism vs. Ownerism: who will win out?
- 30: P2P Books of the Year in 2006
- 29: AT&T Files Letter Of Commitment on Net Neutrality
- 29: Launch of the Law Underground collaborative
- 29: Two cheers for the Creative Commons in 2007
- 29: Self-production of bliss vs. mystical theatrics
- 28: Attention Economy Recap and commentary from John Hagel
- 28: Digital sharecropping
- 27: An example of crowding out at Debian
- 27: Public Spaces on the Web
- 26: Is it necessary to design against homophyli and the logic of affinity?
- 26: The Internet as Phronesis Engine
- 26: Rhizomatic militaries need distributed communication networks
- 25: Saved from (partial) cyberdeath: the Wikipedia biography deletion process
- 25: The true P2P (r)evolution may not happen in Europe and America
- 24: Can economies of independence and diversity replace economies of place and scale?
- 24: How is the energy issue related to P2P political change?
- 24: Is it necessary to design against homophyli and the logic of affinity?
- 23: How are hierarchy and ownership related: a theory of rhizomatic power
- 23: Charles Leadbeater urges P2P-inspired public policy for innovation
- 22: The Upside Of Down: The Emerging Economics of The Commons
- 22: Zealots and the Wikipedia process
- 22: P2P Book of the Week, Exerpt 4: All the World a Stage: The Emerging Attention Economy…, by Michael H. Goldhaber
- 21: Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice (MIT Press)
- 21: P2P Book of the Week, Exerpt 3: All the World a Stage: The Emerging Attention Economy…, by Michael H. Goldhaber
- 20: P2P Book of the Week, Exerpt 2: All the World a Stage: The Emerging Attention Economy…, by Michael H. Goldhaber
- 20: P2P theory and the Dunbar number
- 19: Does the virtual replace the physical? No, BUT …
- 19: Why non-alienated peer production is better
- 18: Collactive: Online Political Swarming
- 18: Users fleeing MySpace?
- 18: P2P Book of the Week: All the World a Stage: The Emerging Attention Economy, Why It’s Coming, Its Deep Difference from the Familiar Market-Money-Industrial Economy, and What the Changes Mean For Our Lives, by Michael H. Goldhaber
- 17: The basic income in Africa
- 17: Research: Customization in the Internet economy
- 15: Bringing Commons Concepts To Latin America
- 15: Internet Journalists In Prison CPJ Reports
- 14: Cyberconflict workshop, London May 9, 2007
- 14: Book announcement: Wikinomics Is the New Crowdsourcing
- 14: For NGO’s: Open Publishing in a box
- 13: P2P lecture in Amsterdam at De Waag, on December 19th
- 13: The Re-public journal: special issue on the Promise of the Commons
- 13: A reaction to Open Source Spying
- 12: Does private property increase common property
- 12: Software and Community in the Early 21st Century
- 12: Solar energy and the P2P Energy Grid
- 12: Peer property as a really new form of property
- 11: OpenID-Decentralized Open Standards For Online Identity
- 11: Distributed Communities
- 11: Dutch police opens up cold cases to peer-based problem solving
- 11: Hacking democracy
- 11: Content no longer scales, only aggregation does
- 10: Segolene Royal as a peer to peer politician: a short profile of her web strategy
- 10: Open Source Car project maintainer profiled
- 10: True costing of the One Laptop Per Child program
- 09: On Bounded Rationality
- 09: Freedom License innovation at the Creative Commons
- 08: Book of the Week: Brands, part three
- 08: Open the Future: Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot
- 07: Newstrust: Media Literacy Through Collaborative News Review
- 07: Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
- 06: P2P Bookstore Opens Doors
- 06: Book of the Week: Brands, part two
- 06: Adam Arvidsson on the two managerial philosophies for branding
- 05: Mapping and resistance
- 04: OpenBusiness » Sellaband – A Truly Distributed Music Business
- 04: On the Political Value of Talking About the Commons
- 04: Book of the Week: Brands, by Adam Arvidsson, part one
- 04: Wisdom of Crowds and Collective Intelligence In Virtual Collective Problem Solving
- 04: The Tragedy of the Commons and the Economic Man
- 03: David Bollier on Policy, Citizenship and the Commons (Mexico conference, Dec 7)
- 02: Understanding When To Use Technologies of Cooperation and Change
- 02: A P2P approach to politics
- 01: Experience economy and peer to peer: 8 December in Amsterdam
November 2006
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- 30: Who owns what – creative ownership’s terms and conditions
- 29: OpenBusiness report on UK artists and their attitude on the Creative Commons
- 29: Benkler, Bauwens, and the market
- 29: The problems of experts and credentials
- 29: Book of the Week: Three Ways of Getting Things Done, part two
- 28: Travel Exchanges and the p2p lifestyle
- 28: Top 50 P2P Podcasts by Topic
- 28: Gems at the P2P Foundation: March 2006
- 27: Towards Abundance economics, but against pseudo-Abundance
- 27: What’s wrong with the Bazaar style of development
- 27: Book of the Week: Three Ways of Getting Things Done. By Gerard Fairtlough.
- 27: Recommended links for the week ending Sunday, November 26
- 26: Open-Source Film Making Contest, Screening, More Productions
- 26: Some processes of cognitive capitalism
- 26: The role of openness vs. hijacking in the 3 processes of P2P knowledge building
- 25: On the value of openness in scientific research
- 25: Will 3G kill the wireless community movement?
- 25: Debate recap: Erik Douglas on Democracy, Peer Governance and the State.
- 24: More About Open-Source Storytelling, YouTube (“Part 3″)
- 24: Adam Arvidsson on Milton Friedman: Freedom, Ethics and the new P2P Economics
- 24: Debate on democracy and peer governance, Conclusion (part 5)
- 23: Online Video: Getting Paid, Open-Source Storytelling (Part 2 of 2)
- 23: Peer to Peer and Affinity-based Markets
- 23: P2P Seek Music Search Engine
- 23: Debate on democracy and peer governance, part 4
- 22: Online Video: Getting Paid, Open-Source Storytelling (Part 1 of 2)
- 22: Cucumis, free translation community
- 22: The two economies of free software
- 22: Debate on democracy, peer governance, and the state, part 3
- 21: Autonomous geographies for radical politics
- 21: Thailand’s ICT minister reverses negative stand on Open Source
- 21: Against the reductionism of social network theories
- 21: Debate on democracy and peer governance, part 2, the role of the state
- 20: Can there be good DRM? Martin Springer comments on Benjamin Mako Hill
- 20: Book of the Week: George Siemens’ Knowing Knowledge (1)
- 20: Debate: Democracy and peer governance, part one: The Four Pillars of Democracy
- 19: Varieties of integral theory
- 19: Broadband: regulation vs. free market approaches
- 18: Google Will Eat Itself (GWEI)
- 18: The concentric circle approach to marketing
- 17: Access to essential medecines from university research
- 17: The Enclosures of the Seed Commons
- 17: From the private right to copy to the right to share
- 17: What you may have missed: October 16-30, 2006
- 16: Parakey: And Emerging WebOS Ideas
- 16: The Books of the Week: recap page
- 16: We moved!
- 15: The deep paradox of the link
- 15: Book of the Week: Peter Barnes on Capitalism 3.0
- 15: The quality of peer production
- 14: Distinguishing Open Commons Organizations from Open Business Organizations
- 14: Gems at the P2P Foundation: February 2006
- 14: Recommended links for the week ending Sunday November 12
- 14: Propaganda vs. open sourcing the truth
- 13: Voluntary Collective Licensing as a solution to the copyright wars
- 13: Fab@Home or the importance of universal freeform manufacturing
- 13: John Hagel on the Open Distribution Model
- 13: Silverbacks, Connectors and the need for new hybrids
- 12: Creative Commons defends the author, and why this is necessary
- 12: Franz Nahrada reports on the new work movement
- 11: Book of the Week: Kevin Carson on the Mutualist Political Economy, excerpts
- 11: Legal vs. Social Commons: Brazil
- 11: Interview on the p2p society for Panopticon: peer governance vs. representative democracy
- 08: Recommended links for the week ending Sunday November 5
- 08: Gems from the P2P Blog: January 2006
- 06: How peer to peer media are undermining spiritual authoritarianism
- 06: Book of the Week: Kevin Carson on the Mutualist Economy
- 06: World Travel Exchange accepts complementary currencies
- 06: Kevin Carson on building the new within the shell of the old
- 04: Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
- 03: Electronic Literature Collection
- 02: Book of the Week: Silvio Gesell’s Natural Economic Order, part two
- 01: Open Music Business Models: recap
October 2006
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- 31: You Tubers
- 31: Publishing 2.0 on the declining rate of profit in a Web 2.0 economy
- 31: Stefan Merten on Peer Production and the monetary economy
- 30: What is Wine Hacking?
- 30: Book of the Week:the Natural Economic Order, by Silvio Gesell
- 30: Mother Jones: Is Google Turning Evil?
- 29: The top of the Long Tail at the P2P Foundation: 10 most popular topics
- 29: Recommended links for the Week ending Sunday 29/10/2006
- 27: YouTube: From Concept to Hyper-growth
- 27: The Evolution Of The Creative Commons Spectrum
- 26: Examining our assumptions on economies of scale
- 26: There should only be one rule: there are no rules!
- 26: The language pages at the P2P Foundation
- 25: Book of the Week, Unbounded Freedom, part two
- 25: Steve Harnad on the difference between open access to code, to text, and to data: an update
- 25: An open service ecology requires compromise: Marc Dangeard
- 25: Lawrence Lessig on true vs. fake sharing: how P2P is Web 2.0?
- 25: The breakdown of elephant culture
- 25: Navigate from A to B, but via C and D
- 24: The Top 10 Categories at the P2P Foundation wiki … and the winner is …
- 24: Freedom of choice vs. freedom from choice
- 23: Robin Good Interviews Howard Rheingold
- 23: Kevin Carson defends the LETS menace
- 23: Whuffies: fictional reputation currency becomes real
- 23: Book of the Week: Unbounded Freedom, by Rosemary Bechler
- 22: YouTube, Video Blogs, EU regulations and “offers you can not refuse”
- 22: Metis: the other kind of technological knowledge
- 21: Nicholas Renville on why RSS is better for a truly participative online videosphere: conclusion
- 21: Media and meta-data turning into air
- 21: Nicholas Renville on why RSS is better for a truly participative online videosphere, part two
- 21: Nicholas Renville on what is needed for a truly participative online videosphere, part one
- 20: Living On the Edge, Comfortably
- 19: Political party funding and the role of political parties
- 19: Catherine Burton’s essay on planetary governance
- 19: Lala update: the p2p music exchange service goes ‘radio’
- 19: The shift towards postmaterial value systems
- 18: Blog and wiki up-time issues
- 18: Book of the Week: Participatory Spirituality, part 2
- 18: Dave Pollard on P2P healthcare systems
- 17: Blue Dot – social bookmarking revisited
- 17: Paul B. Hartzog on expanding the commons through technology
- 17: Is the future of banking in doubt?
- 16: Peer production from the point of view of corporations: a hierarchy of engagement
- 16: New book of the week: John Heron’s Farewell to Authoritarian Religion
- 16: Charles Leadbetter on the We-Think Economy
- 16: What neoliberal globalization has wrought
- 16: The Ethical Economy recap page
- 15: Update on Robert Anton Wilson’s condition, according Douglas Rushkoff
- 15: Dale Carrico on defending the subtleties of postmoderns
- 15: Is a post-Christian Europe being joined by a post-Christian U.S.?
- 15: Clay Shirky on Citizendium and the problems of experts
- 14: Cooperatives in Venezuela – update
- 14: e-Advocacy research in Asia, research project
- 14: Is there a P2P approach to the state?
- 14: Democratizing the state, rather than smashing it
- 14: Some questions to the media industry
- 14: The Benkler/Lessig Bauwens/Kleiner debate, part four
- 13: YouTube: How videos are signs, watching is social
- 13: Ethical Economy Debate (3): William Brandon Shanley’s critique of the Scarcity Matrix
- 13: The Ethical Economy Debate (2): Michel Bauwens on P2P and the Corporation
- 13: The Benkler/Lessig Bauwens/Kleiner debate: recap page
- 13: The Ethical Economy – 5
- 13: The End of Open Source? – The Beginning of Open Services
- 13: The Ethical Economy debate (1): Kevin Carson on Tom Peters
- 12: Bill McKibben on the Evangelical Climate Initiative
- 12: P2P as solution for file-served television
- 12: The Ethical Economy – 4
- 11: Pay Attention to YouTube!
- 11: Conference Announcement: MIT’s Future of Entertainment
- 11: The Ethical Economy – 3
- 11: Re-Inventing Political Activism In The P2P Era
- 11: Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of Benkler – discussion with Bauwens, continued, part three
- 11: Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of Benkler – discussion with Bauwens, continued, part two
- 10: Antonio Gramsci and The Necessity of Political Action
- 10: Master New Media P2P interview now also at YouTube
- 10: Peer production: conditions for success (according to Yochai Benkler)
- 10: Lawrence Lessig on the Free Beer project
- 10: Ethical Economy – 2
- 09: Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of Yochai Benkler
- 09: Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of the Lessig’ Creative Commons license
- 09: Simuze: CD with Dutch Creative Commons music
- 09: Spanish translation of Richard Poynder interview on P2P
- 09: The Ethical Economy – 1
- 09: Introducing the new ‘Book of the Week’ series
- 09: Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
- 08: Speak Free Music: monitoring innovative business models and quality free music
- 07: GeoBliki
- 06: The Google Innovation Culture
- 06: Why is commercial open source so expensive?
- 04: European concern for the commercial and cultural dominance of Google’s universal library
- 04: Open Source Shorts – call for submissions
- 04: Friends of Robert Anton Wilson Relief Fund
- 03: Video interview on the P2P paradigm
- 02: What to think of Chavez and Venezuela?
September 2006
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- 30: Dave Pollard on the 2 optimal modes of decision-making
- 29: Author-Pay a misleading alternative for Open Access journals
- 28: Some P2P Foundation Milestones
- 28: From Direct Democracy to the Direct Economy
- 28: Mass Collaboration: from bioteaming concepts to swarmteam technology
- 27: Winning by Sharing™, by Léon Benjamin
- 25: Define your collaborative project
- 22: On The Commons: What we can learn from the “Nollywood” Model
- 22: P2P Governance for Sustainability
- 22: A Swarm of Angels: Open Business Meets Peer-Produced Film Making
- 21: Alfred Schutz, F2F, Social Software, and Streams of Consciousness
- 20: Audiovisual section of the P2P Wiki updated
- 20: Matt McAlister » Challenging why (and how) people tag things
- 20: Debian experiments with funding group to release ‘etch’ on time
- 19: Stefan Meretz reporting from Berlin: Wizards of OS 4
- 19: P2P interview, continued
- 18: Trends in the Living Networks: Interview on MySpace and social media
- 17: lonelygirl15
- 17: Management of immaterial values in quadruple
- 17: Reporting from Amsterdam
- 16: Free from copyright. No rights reserved. A new kind of book by John Heron 2006.
- 15: CommunityWiki: WikiMusic
- 15: The Emergence of Diavlogging
- 14: What You Should Know About Copyright
- 14: Praxis publish ‘Cyberwar, Netwar and the Revolution in Military Affairs’
- 13: Irrepressible
- 13: Wikipedia’s Jimbo Wales Takes A Stand Against Chinese Censporship
- 13: The Open Library project
- 12: SmartMobs: Social interactions in online virtual environments
- 12: A private library system controlled by a single corporation?
- 11: Route 66: Creative Commons movie
- 10: Troubles at Digg
- 09: The Amish as ‘adaptive techno-selectives’
- 08: Please support the Panarchy.com fundraising drive
- 08: Third Enclosures wrap-up: the new feudal economics of web 2.0
- 08: John Hagel on the new marketing era
- 06: Questions and Answers
- 06: Expanding peer production to the physical realm, part two
- 06: Expanding peer production to the physical realm, part one
- 06: OnTheCommons.org | The Language of the Commons
- 05: MySpace users tell marketers get out!
- 05: Open Content developments in the South
- 05: Creation of new P2P exchange: Give Get Nation
- 05: Neighbornode: bottom-up wireless networks for neighborhoods
- 05: Is a commons-based political economy at all possible?
- 05: How P2P affects publishing: Paul Hartzog
- 05: Firefox case study of peer production and governance
- 04: Lucas Gonze on the decentralizaton of taste
- 04: The Open Source Revolution in Pakistan
- 04: The Dropping Knowledge Business Model
- 03: Odd Wiki SocialSynergy: WiredNewsWiki
- 03: Richard Poynder interview on peer to peer
- 03: Managing Innovation
- 02: New essay on the Play Ethic by Pat Kane
- 01: Temporariness, ownership, and post-material values
- 01: Web 2.0 documentary: is it a bubble?
- 01: Green Wifi initiative: solar-powered broadband for development
- 01: Cancer: cooperation is good also for the bad guys
- 01: Olivier Malnuit’s ten commandments for the liberal communist
- 01: Interlocals.net to promote cross-regional dialog in East Asia
- 01: Canadian radio podcast on copyright
August 2006
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- 31: OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » Building on Open Business as Entrepreneurs Lifecycle Management
- 31: YouTube Whistle Blowing — CooperationCommons
- 31: On the synergy between bottom-up and top-down
- 31: The different aspects of peer governance
- 30: Jamais Cascio interviewed on MemeTherapy
- 30: Ryan Shaw on the emergence of appropriation and annotation literacy
- 30: New documentary on the Pirate Bay
- 30: Celebrating participatory culture in music
- 28: Web 2.0 and the Third Enclosure, part two: opposing the new digital sharecropping agreements
- 28: Has the time come to oppose the third enclosure movement?
- 28: Open Business interview on future media
- 26: Mutual marketing: an economy based on Open, relationship-based signalling systems
- 26: BookMooch: a gift economy for books
- 26: A critique of the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid ideas
- 25: The Net Effect of Affective Capitalism
- 24: FTC On Net Neutrality: More Of The Same
- 23: Collaborative robots
- 23: The ABC of social innovation
- 23: Using community-based tools in science
- 22: What is an integral approach?
- 22: Are there any science fiction books on p2p issues out there?
- 22: We’re still indexing podcasts and webcasts
- 22: New essay on P2P
- 22: Awe and Shock with Critical Realism: is it compatible with P2P?
- 22: Swarming in Lebanon
- 22: Electric Mobs
- 21: Can Collective Action Stop Spam From Ruining The Internet?
- 21: The disatisfied consumer
- 20: The War Tapes documentary: first documentary directed through instant messaging
- 20: The Wikitruth project: challenging weaknesses in Wikipedia’s governance
- 19: What kind of value is created in networks: symbolic value
- 19: Are open source licenses obsolete? – Tim O’Reilly
- 19: We are the media: how to participate in autonomous media production?
- 19: New documentary on piracy
- 18: Two-sided networks as an open business model
- 18: An overview of Open Research Practices
- 16: User generated content and gaming
- 16: Dale Carrico on transhumanism
- 15: The Openness Aversion
- 15: Swedish “pirate party” launches a commercial darknet
- 15: Jon Stewart’s “the internet is a series of tubes” remix
- 15: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy, by Richard N. Langlois
- 15: Uncovering different kinds of voices through the network
- 14: Machinima Film Festival open for submissions
- 13: Wireless Internet Commons
- 13: eGaia, Growing a peaceful, sustainable Earth through communications, by Gary Alexander
- 09: Symbiosis And Living Machines
- 09: Dale Carrico on deliberative development
- 09: Book: From Sun Tzu to Xbox
- 05: Book Review: The World Café | by Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, World Cafe Community, Margaret J. Wheatley
- 02: P2P International Currency Exchange
- 02: Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare, by Andrew Glyn
- 02: Social technology and the hidden dimension of time
July 2006
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- 30: The Reputation Society, a forthcoming book by Hassan Masum and Yi-Cheng Zhang
- 29: Make Zine: Citizen Engineers
- 29: P2P’s sense of history, and how P2p does social
- 28: The Possibilities of “Synergizing”
- 28: Book Review: Garden Planet: The Present Phase Change of the Human Species
- 27: Defining Global Neighborhoods; Call for Comments
- 27: Brain Parade Hi Tech Democracy
- 25: NewAssignment.net: An experiment in participatory journalism
- 21: Book Review: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
- 21: The Political Economy of Peer Production in many flavours
- 21: Folksonomic Value Proposition Part 1
- 20: Jamais Cascio interviewed on Meme Therapy
- 18: Jay Rosen:The People Formerly Known As “The Audience”
- 18: My first contributions to the foundation
- 16: Office levity — How to stage the revolution, 16 pp (pamphlet)
- 15: Vernor Vinge on the peer-based singularity
- 13: Tings, dey fall apart. Commentary on war, talk, and globalization.
- 13: How We got To “Hyperlogic”: Lessons From Hacking the Human Mind Via Social BookMarking
- 13: Christopher Spehr on out-cooperating Empire
- 13: Gold farming and exploitation in online games
- 13: Rosa Zubaretta on “lay peer-to-peer networks” vs. “conventional group facilitation.”
- 11: Open Business Guide Launched
- 11: Book and contest on telecenters
- 11: Dale Carrico on the emerging technoprogressive ‘mainstream’
- 11: More on Spiritual Authoritarianism and Andrew Cohen
- 11: A preliminary conclusion on the debate on democracy and peer governance
- 11: Steve Harnad on the difference between open access to code, to text, and to data
- 11: Richard Poynder continues his excellent open access interviews
- 10: Why Digg Is A Poor Example Of “The Wisdom of Crowds”
- 10: A conversation with Michael Goldhaber on Attention
- 10: Web 2.0. and the increase in software productivity
- 10: What drives online cooperation: agonistic giving
- 09: The unwisdom of crowds, part three: questions and critique of the digg killer manifesto
- 08: Going beyond the unwisdom of crowds, part two: a critique of the Web 2.0 paradigm and its Web 2.5 alternative
- 08: Controlled Identity services: Naymz, ClaimID
- 08: Swarming and global complex microstructures
- 08: Report: open standards, open source, and open innovation should be adapted as public policy
- 07: “Alternative freedom”, documentary on copyright and the war against cultural freedom
- 07: Jimmy Wales announces project to wikify politics
- 07: How to avoid the unwisdom of crowds
- 06: Nature’s experiment into peer review
- 06: Podcast: Michel Bauwens on P2P and the Commons
- 03: Lala.com for CD sharing and exchange
- 03: Digitizing your VHS tapes with the R2 Neuros MPEG4 Recorder
- 03: The radical copyright critique of Piratbyran
- 02: The General Intellect at Procter & Gamble
- 01: How To Solve The Net Neutrality Problem
- 01: The Lonely Individual and the Multitude
- 01: Deconstructing the culture of fear
- 01: Who Killed the Electric Car?
June 2006
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- 30: The Weblog Project: first open source documentary about blogging
- 30: Groupware is out, Soloware is in
- 30: What is individual property, what is common property, what is collective property?
- 29: Entrepreneurs of Cooperation Essay
- 29: Internationalizing the P2P Foundation Wiki: P2P is worldwide!
- 29: Loren Goldner on the recovery of the cosmobiological tradition
- 29: Four ages of the Western Mind, and the fifth
- 29: “Open Source is about self-interest”
- 28: Types of connectivity
- 28: Big content companies are discovering P2P’s benefits
- 27: Video on the Great Turning to a life-sustaining civilization
- 27: Greenpeace Video on Decentralized Energy
- 26: Watch and listen to Joi Ito explore the metaverse
- 26: Magic as participatory consciousness
- 26: Australian Future Media conference
- 26: Apple’s ethical troubles revealed by Actics Ethical evaluation tool
- 26: Teleconsciousness update: Steven Vedro’s seventh level technologies
- 24: Building community from the bottom-up – book review by Dave Pollard
- 24: The first six months of the P2P Foundation blog
- 24: Teleconsciousness update: Steven Vedro’s sixth level
- 24: Debating Relationality and Individuality, part two: relations need an object
- 24: Debating Relationality and Individuality, part one: on the primacy of relationality
- 23: Open Textbook movement advances in Kerala
- 23: Report on e-democracy projects worldwide
- 23: Steven Vedro on (tele)consciousness
- 23: Creation of the Pirate Party of the United States
- 23: DRM-Free Media
- 22: Conditions for successful peer governance
- 22: Three questions on property and the commons
- 21: Open Video contest announcement
- 21: The Open Revolution in Brazil: Baile Funk’s copyrights free music
- 21: The Open Peer Review experiment at Biology Direct
- 21: The Ripple ‘friend to friend’ monetary system
- 21: Some thoughts on leftism and libertarianism
- 21: Kevin Carson on markets without capitalism
- 20: Per Bylund on vertical and horizontal Counter-Economics
- 20: Conservatives and “upward redistribution” welfare state
- 20: Intermediate Technology
- 20: Good wrap-up on the state of the music industry
- 19: Launch of Mizzima TV for Burma
- 19: WiFi Phones for Rural Connectivity
- 19: The Crooked Timber seminar on The Wealth of Networks
- 19: The Class of the New, by Richard Barbrook
- 17: satellite view p2p foundation blog and wiki
- 17: Unconferences, and how they exemply the new peer-based work cultures
- 17: The new marketing remix: whatever happened to the four P’s
- 17: After the hacking: a call for assistance
- 17: Mobfilms: peer production in documentary filmmaking
- 17: Deterritorialized identities in swarming media
- 16: New documentary on filesharing
- 16: Global gathering of the Commons in Bali
- 16: Wilber whirldwind wrap-up
- 15: The ethical surplus and its monetization: quote from Adam Arvidsson
- 14: The emergence of an Asian Commons
- 14: Remi Sussan on the link between computers, the counter-culture and peer to peer ideals
- 14: Bruce Sterling: update on zero-advertising brands
- 14: Problems with the Zaadz of Capitalism and the Omidyar of Commonism
- 14: What’s wrong: treating rival sources as non-rival, treating non-rival sources as rival
- 13: Why is the free software movement excluded from UN bodies?
- 13: On the logic of cultism at the Integral institutes
- 12: Ken Wilber is losing it
- 12: Italian collective movie against Berlusconi
- 11: The economic case for free software in the South
- 11: Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K Yale)
- 08: Free Culture, still free
- 08: P2P Classics: Free Culture
- 06: P2P Data, Opendata, WikiData
- 06: Adam Arvidsson on Zero-Advertising Brands
- 06: Bricolab: bricolage, p2p-brut and collaborative authorship
- 06: New issue of integral review
- 06: Highly Illicit: The dark side of globalization
- 05: Against Eurocentrism: A Transcendent Critique of Modernist Science, Society, and Morals, by Rajani Kanth
- 04: P2P and Open Futures
- 04: The Crisis in Economics: The Post-Autistic Economics Movement: The first 600 days, Edward Fullbrook (editor)
- 04: Open Source Politics
- 04: Elephant’s dream : a new movie under creative commons
- 01: The Long Tail of PhD research: share your PhD Research with the P2P Foundation
- 01: David Brin on the difference between markets and capital
- 01: The organic-integrative society and peer to peer (part two)
- 01: The organic-integrative society, integralism, and peer to peer (part one)
May 2006
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April 2006
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March 2006
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February 2006
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- 28: Power Inquiry report 2006: study on UK democracy
- 28: Larry Penslinger on P2P and quantum physics
- 28: Dialogue with Patrick Godeau (1): free software and equity
- 27: Are P2P relations personal, or impersonal?
- 27: Four levels of P2P
- 26: The “Great Cosmic Mash-up” as an answer to postmodernist fragmentation
- 22: Web 2.0 and the new minipreneurial culture
- 20: John Heron on the spiritual in the Global Integral-Spiritual Commons
- 20: P2P and the Cooperative movement: critical comments from Marcus Moltz
- 20: Dialogue with Wim Nusselder on Quarternary Economics and P2P
- 20: Remi Sussan on transhumanism, chaos culture and P2P
- 20: Cooperative capitalism as an intermediary between the market and peer production?
- 18: The new gatekeepers, equipotentiality vs. the Power Law
- 17: Peer production, the market, and the state
- 17: Peer Governance and the State
- 16: Announcing the first ever thai bloggers meeting
- 16: Integrative spirituality, the Global Integrative/Spiritual Commons, and what it is not.
- 16: Pull economies vs. push economies
- 16: Value creation through the commons
- 16: Net Neutrality update
- 16: Video hosting services compared
- 15: Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias
- 15: P2P and the Cooperative Movement
- 15: Is P2P left or right?
- 15: A critique of the bottom of the pyramid ideology by Paul Hawken
- 14: What do you believe?
- 14: David Ellerman’s Helping Theory
- 14: P2P Hierarchy Theory: Riane Eisler’s partnership way
- 14: Peter Barnes on Capitalism 3.0
- 14: Complementary currencies and the basic income
- 14: Why I’m not hot on Prosper.com, the new U.S. based peer to peer banking system
- 13: P2P Foundation now receiving voicemail
- 13: Investigations in P2P Theory: future plans
- 13: The FON controversy
- 11: P2P Encyclopedia reaches 200 items
- 09: What a difference an ‘a’ makes
- 09: Exploring the possibility of non-capitalist markets
- 09:
Rank-thinking vs. peer thinking
- 09: Anti-credentialism and Technostalgia
- 08: The P2P Hall of Fame: call for nominations
- 08: The fight against network neutrality, or: The (anti-)P2P Counter-Revolution has begun
- 08: Center for Digital Democracy launches ‘Beyond Broadcast’ report
- 08: Participatory Culture Foundation announces Videobomb ‘democratic TV’ project
- 07: Television “as you know it” will die soon!
- 07: Conference: Class composition in Cognitive Capitalism
- 07: Australian Report on the future of the internet, Darren Sharp
- 06: Aspen report on the Pull Economy
- 06: The Universal Basic Income and a post-work world
- 04: Nicholas Bentley’s link recommendations on Intellectual Proprety
- 02: The ‘distribution of capital’ debate
- 02: Trusting Peers more than institutions
- 01: Peer production, gender and feminism
January 2006
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- 31: John Heron on the concept and history of relational spirituality
- 31: P2P, non-reciprocity, and the wisdom of crowds
- 30: Socially-centered P2P vs. business-centered P2P
- 29: Distinguishing Open Access from Open Process
- 28: Wireless Networking for the Developing world
- 28: Continuing the dialogue with David Bollier: P2P, the Commons, the Market
- 27: Towards a Value-based Quarternary Economics
- 27: Antigoras and netarchical capitalism, update
- 26: Read/Write Davos has never been so open
- 26: The campaign against network neutrality
- 25: Call for Papers of Ephemeraweb.org: Affective and Immaterial Labour
- 25: Canadian event on free software based innovation and peer governance
- 25: Is Asia ready for the peer to peer revolution?
- 24: Asian New Media conference
- 22: The three power systems: hierarchy, heterarchy, and responsible autonomy
- 21: Special issue of Metamute on the Knowledge Commons
- 18: Mediacast on subject of web2.0 “the global SOA”
- 17: Who owns ‘the wisdom of crowds’
- 17: Blogs and alternative media
- 13: Person to Person disaster relief: p2paid.org
- 13: Towards the Distribution of Everything
- 12: Introduction to “intellectual contributions” theory, Nicholas Bentley
- 10: The hypothesis of Netarchical Capitalism
- 10: P2P, Netarchical capitalism, Protocollary Power and Jaron Lanier’s Antigoras
- 10: P2P Link Selection: Darren Sharp
- 09: Wireless Community movement creates a P2P network: FON
- 09: P2P Cooperation in 3D: Open Croquet
- 08: P2P and the Open Access Movement
- 07: The Peer to Peer Foundation needs your cooperation
- 07: The logic of affinity vs. the logic of hegemony
- 06: Transhumanism and peer to peer: Amor Mundi and the transhumanist left
- 05: John Heron’s relational spirituality and Wilber critique
- 05: Dialogue with Nicholas Bentley on P2P and “Intellectual Contributions”
- 05: Kevin Carson and Matthew Claxton on Desktop Manufacturing and P2P economies
- 05: A P2P Theory for Social Change
- 04: Joi Ito discussed the importance of Open Networks
- 04: Jorge Ferrer, participatory spirituality, and the comparing mind
- 03: A dialogue with David Bollier: P2P, The Commons and the Open paradigm
- 01: Trusting Google, or not?
November 2005
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