In issue 88 of P2P News, I mentioned the discovery of a new Integral Spirituality site, which should have rejoiced me, yet didn’t. I then formuated a number of questions, to which John Heron responded in issue 89. Below a reprint of John Heron’s remarks, followed by the original questions. John Heron: “I’ve been having… Continue reading
Date archives "February 2006"
Pull economies vs. push economies
This is a widely discussed meme, i.e. the contrast between the old industrial model of push economies, vs. the new pull economies. Here an excerpt from David Bollier, who co-authored a report on it, for the Aspen Institute. The Report, entitled When Push comes to Pull, is downloadable here. “Briefly put, a “push economyâ€? –… Continue reading
Value creation through the commons
Very good summary by David Bollier of non-commodity based value creation through the Commons. He then concludes this interesting post showing that even the aspects of this value creation that can be monetized, do not necessarily privatise easily, i.e. the wisdom of crowds has a chance of staying within the community, rather than outside of… Continue reading
Net Neutrality update
I’ve mentioned before that the openness of the internet is in serious danger, if the U.S. and Telco succeed in their tiered pricing proposals. David Bollier recently updated the events surrounding the topic and recommends the following paper by Public Knowledge: Executive Summary The genius of the Internet is its promise of unlimited accessibility. With… Continue reading
Video hosting services compared
This is a copy of some review notes, found here. Google Video – Pros: Apparently unlimited file size; flash player that you can host on your blog; no ads in video; 2 day approval; good search features; high traffic; cross platform uploader tool. Cons: Audio is somewhat mangled (listen to intangible and then watch the… Continue reading
Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias
Excerpts from a transcript of a video interview with Christoph Spehr. This interview sets out very clearly the criteria to which contemporary forms of cooperation must abide by. 1. Free Cooperation vs. the Old Utopias Political utopia, utopian thinking today has to differ from most of the stuff we are familiar with as political… Continue reading
P2P and the Cooperative Movement
Some while I ago, I noticed a lot of incoming links from a Basque Spanish-language blog, from Julen Iturbe-Ormaetxe, affiliated with the Mondragon cooperatives. Julen promised me to write up some contributions in English on the relationship between P2P and the cooperative movement. Motivated by this, I’m reprinting some of the earlier info and comments… Continue reading
Is P2P left or right?
A reprint of an editorial in P2P News 87, with some updated comments at bottom. In my view, it is definitely an expression of the left, but, it has the potential to solve the important contradiction between equality and liberty, and thus, to encompass sincere liberals in its embrace. Before the emergence of peer to… Continue reading
A critique of the bottom of the pyramid ideology by Paul Hawken
In my own writings on netarchical capitalism, I distinguish between netarchical capitalism as a class, enabling and profiting from participatory platforms; as a practice, involving minipreneurs, but also as an ideology, which favors participation but only within the framework of capitalism. Netarchists in my mind are those who favour P2P, but for whom the horizon… Continue reading
What do you believe?
“What do you believe?” is the headline for a new webservice called Standpoint , that lets users record their beliefs and attach reasons to them. This can be a claim, an argument, a url, a book, a film, a story or a quote. I particularly enjoyed seeing the arrival of this service as it adds… Continue reading
David Ellerman’s Helping Theory
Another important element in a reformed hierarchy theory will be the Helping Theory developed by David Ellerman, http://www.ellerman.org/Davids-Stuff/Dev-Theory/HPHT-precis.pdf, which concerns ‘autonomy-compatible assistance’. It has been developed in the context of foreign aid to ‘underdeveloped countries’, but has a more generally application to the general kind of relationship applicable between people of varying degree of possibility”This… Continue reading
P2P Hierarchy Theory: Riane Eisler’s partnership way
P2P Theory aims to investigate how the four types of human interactions as defined by Alan Page Fiske, i.e. Equality Matching, Authority Ranking, Market Pricing and Communal Shareholding, will be in-formed or even ‘dominated’ by the peer to peer principle. The previous entry examined a vision of a reformed capitalism, based on one person one… Continue reading
Peter Barnes on Capitalism 3.0
In the fourfold vision of societal reform, which I have alluded to elsewhere, towards a more commons-based civilisation, it will be important to reform the market. One of the more evolved positions on this topic is that of the school of natural capitalism. Here’s the take of Peter Barnes largely reprinted from the On the… Continue reading
Complementary currencies and the basic income
This is a reprint of an editorial in issue 87 of P2P News. Editorial: the complementary nature of the universal wage and alternative currencies I received an interesting commentary from Lyon Albaugh, on how the proposals for a universal wage intersect with the alternative currency movement. He also expressed the belief that complementary currencies are… Continue reading
Why I’m not hot on Prosper.com, the new U.S. based peer to peer banking system
Michel Bauwens: Ross Dawson of the blog Trends in Living Networks mentions and comments upon a new P2P-banking initiative, Prosper.com . Ross outlines the conditions through which it could eventually become competitive with traditional banks. I would outline the following problem however: to which degree is a P2P-bank different, rather than competitive with a traditional… Continue reading
P2P Foundation now receiving voicemail
As you can see on the right navigation of this blog underneath the frappr map we have added a new button. All readers can now drop us a voicemail (which is done using Skype). Feel free to ditch writing and send a voice comment. We will be posting these with our answers, either in our… Continue reading