I’m reprinting this from P2P News 86, as it is still relevant, especially to those discovering P2P Theory through this new blog: Progress and plans regarding P2P Theory The last two months did not allow for a lot of time to rewrite ameliorate the fundamentals of the present version of P2P theory. Nevertheless, for those… Continue reading
Date archives "February 2006"
The FON controversy
Michel Bauwens: Should I temper my initial enthusiasm for FON. Before FON, it seemed that the wireless community movement was only evolving very slowly, that the idea of bottom-up networks was catching on too slowly. It seemed to me that FON did things right in creating enthusiasm for the approach, enlisting luminaries from the blog… Continue reading
P2P Encyclopedia reaches 200 items
Dear friends: We’ve reached somewhat of a milestone this week. The P2P Encyclopedia has reached 200 entries. If you never checked it out, it is a list of entries by topic, whereby the entries give a short explanation and relevant citations. It is not as complete as the Wikipedia, of course, and the entries are… Continue reading
What a difference an ‘a’ makes
What a difference an ‘a’ makes, by ted lumley: Michel Bauwens’s p2p initiative seems to be moving into a new phase, referred to as ‘building a P2P community’ a peripheral aspect of which is to populate a map that geographically positions ‘eventual p2p sympathizers’, raising the question as to whether ‘p2p community’ is a relational… Continue reading
Exploring the possibility of non-capitalist markets
Michel Bauwens: This is an important aspect of research for P2P Theory. Following the relational typology of Alan Page Fiske, there are four intersubjective modes which have existed cross-culturally and historically: equality matching (gift economy), authority ranking (feudal-type structures), market pricing, and communal shareholding (according to us: P2P). Societies have always been a mix, but… Continue reading
Rank-thinking vs. peer thinking
Nice quote: “”’I define rank thinking as the belief that only a few in any organization should be given special privilege to monopolize information, control decision-making, and command obedience from the vast majority either through coercive or manipulative power. Peer thinking, on the other hand, is the belief that everyone in the organization should have… Continue reading
Anti-credentialism and Technostalgia
Michel Bauwens: I have long argued that the new P2P technologies and social processes reflect a deep shift in ways of feeling and being and in the constellation of values (in ontology, epistemology, axiology). Technostalgia then, could be called a state of opinion which wants to hold on to an earlier form of technology, corresponding… Continue reading
The P2P Hall of Fame: call for nominations
Together with James Burke and Geert Drieghe, we plan to carry out a podcast-based interview program of the key P2P luminaries. These people should also feature with entries in our ‘Who’s Who in P2P’. So I’ve started compiling a list, in two categories. A P2P Theory list, which doesn’t mean these people are not active,… Continue reading
The fight against network neutrality, or: The (anti-)P2P Counter-Revolution has begun
Michel Bauwens: So far, I have been quite optimistic about the continued progress of participatory, P2P-based social processes, and attempts such as those of the record industry to stop filesharing were not of the kind to keep me awake, I saw them as inefficient rearguard actions. But the organized campaign of the telco’s and cable… Continue reading
Center for Digital Democracy launches ‘Beyond Broadcast’ report
“The Center for Digital Democracy today released the first of a series of white papers on the future of public media in the digital age. “Beyond Broadcast: Expanding Public Media in the Digital Age” examines a broad range of independent and noncommercial expression (including public broadcasting, but focusing especially on newer forms of community media… Continue reading
Participatory Culture Foundation announces Videobomb ‘democratic TV’ project
Videobomb combines aspects of the news site digg.com and the bookmarking site del.icio.us to make a democratic playground for video. People can submit videos and vote (“bomb”) their favorites onto the front page. Your favorites go to your own personal channel, that your friends can watch in players like DTV or iTunes. We know you… Continue reading
Television “as you know it” will die soon!
In the last millenium Jeremy Allaire and his brother J. J. established the Allaire Corporation, which made ColdFusion, an early tool for making Web sites. In 2001, Allaire was bought by Macromedia for $360 million. Mr. Allaire became Macromedia’s chief technical officer and helped oversee the development of Flash, which originally was to add animation… Continue reading
Conference: Class composition in Cognitive Capitalism
I feel extremely honoured to be invited to a conference in Cambridge at the end of April, that will discuss the contemporary class structure of society and how it is changing under ‘cognitive capitalism‘. A lot of my intellectual heroes will be present. The latter denotes a political economy where the central process has become… Continue reading
Australian Report on the future of the internet, Darren Sharp
Darren Sharp, a contributor to the P2P Foundation, has recently co-authored a report on the future of the internet. Here’s the announcement: The Smart Internet 2010 report was launched in September 2005 by Australian Minister for Communications Senator Helen Coonan at the ICT Outlook Forum, held at Sydney’s Powerhouse museum. The Report provides insight into… Continue reading
Aspen report on the Pull Economy
One of our heros, the tireless Commons advocate David Bollier, with whom we’ve dialogued on occasion (see here and here), has recently published a report for the Aspen Institute: When Push Turns To Pull: The Technology-Enabled Society August 2-5, 2005. Aspen Meadows Conference Center, Aspen Colorado “When Push Turns to Pull: The Technology-Enabled Society” focused… Continue reading
The Universal Basic Income and a post-work world
I have argued before, that one of the best means to increase the wealth of society, would be the introduction of a universal income, divorced from work. Because of the emergence of peer production, we now know that a substantial portion of freely chosen time would go to the creation of new common value. It… Continue reading