discovered on the Boing Boing website: “Strange Company have just released the first episode of their Machinima feature film, BloodSpell, under Creative Commons licensing (including a nice little rant on the page about why they’re releasing three years’ work for free.) It’s described as a “post-goth punk fantasy adventure” about a world where some people… Continue reading
Date archives "April 2006"
Croquet is out
We already spoke about Croquet in this blog ; but until a few days ago, only a prerelease, “alpha” version, named Jasmine was available on the net. Last week, the first beta version of croquet (full of bugs, but existing) can be downloaded at www.opencroquet.org. Among the creators of Croquet, one may find Alan Kay,… Continue reading
Stepping off
While millions of people are signing up to explore and escape into the virtual realities of mmorpg and virtual worlds, other experiments are appearing that are the strange fruit of both real and virtual communities. “Launched last week by two young British entrepreneurs, tribewanted is creating a global tribe that will develop a sustainable eco-community… Continue reading
“Is P2P for everybody?”
On P2P as it relates to the developmental schemes of Integral Theory, Spiral Dynamics, Gravesian psychology Michel Bauwens: As I’m enjoying the historic (first ever) seminar dedicated to P2P and its development, a crucial question that is arising is: Is P2P for everybody, or is it Western, male, cogni-centric model functioning as a mechanism of… Continue reading
Yochai Benkler’s The Wealth of Networks
With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets, while at the same time offering new opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice…. Continue reading
P2P Energy Grids: an opening in California?
 Contribution by Michael Bishop , originally published in the Cooperation Commons mailing list: It’s possible that in the near future, the California Energy Commision and/or the California Public Utilities Commission will require the utility companies to actually pay residents that put more electricity into the grid than they took out of it. Once this… Continue reading
Characteristics of Peer Production
This is an excerpt from the manuscript on peer to peer (section 3.3.C), which could be of interest, it focuses on 3 fundamental change-producing aspects of peer production: Beyond Formalization, Institutionalization, Commodification Observation of commons-based peer production and knowledge exchange, unveils a further number of important elements, which can be added to our earlier definition… Continue reading
Class Composition in Cognitive Capitalism and other P2P conferences
Michel Bauwens: Dear friends, I am starting an intensive trip to Europe where I will be attending four seminars. I’m not sure I will be blogging much during this trip, but I’m pretty sure the friends and associates of the P2P Foundation will keep this a lively place. First, starting on Friday, April 21, the… Continue reading
Maintenance post
Apologies for the mountain of posts that came through this blog early today…The IP number of another blog got mixed up with this one, so it posted all that blog’s posts into this feed. The server this blog is hosted on obviously hosts a few other blogs too. Thanks goes to Brice for the speedy… Continue reading
Knowledge flows mapped out
It used be books only. Now it’s audio and video. Classrooms across the world are quickly ramping up in providing knowlegde beyond the campus halls. Here is perhaps one of the better ways to access this new treasure trove. I am now learning about physics from Berkeley, while riding my bicycle through Amsterdam. I was… Continue reading
When Virtual Worlds Collide
Thanks to Douglas Heingartner for making us aware of this article by Steven Johnson This brief article on open-source within the world of games, paints a picture of how one day soon, the idea of non-interoperable game-platforms and characters will seem very early 21st century… ———- Grand Theft Auto crashes through EverQuest into The Sims!… Continue reading
Podcast on Open Access with Mark Pesce
Presenting a conversation on Open Access and the freedom of the Internet and networks. A conversation between Mark Pesce, Michel Bouwens and James Burke. Topics include: Yochai Benkler’s 3 layers what issues physical layer>>>>>who own’s the pipes code layer >>>>>> open standards content layer >>>> who own’s the media Question posed to mark: Should you… Continue reading
A selection of podcasts on cooperation and peer to peer
Here’s a selection of podcasts by P2P digerati, selected from the P2P Podcasts Directory. Enjoy: Anne Margulies on Open Courseware Bill Ives on Blogs as Tools for Personal Knowledge Management Clare Graves on his Levels of Existence psychology Cory Doctorow on DRM and Broadcast Flag Craig Michaels of Akimbo on Television and the Internet Dan… Continue reading
A selection of webcasts on cooperation and peer to peer
In the last few weeks, we have been actively collating, and received many suggestions from our friends, on webcasts that shed light on P2P topics, the open access/source movement, and on cooperation generally. Here’s a selection of recommended webcasts from various sources, collated in our P2P Webcast Directory: Anne Margulies on Open Courseware Bernardo Huberman… Continue reading
Do you need a life coach ?
Not P2P related, but simply a very funny video.
Indicators of Virtual Power: Betweenness and Closeness – Valerie Krebs
The Cooperation Commons blog mentions a new report from Valerie Krebs, Building Smart Communities through Network Weaving. A earlier report mentions two indicators of power in a network, which we have entered in our encyclopedia: “They say the golden rule in Real Estate is: Location, Location, Location. Might this rule also hold in social networks?… Continue reading