Michel Bauwens: I would like to introduce two important concepts that I have found in a document by Ezio Manzini Multi-local Societies = a network of interconnected communities and places, at the same time, open and localised Cosmopolitan localism = the balance between being localised (rooted in a place and in the community related to… Continue reading
Date archives "May 2006"
The Wifi Radio Revolution
From Sam Rose, reblogged from Smart Mobs. The quote is from the original LA Times article: The AE Wi-Fi Internet radio is a stand-alone receiver, preprogrammed with more than 2,500 online stations. Designed to operate more like a radio than a computer, it’s made by Acoustic Energy in Britain and is scheduled to hit the… Continue reading
SCORM: replacing “subject-oriented” curricula with “object oriented” curricula
The following entry is quite technical, but seems important, as it describes a new object-oriented standard for writing textbooks, that would divide learning materials in microchunks ideally suited for eLearning programs and online searching. However, Sean Fitzgerald, co-maintainer of our P2P Learning Concepts page, informs us that such Learning Objects are controversial and have been… Continue reading
Integralism and peer to peer
Michel Bauwens: The following is related to the previous item about Wilber criticism, where I mention the differences between the integral worldview and P2P Theory. The following is an excerpt from a reply I once wrote about such a critique from within the integral community. I must apologize from the somewhat aggresive tone used, but… Continue reading
Frank Visser on talking back to Wilber
Michel Bauwens: Ken Wilber’s ideas are now pretty much everywhere, even in Thailand, it would be hard to find an English bookshop without some of his books. With increased popularity has come increased criticism. I have been heavily influenced by Wilber’s thought, and developed my own criticisms of it, focusing on either the ‘cultic‘ or… Continue reading
A landmark essay: Nick Dyer-Witheford on the ‘Circulation of the Common’
Michel Bauwens: As far as I’m concerned, the Immaterial Labour Conference organized by Ed Emery in Cambridge University’s Keynes Hall, was a landmark event, bringing together various efforts to understand cognitive capitalism in general, and peer processes in particular. The essays are clickable from the conference home page. The presentation that especially struck me as… Continue reading
Small upgrade to blog
(by James) The request to convert this blog to a 3 column format has been in my inbox for quite a while. We were just unable to organize our content well in the last format. So now we have some more space to play with for new features and growth in general. Still maybe some… Continue reading
Is Google-bombing moral, even for a good cause?
Mary Joyce is a dedicated democracy activist, with whom we’re collaborating on the P2P Toolkit project, which aims to compile a mini-handbook of the best collaborative and open source technologies for activists (the project is just starting). She recently blogged about her proposed Google-bombing campaign: “A creative new method is being undertaken to free jailed… Continue reading
Mimetic desire, the subjective nature of scarcity, and the pitfalls of equality
Michel Bauwens: We met Kim Becher at the historical first conference on P2P held in Leuven, Belgium; Kim is responsible for the very well done full “article-by-article” Topical Index to P2N News, which gives a whole added value to the 2,000 pages of background material that we’ve collated in the last 2 years. Kim is… Continue reading
From the Laws of Connectedness to the Power Law of Participation
Ross Mayfield recently published an interesting hierarchisation of the concepts of collective intelligence and collaborative intelligence, in his post on the Power Law of Participation, which has an interesting graphic, available here; the issue is well summarized by Sam Rose: For example, a case study of the Apache project published in 2000 found that 80%… Continue reading
Companies that forbid their employees to read blogs
Shel Holtz has an interesting opinion piece in the New Communications Review blogzine, which monitors the business aspects of blogging. After giving examples and testimonies of companies that prohibit their employees from reading RSS Feeds, he gives the following argumentation of why this is a shortsighted policy: * An employee’s home computer is a personal… Continue reading
A new religion mash-up in Los Angeles, USA
A Jewish/Buddhist remix has been spotted somewhere in the urban center of Los Angeles. “‘JuBus’ blend the communal rituals of Judaism with the quiet solitude of Buddhism. Most adherents are at peace with the paradox.” “…A majority of JuBus, as they call themselves, are baby boomers who were raised in loosely religious families and began… Continue reading
Postmodern spirituality
Postmodern spirituality A neoplatonic dialogue in two parts Part I: The search for a new spirituality for the global civil society Roland Benedikter Abstract: The Paper gives, in form of a didactic-critical dialogue, a first summary of 15 years of international research and teaching of the author about this subject. The main focus is on… Continue reading
Frustrated Dutch workers unite to form a movement to bring back pride and enjoyment into the workplace
Here is a clue to some of the social and economic pain points in the Netherlands. The following exert is from a growing group of Nederlanders wanting change. “The higher the position you have the more distant you become to fellow staff. Knowledge, motivation and the experience of staff doing “real work” have become undervalued… Continue reading
A Guide To What’s Wrong With Economics by Edward Fullbrook (Editor)
An important new book about what’s wrong with classic economics, A Guide To What’s Wrong With Economics may be more about what is wrong with neoclassical economics. However, in the public’s mind and in most economics department neoclassical economics is economics. Unfortunately, the monopoly position of neoclassical economics leaves many students bewildered, especially those who… Continue reading