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Date archives "June 2006"
Groupware is out, Soloware is in
Stowe Boyd has an interesting blog entry that touches on different subjects such as consumer collaboration, the self-directed innovator, and soloware vs. groupware. While the whole entry is recommended, I would like to focus on the last topic. Groupware was team-oriented, and teams were part of an organisation. So shared depositories were created, which demanded… Continue reading
What is individual property, what is common property, what is collective property?
In an earler post, we reproduced some questions by Paolo DiMaio of p2p.aid, basically asking the question what is property, i.e. how does an individual acquire property in the first place, and how can property become common? This is a key question as we develop the digital commons. Kevin Carson from Mutualist.org has been so… Continue reading
Entrepreneurs of Cooperation Essay
by Sam Rose [reblogged here from a post made Cooperation Commons weblog] [bliki| What is a bliki?] Jonathan Rowe has an excellent essay published at onthecommons.org that discusses historic examples of successful cooperative economies that emerged during the Great Depression era (1930’s) in the US. These economies used bartering, time banks, alternative currency, and cooperative… Continue reading
Internationalizing the P2P Foundation Wiki: P2P is worldwide!
Until 2 months ago, it would have been fair to say that most of the resources at the P2P Foundation were distinctly ‘North Atlantic’, i.e. most covering European and North American trends, people and projects. This is chaning as we are receiving collaboration from other regions. Luis Gustavo Lira, a Peruvian free culture advocate who… Continue reading
Loren Goldner on the recovery of the cosmobiological tradition
One of the problems I see with the contemporary left is its attachment to the industrial mode of civilization and its central conflicts. Underlying this is a deeper attachment to the ideas of modernity and the Enlightenment. While these traditions have much value, and they made us what we are, ‘they are us’, we also… Continue reading
Four ages of the Western Mind, and the fifth
Underlying the shift to peer to peer modes of human organization and technological infrastructure is a deeper epistemological shift, i,e. a new way of seeing the world, of ‘knowing’. For a good history of these modes of seeing, the 1994 book by Henryk Skolimowski, is still a recommended must. He distinguished Mythos, Logos, Theos, Mechanos… Continue reading
“Open Source is about self-interest”
Yes, this was the headline from Sun’s CEO, Simon Phipps at the Open Source Business conference. “For open source to prosper, people need to stop thinking of it as “free” and instead think of it as “connected capitalism,” delegates at an open-source conference in London were told on Tuesday. Speaking at the Open Source Business… Continue reading
Types of connectivity
From Chris Lucas, who uses complexity sciences and the spiral dynamics system to distinguish nine different types of connectivity; it all seems very logical and plausible though I have the gravest reservations about coral which seems like a deus-ex-machina solution: “When we look at the 9 vMemes as complex systems, in terms of their connectivity… Continue reading
Big content companies are discovering P2P’s benefits
Re-blogged from Grant Robertson in the P2P Weblog, this article is a good overview of how the big content companies are slowly discovering how the P2P filesharing infrastructures can be used to their benefit, as a way of externalising distribution costs. P2P Weblog: “There is little doubt that P2P will play a huge role in… Continue reading
Video on the Great Turning to a life-sustaining civilization
Joanna Macy works to reconnect people with their embodiment with the natural world, in order to create a life-sustaining civilization. Watch the video here. She has a great explanation, on why, in systems terms, the political economy of capitalism, which seeks to maximize just one part of the system, is inherently destructive and doomed to… Continue reading
Greenpeace Video on Decentralized Energy
Reblogged from the Transition Culture blog “Greenpeace have just launched an excellent new film called Decentralised Energy – what are we waiting for?, which sets out a very clear argument for decentralised energy. It runs for 18 minutes and is narrated by Clive Anderson. The film sets out a very clear argument for a profound… Continue reading
Watch and listen to Joi Ito explore the metaverse
Interesting insight into the forefront of visual interfaces and online communication between many people. Joi takes the viewer into the World of Warcraft, an online fantasy game with many players and relates this way of collaborating to the CreativeCommons and how company employees work together. link
Magic as participatory consciousness
We continue our exploration of participatory spirituality, which we monitor through a special topical area at the P2P Foundation, which contain the especially popular entries on Participatory and Relational Spirituality. A key question is the following: Should older forms of human consciousness be abandoned and rejected as prerational or irrational, or rather, should they be… Continue reading
Australian Future Media conference
Ross Dawson announces an interesting Future of Media conference in Sydney: ” The Future of Media Summit 2006 will be a unique conference connecting thought leaders at simultaneous events in San Francisco and Sydney. Video, audio, interactive cross-continental discussions, and live audience blogging will create an entirely new experience for participants.” Find more information about… Continue reading
Apple’s ethical troubles revealed by Actics Ethical evaluation tool
One of the people I really admire for his insights into the new economy is Adam Arviddson of the Actics blog, who we recently quoted on the Ethical Economy. These insights are not just theory, but very much applicable to judge the chances of success of companies. For example, Adam recently pointed out that it… Continue reading