We continue our presentation of Steven Vedro’s manuscript, linking levels of technology to levels of consciousness, using the eastern chakra system as metaphor. See previously for the sixth level concordances. Contact the author for further info at srvedr at charter dot net Steven Vedro: “In eastern energy yoga, the seventh chakra is the link to… Continue reading
Date archives "June 2006"
Building community from the bottom-up – book review by Dave Pollard
Re-blogged from Dave Pollard, who maintains one of the best and most thoughtfull blogs in the world, aptly entitled: How to Save the World. The book he reviews is Creating a Life Together by Diana Leafe Christian We’re starting to discover that the only effective way to make the world better is from the bottom… Continue reading
The first six months of the P2P Foundation blog
For readers who might be interested in the P2P Foundation adventure, we have reached a 6-month milestone. Time to review how we have done? As a reminder, we started filling the P2PFoundation.net wiki with content in the month of December, and the blog sometime late February, so for simplicity’s sake, we’ll give them both a… Continue reading
Teleconsciousness update: Steven Vedro’s sixth level
The following is an update to our announcement on Steven Vedro’s examination and interlinking of ‘stages of consciousness’ with technology. Here’s the intro defining what he means by the sixth level: Excerpt 1: “The core personal metaphor of sixth-level teleconsciousness is “deep seeingâ€? – moving from focusing on what’s in front of us to expanding… Continue reading
Debating Relationality and Individuality, part two: relations need an object
We continue our exploration. In the first Jyri Engeström stresses that a groups engaged in a common are more than just a sum of relationships: they need an object. The second item is a debate between John Heron, pioneer of cooperative inquiry and relational spirituality, with Ted Lumley, theorist of Inclusionality. Finally, for those who… Continue reading
Debating Relationality and Individuality, part one: on the primacy of relationality
One of the popular categories in the P2P Foundation’s topical areas, is the one introducing and discussing ‘relational concepts‘. One of the key tenets of P2P Theory is that contemporary society is undergoing a shift from the primacy of individualism, to the primacy of relationality; that just as modernity was about extracting the individual dimension… Continue reading
Open Textbook movement advances in Kerala
Received from Fred Noronha of Bytes for All. For background see the entries on Open Textbooks , Open Education as a concept, and Open Educational Resources. All this and much more is collated in our special pages on P2P Learning Concepts. “SOMETHING revolutionary is happening in Kerala’s education sector. From the next academic year (2004-05)… Continue reading
Report on e-democracy projects worldwide
Re-blogged from Steven Clift, who reports on a new report titled, “New Democracies, New Media: What’s New – A study of e-participation projects in third-wave democraciesâ€? (PDF version) by Professor Stephen Coleman and Ildiko Kaposi. The report has a country by country overview of such initiatives, such as the the Open Government site in MongoliaÂ… Continue reading
Steven Vedro on (tele)consciousness
Steven Vedro is writing a manuscript on the evolution of (tele)consciousness. It is one in a series of attempts to create narratives of the evolution of consciousness. Original is the explicit attempt to link the stages of consciousness with the state of evolution technology and the kind of usage that can be made of it…. Continue reading
Creation of the Pirate Party of the United States
Re-blogged from Wired, who bring a full interview with the founders of the Pirate Party in the U.S. Read the full interview here. Some basic context: “A fledgling new political movement calling itself The Pirate Party of the United States has emerged from the dust of last month’s police raid on The Pirate Bay in… Continue reading
DRM-Free Media
Re-blogged from LearnOutLoud, here’s a selection of podcast sites that give you total freedom in the use of the content, i.e. no DRM-restrictions or software included: Don’t forget to check out our own Podcast Directory. “DRM-Free Music Sites eMusic – The best-known and most popular DRM-free music site. I love what these guys are doing…. Continue reading
Conditions for successful peer governance
First Monday has an interesting article by Jill Coffin, which reviews 3 case studies where peer governance models are being practiced: Wikipedia, Burning Man, and ThinkCycle. For more on forms of peer governance, see our topical area on ‘P2P Governance Concepts‘ page. Here are the conclusions of the study: “The free software and open source… Continue reading
Three questions on property and the commons
May I invite you readers to respond to these 3 interesting questions, posed by Paolo Dimaio of p2paid.org ? “How do individuals claim ownership of something in the first place? What gives anyone the right to own something? Are there limits to what can be owned, for how much and for how long, and why?Â… Continue reading
Open Video contest announcement
Creative Commons and the Fedora Project are pleased to announce the Open Video Contest taking place now. Â The contest promotes flexible copyright, open media formats and the Fedora Project. Entries must be 30 seconds or less, in OGG Theora format, promote freedom and openness, and be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license…. Continue reading
The Open Revolution in Brazil: Baile Funk’s copyrights free music
Brazil, as you may have noticed in the country pages at the P2P Foundation, is one of the leading countries regarding open and commons-related developments. This is how we start the collection of resources of that country: “Brazil is at the forefront of a new movement challenging established Intellectual Property regimes in a variety of… Continue reading
The Open Peer Review experiment at Biology Direct
Nature magazine carries an item on a experiment in scientific publishing at Biology Direct, which is trying an open peer review system that is both distinct from the traditional peer review system, and different from the anti-credentialist communal validation process used in many peer production projects. We cite: “In Biology Direct, everything happens in the… Continue reading