Hassan Masum and Yi-Cheng Zhang are working on their book, The Reputation Society, with updates provided on their website, ReputationSociety.com, from which we quote below, starting with the questions that inform their work: How will better matchmaking and collaborative filtering bring you better choices? Can liars and cheats be made more accountable? How can the… Continue reading
Date archives "July 2006"
Make Zine: Citizen Engineers
I just received the following from MAKE Zine via Email: =Citizen Engineers= MAKE presented at HOPE (Hackers on a Planet Earth) http://www.hopenumbersix.net/>, and our session was about all the things you’re not supposed to do (but want to) with the gadgets that fill our drawers and shelves. How to transform an old VCR into an… Continue reading
P2P’s sense of history, and how P2p does social
One of the most compelling ideas in the P2P oeuvre is that of “peer production.” It suggests flatter organizations, more equal relationships, and production that’s a far cry from the exploitation of yore. And not coincidentally so. P2P comes out of a technical discipline in which networks organize relations, power is subordinated to messaging and… Continue reading
The Possibilities of “Synergizing”
A set of dilemmas that I face, and that I presume a lot of other people face, in collaborating and cooperating online are: Information overload: There is so much to process from each group, with discussions, and output from the group. As time progresses, it can sometimes get beyond the ability of any individual to… Continue reading
Book Review: Garden Planet: The Present Phase Change of the Human Species
In Garden Planet, William H. Kotke presents us with a how-to guide on surviving the end of the world. He notes that “The information presented here, contrarily, indicates that there will be a mass die-off. We are preparing the new culture that will flourish after that.” But more than just holing up in a bunker… Continue reading
Defining Global Neighborhoods; Call for Comments
Re-blogged from Redcouch.Typepad.com: Shel Israel outlines Global Neighbourhoods, asks for comments: I’m thinking out loud in this post, trying to assemble the underlying thoughts that will become Global Neighborhoods. I am still meandering. I really won’t know what the new book will contain until after I complete my magical mysterious tour of a large slice… Continue reading
Brain Parade Hi Tech Democracy
Jose Garcia, from Meme Therapy, Life From a Science Fiction Point of View, is kicking off a week of technology and politics oriented Brain Parades and interviews with this question: Information technology seems to have dramatic potential to revolutionize democracy. Putting aside these visions for a moment what do you see as the current bleeding… Continue reading
NewAssignment.net: An experiment in participatory journalism
[orignally posted at Smartmobs] [bliki | what is a bliki?] [via BuzzMachine] Jay Rosen has launched an open source and open funded journalism experiment called NewAssignment.net. Here’s how it works: Alright, what is it? In simplest terms, a way to fund high-quality, original reporting, in any medium, through donations to a non-profit called NewAssignment.Net. The… Continue reading
Book Review: The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
“Now, a few words on looking for [lost]Â things. When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you’re only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good…. Continue reading
The Political Economy of Peer Production in many flavours
This is an update on the many language translations now available of the Foundation Essay. The most recent addition is a Portuguese version thanks to the amazing support of Miguel Caetano! The essay written last year(am i right on this michel?) is going to be updated, restructured and turned into a book later this year…. Continue reading
Folksonomic Value Proposition Part 1
Distribution x (Production/Recording) = Value From a social interaction designer’s perspective, the 2.0 web is a fascinating and somewhat confusing amalgamation of information selection and delivery, computing functionality, social interaction, individual user activity, design, and presentation, all rolled out over time through a medium whose front and back end continuously present and integrate their use…. Continue reading
Jamais Cascio interviewed on Meme Therapy
Jamais Cascio, co-founder of Worldchanging, speaks about the relationship between Technology and Politics in this interview
Jay Rosen:The People Formerly Known As “The Audience”
We really are currently witnessing an emerging change in the way people interact with “media” content. This change actually reflects the nature of the digital medium that it is taking place in: The networked digital medium allows us to emulate and even improve on technology that previously was cost prohibitive for most people. So, publishing… Continue reading
My first contributions to the foundation
And as I’m writing this my first contribution to the blog. Therefore I will use this moment to introduce myself and what my connection with the foundation is. The first time I heard about P2P as a new form of organizing was when professor Maes announced the forthcoming seminar of Michel Bauwens on the University… Continue reading
Office levity — How to stage the revolution, 16 pp (pamphlet)
The conditions for social change. I remember dodging Autonomen, clad in black balaklavas and German army (West Germany, that is) sweaters, Doc Martins, and coddling small cubes of brick pried from the sedentary and well socialized-sidewalks of Berlin as they upset peace protests to smash Kaufhaus windows and loot in opposition to Pres. Ronald Reagan’s… Continue reading
Vernor Vinge on the peer-based singularity
I’m reblogging this link to an interview with science-fiction Vernor Vinge, one of my favorites, as it explicitely relates to a view that the new artificial intelligences will be peer-based: Instapundit: “I’m interested in the Singularity, and I’m a big fan of Vernor Vinge’s. He’s got a new book out next week called Rainbows End,… Continue reading