OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » Building on Open Business as Entrepreneurs Lifecycle Management This is building on http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/08/29/open-business-as-entrepreneurs-lifecycle-management/ I think it is possible to create knowledge bases of ways that people can accomplish things by “doing less with moreâ€?, for one. I theorize that invest would be more willing to fund alliances of micro-enterprises if… Continue reading
Date archives "August 2006"
YouTube Whistle Blowing — CooperationCommons
YouTube Whistle Blowing — CooperationCommons [Bliki | What is a Bliki?] The Washington Post reports that Lockheed engineer Michael De Kort became frustrated after he repeatedly warned Coast Gaurd officials about security problems,and cold weather malfunctioning problems in Coast Gaurd boat equipment De Kort decided to take matters into his own hands and post a… Continue reading
On the synergy between bottom-up and top-down
Here’s is a nice selected quote from Kevin Kelly, and commentary by master facilitator Chris Corrigan: Kevin Kelly: “The bottom-up hive mind will always take us much further that seems possible. It keeps surprising us. In this regard, the Wikipedia truly is exhibit A, impure as it is, because it is something that is impossible… Continue reading
The different aspects of peer governance
For some time now, we have been compiling a directory of concepts related to the emergence of peer governance. The key aspects of peer governance are Anti-credentialism , Communal Validation, Equipotentiality, and Holoptism . The Open Co-op Project has tried to formalize a number of characteristics of such Open Organizations. I think it is important… Continue reading
Jamais Cascio interviewed on MemeTherapy
 From : http://www.memetherapy.net/10/jamais-cascio-on-technology-and-politics/ MT: Do you think political blogging/smart mobs are poised to start having a serious impact on the decisions being made by elected officials in the western democracies? If not what do you think needs to happen first? I think they’re already having an impact, but not necessarily in the ways that… Continue reading
Ryan Shaw on the emergence of appropriation and annotation literacy
Reblogged from here , this helps explains the rise of Remix Culture : “The latest issue of Harper’s features an excellent roundtable discussion on how video games might be used to teach writing. Though most of it will be familiar to anyone who has followed recent debates about “serious games,” it is worth reading. Among… Continue reading
New documentary on the Pirate Bay
Reblogged from OpenBusiness: “An interesting and inspiring movie has just been released about The Pirate Bay – the biggest Bittorrent filesharing website in the world. Millions of internet users download music, books and most prominently films via the site. Its not only a technical revolution in the distribution of media, but as the film argues,… Continue reading
Celebrating participatory culture in music
Two items of interest: the travelling NetAudio festivals, and an interesting Swiss inititiative to collectively enjoy Creative Commons licensed music: Thanks to the OpenBusiness blog, which is substantially improving its coverage of open music and film business models! NetAudio06: “Netaudio’06 is a celebration of the communal effort and productivity of netlabel activists and musicians. The… Continue reading
Web 2.0 and the Third Enclosure, part two: opposing the new digital sharecropping agreements
This is a follow up on the previous post. In these pages, we regularly hail Web 2.0. developments as a forward step, since many forces, commercial or not, are now conspiring to build participatory platforms. But there is a dark side to it, which is that the remote services take control of your data; and… Continue reading
Has the time come to oppose the third enclosure movement?
The concept of Enclosures refers to the private appropriation of hitherto common goods. The First Enclosures took part in 15th=18th England, and refers to the loss of the common agricultural lands of the medieval peasantry; which set the stage for the emergence of capitalism: James Boyle has eloquently written about the Second Enclosures of the… Continue reading
Open Business interview on future media
The Open Business weblog has an interview with Kenneth Neil Cukier, who is a technology correspondent for The Economist, and which is well worth reading, since the magazine represents in some ways the heart of the establishment. Some excerpts: Cukier agrees that peer production does not need a business model per se: “Still, what’s most… Continue reading
Mutual marketing: an economy based on Open, relationship-based signalling systems
This Mutual Marketing Manifesto is an interesting read, and says many things that are congruent with the peer to peer ethos.   The author states that, against the institutions that see us as a bundle of data, we must reclaim our full identities, and build the tools that allow it.    He… Continue reading
BookMooch: a gift economy for books
David Bollier, who maintains one of the best blogs on the internet regarding Commons-related topics, has a great news and commentary item on a new service which allows you to exchange used books, i.e. BookMooch. I’m reblogging it at lenght, as it really important initiative. First of all, what is it? David explains: Â “One… Continue reading
A critique of the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid ideas
Aneel Karnani has referred to his very strong critique of the BOP movement’s essential ideas, that a market approach led by multinationals could alleviate poverty. His essay, which also argues that we have to see the poor as producers, not as consumers, and that raising their income is the priority, is available here. Â Abstract:… Continue reading
The Net Effect of Affective Capitalism
Michel has posted a fascinating addition to the Relational category and asked that I blog it. Called Affective Capitalism, it draws on authors Juan MartÃn Prada and Michael Hardt. I have to confess that I’m not familiar with Prada’s work, and have not yet read Hardt’s and Negri’s Multitude, though Empire was terrific. If you… Continue reading
FTC On Net Neutrality: More Of The Same
[via Smartmobs]Broadband Reports posted a news brief yesterday about the FTC hearing on Net Neutrality. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras is quoted “[W]e virtually always assert the principle that, absent clear evidence of market failure or consumer harm, policymakers should not enact blanket prohibitions of particular forms of business conduct or business… Continue reading