Important article from Alternet: “First came the mighty winds, blowing across the Gulf with unprecedented fury, leveling cities and towns, washing away the houses built on sand. Toss in record flooding across the Northeast, and one of the warmest winters humans have known on this continent, and a prolonged and deepening drought in the desert… Continue reading
Date archives "October 2006"
P2P as solution for file-served television
Here’s a blog entry pointing out that the popularity of YouTube and other forms of videosharing are creating a bandwidth crisis, and that P2P technologies might be the solution: “Ah, but remember Moore’s Law, which is going to increase our bandwidth dramatically over time! It doesn’t matter. Throw 250 million viewers watching 180 channels up… Continue reading
The Ethical Economy – 4
Adam Arvidsson, on how the ethical surplus can be appropriated. Today, the last two (ouf of four) strategies. This is part four of the new ‘Book of the Week’ experiment, where we will publish excerpts of new books. Adam Arvidsson’s book on the Ethical Economy is a draft, to which you are strongly invited to… Continue reading
Pay Attention to YouTube!
Pay Attention to YouTube! I’m on a bit of a Marshall McLuhan kick this week, with YouTube’s acquisition to Google still in the air. And Kim Jong Il leaping up and down at the far eastern edge of the map: living, ridiculous proof that power is all about getting attention (Dumb and Dumber: starring Bush… Continue reading
Conference Announcement: MIT’s Future of Entertainment
C3’s The Futures of Entertainment Conference at MIT Nov. 17 and 18 Forwarded by Sam Ford, see also here: “The Comparative Media Studies Program is proud to announce an exciting forthcoming conference, The Futures of Entertainment, to be held at MIT on Nov. 17 and 18. The event is designed to bring together leading thinkers… Continue reading
The Ethical Economy – 3
Adam Arvidsson, on how the ethical surplus can be appropriated. Today, the first two strategies. This is part of the new ‘Book of the Week’ experiment, where we will publish excerpts of new books. Adam Arvidsson’s book on the Ethical Economy is a draft, to which you are strongly invited to contribute. You may do… Continue reading
Re-Inventing Political Activism In The P2P Era
Paul Hartzog has posted an interesting blog today about change, and about, perhaps, the absence of political activism/Civic Engagement from the development of P2P thinking. I am going to repost Paul’s entire blog posting below, for the purposes of discussing political activism/Civic Engagement in the context of the thinking that Paul is talking about: “Mass… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of Benkler – discussion with Bauwens, continued, part three
Dear Dmytri, Thanks for your valuable and thoughtful contribution to this debate. Here are some of my responses, which hopefully clarifies both the distinctions and convergence in our respective thinking about social change. First of all, the ‘confusion’ bit. I’m basically using the intersubjective typology of Alan Page Fiske, explained in his book, Structures of… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of Benkler – discussion with Bauwens, continued, part two
Michel Bauwens of the P2P foundation has made some comments regarding my views on free production as expressed in my recent review of the presentations of Lessig and Benkler at Wizards of OS 4, you can find the here Michel begins wondering if my argument about the “sustainability of peer production may rest on a… Continue reading
Antonio Gramsci and The Necessity of Political Action
After I blogged this, I realized that it is entirely in keeping with the goals stated on About The Foundation. So, I am reproducing it here: “Mass ideological factors always lag behind mass economic phenomena, and that therefore, at certain moments, the automatic thrust due to the economic factor is slowed down, obstructed or even… Continue reading
Master New Media P2P interview now also at YouTube
The previously mentioned interview, is now also available at YouTube, in 6 easily digestible parts.
Peer production: conditions for success (according to Yochai Benkler)
Here’s a good summary by Tom Abate: “Benkler lays out three characteristics of successul group efforts: “They (tasks) 1) must be modular. That is, they must be divisible into components, or modules, each of which can be produced independently of the production of the others. This enables production to be incremental and asynchronous, pooling the… Continue reading
Lawrence Lessig on the Free Beer project
For those who missed the coverage of this interesting ‘physical’ expression of the open/free production mode, do read Lessig’s commentary in Wired: “In June, a Copenhagen artists’ collective called Superflex released version 3.0 of a new beer called – you guessed it – Free Beer. “Free beer?” you ask. “Think free,” Superflex members helpfully explained… Continue reading
Ethical Economy – 2
This is part of the new ‘Book of the Week’ experiment, where we will publish excerpts of new books. Adam Arvidsson’s book on the Ethical Economy is a draft, to which you are strongly invited to contribute. You may do so in the form of comments, separate blog entries, or by using the discussion page… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of Yochai Benkler
In the same article that we discussed yesterday, D. Kleiner offers a critique of Benkler’s theory of commons-based peer production being limited to the immaterial sphere. He writes: “Yochai Benkler’s conception of Social Production, where a network of peers apply their labour to a common stock for mutual and individual benefit, certainly resonates with age-old… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner’s critique of the Lessig’ Creative Commons license
In our P2P Encyclopedia entry on the Creative Commons license, we feature some critical comments from Benjamin Mako Hill and the Debian Foundation, about the insuffiency of the CC-licenses. Here’s a more recent critique by Dmytri Kleiner, who argues that: “For free cultural to create a valuable common stock it must destroy the privilege of… Continue reading