Nice overview article in The Guardian, about the terms and conditions used in the videosharing services. It notes that MySpace now recognizes the creator’s ownership, but MTV does not. We quote the specific paragraphs on T&C’s only, but the article is worth reading for its context. MySpace: “People posting content are informed they retain ultimate… Continue reading
Date archives "November 2006"
OpenBusiness report on UK artists and their attitude on the Creative Commons
Release of Report on ‘UK Artists, Copyright and Creative Commons’ Click on the following link to download the report: The Arts Council England and OpenBusiness.cc announce the release of a report, which represents the results of a six-month study into artists’ attitudes towards copyright, creativity and alternative licensing practises, in particular Creative Commons (CC). Although… Continue reading
Benkler, Bauwens, and the market
Though based on a total misreading of both the work of Benkler (The Wealth of Nations) and myself (The P2P Manifesto), there is a stimulating analysis of our work on peer production in the blog Artifice and Agency, presumable from a student of Dale Carrico, Ben N. Here is my response, I’m only quoting the… Continue reading
The problems of experts and credentials
Clay Shirky has made a new and important contribution to the debate on the roles of experts vs. free contributors in building knowledge, as it applies to the Wikipedia vs. Citizendium controversy. You can read it here, and it is strongly recommended. Shirky focuses on the issue of cost, i.e. costs of contributions (Wikipedia) vs…. Continue reading
Book of the Week: Three Ways of Getting Things Done, part two
Book: Getting Things Done. Hierarchy, Heterarchy and Responsible Autonomy. By Gerard Fairtlough. Triarchy Press. In this second and last excerpt, the author teases out the differences between heterarchy and responsible autonomy: For more information, see Triarchypress Gerard Fairtlough: Responsible autonomy will sometimes lead to disputes, for instance about the fairness of critique or interference on… Continue reading
Travel Exchanges and the p2p lifestyle
Is there something like a P2P-lifestyle? If there is, it would be to trend to replace a reliance on pure commercial exchange and the commodification and financialization of daily life, to a reliance on other forms of exchange, amongst peers. We have started monitoring this trend through our wiki entry on Peer to Peer Exchanges,… Continue reading
Top 50 P2P Podcasts by Topic
We compiled a list of key podcasts amongst the hundreds we’ve been indexing in our wiki. The complete list is at our directory here. Open Source/Free Software Benjamin Mako Hill on Defining Freedom P2P Business Chris Anderson on the Long Tail; Clayton Christensen on Open Source and Innovation in Business; Doc Searls on Self-Forming Markets;… Continue reading
Gems at the P2P Foundation: March 2006
For those who missed our early days, here’s a selection of our theoretical interventions during the month of March. P2P and the New Age movement URL = http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=144 The new age movement is dead, has it left any positive legacy? I argue that it has. The Library of the Future: The Catalog <is>… Continue reading
Towards Abundance economics, but against pseudo-Abundance
We failed to mention a flurry of debate around Abundance economics, which started after a lecture by Chris Anderson of the Long Tail fame. Ethan Zuckermann reports on the lecture here and his summary is worth reading in full. It mentions the conclusion of Chris on what changes when abundance becomes the rule: – In… Continue reading
What’s wrong with the Bazaar style of development
The strength of the Bazaar mode of the free software (and peer production generally) mode of production, is that people can work passionately at what they do best, when they feel best about doing so. But not all work in a software project is pleasant, yet it needs to be done, and sometimes development needs… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Three Ways of Getting Things Done. By Gerard Fairtlough.
Book: Getting Things Done. Hierarchy, Heterarchy and Responsible Autonomy. By Gerard Fairtlough. Triarchy Press. At the P2P Foundation, we often stress the importance of the difference between a decentralized network format (devolution of a power center into many), and distributed networks (bottom-up peer to peer networks, where hubs are voluntary). There is a interesting book,… Continue reading
Recommended links for the week ending Sunday, November 26
At the P2P Foundation Chinese Translation of the Political Economy of Peer Production Don’t miss it if you read Chinese and let your Chinese friends know it is available. P2P Business/Economic Trends Social shopping – Home – Times Online The trend is called social shopping, and it relies on similar social-networking… Continue reading
Open-Source Film Making Contest, Screening, More Productions
Cinema Minima has another interesting open-source film making story: Open Source movie making contest offers London screening and festival exposure — and new roles for editors as storytellers: This one is about Stray Cinema "an open source film. Here you are able to download and re-edit the raw footage from a film we have shot… Continue reading
Some processes of cognitive capitalism
Matteo Pasquinelli has an extremely jargon-rich (familiarity with French and Italian theory required) essay, ‘Immaterial Civil War’, that focus on the competitive processes within the sphere of immaterial production. Not an easy read, but it has some interesting nuggets. Some excerpts below. The 3 competitive advantages within immaterial production Enzo Rullani and the "law of… Continue reading
The role of openness vs. hijacking in the 3 processes of P2P knowledge building
Worldchanging, perhaps the most important blog in the world because it deals with issues of the survival of human civilization by continuously collating positive initiatives, has an interesting interview with Thomas Homer-Dixon , the author of The Upside of Down. One of the topics dealth with in the interview is the process of open source… Continue reading
On the value of openness in scientific research
Interesting interview of Karim Lakhini, co-author of a paper on "The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving,". The study found that broadcasting problems to the wider community, was very effective in scientific problem-solving. We cite from HBS Working Knowledge, but recommend reading the whole interview. We have a bunch of interesting interviews with P2P… Continue reading