Tomi Ahonen is the other half of the more than excellent Communities Dominate Brands blog, a record of changes in the business community, with a particular focus on mobile developments. Recently, Tomi surprised me with an argument that 3G mobile is going to undermine WiFi developments. While he clearly focuses on the commercial players in… Continue reading
Date archives "November 2006"
Debate recap: Erik Douglas on Democracy, Peer Governance and the State.
We published this theoretical intervention in five parts. We welcome further contributions and comments. Part one at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=615 Part two at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=621 Part three at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=622 Part four at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=623 Part five at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=624
More About Open-Source Storytelling, YouTube (“Part 3”)
While finishing Part 1 and Part 2 of Online Video: Getting Paid, Open-Source Storytelling I realised that I did not mention a couple of things worth mentioning and also just found a couple of interesting links: Some More Open-Source/Collaborative Movies Finding Out What YouTube Is More About Open-Source Storytelling, YouTube
Adam Arvidsson on Milton Friedman: Freedom, Ethics and the new P2P Economics
Reblogged in part from Adam Arvidsson’s Actics blog, where, after some general comments about the importance of Milton Friedman in the history of economics, Adam makes the following commentary: Adam Arvidsson: To Friedman ‘freedom’ would work as a guarantee for efficiency – free markets where individuals acted with a minimum of restraint would be more… Continue reading
Debate on democracy and peer governance, Conclusion (part 5)
Erik Douglas concludes his important contribution with this appeal for “Realizing a P2P Polis”: Without a clear vision of an ideal polis, one can still take steps towards a better world. Indeed, as Sam Rose/ Paul Hartzog (P2P 147: 10/10/06) both note, unless the P2P engage in the battle for the polis, there may not… Continue reading
Online Video: Getting Paid, Open-Source Storytelling (Part 2 of 2)
Part 1 (posted yesterday) • A Good Mix? • "Getting Paid" Overviews • "Open-Source" Overview • Hype Or Real? • Is YouTube A Dynamic Interactive Movie? Part 2 (posted today) • Alternatives To "Getting Paid" • Collaborative Media Works • Does It Matter…? Online Video: Getting Paid, Open-Source Storytelling (Part 2 of 2)
Peer to Peer and Affinity-based Markets
Melanie Swan has a great overview article on the social and business trends that are creating what she is calling "Markets 2.0", and the core of her argument is the evolution of markets to a logic of affinity. Here’s the introductory paragraph: "The long tail, smart mobs and social networking are driving the evolution of… Continue reading
P2P Seek Music Search Engine
Worth checking out. Reblogged from the Digital Music blog. See also our new pages on Open Music practices. “P2P Seek provides the latest P2P technology and legal music and video. The P2P Search Engine encompasses over 200 P2P, music, and video web sites, including top P2P industry news portals, blogs, forums, and companies. Sites include… Continue reading
Debate on democracy and peer governance, part 4
Erik Douglas continues his contribution, see the previous three days for more. The previous section reviewed several sources of P2P principles. Now the question I address is whether and how the 4PoD framework might be used then to synthesize one or more P2P resonant state democracies. The methodology I employ here is qualitative (and rather… Continue reading
Online Video: Getting Paid, Open-Source Storytelling (Part 1 of 2)
This blog entry was actually written for the P2P blog, but somehow WordPress, Firefox and OS X don’t seem to be a good combination and after spending too much time with the WordPress blog editor I had to post it on my Blogger blog: Part 1 (posted today) • A Good Mix? • "Getting Paid"… Continue reading
Cucumis, free translation community
We continue to update our listings of Peer to Peer Exchange services. Here’s a Paris-based initiative discussed by TechCrunch: “a community site for people who speak at least two languages and want to trade translation services. Translate text to earn points, then spend the points to have text translated into one of 22 languages. As… Continue reading
The two economies of free software
The free software community has recently been up in arms against a deal between Novell and Microsoft, and recent threats of Microsoft indicating that Linux users are using Microsoft patents and may be sued. These are very complex issues that I won’t attempt to summarize. Instead, read Open Democracy’ excellent summary of the whole issue…. Continue reading
Debate on democracy, peer governance, and the state, part 3
Erik Douglas continues his discussion, with further commentary in these “Notes on a P2P Approach to the State”: Michel Bauwens (14/10/2006) makes several remarks about a P2P approach to the state and comment accordingly below: a. “The state has existed since the dawn of civilization and the class society, and is inevitable in a condition… Continue reading
Autonomous geographies for radical politics
An interesting paper (though the language is quite heady), by Jenny Pickerill and Paul Chatterton, which examines the use of the internet for radical politics and introduces the concept of Autonomous Geographies. From the abstract: “This paper’s focus is what we call ‘autonomous geographies’ – spaces where there is a desire to constitute non-capitalist, collective… Continue reading
Thailand’s ICT minister reverses negative stand on Open Source
The new IT minister in Thailand, had created a great disquiet in the Thai open-source community by a string of uninformed remarks for the Bangkok Post, but then has reversed his position after intervention from the Thai open source community. Well done! Phase 1: The Minister’s statement to the Bangkok Post on Wednesday, Nov15th, 2006…. Continue reading
Against the reductionism of social network theories
Yesterday, I made a reference to P2P Theory as an ‘integral and participatory theory’, and I referred to a text which explains that one of the key aspects of an integral methodology is the refusal of reductionism. In clear: human are not just objective nodes in a network, they are subjective beings with intentionality, and… Continue reading