We had a lot less readers when we started the blog at the beginning of the year, so this is the start of a series of recaps of valuable material which appeared earlier on, and many of our readers might have missed. P2P Culture (open, free and participatory cultures) Distinguishing Open Access from Open Process… Continue reading
Date archives "November 2006"
How peer to peer media are undermining spiritual authoritarianism
Amongst the more important aspects of peer to peer media, is the effect of transparency it has in many social fields. One that is particularly close to my heart, is that the room for spiritual authoritarianism or abuse, can now be easily documented. For sure, spiritual exploitation feeds on the weakness of individuals, and information… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Kevin Carson on the Mutualist Economy
Kevin Carson, the author of one of my favourite blogs has also written a book, which is available online . Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, a book I recently read in full and can strongly recommend, represents a small, I think we can say ‘specifically American’, tradition, which calls itself libertarian or ‘individualist anarchism’, which… Continue reading
World Travel Exchange accepts complementary currencies
Very interesting initiative. We are still updating our pages on P2P Exchanges, please send us our suggestions! The World Travel Exchange (WTEx) offers its members the opportunity to “trade to travel”. Launched in 2004, 173 trade exchanges have listed over 800 hotels and resorts globally. Their clients can travel the world and pay for it… Continue reading
Kevin Carson on building the new within the shell of the old
How to make sense of the emerging strands of the P2P movement? In my presentations and lectures, I use a threefold typology to explain the major choices. 1) transgressive: this is what the young filesharers are doing. Based on the most obvious natural use of the technology and the naturalness of sharing, they simply ignore… Continue reading
Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
1) Small Is the New Big: and 183 Other Riffs, Rants, and Remarkable Business Ideas by Seth Godin. Business Week called Seth Godin “the Ultimate Entrepreneur for the Information Age”, and this book is the latest in a growing string of hits for the marketing guru and coveted public speaker. He’s hot, savvy, wired, and… Continue reading
Electronic Literature Collection
if:book reports on the Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 1. Containing material from 1994 to the present. Electronic Literature utlizes the digital medium to create works such as hypertext fiction, kinetic poetry, generative and combinatory forms, network writing, codework, 3D, and narrative animations. This Electronic Literature Organization Collection gives a interesting overviewof the evolution of experiments… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Silvio Gesell’s Natural Economic Order, part two
We continue our presentation of Gesell’s book on Monetary Reform, which we presented last Monday. The book is available in full-text online. Here are five reprentative excerpts, chosen by Greg Martin, which explain different aspects of the Free Money concept: Excerpt #1 This thorny subject [money] requires knowledge which can only be obtained in practical… Continue reading
Open Music Business Models: recap
We created a new entry in the P2P Encyclopedia, called Open Music Business Models, to monitor the topic of earning a living through free music. The following citation from the Techdirt blog is a good recap of where this is moving towards: “”The new business models have the potential to be much bigger than the… Continue reading