Earlier in 2006, Aran Reshef and Amir Hirsh folded their unique anti-spam service, Blue Frog, due to a massive cyber-attack that was following them across the Internet. Blue Frog worked by automating the provisions in the CAN-SPAM Act that allows a spamming victim to send a request for removal to the spammer’s website or email… Continue reading
Date archives "December 2006"
Users fleeing MySpace?
from the actics blog After Rupert Murdoch and NewsCorp invested $580 million in MySpace, young users are fleeing the site. (Read more here) The reasons are primarily three. One, MySpace is getting “old hat”: You don’t want to keep doing what everybody did a year ago. Two, the fact that the site is going mainstream… Continue reading
P2P Book of the Week: All the World a Stage: The Emerging Attention Economy, Why It’s Coming, Its Deep Difference from the Familiar Market-Money-Industrial Economy, and What the Changes Mean For Our Lives, by Michael H. Goldhaber
Michael Goldhaber is releasing this new book on his blog, and we invite you to pay some of your attention to it, noteworthy and relevant to our P2P themes as it is. His focus and central theme is “attention”, looked at in provocative new ways given the world in which we now live. Before I… Continue reading
The basic income in Africa
The following is from an editorial by Guy Standing of the Basic Income Earth Network: “To those unfamiliar with it, Africa might seem the most unpropitious part of the world for a basic income. It is the most impoverished continent, and administrative structures of government are scarcely among the most developed. Yet the casual observer… Continue reading
Research: Customization in the Internet economy
One month ago I finished my research on customization in the Internet economy. In this thesis I deal with the question how to support customization and personalization for pure digital products in the Internet economy to dramatically decrease search costs for consumers, so variety can be maximized. This thesis builds upon theories about digital products,… Continue reading
Bringing Commons Concepts To Latin America
OnTheCommons.org | The Rise of the Commons in Latin America David Bollier reports back on a Mexico City conference that he attended. The conference raises awareness about commons concepts in Latin America. David writes: People in Latin American countries are only too familiar with the abuses that unfettered markets are inflicting on their lives. They… Continue reading
Internet Journalists In Prison CPJ Reports
Journalists in prison in 2005 The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that a rise in the usage of the internet for reporting news, has played a factor in creating a rise in the amount of reporters being jailed in countries like China And Cuba. The overall number of journalists jailed has increased for the second… Continue reading
Cyberconflict workshop, London May 9, 2007
Dr Athina Karatzogianni, Assistant Professor at the International Communications Department of the American University of Paris, sends us the following announcement: “I hope this email finds you well. I am chairing a Conflict Research Society workshop on Cyberconflict to be held in Central London on Wednesday 9th May 2007 and very much hope that you… Continue reading
Book announcement: Wikinomics Is the New Crowdsourcing
Read from the mass-customization blog: From the announcement of Wikinomics: “Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth, and success. … Wikinomics builds on this research elucidating a new age where thanks to the Web 2.0 masses of people can participate in the economy like never before—creating a TV news story,… Continue reading
For NGO’s: Open Publishing in a box
Announcement at http://openpublishing.ngoinabox.org/: “The Open Publishing Edition of NGO-in-a-box is a toolkit of Free and Open Source software, tutorials and guides for producing, publishing and distributing content. The Edition, produced by Tactical Tech in collaboration with iCommons, is aimed at small to medium sized non-profits, independent media organisations, free culture creators and grassroots journalists with… Continue reading
P2P lecture in Amsterdam at De Waag, on December 19th
Join our Dutch P2P Foundation crew on the 19th, here’s the announcement: The emergence of a more participative society based on P2P Networks Killer (application is people) TV Tuesday 19th of December 2006 time 20.00 uur- 22.00 Location; Waag Society – Amsterdam live stream http://connect.waag.org Michel Bauwens on the emergence of a more participative society… Continue reading
The Re-public journal: special issue on the Promise of the Commons
This Greek journal has a special issue dedicated to the evolution of the Commons, its implications for policy making, and its potential to revitalise democracy. The material is available in both English and Greek. Amongst the contributors are Richard Stallman, Douglas Rushkoff, Christopher May as well as Greek and other international contributors. My own piece… Continue reading
A reaction to Open Source Spying
We received the following contribution from Larry Penslinger, the author of the once-in-a-century masterpiece novel of consciousness, The Moon at Hoa Binh, who is also a former intelligence analyst, regarding the interesting essay in the New York Times Magazine, on the adoption of wiki’s and blogs within the U.S. intelligence communities. The article starts with… Continue reading
Does private property increase common property
Interesting quote picked up by Kevin Carson and Roderick T. Long, which argues that the increased productivity which is the result from private property, ineroxably leads to an increase in common property. The author is Frederic Bastiat, in the 1850 book Economic Harmonies. Excerpt: “Wealth (taking this word in its generally accepted sense) stems from… Continue reading
Software and Community in the Early 21st Century
“Eben Moglen, lawyer with the Free Software Foundation, gave a keynote address at the October 2006 Plone conference in Seattle. The video, by Grace Stahre, the ONE/Northwest & The Plone Community, and Versant Media, can be seen at YouTube or downloaded from archive.org. He explains the economic reality and moral justification for free software, and… Continue reading
Solar energy and the P2P Energy Grid
The following is from an interview on Alternet of Travis Bradford, the author of a book on The Solar Revolution, which clearly shows the potential distributed nature of solar power. It’s not just a new form of energy, but fundamentally overturns the centralized premises of energy production. We recommend reading the interview in full, but… Continue reading