I’m not sure that many people really understand the innovative nature of the new forms of peer property that are used in peer production. These new forms have at least 3 characteristics: 1) they are aimed against the private appropriation of the commonly created value 2) they are aimed at creating the widest possible usage,… Continue reading
Date archives "December 2006"
OpenID-Decentralized Open Standards For Online Identity
Slashdot | The Case for OpenID In the wake of the Internet Identity Workshop 2006, people are talking more and more about the idea of an “identity commons” and basing identity around open standards. Cooperation in online environments is largely based around trust, and reputation. Reputation itself is rooted in (relatively) verifiable identity. If your… Continue reading
Distributed Communities
Mikkel at the actics blog has this insightful piece on software tools that permitt linking users and forming communities across media platforms. ‘Fred Stutzman recently argued for designers of social networking software (SNS) to adopt OpenID to bypass the problem of achieving critical mass on your SNS to get the social going. There’s a lot… Continue reading
Dutch police opens up cold cases to peer-based problem solving
In september this year, I had the opportunity to explain peer production developments to an audience of police officers, and one of the audience members was Frank Smilda, who had a fantastic overview of how the Netherlands had various cases where citizens had put criminal justice case information online, leading to breakthroughs in the investigation…. Continue reading
Hacking democracy
This is a little bit untimely, as the American mid-term elections are over, but here we see a small clip uncovering weaknesses in the electronic voting collection systems used in the recent US electoral process. This cautionary documentary exposes the vulnerability of computers – which count approximately 80% of America’s votes in county, state and… Continue reading
Content no longer scales, only aggregation does
Very interesting comment on the business side of publishing in a peer to peer oriented publishing environment. Worth reading in full, we’re just reblogging the first paragraph to give you a taste of the topic. Publishing 2.0 writes: “Can anyone think of a content business — meaning a company that produces original content — that… Continue reading
Segolene Royal as a peer to peer politician: a short profile of her web strategy
Is it possible that, like Howard Dean before her, Segolene Royal derives her success in part from a successfull application of peer-to-peer based web strategies? After hearing Benoit Thieulin, Segolene’s internet strategist, speak at a fringe meeting on commons-oriented policy-making during the European Socialist Party Meeting at Porto on December 8, I have some grounds… Continue reading
Open Source Car project maintainer profiled
Bruni Giussani has an interesting article in Business Week, worth reading in full, with the profile of the founder of the Open Source Car project. Here’s the introductory quote of the article: “Can open-source practices and approaches be applied to make hardware, to create tangible and physical objects, including complex ones? Say, to build a… Continue reading
True costing of the One Laptop Per Child program
Newsforge has an interesting article summarizing criticisms that have been levelled against the OLPC project. Here’s a rundown of the argument of the critics, centered around the issue that the low cost of production underestimates many associated cost issues. All the quotes are from the article. – Training According to Camfield, one of the largest… Continue reading
On Bounded Rationality
I was having lunch with a colleague last week when we touched on the topic of bounded rationality. In his research, he explores the theory as it applies to the knowledge management of organisations in times of disasters. Arguing that people only make rational decisions within the boundaries they see/are a part of, knowledge management… Continue reading
Freedom License innovation at the Creative Commons
Interesting info from Lawrence Lessig’s regular letters: “One very difficult issue we’ve faced from the start is making understandable the freedoms our licenses are intended to provide. We’ve made that task more difficult by emphasizing in the names we’ve given to our licenses the limits on the freedoms, rather than the freedoms themselves. Thus, we… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Brands, part three
We continue our publication of excerpts of the recommended book by Adam Arvidsson. Excerpt 3: Adam Arvidsson on Brand Management Brand Management The purpose of brand management is to guide the investments of affect on the part of consumers (or other subjects). This is true regardless of whether the brand refers to a consumer good,… Continue reading
Open the Future: Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot
Open the Future: Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot The Economy of Second Life is demonstrating that, for media and knowledge products, the model of scarcity and control of property through control of access is breaking. The nature of the bit medium, and the file-copying nature of computers in general, turns digitized media content,… Continue reading
Newstrust: Media Literacy Through Collaborative News Review
Newstrust Beta is an interesting offering in community/P2P news filtering. The idea is that a community of peers rates a story, not just on popolarity, but also on the quality of the story, and the trustworthiness of the sources. Anyone can review news for Newstrust, and they look at these factors in their reviews: Recommendation… Continue reading
Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
Our selection this week: 1) The Future of Web Video, by Scott Kirshner Mr. Kirshner writes: “After a year of work, and more than 100 interviews, I’ve just published a book called The Future of Web Video: New Opportunities for Producers, Entrepreneurs, Media Companies and Advertisers. It’s available in eBook/PDF form (which you can download… Continue reading
P2P Bookstore Opens Doors
We’ve just opened the P2P Bookstore. So far, we have only our Top P2P books and P2P Business books on the shelves, but we’ll be adding many more sections over the coming months. We’ll let you know as each section opens, and hope you’ll drop by time to time to check out our selection and… Continue reading