Good introduction and overview, with very useful graphic, on the importance of user-led innovation for the business world, in this report by Darren Sharp from the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre. Read the Digital Lifestyles Monitor here.
Date archives "January 2007"
Sellaband experience
Sellaband has been subject on this blog earlier. The open business model is subject of both of the blog posts. Recently I updated the wiki on Sellaband. I haven’t read much of the average artist experiences so far. Now I am a believer for some time, and supporting my brother STW and his fellow artists… Continue reading
Re-public posting podcasts on commons-oriented policy-making
Here, you can listen to podcasts from the fringe meeting entitled “Incorporating the commons in the new socialist agendas“, held in the context of the congress of the European Socialist Party, Porto, 8 December 2006. Presenters included: Benoît Thieulin, Head of internet strategy for Ségolène Royal’s presidential campaign Michel Bauwens, Founder of the P2P foundation… Continue reading
Recommended links for the week ending January 7
P2P Learning and Education Learning in 2016 Manifesto, Swivel, the delicious for data, http://www.swivel.com/tour/intro P2P Media What’s the difference between IP-TV and Internet TV?, http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2006/10/whats_wrong_wit.html Review of amazing YouTube tools, http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2006/10/the-amazing-youtube-tools-collection/ What’s the Future for Digg-like sites?, http://franticindustries.com/blog/2006/12/12/the-future-of-digg-like-websites/ P2P Sociology and Politics Are people retreating in their digital cocoons? (Korea Times), http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200605/kt2006052316495668040.htm Are people less… Continue reading
Call for Papers on Wiki Politics for online journal Re-public
The new online journal Re-public invites contributions for its upcoming special issue entitled “Wiki politicsâ€. See below for details. We remind our readers that we collate material on politics in a special area of our Wiki (separate from the other category on governance). This will also give access to our specialized tags in Delicious. Call… Continue reading
Civil Society as a third alternative in the regulation/privatization debate
As I argued before, what peer production and peer governance bring is an enrichment of social choice. Instead of the endless debate between the duality government vs. corporation, or regulation vs. privatisation, we now have a third form of production and government which may be more appropriate. I have found another author who made a… Continue reading
ViNT (Sogeti) about crowdsourcing and peer-to-peer
ViNT (in Dutch, Verkenningsinstituut Nieuwe Technologie) is an institution that explores for new technology. Based on their latest book ‘Open for Business’, they formulated their vision about crowdsourcing and peer-to-peer. They mention the emerging of open innovation and peer-to-peer in public as well in private businesses, for example the Global Innovation Jam of IBM, the… Continue reading
employee driven transparency
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The Dumbness of Crowds
In a recent entry, Sam Rose has explained the difference between two related concepts, nl. the Wisdom of Crowds, and Collective Intelligence. “According to Henry Jenkins, the “wisdom of crowds†is applicable towards aggregating dispersed knowledge about quantifiable, objective data, while “collective intelligence†is intelligence that derives from collective behavior and stigmergic, and/or consensus decision… Continue reading
What you may have missed during the holiday, part two
We continue our rundown of what we published after the New Year: Decentralized production technology (Kevin Carson) Three scenarios for social innovation and their corresponding media strategies Can design be separated from production? (Michel Bauwens), Yes, replies Sam Rose
Second Life Open Sources Client Source Code
(thanks Lion Kimbro!) Official Second Life blog reports that Linden Labs has released the Second Life client source code under the GNU GPL v 2 license: Stepping up the development of the Second Life Grid to everyone interested, I am proud to announce the availability of the Second Life client source code for you to… Continue reading
Trend Blend 2007+ Map
Ross Dawson has posted to his blog: Trends In The Living Networks about a visualization collaborations between Nowandnext.com and Future Exploration Network. Ross writes: Inspired by the subway map for a well-known city, the map shows some of the major trends in each of these segments, as well as the key intersections between the trends…. Continue reading
What you may have missed during the holiday, part one
The P2P Blog didn’t stop functioning during the last 2 holiday weeks, and some of our readers may have missed potentially interesting contributions. Here’s an overview for the week of Christmas. Sam Rose on the Emerging Economics of the Commons How are hierarchy and ownership related (Jeff Vail) Why a P2P energy grid is essential… Continue reading
Alan Kazlev on distributed spirituality and integral practice
Alan Kazlev continues his exploration of an alternative formulation of Integral Theory, and in the sixth part, he inquires whether there can be forms of Integral Practice which do not reflect a continuing narcissic concern with one own’s state of consciousness, to the detriment of a participatory social practice that engages with the Other. Read… Continue reading
Launch of French P2P blog: Entre Pairs
We started dabbling/experimenting with a new language blog in November, but starting this January, Remi Sussan, our editor, is determined to achieve a cruising speed, and I have found his last two entries this week, particularly the one on open source warfare, to be particularly informative. Our new blog is at http://blogfr.p2pfoundation.net/ It’s part of… Continue reading
Who Owns a Feed?
Anne Walk, has a recent blog entry ‘Who Owns a Feed?‘ giving a short history of the conflicts surrounding splogs and, in particular, the nascent trend of creating directories of video feeds. Her focus in the article is on Network2 a video directory site that provides links to video feeds and other services such as… Continue reading