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Date archives "March 2007"
Andreas Schiffler: What’s wrong with Second Life, part 2
We continue the debate on the merits and demerits of Second Life. In this contribution to an IDc debate, Andreas Schiffler counterposes Second Life and Wikipedia, in terms of costing, and calls for a truly distributed alternative. Andreas Schiffler: I want to throw in an comment about the technology dependence of these strategies. What has… Continue reading
Net Neutrality: cool video with a historic angle on net neutrality
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Why crowdsourcing isn’t peer production
As it seems that crowdsourcing is becoming the new buzzword in business circles, it might be useful to stress it difference with what we call peer production. Peer to peer is the relational dynamic at work in distributed networks, with the latter having as requirements the freedom of agents to engage in cooperation. Peer production… Continue reading
Diffuse Innovation and Venture Capital
In my presentations and seminars on the business impact of the peer to peer model of production, I often stress how diffuse innovation has become, how it now transcends any fixed borders such as an entreprise. This is so first of all because we have a permanently connected workforce that is constantly exchanging knowledge and… Continue reading
Solar energy is inherently distributed (towards a P2P solar energy grid)
Alternet is interviewing Travis Bradford of the Prometheus Institute for Sustainable Development, and author of the book: Solar Revolution: The Economic Transformation of the Global Energy Industry . There/s a lot more in the original article here, we are only selecting a few key quotes: Travis says that we’re moving towards a distributed power generation… Continue reading
Introduction to Adventure Economics and P2P lifestyles
Kasper Souren writes that: Joe Edelman created an awesome presentation called, The Future of Work, Fun, and Being Social, an introduction to the nascent adventure economy. Check http://nxhx.org/cae/adv-econ.pdf Or for other formats, check here
Gwendal Simon: what’s wrong with Second Life: there is no distributed power
Second Life is generating more and more controversy, about its purported exagerration of numbers, about its escapist potential for politics, about its open source strategy as competitive advantage, and around the recent launch of the Second Life Liberation Army. All these developments are monitored through our Second Life tag. The problem of Second Life exemplifies… Continue reading
Richard Stallman on peer production, 3
We continue our publication of the remarks by Richard Stallman, the blockqoutes are from our essay: Richard Stallman: I read the rest of http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499 , and here are my comments. They focus on details and side issues because the main points seem basically right to me. Peer production is highly dependent on the market for… Continue reading
Richard Stallman on peer production, 2
Richard Stallman has also sent us a number of corrections to our foundational essay, which has been published in CTheory at http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499 Richard Stallman: Michel, you wrote: The fourth requirement is a legal infrastructure that enables the creation of use-value and protects it from private appropriation. The General Public License It is the GNU General… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Adam Arvidsson on Ethics and the General Intellect, 6
Last week, we published five excerpt of Adam Arvidsson’s new book on the Ethical Economy, which is also available at the P2P Foundation wiki. Here, Adam is summarizing the argument of the second chapter. The Value of Values? To summarize. Under fordism, labour power consisted in such actions that could function as an appendage to… Continue reading
Richard Stallman on peer production, 1
I’ve recently been involved in a sustained email dialogue with free software pioneer Richard Stallman, who read the manuscript on peer production, and in particular the chapter on how free software fits in, see section 3.1.A. I will probably not have the time to make corrections until May, but will already add Richard’s remarks in… Continue reading
Who will dominate communities: users, or brands
Insightful blog commentary at Repositorium from our friend Martin Springer: “Tomi L. Ahoven writes on his blog “Communities Dominate Brands†that Mobile is the next mass medium. I do not think that the fact that a personal device is predominant leads to the conclusion that the mobile phone is the gateway to the next mass… Continue reading
Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
Citizen Marketers – When People are the Message, by by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba (From the Inside Flap) The woman sitting next to you at Starbucks focused intently on her laptop may just be determining the next big thing. In coffee houses, offices, homes, dorm rooms, and airport lounges around the world, millions of… Continue reading
Fouad Riaz Bajwa on Neo-Connectivity & Neo-Communities
Our Pakistanese friend and free software advocate, Fouad Riaz Bajwa, sent us the following contribution: The world is changing everyday, every moment at a rapid pace making available emerging digital technologies that continue to make it easier to connect regions that were once in the past disconnected from the rest of the globe. These disconnected… Continue reading
(The) Audience (2.0) at Swarming Media
Over at Swarming Media, I’ve posted an article written for the upcoming web-publication Audience 2.0, for which other P2P Foundation contributors have written. Entitled (The) Audience (2.0), the piece takes a brief look at different implications of the word “audience” within several historical, cultural, and technological contexts. Below is an excerpt, but the full text… Continue reading