Date archives "May 2007"

Proposals for an open source legislative process

Interesting proposal by Dave Pollard at the Save the World blog: “Today there is no reason why the legislative (law-making) process cannot be completely transparent and draw on the collective wisdom of many citizens. In order for that to happen, I would propose a radical change to the way in which that legislative process occurs:… Continue reading

The Ponoko Desktop Manufacturing project

We discovered an interesting blog on sustainable design, originating with the same people who are working hard to develop a fully featured desktop manufacturing system for physical goods: Ponoko. Here’s what the blog predicts: “here is a whole slew of amazing new technology out there right now that can facilitate collaborative design and development of… Continue reading

Fred Turner on a strategy for change: inside or outside the institutions

Fred Turner is the author of a wonderful book about the history of the American political and social counterculture of the sixties, and how it merged with digital utopianism, i.e. From Counterculture to Cyberculture. In a recent discussion at the IDC mailing list, he contributed the following thoughts, which are well worth pondering. My first… Continue reading

New modes of leadership for a participatory age

Vasilis Kostakis is a Greek Msc student at the economic and business faculty of the University of Amsterdam. He is working on a thesis “Laser Theory and Peer-to-Peer: Redefinition of the Society in the Information Age”, which he started to explain here. As I understand it, the metaphor of the laser, as thousands concentrated points… Continue reading

The Ladder of Participation: models for interaction between peer projects and institutions

I have had in the past, had the occasion to present Xavier Comtesse’s model of the direct economy, but also critiquing it, as it only presents a one-sided view of use of social innovation by corporations, thereby leaving out autonomous peer production (such as Linux and Wikipedia), and how the institutional world can adapt to… Continue reading

Social Forum and Solidarity Economy in the U.S.

Finally also in the U.S.! The movement for the Social/Solidarity Economy meets in June 27-30, 2007 Atlanta, GA The first U.S. Social Forum will be held in Atlanta and will bring together twenty thousand activists, organizers, educators, and other fellow travelers who are united in their opposition to the current, dominant model of globalization from… Continue reading

10 Most Popular Internal P2P Resources and Categories at the P2P Foundation

These are the most consulted of our own resource pages. 10 Most Consulted Resource Pages at the P2P Foundation: 1. P2P and Human Evolution, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Manifesto 2. Founders of the P2P Foundation, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Founders 3. Key Essays on P2P, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Essays 4. About the P2P Foundation, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/About ; http://www.p2pfoundation.net/About_The_Foundation 5. Our Understanding of P2P, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Our_Understanding_of_P2P \ 6. The… Continue reading

Most Popular P2P Topics of the Year

Here is a list of the most visited topics in our P2P Encyclopedia. 10 Most Popular Topics 1. Techno-Progressivism, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Techno-Progressivism 2. Participatory Spirituality, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Participatory_Spirituality 3. Open Access, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Access 4. Commons, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Commons 5. P2P-TV, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/P2P_TV 6. Long Tail, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Long_Tail 7. Creative Commons, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Creative_Commons 8. Collective Intelligence, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Collective_Intelligence 9. Participatory Epistemology, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Participative_Epistemology 10. Peer Governance, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Peer_Governance Also… Continue reading

Open Business Models: Business and Open Source

Open Business Models: 2007-05-08 Blog Business and Open source This Editorial from mark Hinkle on Enterprise Open Source Magazine, this essay from William Hurley and also a recent story in Slashdot, provide some interesting food for thought about the convergence of OpenSource software and traditional business. The Editorial by Hinkle points out the growing trend… Continue reading

Forking at the Couchsurfing hospitality network?

We received an announcement on the creation of the Open Couchsurfing project , as a development within the couchsurfing hospitality exchange community, which seems to originate from a number of participating volunteer programmers. Here’s a copy of the announcement by Thomas Goorden (for the cs-dev-public list): My dear fellow developers, You might have noticed that… Continue reading

Most Popular P2P Podcasts and Webcasts of the Year

Here is a list of the 20 most popular links to videos and audio presentations of P2P related subjects, as chosen by our visitors. 10 Most Popular Webcasts and Podcasts 1. Michel Bauwens on P2P, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Michel_Bauwens_on_Peer_to_Peer 2. Lawrence Lessig on Free and Open Cultures, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Lawrence_Lessig_Podcasts_and_Webcasts_on_Free_Culture , http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Lawrence_Lessig_on_Open_Source 3. David Wiley on Open Education, http://www.p2pfoundation.net/David_Wiley_on_the_Open_Education_Movement 4…. Continue reading

Wisdom and community in medicine

Here’s an interesting video about the social networking service for doctors, Sermo , the experience of which was also reported in Business Week recently. The founder of Sermo makes a number of interesting points. While the press makes a lot of the payment scheme, he says that it only represents 0.1% of the contributions, that… Continue reading

Physical bookmarking in Japan

Here is a significant development from Japan: “A system called “Town Pocket” will be deployed at 153 shops including 109 apparel stores, 14 cafes and restaurants, 10 hair salons, 13 accessory shops, and 7 shoes/sports shops. All these shops will install an RFID reader device (photo) to which customers show their wallet phones in order… Continue reading