In terms of our online resources, we have existed consistently for about a year now, which coincides with the Thai calendar, which changes in April every year. From the statistics page of our wiki, we have culled the list of the 10 most popular biographic and region/country/language related pages that have been chosen by our… Continue reading
Date archives "May 2007"
Combining distributed energy with distributed money?
Key to a strategy to implement peer to peer alternatives on a wider scale, will be both the distribution of energy, and the social production of money. Here’s an article showing how they are related. The article is rich in links and citations, so I recommend reading the full version. here’s a citation: “once you… Continue reading
Top 5 P2P Books of the Week
Cultural Software: A Theory of Ideology, by J.M. Balkin (From the Cultural Software website) Cultural Software offers a new theory about how ideologies and beliefs grow, spread, and develop– a theory of cultural evolution, which explains both shared understandings and disagreement and diversity within cultures.  Cultural evolution occurs through transmission and spread of cultural information… Continue reading
Advances in Desktop Manufacturing
How realistic is it to foresee substantial advances in the distribution of the means of production, in particular as a result of advances in desktop manufacturing? According to Lawrence J. Rhoades at the National Academy of Engineering (U.S.), this is in fact the very “The Transformation of Manufacturing in the 21st Century” that is in… Continue reading
Multi agents systems, articificial societies, and p2p
Remi Sussan, the editor of our French blog, has guest edited the last issue of our P2P Newsletter, the archive of which is available here. Issue 160 is dedicated to the topic of multi-agent systems in their relationship to P2P. Remi introduces the topic as follows: Why are multi-agent systems important to understand P2P ?… Continue reading
Towards P2P interfaces?
I have not read the book mentioned in the announcement below. But there are 2 good reasons to mention it. One is that the publishers first initiative was a book about the open and free paradigms, called “How Open is the Future?”. The second is that the authors of the individual essays are amongst the… Continue reading
“What is Peer to Peer?” – 4 min. version of Michel Bauwens video interview featuring CC licensed music
This is a new 4 min. version of the original 20 min. video interview with Michel Bauwens (see this Robin Good article for the full version) centered around the question What is Peer to Peer? The music used is the CC licensed track My Piano Sings (Part 2) by John Holowach from his free archive.org… Continue reading
Alternative education summit
Interesting initiative around P2P learning, i.e. the SUMMIT of non-aligned initiatives in education culture, to take place in Berlin from May 24 to 28, 2007 Description of the conference: Two weeks before this years G-8 meeting a wide range of projects, initiatives and protagonists from the fields of art, culture and political activism are going… Continue reading
Dialstation: low cost radical business model and self-bank for the poor?
Dmytri Kleiner, with whom we had a lively discussion some time back, has launched an initiative which marries business and radical ideas, in the form of a very low-cost platform for international mobile phones. Here’s the info as summarized for IDC. You can find more information at their website as well. Dmytri writes that: “mobile… Continue reading
P2P projects: “A very small percentage of your members are highly relevant”
The blog of Cambrian House, a crowdsourcing / crowdfunding project, has a very interesting tidbit that I can’t refrain from reproducing. The figures come from Bill Tancer of Hitwise, who “shared some hard numbers on how much participation is actually occurring at some of the most popular web 2.0 sites.” * YouTube – 0.16% (visits… Continue reading
Censorship backfires: thanks to MPAA takedown notice “illegal number” becomes popular on digg.com
The Motion Pictures Association of America (MPAA) recently sent takedown notices to sites mentioning a key that can be used to circumvent the copy protection of the new HD-DVD format. Digg.com frontpage stories featuring the key disappeared and accounts were suspended. The result was a user revolt and around May 1st, 2007 almost every story… Continue reading