Date archives "November 2007"

The produsage revolution: a stellar new book

Axel Bruns. Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. New York: Peter Lang, 2008. Axel Bruns has been so kind as to send me the manuscript of his new book on Produsage, and I must admit that while reading it I could hardly contain my enthusiasm. This is nothing less that the… Continue reading

Smart objects and the coming convergence of the digital and the physical as the Third Book of Nature

Our friend Kim Veltman has written a very interesting conference presentation on the new convergence between the digital and the physical world. I find such an approach interesting because it goes beyond the onesided attention to a independent “Internet of Things”, or the business-oriented approach of Bruce Sterling’s Spimes, which assumes an unchanged copyright regime… Continue reading

An update on the thriving field of product hacking and open hardware

Canadian Stephen Vermeulen keeps a regularly updated list of open hardware initiatives, which he calls product hacking. This is a good occasion to refer readers to our own page, which contains a full listing with links, on the various projects we know of. Go to that page for the links and further exploration. We can… Continue reading

Participatory Spirituality, an update on John Heron’s book

One year ago, John Heron wrote an important, but self-published book, on Participatory Spirituality, which was subtitled, a Farewell to Authoritarian Religion. This important book is now also available through Amazon and I would therefore like to bring it once more under your attention. Below is the short review that I added to it. Review:… Continue reading

A handbook for the global cooperation of corporate teams: Global Project Management

Jean Binder is a former Brazilian student of mine, back in the days when I was teaching The Anthropology of Digital Society. He sent me the following news, which is appropriate for the subject matter of our blog. Jean Binder: “Let me take the opportunity as well to share with your peers my new website… Continue reading

How the Dutch are pioneering open payment and self-determined revenue sharing practices for creative services

I’m very, very excited about the following developments reported in the dutch media and blogosphere, and have asked our Dutch sympathizers to report on this in English. Because of time constraints, I can at present only provide the Dutch-language links. This is truly the peer to peer future in the making, so I’m hoping for… Continue reading

A New Social Contract?

Friday, November 2, at the University of Michigan, game-theorist Brian Skyrms gave the Tanner Lecture on Human Values, and his topic was “The Evolution of the Social Contract.” Saturday, November 3, there was a symposium to respond to and discuss his lecture. Invited speakers were Elinor Ostrom, Michael Smith, and Peyton Young. Elinor Ostrom discussed… Continue reading