Here are a few opportunities to meet me around San Francisco during early March: 1. March 6, Walnut Creek 2008 Mar 6th – Thu at 6:00 PM / The Lub’s Residence – 61 Los Cerros Place – Walnut Creek, CA 94598 MICHEL BAUWENS: Founder of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives – Peer To Peer As… Continue reading
Date archives "March 2008"
Christian Siefkes on Money (and state forms) in the Peer Economy
I have asked Christian, author of From Exchange to Contributions, his book about the Peer Economy, how he sees the role of money. Below is his response, which gives an interesting view of the method he used to write his book. Christian Siefkes: “I don’t think that I explicitly discuss corporations or money anywhere in… Continue reading
New links and highlights from the P2P Audiovisual Guide (March ’08)
New Links and Your LinksOur P2P Audiovisual Guide now features new links right on the first page of the guide: After a month they will be moved to their actual places in the guide and a new set of new links will be on the first page. If you have any links you would like… Continue reading
Adam Arvidsson: Social innovation in Malmo
Via. Adam Arvidsson: “In modern society we were used to thinking of culture and its production as business of specialized institutions of groups. Indeed the progressive disappearance of spontaneous popular culture, and the concomitant institutionalization of mass culture, were understood to be to central tendencies within the modernization process. “Spontankultur†Since the post-War years this… Continue reading
Not An Employee
In keeping with the recent focus on Johan Söderberg’s Hacking Capitalism as well as Clay Shirky’s recent “Here Comes Everybody” blog and book , I would like to call attention to what I think is an important venture, and, moreover, what I hope is merely one of many similar initiatives to come. Not An Employee… Continue reading
Dale Carrico on defining left and right
This is how Dale Carrico defines left and right: “the fact is that you are perfectly intelligible as a person of the progressive democratic Left if you affirm or feel inspired by the following basic ideas, just as you are perfectly intelligible as a person of the reactionary elitist Right if you feel indifference, skepticism,… Continue reading