Today I read this amazing article: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php It’s worth mentioning that their is no science without theory. The human mind is wired for creating theories. That is why there is a neural network built into our brain/mind system. It is wired to consider the un-manifested. That being said, what Kevin Kelly describes is a lot… Continue reading
Date archives "June 2008"
On the relation between open design communities and their physical production partners
(the following may be a useful summary restatement of an issue that we have discussed here quite a few times) A key issue is how a mode of production that is successful in the creation of ‘immaterial value’ is co-dependent and can co-exist with the sphere of material value creation. The problem can be described… Continue reading
The Tacit Governance of the Internet as a sign of strength
Key theme of this contribution: Why Abundance is a necessary policy goal for internet governance. Via the Berkman Centers Publius Project on ‘constitutional moments of the internet’ So far, we have been very lucky at the P2P Foundation, in the sense that we always have had civil dialogue, and we have done this with a… Continue reading
Open-source animation update, reminder about Terms of Service agreements
Open-source animation A selected list of quite brilliant free and open-source tools for beginners as well as experienced animators – be it for 2D, 3D or code based animation – can be found in our P2P Audiovisual Guide in the June 08 update (on the main page, just scroll down…). This update further includes some… Continue reading
Networked scenius, private patronage, and the partner state
Remember Ian Skerret ‘s (Eclipse Foundation) quote a few days ago ? It is a myth that committers are volunteers. The committers for the established open source projects are nearly all paid by companies to commit code to open source projects. This reminds us of an uncomfortable truth: peer production, in order to work, needs… Continue reading
Campaign for ‘sound copyright’ in the European Union
EU internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy has announced his intention to extend the European copyright term for sound recordings from 50 to 95 years. This is of course a dangerous and absurd policy and we should therefore support the campaign for a Sound Copyright in the EU. Go the following site for the petitionL http://www.soundcopyright.eu/…. Continue reading
A reply to ideas about the loss of credibility and viability of “the movement”
This is a blog post in reply to http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/marcin-jakubowski-on-a-policy-to-expand-material-peer-production-through-land/2008/06/25, and the quote therein from James Edwards: “I feel that if the movement doesn’t free itself from its dependence on corporate support it can’t legitimately claim to be a viable and credible alternative to the current system.” Problem is not that p2p production is or is… Continue reading
Marcin Jakubowski on a policy to expand material peer production through land
In one of the email discussions taking place around the edge of the P2P Foundation, there was a vigorous exchange after a remark by James Edwards: “I feel that if the movement doesn’t free itself from its dependance on corporate support it can’t legitimately claim to be a viable and credible alternative to the current… Continue reading
Hacking tax forms: One of many presentations given at barcamp gov in Amsterdam
Links: slideshare presentation – tax choice(larger version) – tax report (larger version) Here are the slides to an informal presentation i gave at the Barcamp Gov. in the Netherlands which kickstarted a lively discussion on taxation, engagement and accountability. Participatory budgeting is usually a municipal rather than nation state level, or, dare i say, multi-scalar… Continue reading
Community and corporation
Ian Skerrett of the Eclipse Foundation has an interesting article at the June issue of the Open Source Business Resource. Some quotes and excerpts below. In his lecture on “Building Technical Communities” Ian Skerrret observes: “In a technical community: i) peers, not vendors, determine the message; ii) developers talk to other developers, not through intermediaries… Continue reading
New portal page for Appropriate Technology
The Appropedia wiki has been there for a while, but Chris Watkins has made a special effort to reorganize the content for easier usage through a portal, that focuses on the ‘technological solutions’ per se, rather than lifestyles or practices. Here’s how Chris explains it: “One challenge with making an Appropriate technology portal on Appropedia… Continue reading
Video: Clay Shirky on creating long term groups that build something over time without incorporating
via David Spark from Spark Minute
The P2P Foundation supports One Web Day!
Check out this wonderful video editorial by Robert Link. Here’s what our friend Robert has to say about the initiative: “One Web Day is an initiative started in 2006 to create for the web something akin to what Earth Day is for the planet. As humans are doing things to the planet which in time… Continue reading
Raoul Victor: P2P in the material world (3): Envisioning the transition
We continue serializing Raoul Victor’s reply to an Oekonux text by the ‘two Stefan’s”. In this third and last part, Raoul Victor focuses on the transition strategies. Raoul Victor: 3 – Production and distribution The text reads, in part 3: “Though there are a lot of peer phenomenons, peer production is primarily about production and… Continue reading
Snapping and sharing with the comm.unity p2p telephony platform
Imagine going on a trip and creating an ad-hoc group with the people you happen to be traveling with. Any picture anyone takes could be immediately distributed to all of the group’s devices. Thus starts the description of Nadav Aharony’s comm.unity project. Here is commentary by Worldchanging: “Nadav Aharony’s work on peer to peer telephony,… Continue reading
Schools’ Web 2.0 ban contributes to social exclusion
This is soo important, I’m reproducing it in full. Niki Widdowson: “Blocking students’ use of Web 2.0 sites – blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and chat – at school could exclude them from valuable educational opportunities as well as heighten social exclusion, particularly in remote and Indigenous communities. Queensland University of Technology media and communication PhD candidate… Continue reading