This goes beyond the concrete issue of the fight for marriage equality being fought in California. I find the concept of Equality Camps to be dynamite, a efficient way of bringing together Web 2.0 savvy geeks with activists, to mutually learn from each other on how to conduct efficient campaigns. Check out the first experiment… Continue reading
Date archives "January 2009"
Gaming as a Commons
Article: Moore, Christopher. 2005. “Commonising The Enclosure: Online Games And Reforming Intellectual Property Regimes.” Australian Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society 3(2). We missed this important essay when it appeared, but it seems important enough to mention again, here is the abstract: “The purpose is to examine the potential for computer game studies to contribute… Continue reading
The convergence of the digital and physical worlds
“The digital and physical world were one separate. Now, there are more and more physical products with a link to the digital world. The extreme situation is that a product ID will have a link to its source code for fabrication on a personal fabricator or a nearby fabrication service bureau. But also on shorter… Continue reading
Andrew Bowyer on the RepRap Project and Self-replicating Machines
Via: “The Agroinnovations Podcast has recently published the first part of an interview with Andrew Bowyer, the founder and lead researcher on the Reprap Project. The OSAT revolution continues, and it’s just about moving faster than we can keep track of. To learn more about reprap, listen to the podcast available here. Part II will… Continue reading
Working with Noded teams
Is this the handbook to the new p2p-inspired work culture that we have been waiting for? If you have read this book, please do tell us. “Noded – The untouchable business by Andreas Carlsson and Jaan Orvet is a book about starting and working in web powered Node teams. It is about a new way… Continue reading
Open sourcing the mobile operating systems
we are seeing a point in history in which the mobile handset manufacturers and their partners are using OSS and collaborative development to ensure they do not get trapped in the narrow margin price war that caught the personal computer (PC) original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the previous technology wave. For non-technical people, the flow… Continue reading
Thailand’s Santi Suk on the world stage
Something to be proud of in my adopted country of Thailand, as reported in the Wall Street Journal. Excerpts only, the full article has a lot more details. James Hookway: “The villagers of Santi Suk began creating their own cash here on the sun-bleached plains of northern Thailand following Asia’s financial crisis a decade ago…. Continue reading
Umair Haque: four fixes for the meltdown
Four priorities that need to be tackled to restore a sound governance and regulation system for business, via Umair Haque: The Currency Fix. The invisible hand doesn’t mean that profiteers get to reach into your pocket with every trade. Yet, that’s the economy we’ve built: one where you bear a collective responsibility for the decisions… Continue reading
Entreprise participation in open source software development
More enterprises, both large and small, are increasing their participation in open source communities to drive innovation. Entreprise participation in open source software development is the special theme of the Open Source Business Resource magazine of January 2009. Here’s the general presentation by editor-in-chief Dru Lavigne: “The theme for this month’s issue of the OSBR… Continue reading
What will/should happen to business in the 21st century?
Via Umair Hacque: “What is the role of marketing in a world where consumption must slow? In the 20th century, marketing was the pusher of a consumption addiction: Madison Ave’s game was to create perceived value by “differentiating” the same razors, blades, and toothpaste. At the Lab, we’ve found that companies who create perceived value… Continue reading
Bruce Perens: Innovation has gone public
From an interesting assessment of the state of the free and open source software movement, by Bruce Perens, author of the Open Source Definition on Feburary 9,1998. Bruce tackles the question: where are we ten years on. Here’s an excerpt dealing with commercialization: “Our most pervasive penetration has been in business servers and embedded systems…. Continue reading
The Obama administration and the new leadership models
participants need to have “confidence that better outcomes emerge from joint work when the quality of interaction truly matters, rather than when tasks are the sole and primary focus.” This requires a “relational stance.” That is, members are open to the perspectives of others and the possibility that “any contribution by any group member can… Continue reading
Leadership as Holarchy: leading/following in peer governance
A more balanced appropriation of the governance lens sees leadership and followership as co-creative partners in the production of systems of organisational management and regulation. A more astute use of this lens will uncover the multilevel nature of leadership and followership throughout all layers of organisational activity. For example, followership has been neglected as an… Continue reading
On the subversive uses of tagging
Eugenio Tisselli has produced a case study on strategic tagging: “This research studies the reactions of the users of Flickr who, in an uncoordinated way, responded to a change in its filtering policy in Germany. In particular, it focuses on the birth and dissemination of a new anti-censorship tag created for the occasion: “thinkflickrthink”. This… Continue reading
Holarchy vs. Hierarchy
From a really interesting essay by Andrew P.Smith, where he discusses animal vs. human consciousness, the return of panpsychist philosophies and science, etc … This very well written philosophical essay, understandable to any generally educated person, is a particular interpretation of human consciousness, also the introductory chapter of a e-book: “The Dimensions of Experience: A… Continue reading
Learning about open standards and free network services via podcasts and webcasts
Latest addition to our Open Standards section is an updated list of podcasts and webcasts for your listening and viewing pleasure. Thanks for sending me items that should be there, but aren’t. Here’s the list: *Bob Sutor on Open Source and Open Standards at IBM ; Bob Sutor on Open Standards vs Open Source *Bradley… Continue reading