The billion-years rise of extropy — as it flings up stable molecules, solar systems, a planetary atmosphere, life, mind and the technium — can be restated as the slow accumulation of ordered information. Or rather, the slow ordering of accumulated information. Information is its own force in the universe, which started with energy, became increasingly… Continue reading
Date archives "August 2009"
Jeff Vail on the Diagonal Economy and the Rhizome Organisation
Jeff Vail is starting his long-awaited series on the next step for our post-meltdown political economies (see ToC for full project description): An excerpt on how this change may come about in the core country of the present system. Jeff Vail: “The diagonal economy might rise amidst the decline of our current system—the “Legacy System.”… Continue reading
DataSF
From the DataSF website: DataSF is a central clearinghouse for datasets published by the City & County of San Francisco. The site allows you to find datasets in several ways: general search, tags/keywords, categories, and rating. The goal is to improve access to city data through open machine-readable formats. While the number and quality of… Continue reading
The social history of the MP3 music revolution
Recommended blog essay by Eric Harvey: Summary: “A lot of forces would have to coalesce for any sort of revolution to happen. More likely, it will take a while, as it did with radio and the phonograph, for mp3s to stabilize and reach a point where the old ways of doing things learn from the… Continue reading
James Quilligan: 21st century commons, the new social charters, and the State
Very interesting, and crucial contribution, by James Quilligan: “In my view, many commons need a social contract negotiated between the commoners and the state. Each one should be negotiated on its own terms. There may be pure commons management on one hand, or perhaps state-commons hybrids on the other — but that’s up to the… Continue reading
Rural revolution in Colombia goes digital and p2p
“Latinamerica is particularly well equipped for these changes (peer production) by their cultural affinity with the values of P2P”, said Michel Bauwens on an interview for Pagina/12 the Argentinian journal. This statement seems to prove itself when one reads Elyssa Pachico;s article “Rural revolution in Colombia goes digital” (first published by CounterPunch, you can find… Continue reading
Explaining Greenxchange’s open innovation model
This is a great explanation of the cooperation logic behind Greenxchange, an initiative by Nike, BestBuy and the Creative Commons, to create collaborative open innovation pools for renewable energy research.
OPEN 2009 – Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium – Helsinki – November 5–6, 2009
The doctoral programme in Media Lab Helsinki will organize a symposium about openness in November 5–6, 2009, which is the second edition of the event. OPEN 2009 – Media Lab Doctor of Arts Symposium is an event for all interested parties who want to understand the ongoing shift from an industrially organized era to an… Continue reading
Peer to peer ‘unclasses’
Springwise reports on the LaidOffCamp initiative: “Unconferences have become increasingly common over the past decade or so, notable in particular for their low-key structure and participant-driven format. LaidOffCamp is one such example, and now—inspired, in fact, by that initiative—the concept has been applied to education with the launch of (un)classes. Aiming to provide a more… Continue reading
Metacasting and the new mixed media realities
Drax’s engaging, mixed-media report blends virtual and offline interviews and video clips to explore the way social media were used by Obama’s team to distribute Obama’s speech to Africans lacking direct access to the Internet. Below is what I consider a must-see video, not just because the interesting content, see the above blocquote, but mostly… Continue reading
The revival of homegrown urban agriculture
Commentary from Sam Rose: “Not only is urban agriculture an emerging movement for individuals, it is also being pursued as part of a sustainable urban renewal strategy throughout the midwest. Some examples include: http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/SweetWaterFishFarming/HomePage Sweetwater organics Aquaponics fishfarming in Milwaukee WI self sustaining urban food production in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Detroit http://localfoodsystems.org/lfs-storytellers Efforts in Chicago… Continue reading
Participatory Leadership
We have started to separately collate material on the new forms of leadership that are emerging in networked communities. You can find our tag here. Our latest find is this table by Chris Corrigan, which contrasts the new requirements with those of classic hierarchical industrial firms and bureaucracies. Traditional ways of working Participatory leadership complementing… Continue reading
Independent Film Company Responds To BERR Consultation | TorrentFreak
TorrentFreak have just published this response to the BERR consultation on file-sharing in the UK. Read the full post here to check comments etc. Written by enigmax on August 27, 2009 This week the latest news in the Digital Britain debate caused a wave of protests as it was revealed the government is considering disconnecting… Continue reading
How p2p Works: An Introduction
A simple guide, with videos, illustrating how the concept of p2p works.
Continue readingWe need a p2p architecture for money too!
How to best transcend the current economic mess? Put Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Nathan Myhrvold, and Danny Hillis in a room somewhere and don’t let them out until they have framed a new, massively-distributed financial system, founded on sound, open, peer-to-peer principles, from the start. And don’t… Continue reading
Cyberspace as a military commons
Cyberspace is a kind of collective good, even a global public good. It also means that access to, if not command of, this new commons is essential for America’s power in the world, and that cyberspace must be defended against state and nonstate threateners. David Ronfeldt is on a roll here, and his longer blog… Continue reading