“…from the point of view of technology, a code generated within a digital computer is now self-replicating as the genome of a line of living cells. From the point of view of biology, a code generated by a living organism has been translated into a digital representation for replication, editing, and transmission to other cells.”… Continue reading
Date archives "May 2010"
From Enterprise 2.0 to Social Business Design
Very clear graph from Pattin Anklam summarizing the evolution of business organisations:
Open Source Hardware and Design Alliance
OHANDA is an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open hardware and design. It was first drafted at the GOSH!-Grounding Open Source Hardware summit at the Banff Centre in July 2009. One of the first goals of the project is to build a service for sharing open hardware designs which includes a certification model and a registration. Recently we… Continue reading
Learning from the copyright free fashion industry
“Copyright law’s grip on film, music and software barely touches the fashion industry … and fashion benefits in both innovation and sales, says Johanna Blakley. At TEDxUSC 2010, she talks about what all creative industries can learn from fashion’s free culture.”
Michel Bauwens at Rosario University in Bogota, Colombia
What exactly would constitute connectivist dynamics?
It is based on these criteria that we arrive at an account of a knowing network. The scale-free networks contemplated above constitute instances in which these criteria are violated: by concentrating the flow of knowledge through central and highly connected nodes, they reduce diversity and reduce interactivity. Even where such networks are open and allow… Continue reading
Introduction to the MetaCurrency project by Alan Rosenblith
A very well done introduction to this TCP/IP for Open Money project, by Alan Rosenblith: (includes 10 minutes of video) MetaCurrency Introduction on Prezi
The couchsurfing experience, the first five years
Casey Fenton, founder of CouchSurfing, is interviewed at length in Shareable magazine by What’s Mine Is Yours author Rachel Botsman about trust and reputation, community decision-making, social entrepreneurship, and the future of travel. Just one question here as an excerpt, about the past and future of the project: “RB: You have mentioned that the first… Continue reading
Arriving in Bogota … impressed by transportation urbanism
On a lecture tour in Columbia, at the invitation of IP lawyer Carolina Botero. To give you a taste, here’s what the capital city is doing around sustainable transportation:
Four Rules against the False Abundance of the Eternal Growth Economy
Here is how the physical side of the Economy of the Commons should function! And below, a meditation of how one can choose for abundance over scarcity approaches by turning rival goods into non-rival ones. 1. The rules of the abundance economy Excerpted from the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy, which… Continue reading
The El Cumbre conference report: 4) neotraditionalist degrowth vs. left developmentalism
Conference: People’s World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth We are finalizing our serializing of an extraordinarly stimulating report by Massimo de Angelis: Today, how the contradictions of “Bien Vivir” where at play in the Mesa 18 alt.conference: “This aporia between bien vivir as relational field of commoning outside capitalist markets,… Continue reading
EU Vote on 1st June: Copy-left or Copy-right?
On the 1st June the EU votes on which direction to take Europe – towards more copyright enforcement or towards more citizen’s digital rights.
Continue readingThe Twenty Rules we need for Open Civic Networks
Proposed by Neal Gorenflo: “What kind of network can be trusted? Simple – one owned, managed, and governed by citizens for the benefit of citizens. In fact, I believe this is the only kind of social network that can be trusted. Let’s call these civic networks. I believe the term “social networks” is forever tainted… Continue reading
The El Cumbre conference report: 3) the contradictions and paradoxes of the Bien Vivir concept
Conference: People’s World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth We are continuing our serializing of an extraordinarly stimulating report by Massimo de Angelis: Today, what to think of “Bien Vivir”: “In our working table we had a round of opinions of what bien vivir meant to different people. Here is a… Continue reading
El Cumbre Conference report: 2) Should we talk about “Mother Earth”
Conference: People’s World Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth We will be serializing an extraordinarly stimulating report by Massimo de Angelis: Today, on the use by the climate change conference of the Mother Earth concept: “Evo Morales was definitively right in saying that the difference between the meetings in Copenhagen and… Continue reading
How Dutch Pragmatism Nurtures a 21st Century Economy
A well chosen cover accompanies the above title. The cover is an old church in the city Maastricht, in the deepest south of the Netherlands. It articulates the progressive attitude of the Dutch that have chosen to invest heavily in an optic-fibre broadband infrastructure nationwide. A decision that was made 13 years ago, back in… Continue reading