This was produced for the International Commons Conference in Berlin, and was produced in four languages, here the English version:
Date archives "November 2010"
P2P business trend visualization
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Aligning with true conservatism
If those in this country who consider themselves to be spiritual progressives could see clearly just how closely they are aligned with true conservative principles, perhaps they could begin to reclaim conservatism as one of the core principles upon which to build the movement toward a more spirit-guided world. Obviously, folks are all different. These… Continue reading
Towards a quality of life for all species: the nowtopian redesign of our world through meaningful work
Let’s face it. There’s a great deal of work to do to make an ecologically sane, healthy and comfortable life for everyone. But mostly we’re not doing that work. Instead we’re working at jobs and in industries that are perpetuating the destruction of habitats, species, and human communities, while plundering natural resources and threatening the… Continue reading
New bottom-up planning experiments in Australian Urbanism
From an article by Dan Hill around ‘bottom-up planning’ originally published by Architectural Review Australia: “Chris Johnson asks whether “the free access to web-based information on planning projects [is] leading to a new democracy in planning?” The answer is of course ‘a qualified yes’, but perhaps more importantly the question should be, “What kind of… Continue reading
The Commons as condition for prosperity: new report from the Boll Foundation
* Report: The Commons – Prosperity by Sharing. By Silke Helfrich, Rainer Kuhlen, Wolfgang Sachs, Christian Siefkes. Heinrich Boll Foundation. New report with also our associate Silke Helfrich as co-author: “What older tradition had referred to as res communes – common assets – has been relegated to the background, if not entirely to oblivion, by… Continue reading
Chris Carlsson on the build-in anti-criticality of the TED format
Chris Carlsson went to TEDx Amazon and made some insightful remarks about the design of the format, which doesn’t allow for any challenges to the speakers: “I should pause because it’s important to understand how we all became quite chummy and actually gained real affection for each other. We were hanging out with each other… Continue reading
Will mass marketing become obsolete? Collaborative Consumption and it’s impact on the future of advertising
In her book, What’s Mine Is Yours, Rachel Botsman puts forth her idea of collaborative consumption and contrasts the difference between twentieth century hyperconsumption to twenty-first century collaborative consumption. If she is right, and the economy does reach a point to where consumers are consuming collaboratively on a wide scale, then advertising has no choice… Continue reading
SEGUNDO CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN EN LÍNEA Y CULTURA LIBRE MOODLEMOOT2010
(note: I’m giving a lecture here tomorrow November 19, in Buenos Aires – Michel Bauwens) 18 Y 19 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 2010 SEGUNDO CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN EN LÍNEA Y CULTURA LIBRE MOODLEMOOT2010 INVITADO ESPECIAL: MICHEL BAUWENS, ESPECIALISTA EN REDES P2P http://www.moodlemoot.org.ar/ Los nuevos horizontes tecnológicos movilizan la educación y redefinen cada vez más puntos… Continue reading
The first real P2P Political Candidate
Our friend Smári McCarthy is campaigning to evolve the political system in Iceland. Smári recognizes that constraining freedom of speech/expression in any medium destroys everyone’s freedom, and protects no one. He also recognizes that government is for people, not for companies and interests. He wants to do nothing less than re-write the constitution of Iceland…. Continue reading
The DIY Micromanufacturing Revolution in Baltimore
Feisty presentation by Megan Auman of the craftMBA.com blog, really worth watching, of the craft revolution taking place in Baltimore and its promise for economic revival:
Our spimal future: fablabbing in 2030?
Really great animated introduction to the implications of a generalization of a distributed fablab infrastructure, in a hypothetical time in the future: FULL PRINTED from nueve ojos on Vimeo.
3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology
it is critical for today’s 3D printing community, tucked away in garages, hackerspaces, and labs, to keep a vigilant eye on these policy debates as they grow. There will be a time when impacted legacy industries demand some sort of DMCA for 3D printing. If the 3D printing community waits until that day to organize,… Continue reading
Jean-Michel Cornu on digital fabrication
This is an excellent presentation on digital fabrication by Jean-Michel Cornu, in French, but with a really great organization so I believe our english-language readers would benefit from having a look at it: La fabrication numerique on Prezi
How a community build a car: the Local Motors story
Corporate version of the crowdsourcing story of Local Motors:
The history of alternative schooling and homeschooling
In this brilliant lecture, film director Astra Taylor does not only describe her own homeschooling, but contextualizes it by reference to the history of alternate education, especially the public conversation on it in the sixties or seventies: “Raised by independent-thinking bohemian parents, Taylor was unschooled until age 13. Join the filmmaker as she shares her… Continue reading