Richard Telofski. Insidious Competition: The Battle for Meaning and the Corporate Image (iUniverse, 2010). I’ve written here in the past about the new potential network culture presents for asymmetric warfare against the power of the corporation and the state, and in particular on how it dovetails with such things as “open mouth sabotage” and the… Continue reading
Date archives "November 2010"
An overview of open business models
Nice Prezi by Olivier Schulbaum and team from Platoniq: “Open business plan for a productive commons – Based on the work of the “Economies, New P2P Models and Sustainable Distribution” group at Free Culture Forum 2009.” Open business plan for a productive commons on Prezi
An interview with Isaac Mao on the concretisation of Sharism in China
Sharism, broadly speaking, is an ideology that attempts to reconcile the sometimes idealistic cultures of open source and new media theory with the tech business community, creating viable options for both content sharing and progressive models of profitability. Expanding on a conception of “cloud intelligence” that he has presented previously in several exhibitions and essays,… Continue reading
Sharism or Radical Giving?
Sharing what we have is clearly in our future. The time of unbounded accumulation of stuff and money is over. But where is increased sharing going to lead us, and what effect is it going to have on the world? Some days ago, Michel pointed me to an interview with Isaac Mao, the Chinese internet… Continue reading
Tom Haskins on “Evolving into P2P strategies”
Interesting evolutionary vision of how peer to peer fits in the evolution of the creation of a social surplus, by Tom Haskins. The original has links and a great summary graph: “Over the weekend, I finished reading a wonderful new book: What’s Mine is Yours – The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Rachel Botsman and Roo… Continue reading
The Society Of Openness Comes Of Age
Robin Good and team (Eli Lombardi et al.) have once more outdone themselves in a very clear presentation of p2p ideas. This time, they present the open everything mindmap, a video explanation taped in Rome 2-3 months ago, and the full transcript. See the full presentation here. Basically, what I’m doing with the video is… Continue reading
An update on the maker movement in Africa: Interview with Mark Grimes
This panorama (of the maker movement) is extremely exciting, but it’s entirely based on north-american and european perspectives. What the makers are, what they do and what are their motivations is mainly defined within the boundaries of needs, wishes and imageries of rich countries. Digicult publishes a very interesting interview with Mark Grimes, on the… Continue reading
Beyond State Capitalism: The Commons Economy in our Lifetimes
Great and clear text by James Bernard Quilligan: “In considering the essential problem of how to produce and distribute material wealth, virtually all of the great economists in Western history have ignored the significance of the commons — the shared resources of nature and society that people inherit, create and utilize. Despite sharp differences in… Continue reading
Filesharing has stimulated innovation and creativity, says new research
Has file-sharing helped society? Looked at from the narrow perspective of existing record labels, the question must seem absurd; profits have dropped sharply in the years since tools like Napster first appeared. But a pair of well-known academics argue peer-to-peer file sharing has weakened copyright in the US… and managed to benefit all of us… Continue reading
Q & A with Douglas Rushkoff on taking control of our tech
Following last week’s excerpt of Douglas Rushkoff’s new book Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for the Digital Age, we follow with a Q&A with the author, featuring questions from Shareable’s community of contributors and advisors. On Wednesday, October 13 and Thursday, October 14, we invite our wider community of readers to engage with Rushkoff… Continue reading
Hilary Wainwright on the fakeness of the Big Society
From a right-on editorial in the Guardian. For Hilary’s extensive work on P2P Public Services, see here. The original article has extra links and references. Hilary Wainwright: “David Cameron has invited us to “join the government of Britain”. He pledges to put us into “the driving seat, to take the decisions that affect the life… Continue reading
Interview with Federico Mena Quintero, of Gnome, on P2P Urbanism
Second part of a continuing series of video interviews on p2p urbanism: Interview with Federico Mena Quintero on P2P Urbanism from arch4people on Vimeo.
Economies of the Commons 2 – Paying the costs of making things free
Economies of the Commons 2 Paying the costs of making things free International conference, seminar and public evening programs Amsterdam & Hilversum November 11 – 13, 2010 Economies of the Commons 2 is a critical examination of the economics of on-line public domain and open access resources of information, knowledge, and media (the “digital commons”)…. Continue reading
China’s ‘networked authoritarianism’
I came across a blog post by Rebecca MacKinnon, a journalist, free speech activist, expert on Chinese Internet censorship and co-founder of Global Voices Online. “… China is pioneering what I call “networked authoritarianism.” Compared to classic authoritarianism, networked authoritarianism permits – or shall we say accepts the Internet’s inevitable consequences and adjusts – a… Continue reading
The importance of community trust in the new neighborhood sharing systems
This interesting comment was written by Shelby Clark, the President of RelayRides, a peer to peer based carsharing system: “If there’s one major media outlet that has continued to “get” the shift towards collaborative consumption (the move from hyper-consumption towards shared ownership that RelayRides is a big part of), it’s The Economist. This week they’ve… Continue reading
New Book: The Telecommunist Manifesto by Dmytri Kleiner
* Book: The Telekommunist Manifesto. Dmytri Kleiner. Institute for Network Cultures, 2010 Dmytri Kleiner’s new book is available for download via http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/%233notebook_telekommunist.pdf From the Publisher’s Description: ” In the age of international telecommunications, global migration and the emergence of the information economy, how can class conflict and property be understood? Drawing from political economy and… Continue reading