“this means something incredibly powerful: the holder of a bank account managed with OBP-compatible software will be able (if he or she decides so, of course) to let everybody, or just some selected individuals, see some transactions on that bank account automatically, in real time from the Internet.” Marco Fioretti has interviewed Simon Redfern, founder… Continue reading
Date archives "December 2010"
The IP threat to the self-repair movement, a concrete example
A case from J. Netherland, a SCRIPTed reader: (for more background, see the Self-Repair Manifesto, and the article on the IP threat against 3D Printing) “The article by Simon Bradshaw, Adrian Bowyer and Patrick Haufe concerning 3D printing and with the mention of automobiles and property rights hit me close to home. Years ago I… Continue reading
Jay Rosen on the need for distributed Wikileaks after the death of the Watchdog Press
Watch this video: Jay Rosen on Wikileaks: “The watchdog press died; we have this instead.” from Jay Rosen on Vimeo.
The new paradigm of cooperative and decentralized development
Ravi Logan and Jason Schreiner, of the Prout Institute, explain, to Peak Moment TV, an integrated vision for economic and social development, that is distinguished from a pure localist approach, by stressing ‘balance’ between the global and the local: “Ravi Logan and Jason Schreiner’s model is based on valuing our interrelatedness and interdependency within the… Continue reading
The public as a commons
Excerpted from Eve L. Ewing in In These Times: “In Another Kind of Public Education (Beacon Press, 2009), Patricia Hill Collins points out that Americans have come to associate anything “public” with a notion of inferiority. “Ideas about the benefits of privatization encourage the American public to assume that anything public is of lesser quality,”… Continue reading
Analysing the Political Tactics of the Filesharing Communities
* Article: Sharing music files: Tactics of a challenge to the industry. by Brian Martin, Chris Moore, and Colin Salter.. First Monday, Volume 15, Number 12 – 6 December 2010 Excerpted from the Introduction by Brian Martin et al: “Here we focus on the methods used by the two sides in the ongoing struggle over… Continue reading
The nation-state, and its geo-political panic to Wikileaks’ asymmetrical competition
Appealing to national traditions of fair play in the conduct of news reporting misunderstands what Wikileaks is about: the release of information without regard for national interest. In media history up to now, the press is free to report on what the powerful wish to keep secret because the laws of a given nation protect… Continue reading
Clip Kino events in Chiang Mai and Bangkok
‘Clip Kino’ events are self-organised screening events of short video clips & documentaries found online. This social event platform aims to drag aspects of normalised ‘private’ activity – of viewing downloaded content on one’s own computer – into public space for screening, appreciation and debate. ‘Clip Kino’ started in Helsinki, Finland, as singular events with… Continue reading
Patrick Lichty on ‘Molecular’ Communal Media
Presentation by Patrick Lichty: Community-driven online media like WIKIs create frameworks for anarchic models of media production. WIKI-based media creates grass roots community, social protocols, and delivery methods based on conceptual frames of the site’s mission. The scope of the Burning Man-like potential for cultural location of WIKI discourse ranges widely, from Wikipedia to Encyclopedia… Continue reading
Understanding the cap and share ‘commons’ approach to energy expenditure
This five minute, funny rendering of the cap and share proposals, makes it very easy to understand its logic:
Ron Paul on Wikileaks and Internet Freedom
Statement before the U.S. Congress: The transcript: “WikiLeaks release of classified information has generated a lot of attention in the past few weeks. The hysterical reaction makes one wonder if this is not an example of killing the messenger for the bad news. Despite what is claimed, the information that has been so far released,… Continue reading
Details about the asymmetrical infrastructure warfare of Wikileaks
The first text is excerpted from an extensive analysis by James Cowie. The second gives political commentary on the meaning of the internet’s Long War. James Cowie: “Taking away WikiLeaks’ hosting, their DNS service, even their primary domain name, has had the net effect of increasing WikiLeaks’ effective use of Internet diversity to stay connected…. Continue reading
An update on ecovillage communities
Watch this video interview from Peak Moment TV: Interviewee is Diana Leafe Christian. author of the book: Finding Community: How to Join an Ecovillage or Intentional Community.
Operation Payback as non-violent political action
Excerpted from a longer analysis by Jeremy John: “There are other, more explicit definitions of nonviolent direct action, among them, Wikipedia’s definition, which is: “Nonviolence (ahimsa) is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence. Thus, nonviolence is an alternative to passive acceptance of oppression or of armed struggle against… Continue reading
Debating and critiquing the concept of ‘free and open’
Interesting interventions at the Economy of the Commons conference: ““Content for all, revenues for some.” For this session we explore the theory behind terms and terminologies. What do the terms ‘free’ and ‘open’ mean in their current contexts? How are they used and in what new political condition do they gain resonance? What is open,… Continue reading
How to experience open enlightenment?
On a first reading and watching, this seems like a p2p-compatible form of spiritual practice, i.e. with a self-reflexive teacher who insists on personal responsibility: (however, it seems the Open Enlightenment project, from which this is taken, will end) How to experience enlightenment from Alan Chapman on Vimeo.