Excerpted from Michael Gurstein: “Certainly politics in the Information Society seems to have taken the shape prescribed for it by the marketplace—fragmented, concerned with short-term individualized interest maximization, personality-obsessed media saturation and so on. These changes in turn have been propelled by the forces of technology and the breakdown of established employment structures, education patterns,… Continue reading
Date archives "January 2012"
BitTorrent’s New P2P Protocol Could Fix the Internet’s Shoddy Streaming Video Quality
Streaming video over the Internet is one of the most important telecommunication developments in the last decade. Problem is, doing so needs a massive system architecture to support it and the feed is often riddled with lag. A new protocol from BitTorret’s founder is aiming to change all that. Conventional video streaming—through, say, YouTube or… Continue reading
BlablaCar puts $10M in its tank for P2P ride-share site
Source: Krystal Peak – VatorNews With the economy pushing people to get creative and efficient with their resources, some are seeing extra seats in their car as opportunities to make a few extra dollars. A European carpooling forum called BlablaCar announced Tuesday that it scooped up $10 million from Accel Partners and existing investors to… Continue reading
P2P Video of the Day: Occupy Movie
This inspiring documentary highlights the unified voices of Occupy movement participants. This compelling look into the perspectives of citizens rallying for change sits in stark contrast to the out of context portrayal of the Occupy movement falsely created by media corporations. Occupy Movie has been released as a social film experience! You can now INTERACT… Continue reading
The world economy is on the verge of a new recession, according to a report by the UN
Source: The Delta World The world economy is on the verge of a new recession, and what the report status and prospects of the world economy, prepared by the United Nations Conference on trade and development (UNCTAD) and presented on Tuesday, he warns that “a new global recession is a significant possibility”. Something that probably… Continue reading
SOPA: Lawmakers backing away from online-piracy bills
Source: Brad Plumer – The Washington Post It looks like the uproar over Congress’s online-piracy bills is having a real impact. This weekend, the White House strongly hinted that it would oppose the current legislation. And key sponsors are edging away from the bills’ most controversial features. (Lucy Nicholson – Reuters) Late on Friday night,… Continue reading
Jeremy Rifkin: Energy-sharing is the new internet
Source: Jeremy Rifkin – Wired UK This article was taken from the February 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. The Second Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is… Continue reading
P2P Video of the Day: #WhileWeWatch – The gripping portrait of the #OccupyWallSt media revolution
#whilewewatch is a gripping look at the media revolution that emerged from Zuccoti Park in New York City to the world. It is the story of how many people came together in the sun and rain, day and night, broke and loaded with energy and hope to get their story out to the world. #OWS… Continue reading
Michel Bauwens: P2P and the Commons as the new paradigm
Michel Bauwens at the London Tent University, December 10th 2011: P2P and the Commons as the new paradigm from David Nixon on Vimeo.
Joi Ito on the future of the MIT Media Lab
Source: Lauren Landry – BostInno The Internet is a philosophy to Media Lab director Joi Ito. “It’s the freedom to connect, the freedom to hack and the freedom to innovate,” he said, and is something everyone should be given open access to. To the former CEO of Creative Commons — where he is now board… Continue reading
Mozilla Releases Version 2.0 of Its License
Source: JOHN RIBEIRO – CIO.in On January 3rd, Mozilla the release of version 2.0 of the Mozilla Public License (MPL), which provides compatibility with the Apache and GPL licenses, opening up a wider body of code for reuse by the Mozilla project. The new license like its is predecessor MPL 1.1 is a file-level copyleft license,… Continue reading
P2P Book of the Day: Betterness: Economics for Humans
Book: Betterness: Economics for Humans. by Umair Haque. Harvard Business Press Books, 2011 From the publisher: “Betterness: Economics for Humans” is a powerful call to arms for a post-capitalist economy. Umair Haque argues that just as positive psychology revolutionized our understanding of mental health by recasting the field as more than just treating mental illness,… Continue reading
Collaborative Consumption Reaches the Garage
Source: WILLIAM M. BULKELEY – Technology Review Peer-to-peer services that let strangers borrow your car could redefine auto ownership. That Dodge Nitro sure looks like a sweet ride. Parked in an alley near Boston’s Symphony Hall, it’s just waiting to be boosted. My accomplice and I pull our winter caps low and sidle up to… Continue reading
Open Education and Freedom to Teach Computing
Source: Emma Mulqueeny I think anyone vaguely awake in the education and digital space cannot have failed to notice that 2012 is the year of Computer Science, of coding and kids. 2011 was a cacophony of noise about why this was so terribly important, and 2012 is reaping the rewards. Government is making commitments for… Continue reading
P2P Essay of the Day: On the Failure to Measure the Contributions of the Internet Economy
Excerpted from Michael Gurstein: “I came to realize … that the implications of the limitations in the Internet accounting went beyond a simple technical glitch and had potentially quite profound implications from a national policy and particularly a CS and community based development perspective. The possible distortions in economic measurement arising from the absence of… Continue reading
Vinay Gupta: The Authoritarian Cause Will Be Defeated by Its Own Cognitive Dissonance
I (@KevinCarson1) just had an amazing Twitter exchange with Vinay Gupta (@leashless). I’ve collated it below, with the Twitter shorthand filled in and separate tweets combined into paragraphs where it seemed natural. GUPTA: 1> No national government is capable of planning clearly for the horror of resource wars between China, America and Europe/Russia. 2> Therefore,… Continue reading