Source: TechEye Sweden’s latest official religion, the Missionary Church of Kopimism, which advocates P2P cultural sharing, has been attacked by the Roman Catholic Church for being farcical. “Bishop Peter Ingham, head of the Catholic Diocese of Wollongong in Australia, said the religion was a send up of religion, a send up of copyright and a… Continue reading
Date archives "January 2012"
P2P Essay of the Day: Hacking_the_Food_System
The future of urban agriculture is not vertical, nor even simply horizontal. It is distributed and networked throughout the city. In a growing number of cities, suburbs,and small towns, community groups and entrepreneurs have discovered innovative ways to harvest and grow food, using interconnected networks of relatively small plots of public and private land and… Continue reading
Co-operatives ‘worth £1bn to Welsh economy’
Source: BBC Co-operatives in Wales are contributing more than £1bn a year to the economy at a time of economic downturn, according to a report by the Bevan Foundation. Three of the country’s largest made in excess of £1m in 2010, and a further four made between £250,000 and £1m. Co-operatives are businesses run by… Continue reading
Why Crowdfunding will never scale!
I came across this post, “For projects like Kickstarter to scale they can not depend on the limited funds workers are able to divert from consumption, and must tap into the real source of accumulation: Surplus Value.” by Dmytri Kleiner on his website and thought it raises some interesting issues about crowdfunding. Check out the original post… Continue reading
P2P Essay of the Day: Ten Peer Production Patterns (6-10) – Part 2
Recently we presented the first five peer production patterns described by Stefan Meretz. We will now present the last 5 patterns. Read the innitial post for more background about this essay. The patterns: 6-10 Pattern 6: Beyond Classes Stefan Meretz: “Capitalism is a society of separations. Buying vs. selling, producing vs. consuming, labor vs. capital,… Continue reading
P2P Book of the Day: Life Without Money
Book: Life Without Money; Building Fair and Sustainable Economies. Co-edited by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman. Stefan Meretz: “The ten contributors to Life Without Money argue that we need to dispense with monetary values and relationships — yes, money per se — in order to manage our world on the basis of humane and natural… Continue reading
Connexions: Fourth Annual Conference
The Fourth Annual Connexions Conference will be held on 15 February 2012 at Rice University. Each year the Connexions Conference brings together more than 100 education thought leaders from around the world. This year’s conference promises to be especially exciting, as we launch large-scale initiatives on open textbooks and open education technology. The agenda includes… Continue reading
P2P Project of the Day: the Local Motors XC2V
The XC2V is a Crowdsourced Marine Assault Vehicle, which benefited from more than 30,000 designs … Please note that the intersection between peer to peer dynamics, warfare and security is monitored in the our wiki section here. Perhaps calling this ‘project of the day’ is a bit problematic, but this is a significant development. Adam… Continue reading
Iranian internet users to be cut off from World Wide Web
Source: Radio Zamaneh A member of Iran’s Corporate Computer Systems reports that Iran will be cut off from the World Wide Web once the country launches its own national internet network. Iranian media report that Payam Karbasi, the spokesman for Corporate Computer Systems of Iran, said: "With the launch of the national internet, the internet… Continue reading
The MakerBot Replicator
In this video Bre Pettis, CEO and Co-founder of Makerbot Industries, reveals the newest generation of MakerBots – The Replicator! This is the first footage of The Replicator ever to made visible to the public! Find out what makes The Replicator awesome and why you are going to want one! More information here: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2012/01/09/introducing-the-makerbot-replicator/
P2P Essay of the Day: Ten Peer Production Patterns (1-5) – Part 1
We will present the 10 peer production patterns described by Stefan Meretz. We will split the list, presenting the first half in this post and the last 5 patterns in the upcoming days. About this essay, the P2PF Curator -Michel Bauwens- says: A word of caution. The text by Stefan Meretz is useful to understand… Continue reading
P2P Project of the Day: StreetScooter, the open-source electric car, will be on Germany’s streets in 2013
StreetScooter is an open-source electric car. According to Wired: “The price tag is only $7,000, the top speed is 74mph and the range is 80 miles, all very good specifications for electric cars. It was designed by a collaboration of over fifty different companies that specialise in designing different parts. This created a modular design… Continue reading
P2P Book of the Day: The Information Diet
Review of the book from Open Gov advocate David Eaves: “What makes The Information Diet compelling is that Johnson embraces the concerns we have about the world of information overload – from those raised by New York Magazine authors and celebrated pundits to the challenges we all feel on a day to day basis –… Continue reading
The value of improving connectivity in rural & deprived areas
By Efrain Foglia – orignally posted on the Community Knowledge Transfer blog The value of improving connectivity in rural & deprived areas The possibility of interconnection with other places by means of digital networks may promote the social, cultural and political development of small, rural or disadvantaged areas. These telecommunication networks allow for immediate access to other… Continue reading
P2P Video of the Day: Jeremy Rifkin on the Third Industrial Revolution
“Jeremy Rifkin argues that internet technology and renewable energy could lead the way for a new industrial revolution in the United States and help the country regain its economic foothold in the world. He spoke at The Booksmith in San Francisco.”
Michel Bauwens on Marxism, Capitalism and the Commons
Source: David Bollier How does Marxism relate to the commons and peer production? My friend Michel Bauwens, founder of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives, offers a penetrating, big-picture analysis in an interview with Jean Lievens (originally posted on TANIT, Toward a New International Tendency, but also at Social Network Unionism). It’s now clear that postmodernism is… Continue reading