Sympathetic documentary, but it doesn’t skirt the many issues facing the community. Watch the video in the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrlYo75fSXU
Date archives "January 2012"
P2P Essay of the Day: Chris Cook on Economy 3.0
According to Chris Cook, the “direct, instantaneous connections of the Internet make possible direct people-based (peer-to-peer) credit relationships between individuals and direct asset-based (peer-to-asset) credit relationships between individuals and productive assets.” Excerpt: “The direct, instantaneous connections of the Internet make possible direct people-based (peer-to-peer) credit relationships between individuals and direct asset-based (peer-to-asset) credit relationships between… Continue reading
Critical Theories of Social Media
A promising conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Society will be held in Uppsala from May 2nd-4th, 2012, on the theme of Critique, Democracy, and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society: Towards Critical Theories of Social Media. See especially the abstracts in PDF.
2011: The Year the Free Ride Died
Source: Joe Brockmeier Out with the old, in with the new. One of the “old” ways of thinking that finally kicked the bucket in 2011? That users could get a free ride on Web services with no catch. As Robert Heinlein famously said, there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch (TANSTAAFL). This realization… Continue reading
P2P Video of the Day: Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (an #OccupyWallStreet video update)
“99% – The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film is just that – a feature film created by a stunning mass of over 75 independent filmmakers, photographers, videographers and editors across the country. The project was conceived of by filmmakers Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites in the early weeks of the first encampment in Zuccotti Park,… Continue reading
P2P Book of the Day: NaturesScope, for a new relationship ‘within’ nature
* Book: NaturesScope. Unlocking Our Natural Empathy and Creativity. By Alan Rayner. O-Books, 2011. We present the book through a number of citations received from the author: “All the signs are that thousands of years of abstract thought have led modern human cultures to become neglectful to the point that we no longer know how… Continue reading
Free Software in climate change mitigation
Source: The Hindu The fourth international conference on Free and Open Source Software (FOSSK4) which concluded here on Thursday has proposed the application of free software in the development of monitoring, mitigation, and adaptation strategies for climate change. Representatives from India, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the US, and Europe, who attended the three-day conference,… Continue reading
Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside
Source: John C. Newman, M.D., Ph.D., and Robin Feldman, J.D. For three decades after its publication, in 1975, the Mini–Mental State Examination (MMSE) was widely distributed in textbooks, pocket guides, and Web sites and memorized by countless residents and medical students. The simplicity and ubiquity of this 30-item screening test — covering such functions as… Continue reading
P2P Essay of the Day: The Shared Patterns of Indigenous Culture, Permaculture and Digital Commons
* Article: Joline Blais. Indigenous Domain: Pilgrims, Permaculture and Perl. Intelligent Agent (vol. 6, no. 2, 2006). Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts. Excerpted from a review by David Bollier: “Rarely have I read an essay that knits together some very different commons with such wisdom and depth. Joline Blais’ 2006 essay, “Indigenous Domain: Pilgrims, Permaculture… Continue reading
P2P Video of the Day: Cory Doctorow on the coming war on general computation
Full translation of the video content here. Description The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy… Continue reading
P2P Video of the Day: Don Tapscott on Cooperation through Networked Intelligence
From an agrarian society to an industrial age and now to an era of networked intelligence. How is collaboration reshaping all facets of our society? Discusses the book: MacroWikinomics.
P2P Book of the Day: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy
Via: Book: The Will of the Many: How the Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy. Marianne Maeckelbergh. Pluto Press, 2009 From the Publisher: “Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep crisis. Marianne Maeckelbergh argues that the… Continue reading
Does the Gift Economy Undermine Economic Growth?
Excerpted from Charles Eisenstein: “Why don’t we need each other? It is because all the gift relationships upon which we once depended are now paid services. They have been converted into service work which the market converts into cash. What is there left to convert? Whether fossil fuels, topsoil, aquifers, the atmosphere’s capacity to absorb… Continue reading
Individual and social motivations to contribute to Commons-based peer production
A thesis entitled “Individual and social motivations to contribute to Commons-based peer production” was submitted by University of Minnesota student Yoshikazu Suzuki for an MA in mass communication. The thesis presents and discusses the results from a small series of interviews as well as a survey exploring individual and social motivations of Wikipedia contributors, drawing… Continue reading
Peer-to-peer 3D Marketplace CGTrader Moving Out of Beta
CGTrader, a peer-to-peer 3D content online marketplace, has left beta mode and is now operating under enhanced security requirements. The marketplace now fully ensures the security of 3D models uploaded for sale by artists as well as the reliability of financial transactions. The stable mode brings many security improvements and bug fixes, related to an… Continue reading
P2P Movement of the Day: Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
POCLAD, the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy: The group describes itself as “a group of 11 people instigating democratic conversations and actions that contest the authority of corporations to govern. David Bollier: “Our analysis evolves through historical and legal research, writing, public speaking, and working with organizations to develop new strategies that assert people’s… Continue reading