In this interview, Shareable publisher Neal Gorenflo, John Robb of Global Guerrillas, and P2P foundation’s Michel Bauwens talk to David de Ugarte, one of the originators of the Spanish cyberpunk scene about his more recent work forming an multinational worker cooperative, Las Indias, that is a culmination of his community’s dialog for the last decade… Continue reading
Date archives "February 2012"
Towards a New Participatory Citizen Science Contract for Science Data Mining and Biobanking
Mainstream research should invite forms of participation that treat donors as citizens committed to achieving a public good, not as repositories of informatic gold, ripe for mining. Thanks to continually evolving network technology, participants could easily remain connected to research, electing personalized privacy protections or providing additional study-specific data upon the researchers’ request via flexible… Continue reading
Trend of the Day: Physibles
From TPB’s blog: We’re always trying to foresee the future a bit here at TPB. One of the things that we really know is that we as a society will always share. Digital communication has made that a lot easier and will continue to do so. And after the internets evolutionized data to go from… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Coliibri
Develop and grow creative or innovative ideas with others and share them to the global Commons with Coliibri.com. Coliibri is build from 100% community-sourced content, allowing authors to rally around creating unique works in a fun, collaborative atmosphere. Coliibri removes many of the traditional boundaries that limit innovation. You can collaborate on any idea with… Continue reading
The historic convergence of #OccupyWallStreet and the Commons started at the Making Worlds conference
Like the Occupy protests last year, this gathering did not focus on what government might do for the American people. That is considered a lost cause for now, or at least, a secondary focal point. It is clear that the market/state duopoly is so entrenched and collusive that “working within the system” will yield only… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Open Advice
Open Advice. Lydia Pintscher. 2012 Open Advice is a knowledge collection from a wide variety of Free Software projects. It answers the question what 42 prominent contributors would have liked to know when they started so you can get a head-start no matter how and where you contribute. Free Software projects are changing the software… Continue reading
The simplification and decentralization of complex societies in the context of a global uprising scenario
“Thousands of human cultures have flourished throughout the human past, but there have been only about 24 civilizations. And all (except our current global industrial civilization—so far) have collapsed. … During such times societies typically see sharply declining population levels, and the survivors experience severe hardship. Elites lose their grip on power. Domestic revolutions and… Continue reading
Christopher Turner: Peer Review is open to Fraud
Summarized from http://www.convergence-cpt.com/FraudPeerReview.html. The writer is the author of the book Convergence at http://www.convergence-cpt.com/index.html Scientific fraud and career development Fraud, by whatever means, can give an individual a huge advantage over those playing by the rules. Whereas the more blatant forms of fraud (such as data fabrication) can cause considerable harm, the more subtle forms… Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street and the Peer-to-Peer Revolution: a discussion with Michel Bauwens Part II
Source: Action Foresight This is part II of Occupy Wall Street and the Peer-to-Peer Revolution, a discussion with Michel Bauwens, founder of the The Foundation for P2P Alternatives. How does Occupy Wall Street prefigure wider changes? Bauwens talks about the failings of the current system: artificial scarcity and ecological crisis. Peer production prefigures a way of life which is… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Digital Citizens Basics
Project page: http://mfioretti.com/online-course-digital-citizens-basics Today, our rights and the overall quality of our life heavily depend on how software is used around us. This is true also for people (including children) who don’t care much about computers, or don’t even have one. For this reason, starting in April 2011 I will teach online the same things… Continue reading
Producia: Building a New Economy
[Update: Drew Little has added a new post on Producia, “Build a New Economy for the Cost of a Coffee?!”] I’ve been following the development of various distributed economic platforms for some time now. Some major ones include phyles, as described in David de Ugarte‘s book of that name and exemplified by him and his… Continue reading
The case for soft money
Money is a tool to facilitate exchange. Money follows, like everything else here on this physical plane, the principles of yin and yang. There is “hard” (yang) money and there is “soft” (yin) money. At this time, the world is dominated by yang money. My purpose with this article is to convince you that we… Continue reading
The Decentralized Provisioning of the Basic Necessities as the Fight of the Century
“The decentralized provision of basic necessities is not likely to flow from a utopian vision of a perfect or even improved society (as have some social movements of the past). It will emerge instead from iterative human responses to a daunting and worsening set of environmental and economic problems, and it will in many instances… Continue reading
Tool of the Day: Turtle F2F
Turtle is a free and open source anonymous peer-to-peer network project facilitating free speech and sharing information by combining encryption with peer-to-peer (P2P) technology. Like no other anonymous P2P software, it allows users to share files and otherwise communicate without fear of legal sanctions or censorship. The basic idea behind Turtle is to build a… Continue reading
The 40th Research Conference on Communication, Information and Internet Policy
Friday September 21 to Sunday September 23, 2012. Hosted by George Mason University School of Law, Arlington, VA TPRC is an annual conference on communication, information and internet policy that convenes international and interdisciplinary researchers and policymakers from academia, industry, government, and nonprofit organizations. Its purpose is to present original research relevant to policy making,… Continue reading
Trend of the Day: Cash mobs
Cash mobs encourage people to go into small, local businesses and spend their money, en masse, to give the business owner a little bit of economic stimulus. We’d help businesses grow, we’d make people happy, we’d get stuff for ourselves, have a great time, and maybe we’d get a drink to celebrate afterward. FAQs What… Continue reading