Source: BoingBoing Ronaldo sez, “I am writing because something relevant happened in Brazil two days ago regarding the local copyright collecting societies (analagous to Ascap and BMI in the US). After more than 6 months of investigation by a Senate special inquiry commission, 15 directors have been indicted for various types of fraud and crimes…. Continue reading
Date archives "May 2012"
Dale Carrico responds to Cory Doctorow: “Technology” Is Not a Force for Either Liberation or Oppression
Reposted from 22nd July 2010 Futurists want you to think there is such a thing as “Technology in General” which is going somewhere in particular that only they know about because only they understand the language in which “Technology in General” declares what it wants. In short, they are just another cohort of bamboozling Priests… Continue reading
Project of the Day: OurGoods
Website: http://ourgoods.org/ OurGoods is a peer-to-peer online network that facilitates the barter of goods and services between artists. The site matches barter partners, provides accountability tools, and offers technical assistance resources to help artists complete their barters and their projects successfully. OurGoods emerges in response to the current economic crisis. To some extent, the arts… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think. Peter H. Diamandis. Free Press. 2012. Overview We will soon be able to meet and exceed the basic needs of every man, woman and child on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. This bold, contrarian view, backed up by exhaustive research, introduces our near-term… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Michael Hudson on “Debt: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring”
Michael Hudson, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City at the panel entitled “The Challenge of DeLeveraging and Overhangs of Debt II: The Politics and Economics of Restructuring” at the Institute for New Economic Thinking’s (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 13, 2012
Seminars on the Emergence of a Commons-based Economy
From The School of Commoning: On May 8th, the UK House of Commons (the lower of house of the Parliament) will host the launch of a 12-seminar series on The Emergence of a Commons-based Economy, run by James Quilligan and jointly organized by the School of Commoning and the Christian Council for Monetary Justice. Please… Continue reading
Collaborative Video Watching
Collaborative Video Watching
Project of the Day: Open Personal Genomics
Website: http://opensnp.org/ A central, open source, free-to-use repository which lets customers of genotyping companies upload their genotyping data and annotate them with phenotypes. Discussion Bastian Greshake and Philipp Bayer: “We’ve created openSNP, a central, open source, free-to-use repository which lets customers of genotyping companies upload their genotyping data and annotate them with phenotypes. OpenSNP provides… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Sharing in Compulsive Times
By Franco Iacomella on STIR: Recently, two of the most important and used storage and sharing files services in the web — FileServe and Wupload — changed their conditions of use making impossible to share information between regular users. Now both services only offer cloud storage for people to access files they personally uploaded. Millions… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Interviews on Digital Fabrication 3 – How do you think fabbing will influence territorial transformations?
How Bitcoin may undo the Apple/Facebook 30% sales tax
The new Bitcoin magazine is out and looks quite interesting. The following is excerpted from Vitalik Buterin‘s article on social media virtual currencies: “Apple … requires all apps sold for their platform to go through Apple’s centralized payment system, which generates considerable revenue as they take a 30% cut of all revenues. Some developers tried… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Ethics for the Information Age
Book: Ethics for the Information Age (5th Edition). Mike Quinn. Addison Wesley. 2012. Overview From the publisher: “This book is appropriate for any standalone “computers and society” or “computer ethics” course offered by a computer science, business, or philosophy department, as well as special “modules” in any advanced CS course. In an era where information… Continue reading
Graphics of the Day: P2P Product Cycle
Simone Cicero: “Production is in fact, you will forgive the term, tribalizing: it is increasingly self-consistent within a niche containing all production stages. The act of consumption itself becomes the act of economically and emotionally supporting your favorite crafter, artist or creative, their communities, their niche and their tribes. However, crowdfunding is probably only the… Continue reading
MAY 12TH – #12M GlobalMay Statement
We are living in a world controlled by forces that are no longer capable to give freedom and dignity to the world´s population (if they were ever capable to do so). A world where it is told to us that there are no alternatives to the loss of rights, achieved with very hard and long… Continue reading
Freedom Tower and the Autonomous Internet – Peer to Peer User-Owned Communications and Computing Infrastructure
In a comprehensive report, Gordon Cook brings together a collection of articles and interviews, specifications and outlooks on the subject of the user-owned mesh communications infrastructure that was experimentally introduced and run by Isaac Wilder at Occupy Wallstreet’s Zuccotti Park. Isaac is also one of the initiators of the Free Network Foundation, a non profit… Continue reading