Clay Forsberg’s post “Taking action” … The People Have the Power is the fourth article in a series that conducts us towards a possible future – a time when there is no government provided safety net yet communities function and people are surviving and happy. Community 3.0 is the idea, the template but to get… Continue reading
Date archives "May 2012"
Video of the Day: Interviews on Digital Fabrication 1 – What’s your vision about digital fabrication?
Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available
The Harvard Library announced it is making more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard’s 73 libraries publicly available. The records contain bibliographic information about books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more. The Harvard Library is making these records available in accordance with its Open Metadata Policy and under a Creative Commons 0… Continue reading
Debating the Iron Law of Bureaucracy and the Power Law: Knowing Networks as an alternative to scale-free networks
Repost from: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/debating-the-iron-law-of-bureaucracy-and-the-power-law-knowing-networks-as-an-alternative-to-scale-free-networks/2011/02/18 These are further elements to the debate (between Zeynep Tufekci and others) as to whether and how the Iron Law of Bureaucracy, which affects initially egalitarian distributed networks, can be countered. 1. Clay Shirky: inequality is not always unfair Classic discusion of how the power law operates in blogs, and why it… Continue reading
“Together we know everything….”
Source: OUISHARE … And together we have everything”. Michel Bauwens’ motto outlines the optimism he shared with us during the OuiShare Talk he gave us yesterday. Yes, we already have everything we need at hand… we just need to share it! For Michel Bauwens, a key to the social and environmental issues we will have… Continue reading
Consumers International Publishes 2012 IP Watchlist
Consumers International has published its annual “IP Watchlist,” a report that examines the copyright laws and policies of 30 countries, determining which are strongest (and weakest) at promoting access to knowledge. The list ranks each country according to 49 criteria, which fall in to four general categories: “scope and duration of rights; freedom to access… Continue reading
Book of the Day: The Digital Public Domain
The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture. Melanie Dulong and Juan Carlos De Martin. OpenBookPublishers. 2012 Abstract: “Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological… Continue reading