Bernardo Gutiérrez participated in a Harvard University talk entitled ‘Networked spaces, emerging communities’. “I spoke about P2P CIties, open source cities, hybrid cities, commons cities, crowd sourced cities…. From the global occupations (15M, Occupy…) to many other experiences-projects. There is a hashtag #NetworkedUrbanism.” The presentation is available via http://prezi.com/onzrbg2qadeo/networked-spaces-emerging-communities: Networked Spaces, Emerging Communities on Prezi
Date archives "September 2012"
The Serval Project – two years of progress towards cell phone direct linkage
The South African Shuttleworth Foundation has published an article by Paul Gardner-Stephen, initiator of the Serval Project. You probably have heard of the Serval Project before, but here is the gist in just a few words. Serval is an effort to allow mobile phones to communicate directly with each other, rather than having to go… Continue reading
How the German Pirate Party’s Liquid Democracy Has Democratized Internal Party Politics
Blogger Jon Worth talks to visionOntv about Liquid Democracy and the German Pirate Party, and how UK political parties can learn from them. Watch the five-minute video interview here:
Book of the Day: the P2P Mode of Production: An Indiano Manifesto
Book:The P2P Mode of Production: An Indiano Manifesto. Translated by Steve Herrick. Steve Herrick: “This document is a call to action, based on Las Indias’ analysis that the reduction of the optimal scale of production is the root of the current crisis — in Spain particularly, but also worldwide. This is a grave threat for… Continue reading
MakerBot leaves open source – Replicator 2 proprietary
The Makezine blog discusses what seems to be a move of MakerBot to close-source their latest model 3D printer, the Replicator 2. Although the article leaves much in the conditional, it points out that with a move towards closing their IP and entering the world of printer manufacture on the terms of the incumbent commercial… Continue reading
Crowdfunding as a weapon of the poor in Brazil?
Mega-networked Vinicius Brocha and myself interviewed Joel Finningley who produced an in-depth travelogue and report of crowdfunding initiatives in Brazil and Argentina. Read the extensive interview in Shareable, which also has many links. But one key question, the last one, stands out for its importance in terms of social equity: is crowdfunding only for the… Continue reading
Another interpretation of why Facebook is tanking
Excerpted from Jon Rappoport: “The big infusion of cash that sent Mark Zuckerberg and his fledgling college enterprise on their way came from Accel Partners, in 2004. Jim Breyer, head of Accel, attached a $13 million rocket to Facebook, and nothing has ever been the same. Earlier that same year, a man named Gilman Louie… Continue reading
The psyCommons and their enclosures by psychologists
Excerpted from Denis Postle: “In recent years there has been a revival of interest in the Commons – commons of air, water, seas, rivers, seeds, genes and land have been recognised, along with the depredations visited upon them of enclosures by people and institutions claiming ownership. Missing from this list of commons, rich though it… Continue reading
Social Media after the Facebook IPO: from use value to exchange value
The first few years of the social media revolution have been a golden age of tech utilitarianism, where maximizing users’ delight was considered, quite literally, the only currency that mattered. In Part II of the revolution, the desired currency is poised to change from attention to profit. That’s a shame. It doesn’t mean that the… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Michael Yaziji on Rethinking the Structure of Corporations
“Michael Yaziji, professor at IMD http://www.imd.org focuses especially on the relationship between corporations, NGOs and government. He has a strong interest in issues associated with sustainability and the environment, and in the role of the corporation in a changing world. In his talk, he argues that the existing corporate structure is no longer optimally adapted… Continue reading
A French Open Source Energy Project
(via Christophe Santerre) A presentation by Geoffroy Levy: On The OPEN SOURCE ENERGY project: open and collaborative energy “As usual, he checks the control module. The load is good and the lights are green. He will spend a good night because he knows that tomorrow morning there will be enough power to heat the coffee… Continue reading
Knowable.org: a social network for makers, problem solvers and those that need them
Watch this introductory video: An introduction to knowable.org from knowable on Vimeo.
Wikispeed Europe Tour
Source: Benjamin Tincq If you care about the next big thing, what’s going to disrupt manufacturing and lead the way to a P2P, Open and Collaborative Economy, then you know about (or will love) WIKISPEED. The awesome Joe Justice pays us a visit for a series of open workshops and talks in Europe. See you… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner: Organizing Against Debt
Excerpted from Dmytri Kleiner: “If a modern monetary economy is to have either growth or savings it requires a deficit somewhere. This is not an opinion, or an ideologically biased point of view. It is an arithmetic fact based on the what money means in actually existing modern economies. The key identities here are the… Continue reading
An Introduction to Energy Economics
* Article: Degrowth, expensive oil, and the new economics of energy. by Samuel Alexander. Aug 7 2012 by Energy Bulletin. An excerpt from the Introduction by Samuel Alexander: “Some new research and data, reviewed below, has come to light that seems to confirm this essential message. Expensive oil, in other words, does appear to be… Continue reading
Remaking the Commons
The full issue it’s available in: http://reviewsinculture.com/special-issue/ Guest Editors: Matthew MacLellan and Margrit Talpalaru It is difficult to think of a political concept that has been as impoverished by decades of neoliberalization as “the commons.” It is has been almost four years since approximately three decades’ worth of market deregulation culminated in the worst economic… Continue reading