“In this interview, conducted by Mark Finnern, Art Brock who together with Eric Harris-Brown has been the founder of the MetaCurrency project is describing the underlying model of their work: Wealth a Living System Model.” Watch the video here:
Date archives "November 2012"
An example of sustainable commons management: the Maine Lobster Commons
Marjorie Kelly’s Emergent Ownership Revolution is one of the key p2p books for 2012, focusing on the commons and what we call “peer property”. Chapter 8 offers a very interesting case study on the Maine Lobster Commons, which we are reproducing here. (order the book here) Marjorie Kelly: “Something fascinating is at work in the… Continue reading
Book of the Day: A Study of Open-Source Software Commons
* Book: Internet Success: A Study of Open-Source Software Commons. By Charles M. Schweik and Robert C. English. MIT Press, 2012. This book has been hailed as “the first large-scale empirical study to look at the social, technical and institutional aspects of free, libre and open source software” David Bollier has published a review: “Schweik… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Real Estate 4 Ransom
I discovered this video on a recent trip to Australia where I met with co-director Karl Fitzgerald, who is also the host of the excellent radio show, “The Renegade Economist”. Explains the rationale of the land value tax proposals as a way to solve real estate speculation: Real Estate 4 Ransom from Real Estate 4… Continue reading
What Happened to the Facebook Killer? It’s Complicated
There were high hopes for Diaspora*, a student project that got good help from crowdfunding, more than they had asked for, but what happened? An article in MotherBoard goes to great lengths of investigation and explanation to say how come Diaspora* hasn’t killed facebook yet … “after all this time”. The article makes it sound… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Money and Life
Can we use the opportunity of the economic crisis to re-discover real wealth and true prosperity and transition to a sustainable, equitable and restorative economic system for the 21st century? This project conducted a successful Kickstarter campaign to get started and has started to place draft interviews here. Here’s the trailer: Money & Life trailer… Continue reading
Ask Michel Bauwens Anything Part 1 (audio)
This is the first part of the audio version (see video version here) answering your questions to the P2P Foundation Reddit page: redd.it/11d4m7 based on the Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy report by the P2P Foundation and Orange Labs. James Burke gathered together the questions and recorded a converstion with Michel Bauwens to provide more… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Sharing for Survival
* Book: Sharing for Survival: Restoring the Climate, the Commons and Society. Feasta, 2012 This is a 200-page collection of essays by nine Feasta Climate Group members: ‘Sharing for Survival recognises that official climate policy is dominated by states in thrall to fossil fuel and financial lobbies. It offers a realistic radical way to rapidly… Continue reading
Video of the Day: The Reinvention of Localized Economies
37 minute documentary about the work of the late Schumacher, author of “Small Is Beautiful”. Here are the details: “”In 1973, British economist E.F. Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful – Economics as if People Mattered”, – a book that offered a vision of an economy driven by a desire for harmony, not greed; an economy… Continue reading
12 leverage points for whole-systems intervention
Source: Cultivating Resilient Culture
The Internet and Creative Networks in Eastern Europe, a historical approach
* Rasa Smite, Creative Networks, in the Rearview Mirror of Eastern European History. Institute of Network Cultures, Theory on Demand Issue no. 11, 2012. Rasa Smite, the founder and curator of RIXC art center in Riga, Latvia, which focuses on the link between new media, art, and renewable energy, has produced a new book. Here’s… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Clay Shirky on the Organizational Advantages of Group Leadership
“Writer and new media consultant Clay Shirky talks about the newly emerging organizational advantages of group leadership, as opposed to the traditional forms of structural hierarchy from which organizations originally developed.” Watch the insightful video here:
P2P and the Commons as a Dual Boot strategy (2): Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff echoes the dual boot strategy earlier explained by David de Ugarte. Republished from the excellent Tikkun magazine. Douglas Rushkoff: “I know we’re not supposed to say such things, but I have lost faith in national politics. Yes, I’ll vote in the coming elections, and do my part to get the less sold-out, less… Continue reading
Hacking the Light: towards fully transparent companies
Closed can not fight open. It can not find purchase to land a blow. Microsoft has fought a decades-long war against Linux, only to lose the battle conclusively as the world moves to smartphones (Android), and embedded devices (such as the Light) running Linux. Windows may remain dominant on the desktop for another decade, but… Continue reading
Debating the Partner State (5): Civic Accountability for the Commons
Excerpted from Denis Postle: “What follows derives from my experience of participation in the UK’s Independent Practitioners Network (IPN). Founded in 1995, IPN is based on an open network of autonomous small groups functioning as a commons producing civic accountability. For detailed background see i-p-n.org or Therapy Futures – Obstacles and Opportunities PCCS Books, forthcoming,… Continue reading
Project of the Day: PyBossa, an open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform
The website explains: “PyBossa is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform. It enables people to create and run projects that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more. PyBossa is there to help researchers, civic hackers and developers to create projects where anyone around… Continue reading