I’ve been hearing about this documentary for a while now but I’ve only had the chance to watch it recently. According to the blurb in Renegade Economist’s You Tube Channel, Four Horsemen “…is an award winning independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works.” Talking heads include Noam Chomsky, Herman… Continue reading
Date archives "March 2014"
Venezuelan Working Poor Community of Pie del Tiro Confronts Middle-Class Protestors
Interesting video showing the other side of the Venezuelan divide:
Project of the Day: Open Lab Tools
Open Lab Tools URL = http://www.openlabtools.org/ Description “The OpenLabTools initiative aims to provide a forum and knowledge centre for the development of low cost and open access scientific tools, with an emphasis on undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. The programme will officially start in October 2013. In order to bootstrap this initiative, a number… Continue reading
Hyperlinking Isn’t Illegal: the Barrett Brown case.
Finally some good news. Extracted from Motherboard and originally written by DJ Pangburn the following article is a good recap of the ordeal Brown’s been through and the implications of the whole affair. “Today federal prosecutors requested that the main charge in Barrett Brown’s case—which stemmed from the pasting of a hyperlink containing leaked credit… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Social Dynamic Graph
JOLOCOM develops the Social Dynamic Graph, which is the graphical interface for a mobile P2P Network application that connects People, Ideas, Projects, Skills, Places, Things & facilitates P2P ValueXchange. “… the Social Dynamic Graph (SDG) helps You to create an agile and responsive network based upon the virtual design of living systems. The Social Dynamic… Continue reading
Net Neutrality in Europe is in danger! Save the Internet!
The SaveTheInternet.eu Campaign is in its final weeks. Negotiations in the EU Parliament are already in the final stages. The leading ITRE committee will vote on March 18th and the plenary shortly after on April 1st. If you haven’t already done so please contact your MEP. Net Neutrality is in danger! Save the Internet! The… Continue reading
Is Bottom-Up Lawmaking Possible and Desirable?
Excerpted from MARIA ROSARIA MARELLA: “is bottom up lawmaking feasible and/or desirable at all? The first burning question we have to face is namely: is it possible to produce law from below? To my knowledge, there is no evidence of such a course in legal history. a) In the middle ages jurists were private citizens… Continue reading
Spread the word and Join the #P2PDataJam Wed 12ths March
To celebrate the launch of the Directory of Commons Based Peer Production, P2PValue will be hosting a #P2PDataJam on Wed 12th March 2014, a collective effort to populate the directory and document as many examples of CBPP as possible. Additionally, on the day there will be a live streamed program with introduction to the P2Pvalue… Continue reading
285,042 European citizens want the EC to consider basic income – UBI Press Release after the ECI-UBI campaign
Extracted from basicincome2013.eu The European Citizens Initiative (ECI)1 for Unconditional Basic Income (UBI)2 officially ended on Tuesday January 14th 23.59pm, after collecting at least3 285,042 statements of support from EU citizens in 28 countries. It did not succeed, however, in collecting the one million signatures required by the European Commission (EC) to win their consideration… Continue reading
Stefan Meretz’s Critique of the Peer Production License
I will respond to the critique later on. Here are the arguments from Stefan Meretz: “Michel Bauwens has made a proposal for a “median choice of socialist licenses” which is based on the Copyfarleft-License of Dymtri Kleiner. In this post I try to critically analyze his proposal. At the beginning Bauwens’ thesis is: “the more… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Cropmobster
Cropmobster A “food gleaning and supply-sharing program, called Cropmobster, spearheaded by Bloomfield’s General Manager Nick Papadopolous, has created simple and effective solutions to address food waste and hunger and increase farmer visibility in a decentralized, community-based way”. [1] URL = http://www.cropmobster.com/ By Dani Burlison: “It started in March,” says Papadopolous. “Standing in our vegetable cooler… Continue reading
Update: User Satoshi Nakamoto’s post in P2P Foundation’s Ning network
Last Friday the account under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto was used to post a five-word message to our social network for P2P researchers, hosted by NING (Glam Media). We immediately proceeded to contact NING, with the purpose of gathering more information about the Nakamoto post, information that could potentially be useful in determining whether… Continue reading
Costas Douzinas on the Analytics of the New Resistance
Excerpted from Costas Douzinas: “I plead guilty to the indictment of avowed optimism. We have entered an age of resistance. New forms, strategies and subjects of resistance and insurrection appear regularly without knowledge of or guidance from Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek or Antonio Negri. Their timing is unpredictable, but their occurrence certain. As resistances spread… Continue reading
Project of the Day: FABMoney
FABMoney is an open source and p2p currency for promoting and mapping collaboration in FabLabs. Massimo Menichinelli: “The current concept of FABMoney is of a mutual credit currency, with demurrage (a time-based devaluation) for promoting transactions, and without interest for promoting collaboration instead of competition. Each transaction happens every time a user of a FabLab help… Continue reading
Call for Papers – The Enduring Legacy of Karl Polanyi
Call for Papers – The Enduring Legacy of Karl Polanyi
Telegram an open mobile messaging alternative to WhatsApp
When it comes to personal data and privacy, the only way we can really assess the security a software platform offers is by looking at the code. Free and open source alternatives to proprietary platforms, offer us, the user, that opportunity. With the recent acquisition by Facebook of WhatsApp the popular mobile chat app, many… Continue reading