* Article: De Filippi, P. (2014). [[Translating Commons-based Peer Production Values into Metrics: towards Commons–based Crypto-Currencies, in Lee Kuo Chen D. (ed.), The Handbook of Cryptocurrency. Elsevier From the Abstract: Commons-based peer-production (CBPP) constitutes today an important driver for innovation, social and cultural development, both online and offline, through the establishment of an alternative, commons-based… Continue reading
Date archives "December 2014"
Homage to Liberation Psychologist Ignacio Martin-Baró
This excellent article opened my eyes to Liberation Psychology, a discipline which seeks to shine a light on the inherent bias towards the political status quo which is present and goes undetected in mainstream psychology, and one of its main adherents historically, Ignacio Martin-Baró who was murdered in El Salvador by a “counter-insurgency unit” created… Continue reading
Local Communities Dismantling Corporate Rule Part 2
Source – http://peakmoment.tv/videos/local-communities-dismantling-corporate-rule-part-2-259/ “I’m not aware of any other social movement going on in the US today that has the power to challenge and win against corporate rule, push back and dismantle corporate rights, and enshrine rights for actual human beings,” asserts Community Rights educator and organizer Paul Cienfuegos. Local Community Rights ordinances are not… Continue reading
Book of the Day: The Global Race To Reinvent the State
Book: The Fourth Revolution, The Global Race to Reinvent the State. By John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridge. URL = http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141975252,00.html From the publisher: “In The Fourth Revolution, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge ask: what is the state actually for? Their remarkable book describes the three great revolutions in its history, and the fourth which… Continue reading
Positive Space
By Christopher Alexander. Original article here. Space, especially outdoor space, is positive when you experience its embrace. You feel its inside, and its outside, you experience its boundary, you can feel its center. It has definite shape, it has a character that arises only from the land itself and what is there, it is a… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Distribution as a Design Principle for Peer-To-Peer Law
* Working Paper: Peer-To-Peer Law: Distribution as a Design Principle for Law. . Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay. MEDIA@LSE Working Paper Series No. 31 From the Abstract: “Instead of applying law to peer-to-peer in order to control networks, I propose to apply peer-to-peer to the law to transform it. The western liberal conception of law is… Continue reading
The State of the Commons Report of 2014
From the intro of the report: At its heart, Creative Commons is a simple idea. It’s the idea that when people share their creativity and knowledge with each other, amazing things can happen. “It’s not a new idea. People have been adapting and building on each other’s work for centuries. Musicians sample beats from each… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Handbook for Active Democracy
Book: From Arrogance to Intimacy: A handbook for active democracies. By Andy Williamson and Martin Sande URL: http://activedemocraci.es/ “This new and original book will show you how we can make our democracies ready for everyone by being open, sharing and collaborative. It’s about taking democracy on a journey from arrogant and controlling to intimate and… Continue reading
Progressive Scotland tackles income from land and financial rent
The Westminster government claims to champion an entrepreneurial society, of wealth creators and hard-working families, but the real rewards and incentives are for rent. The power and majesty of the state protects the patrimonial class. … It’s no coincidence that the two most regressive forms of taxation in the UK – council tax banding and… Continue reading
The Emptiness of ‘Emptiness’: P2P Spiritual Knowledge and Community
This is the latest blog post from my website – it’s something I’ve been thinking about for a long time since Michel and I had a discussion about this on Facebook, then when I read the Scott Kiloby post and saw the interview with Gustavo Esteva which are referenced in the article, a few more… Continue reading
Faircoop presentation in Paris, December 11th
If you’re interested in Faircoop and live in the Paris area, don’t miss this special presentation tomorrow evening. FairCoin and a fair economic system from Radi.ms on Vimeo. Thursday, 11 December 2014, 20h La Paillaisse 226 rue Saint Denis (interior) 75002 Paris The aim of FairCoop is to help make the transition to a new… Continue reading
Local Communities Dismantling Corporate Rule Part 1
Source – http://peakmoment.tv/videos/local-communities-dismantling-corporate-rule-part-1-258/ Community Rights educator Paul Cienfuegos explains how “We The People” are exercising the authority to govern ourselves and fight corporate rule. When small farmers in rural Pennsylvania wanted to say “no” to a corporate factory farm coming into their community, they learned they couldn’t, because it would violate the corporation’s “rights” and… Continue reading
KEY FEATURES OF NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE VIBRANT AND ALIVE
By Christopher Alexander. Original article here. CORE There are so many different kinds of neighborhoods. A neighborhood may be small or large. It may be dense and urban, it may be village-like, it may be on the prairie or the tundra. It may be rural in spirit, or based on heavy manufacturing; it may be… Continue reading
Owning is the New Sharing
One chilly morning last winter, I reconnected with an old friend, Joel Dietz, on a video chat. We hadn’t seen each other for years, and we’d each had several starts and stops in our lives since. He began telling me about his latest undertaking, Evergreen, a digital currency system that he described as “organic” and… Continue reading
Regulating Innovation in the Sharing Economy
Albert Canigueral: “In the middle of a complicated scenario for Airbnb and Uber in Catalunya, the Catalan Competition Authority (ACCO) issued the study “P2P transactions and competition”. The document is an approach to the technology innovation of marketplaces (websites or mobile applications) that turn out to be a meeting point between supply and demand, and… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism
Book: OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism. By Christian Fuchs. Zero Books, 2014 URL = http://fuchs.uti.at/books/occupymedia-the-occupy-movement-and-social-media-in-crisis-capitalism/ Description The Occupy movement has emerged in a historical crisis of global capitalism. It struggles for the reappropriation of the commodified commons. Communications are part of the commons of society. Yet contemporary social media… Continue reading