Source – http://www.artisopensource.net/network/artisopensource/2015/01/14/stakhanov-the-bigdata-oracle-for-a-new-era/ From Wikipedia: “In Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to interface wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. The word oracle comes from the Latin verb ?r?re “to speak” and properly refers to the priest or priestess uttering the prediction. In… Continue reading
Date archives "January 2015"
Essay of the Day: Peak Inequality and the Impoverishment of Society
The conditions for a peer to peer society are being severely undermined. * Essay: Peak Inequality: The 0.1% and the Impoverishment of Society. David DeGraw. The excerpt below is adapted from the book, The Economics of Revolution. The conclusion of the study about the evolution in the U.S. is clear: “the In the present economy,… Continue reading
Ignasi Capdevila on P2Pvalue and Surveying P2P Communities
P2Pvalue is an EU funded research project investigating value creation in P2P communities and exploring what powers P2P collaboration. The P2P Foundation is a partner in the project. Each month we feature an interview with members of the research team. Last month Karthik Iyer spoke with us about how notions of value in collaborative communities… Continue reading
Why Permaculture is the Answer
Paper: A systems and thermodynamics perspective on technology in the circular economy. By Crelis F. Rammelt and Phillip Crisp. real-world economics review, issue no. 68 The increase of entropy on earth as a whole is reversed only because of the existence of a complex biosphere powered primarily by solar radiation, which represents the main source of… Continue reading
How 3D printing WITH land reform could help to solve the housing crisis
Excerpted from Alistair Parvin: “In the current … model, the houses built by property developers are not actually designed as places to live, but as financial assets; to be sold to the mortgage lending market. The term “housebuilder” is actually a little misleading. A better description might be “land developer” a company that buys land… Continue reading
A critique of the Just Net Coalition’s defense of intergovernmental internet governance
The P2P Foundation recently joined an intiative that we understood as an ‘alterglobal’ alternative to internet governance. We were not aware that his coalition seems to support a purely inter-governmental governance of the internet, as we would indeed favour multi-stakeholder governance. The rest of the article focuses on personal matters, which are more difficult to… Continue reading
Jules Peck Introduces the Real Economy Lab
By Jules Peck Recently Transition’s co-Founder Rob Hopkins responded to a critique of the Transition movement by Ted Trainer. Trainer’s critique was much discussed at the annual Degrowth Congress in Leipzig which I have blogged about already. Trainer’s critique suggested that there is little more to the Transition Towns movement than community gardens. Naturally anyone who knows much about Transition will… Continue reading
Communicating Cooperative Culture
Last May during some down time from the FLOK Summit I had a rare opportunity to sit down with a very experienced group of experts in cooperatives and the social solidarity economy. In this in depth discussion Robin Murray, John Restakis, Marguerite Mendell and Annabel Pinker explore the FLOK theme of Social Knowledge, it’s relationship to… Continue reading
Project of the Day: Credibles
“Credibles crowd-funds small, sustainable food-related businesses. The re-payment of the funding is in-kind – edible credits, or Credibles. The Clearbon platform manages and balances the shared credits among multiple businesses, giving the funder more liquidity for redemption.” An explanation excerpted from Mira Luna: “Several years back a group of us currency geeks got together at… Continue reading
Journal of Peer Production Issue 6: Disruption and the Law
The latest edition of the Journal of Peer Production is now out. The disruption caused by new technologies and non-conventional methods of organisation – from a Western perspective at least – have posed challenges for the law, confronting regulators with the need to balance justice and an appreciation of new realities with powerful interests and… Continue reading
Call for papers: Interdisciplinary workshop on DIY networking
May 18th, Florence, Italy / Hosting conference: http://www.sigmobile.org/mobisys/2015/ Source: http://diynetworking.net/cfp.php Wireless technology enables today the creation of local offline networks, which can operate outside the public Internet. Even when the Internet is easily accessible, such local wireless networks form an interesting alternative, autonomous, option for communication, which 1) ensures that all connected devices are in… Continue reading
Is a Methane Disaster Awaiting Us?
Today, the atmosphere contains 5 Gt methane. An estimate estimates that around 50 gigatonnes of methane might be about to be released in the Arctic, ie, a tenfold increase. Several thousand Gt is stored in the Arctic permafrost, in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf alone lies the 500 – 5000 Gt methane. Methane is by releasing… Continue reading
Leading Churchmen in Britain call for a more equal and sharing society
The Church of England has spoken out in trenchant terms about the extreme inequality that defines modern Britain, arguing today that moral principles and sharing should underpin the foundations of society. In a new book of essays to be published next week, the archbishops of Canterbury and York warn that the poor are being left… Continue reading
From Copyleft to Copyfarleft: The need for a Commons-Based Reciprocity License
Reposted from our sister-site Commons Transition. The title of this post is an homage to Primavera de Filippi’s and Miguel Said de Viera’s excellent essay on the subject. Commons Based Reciprocity Licenses (CBRLs or “CopyFair” licenses) are specifically designed to find a middle ground between the full-sharing Copyleft licenses, such as the GPL, the Non-Commercial… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Free Software and the Law
* Article: Free software and the law. Out of the frying pan and into the fire: how shaking up intellectual property suits competition just fine. By Angela Daly. Journal of Peer Production, Issue 3, July 2013 From the Abstract: “Free software is viewed as a revolutionary and subversive practice, and in particular has dealt a… Continue reading
2nd #FLOSS4P2P Workshop Call for Proposals
The Call for Proposals and registration for the 2nd FLOSS4P2P workshop are now open. The two day workshop which aims to gather the FLOSS projects that are building software for peer production and organization, with a focus on distributed ones, will take place on March 16th & 17th at Fab Lab London. It is free to… Continue reading