https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/on-anoptism-true-distributed-architectures-and-the-need-for-real-social-networks/2008/01/04 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sat, 25 Oct 2014 10:41:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/on-anoptism-true-distributed-architectures-and-the-need-for-real-social-networks/2008/01/04/comment-page-1#comment-187673 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:03:25 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/on-anoptism-true-distributed-architectures-and-the-need-for-real-social-networks/2008/01/04#comment-187673 […] My first personal paradigm shift came through free software and free information and my realization that ideals of freedom can actually be realized with present-day technology. The second step was my personal experience of the gift economy, with real goods and real people, mostly through hospitality exchange and hitchhiking. Through my volunteer work for CouchSurfing I wanted to give more people the possibility to experience these phases. I see RealSocial.org as a place to gather efforts of more people and organizations and I completely agree with Michel Bauwens who wrote on anoptism, true distributed architectures and the need for Real Social networks: A priority, it seems to me, is to start with work on a definition of what constitutes Real Social, or more formally, a Definition of Real Social Networks, in the tradition of the definitions we already have, such as: […]

]]> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/on-anoptism-true-distributed-architectures-and-the-need-for-real-social-networks/2008/01/04/comment-page-1#comment-167839 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:36:19 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/on-anoptism-true-distributed-architectures-and-the-need-for-real-social-networks/2008/01/04#comment-167839 Thanks Michel for the pointers and connecting us. I’d be very happy to continue the discussion and meet Olivier, Kasper, and more. I live in South-East of France, however I’m travelling at present, my computer is broken, and I’m not sure when I’ll get one working. But I’m still here listening.
Lately I’ve been “sidetracking” and did not spend much time developing my ideas or project. You pointed at the VIAXIO-OX page and I’d also like to point to this blog entry.
I’ll be at the C5 conference in a few days trying to connect with like minded people…

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