Excerpted from Malcolm Harris: ‘Kinsella, the director of the Center for The Study of Innovative Freedom, argues that intellectual property regimes are illegitimate because, since ideas are non-scarce (abundant), they require legislation and a state to protect them: “[S]carce resources that you need to use as means need to be owned by you. This is… Continue reading
Discussing OWS (3): #OccupyWallStreet as a Culture Change Movement
Excerpted from William Gamson: “The single most important thing to understand about the Occupy movement[deleted plural ending] is that it is primarily a movement about cultural change, not institutional and policy change. Cultural change means changing the nature of political discourse and the various spheres in which it is carried on, especially mass media. Changing… Continue reading
P2P Video of the Day: Clay Shirky – Why SOPA is/was a bad idea
What does a bill like PIPA/SOPA mean to our shareable world? At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto — a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.
P2P Essay of the Day: Collective Sense-Making as Negotiated Agreement
Excerpted from Harold Jarche: “The big shift for me in the past decade has been in weaving a network that brings me diversity of opinions and depth of knowledge. I am constantly following/unfollowing on Twitter in an attempt at optimal filtering, which is an impossible but worthwhile goal. I look for experts who share their… Continue reading
Discussing OWS (2): #OccupyWallStreet and the Decline of the Professional Managerial Class
Excerpted from a discussion by BARBARA EHRENREICH AND JOHN EHRENREICH: (apologies, we lost the source indication) ““Liberal elite” was always a political category masquerading as a sociological one. What gave the idea of a liberal elite some traction, though, at least for a while, was that the great majority of us have never knowingly encountered… Continue reading
P2P Book of the Day: People Power and Political Change
Book: April Carter. People Power and Political Change. Routledge, 2012 Paul Rogers: “Looks rigorously yet sympathetically at the many examples of people power over the past forty years: from Iran in the 1970s, through Latin America, Asia and east-central Europe in the 1980s and 1990s, to the Arab world in 2010-11. The main focus of… Continue reading
Discussing OWS (1): How the #OccupyWallStreet Movement is Evolving from Networked Individualism to Empowered Communities
Excerpted from Michael Gurstein: “Certainly politics in the Information Society seems to have taken the shape prescribed for it by the marketplace—fragmented, concerned with short-term individualized interest maximization, personality-obsessed media saturation and so on. These changes in turn have been propelled by the forces of technology and the breakdown of established employment structures, education patterns,… Continue reading
BitTorrent’s New P2P Protocol Could Fix the Internet’s Shoddy Streaming Video Quality
Streaming video over the Internet is one of the most important telecommunication developments in the last decade. Problem is, doing so needs a massive system architecture to support it and the feed is often riddled with lag. A new protocol from BitTorret’s founder is aiming to change all that. Conventional video streaming—through, say, YouTube or… Continue reading
BlablaCar puts $10M in its tank for P2P ride-share site
Source: Krystal Peak – VatorNews With the economy pushing people to get creative and efficient with their resources, some are seeing extra seats in their car as opportunities to make a few extra dollars. A European carpooling forum called BlablaCar announced Tuesday that it scooped up $10 million from Accel Partners and existing investors to… Continue reading
P2P Video of the Day: Occupy Movie
This inspiring documentary highlights the unified voices of Occupy movement participants. This compelling look into the perspectives of citizens rallying for change sits in stark contrast to the out of context portrayal of the Occupy movement falsely created by media corporations. Occupy Movie has been released as a social film experience! You can now INTERACT… Continue reading
The world economy is on the verge of a new recession, according to a report by the UN
Source: The Delta World The world economy is on the verge of a new recession, and what the report status and prospects of the world economy, prepared by the United Nations Conference on trade and development (UNCTAD) and presented on Tuesday, he warns that “a new global recession is a significant possibility”. Something that probably… Continue reading
SOPA: Lawmakers backing away from online-piracy bills
Source: Brad Plumer – The Washington Post It looks like the uproar over Congress’s online-piracy bills is having a real impact. This weekend, the White House strongly hinted that it would oppose the current legislation. And key sponsors are edging away from the bills’ most controversial features. (Lucy Nicholson – Reuters) Late on Friday night,… Continue reading
Jeremy Rifkin: Energy-sharing is the new internet
Source: Jeremy Rifkin – Wired UK This article was taken from the February 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired’s articles in print before they’re posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. The Second Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is… Continue reading
P2P Video of the Day: #WhileWeWatch – The gripping portrait of the #OccupyWallSt media revolution
#whilewewatch is a gripping look at the media revolution that emerged from Zuccoti Park in New York City to the world. It is the story of how many people came together in the sun and rain, day and night, broke and loaded with energy and hope to get their story out to the world. #OWS… Continue reading
Michel Bauwens: P2P and the Commons as the new paradigm
Michel Bauwens at the London Tent University, December 10th 2011: P2P and the Commons as the new paradigm from David Nixon on Vimeo.
Joi Ito on the future of the MIT Media Lab
Source: Lauren Landry – BostInno The Internet is a philosophy to Media Lab director Joi Ito. “It’s the freedom to connect, the freedom to hack and the freedom to innovate,” he said, and is something everyone should be given open access to. To the former CEO of Creative Commons — where he is now board… Continue reading