Excerpted from Lara Rabinovitch: (original has links) “EatWith is a growing leader in the sharing economy of food startups: Michin started his social experiment startup in Tel Aviv and Barcelona, but this month EatWith launched in New York City and the company is expanding across the United States, Europe, Brazil, and other parts of the… Continue reading
The first global civil war
Republished from Lionel Dricot: (This post was originally published in French on Ploum.net.) Manning, Snowden, Assange, Miranda, The Guardian. With each passing day, we receive confirmation of a truth that many would prefer to ignore: we are at war. An undeclared, relatively quiet war, but nonetheless a war. Lionel Dricot: “Unlike a conventional war, a… Continue reading
K-Score Distribution and the Collapse of Social Networks
Via Technology Review: Why do networks die? ‘”David Garcia and pals at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, give us an answer of sorts. These guys have carried out a digital “autopsy” on Friendster using data collected about the network before it gave up the ghost. They say that when the costs–the time… Continue reading
We are on the brink of an implosion of scale!
Excerpted from James Howard Kunstler : “Though the public hasn’t groked it yet, WalMart and its kindred malignant organisms have entered their own yeast-overgrowth death spiral. In a now permanently contracting economy the big box model fails spectacularly. Every element of economic reality is now poised to squash them. Diesel fuel prices are heading well… Continue reading
On the moral economy that existed before the advent of capitalism
Excerpted from John Restakis, in ch. 1 of Humanizing the Economy: “Severing the social dimension of economics, including the role of public institutions such as government, from the supposed “pure” operations of commerce violated both common sense and the traditional operations of market economies since their inception in the 14th century. The role of collective… Continue reading
OPENiT Festival and Guerilla Conference in Berlin
everybody is invited to contribute to the programm and codevelope the event O P E N i T will be an open, green Guerilla Festival SEPT 26th – 29th in Berlin Kreuzberg, around Moritzplatz and Oranienplatz. One of the co-organizers, Lars Zimmermann, explains the Guerilla Conferencing concept behind it’s organization:
Openness in the context of an Open Venture Accelerator
Excerpted from Alice Fung: “First of all we talk about radical transparency – because, like we said before, we believe in ‘social by open.’ See the potential disruptive genius of Fairphone – co-invested in by our friends at BGV – who are attacking the socially unjust & environmentally destructive dirty secrets of the smartphone industry… Continue reading
Towards Commons-Enabling Infrastructures: the challenges
First part of a report by Silke Helfrich on what was said and thought on this issue during the Commons and Economics Conference in Berlin last May. “Commons and Infrastructure. This is, IMHO, one of THE issues we have to deal with if we want to expand the commons. The following is a personal summary… Continue reading
The convergence of alt-labor and the alt-congregations of DIY Judaism
After describing how the emergence of alt.labor and diy judaism is reviving two fledgling movements, Amy Dean focuses on the convergence between both: “These two parallel movements share some history that is worth noting. The Jewish community that once supported the labor movement in both word and deed—“praying with our legs,” as Rabbi Abraham Joshua… Continue reading
Celyia Gruson on Open Science
Hack Your PhD Interview with Brian Glanz More information Join us in person at the Center For Open Science or follow the event via Livestream. The YouTube link will be added before the event Célya Gruson-Daniel @celyagd, Co-Founder of HackYourPhD @HackYourPhD will open with a short presentation of HackYourPhD. Célya is based in Paris and has been touring… Continue reading