Book: The Open Collaboration Encyclopedia. By Alpha Io and Alden Bevington. Pioneer Imprints, 2008 (you can order the book here) This is a book that is very much in the spirit of our p2p work, covers the same domains, but in print, and bring together the work being done out there to pioneer models of… Continue reading
The Indian tradition of open knowledge sharing
When we look back on our times, we may find that the term, “Intellectual Property” has taken its place along side another archaic term, “Horseless Carriage.” Both were attempts to impose metaphors of the past on the future. And the folly of our times is that we treat inexhaustible resources like knowledge as finite resource… Continue reading
The inaugural conference of the VIRT3C group
The Yorkshire Post recently wrote this piece about the inaugural conference of the VIRT3C group which takes place in Hull, UK, March 19-20. Get clued up on the ‘anarchic’ power of the world wide web We exceptionally reproduce this article of a local newspaper in full. DR ATHINA KARATZOGIANNI: Internet is ‘like a teenager’. By… Continue reading
Contrasting viewpoints on copyright
“In The Revolution Will Be Animated, documentary filmmaker Marine Lormant Sebag presents multiple viewpoints on copyright in the digital age. The film’s main character is Nina Paley, an American animator who produced a feature film called Sita Sings the Blues. Nina encountered many copyright issues with the songs she used, from 1920s´ singer Annette Hanshaw…. Continue reading
P2P and distributism
I asked the distributist author John C. Médaille to explain how he sees the connection between the p2p approach and distributism. This is an excellent and easy to read introduction: John C. Médaille: “The most salient point about a peer-to-peer network is that it is a network of peers. That is, at each node, there… Continue reading
Network culture and its effect on democracy
Whether network culture plants the seeds of greater democratic participation and deliberation, or whether it will only be used to mobilize already like-minded individuals, remains to be seen. The question we face at the dawn of network culture is whether we, the inhabitants of our networked publics, can reach across our micro-clustered worlds to coalesce… Continue reading
Introduction to the new (p2p) economics
A really really great (Prezi) and very very rich presentation by Arthur Brock, collaborator of the Metacurrency Project, on the newly emerging economy. New Economy, New Wealth on Prezi
Dialogue with Ryan Lanham, Andy Robinson, and Michel Bauwens on “Intellectual Property”
I’ve attempted to organize two debate threads on the P2P list on the subject of “intellectual property” into a single document (warning–pdf). It’s very long–about 45 pages–because it’s extracted from threads totalling nearly two hundred separate posts, some of them quite long. I have attempted to break up the posts into snippets and nest them,… Continue reading
Flattr introduces voluntary social micropayments
A crowdfunding approach for open content publishers and creators that really makes sense, but would need to become universal to be a real solution to the current crisis of value: Flattr.com – How Flattr Works from Flattr on Vimeo. Some details via Peter Sunde: “Users who join the site can use it to discover interesting… Continue reading
How networked culture differs from postmodernism
Kazys Varnelis has published a remarkable and extensive essay, The meaning of network culture, from which we have chosen substantial excerpts. It is the first time I see such a clear analysis of how current ‘p2p’ network culture differs from the postmodernism. (Kazys says network culture differs from digital culture and postmodernism corresponds to the… Continue reading
The desperation behind ACTA: copyright is already socially and culturally dead
Let’s face it — less developed countries are not going to pay licensing costs and fork over the money circulating in their economy back to us: They’re going to pour it back into modernization of their own economies. The only way they can do that is by asserting sovereignty and independence from the global copyright… Continue reading
The debate around post-scarcity
Christian Siefkes of Keimform/Oekonux, one of the leading commons-oriented thinkers, is starting a promising series on post-scarcity, of which we publish the introductory passage below. It in part reacts to a joint statement with Franz Nahrada a while ago, but Christian seems to imply that we are opposed to post-scarcity. This is absolutely not the… Continue reading
Dialogue with Richard Stallman on “Intellectual Property”
[From the extended “Re: [p2p-research] Repurposing Profit for User Freedom” available in P2P Research list’s February archives] [Last Updated 2/22/10. This is the last update, since we seem to have reached the point of simply restating our positions. And anyway, trying to nest all these layers of comments is a pain in the ass.] KEVIN… Continue reading
Comparing business paradigms
Title: Comparing Business Development Paradigms Authors: Paul B. Hartzog, Sam Rose, Richard C. Adler Web: The Forward Foundation http://www.forwardfound.org License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Ref: FF-2010-2-15 Some material originally published in FLOWS: 20th Century Wealth Generating Ecologies and an Open Infrastructure for Everything http://www.slideshare.net/paulbhartzog/flows-2009-uk-media-ecologies a publication of Forward Foundation released under CC BY-SA 3.0 License… Continue reading
Sharing the surplus vs. engineered scarcity
It’s not a mistake or an accident that abundance is destroyed. Profit-oriented institutions depend on scarcity, so when it doesn’t come about naturally, they manufacture it … Waste is not a problem of lack of coordination. In fact, it’s not a problem at all for the people who control and operate large businesses – it’s… Continue reading
Centre for Creative Collaboration: Collaborative and emergent
Listen! The Centre for Creative Collaboration recently opened in London. Here Brian Condon explains the project: Collaborative and emergent We had the first event in the space on 5th February 2010 and it was a meeting of Tuttle as part of Social Media Week, together with people from various Universities; including those who are founder… Continue reading