Excerpted from a review by Keith Hart of David Graeber’s book: The First Five Thousand Years of Debt: “Modern anthropology was born to serve the coming democratic revolution against the Old Regime. A government by the people for the people should be based on what they have in common, their “human nature” or “natural rights”…. Continue reading
Introduction to German Open Source Ecology Initiative
Factor E-Farm initiatives are spreading beyond the US, including in Germany. Video about an Open Source Ecology initiative in Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftc8wSREQKU introduced by Nicolay Georgiev . For selecting English or Spanish subtitles, click the “Captions” button in the YouTube player. Interest for supporting this initiative can be expressed on: http://wiki.opensourceecology.de/wiki/Unterst%C3%BCtzen/en to subscribe to the German speaking newsletter : http://wiki.opensourceecology.de/wiki/Newsletter They are also… Continue reading
Joe Justice explains the importance of Wikispeed as a model for a new type of economy
Joe Justice explained the import of the Wikispeed experience before a Ouishare audience in Barcelona. Read the analysis of Benjamin Tincq here as well. Watch the video here: OuiShare Talk – Joe Justice Team Wikispeed at FabLab Barcelona from OuiShare on Vimeo.
Book of the Day: What Comes After Money?
* Book: What Comes After Money? Essays from Reality Sandwich on Transforming Currency and Community, edited by Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan. EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books, 2011. Contributors to this collection of essays include economist Bernard Lietaer, media theorist Douglas Rushkoff, musician Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky), theoretical physicist Amit Goswami, Larry Harvey (founder… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner: Bitcoin can’t serve the necessary Public Function of Money
Excerpted from Dmytri Kleiner (with whom I agree on this issue): “I want to write a bit about the public function of money, especially as compared to the market function of money, in light of some of the recent discussion about Bitcoin. Bitcoin is already a very useful technology due to the fact that it… Continue reading
Ask Michel Bauwens Anything Part 2 (audio)
This is the final part of the audio version (see video version here) answering your questions to the P2P Foundation Reddit page: redd.it/11d4m7 based on the Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy report by the P2P Foundation and Orange Labs. James Burke gathered together the questions and recorded a converstion with Michel Bauwens to provide more… Continue reading
Fred Turner on Burning Man as the Cultural Infrastructure for Commons-Based Peer Production
A Google talk: “Fred Turner discusses his opinions on the social phenomenon of Burning Man and how he thinks the ideals of the festival apply to the marketplace that is evolving in our society, specifically in the Silicon Valley.”
Video of the Day: Art Brock on the MetaCurrency Living Systems Model
“In this interview, conducted by Mark Finnern, Art Brock who together with Eric Harris-Brown has been the founder of the MetaCurrency project is describing the underlying model of their work: Wealth a Living System Model.” Watch the video here:
An example of sustainable commons management: the Maine Lobster Commons
Marjorie Kelly’s Emergent Ownership Revolution is one of the key p2p books for 2012, focusing on the commons and what we call “peer property”. Chapter 8 offers a very interesting case study on the Maine Lobster Commons, which we are reproducing here. (order the book here) Marjorie Kelly: “Something fascinating is at work in the… Continue reading
Book of the Day: A Study of Open-Source Software Commons
* Book: Internet Success: A Study of Open-Source Software Commons. By Charles M. Schweik and Robert C. English. MIT Press, 2012. This book has been hailed as “the first large-scale empirical study to look at the social, technical and institutional aspects of free, libre and open source software” David Bollier has published a review: “Schweik… Continue reading