Debt is not personal, it is political. The debt system aims to isolate us, silence us, and scare us into submission with the all-powerful credit rating. Now is the time for us to step out of the shadows together in public. Debt is immoral. It is indentured servitude, a type of bondage. We are forced… Continue reading
How can the Commons approach be applied to global digital resources?
About Community Governance in Digital Commons, excerpted from: * Article: An Introduction to the Digital Commons: From Common-Pool Resources to Community Governance. Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay and Hervé Le Crosnier. In summary: “This article proposes an introductory analysis of digital resources and commons-based peer production online communities with the framework of the common pool-resources. Trying… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Empowering Public Wisdom
Tom Atlee. Empowering Public Wisdom: A Practical Vision of Citizen-Led Politics. EVOLVER EDITIONS/North Atlantic Books, 2012. Description Lifelong activist Tom Atlee proposes innovative ways to distill the wisdom of ordinary people in order to better guide public policy. In Empowering Public Wisdom, Atlee recognizes currently popular forms of progressive democracy advocates, such as citizen participation… Continue reading
when the economy becomes collaborative
The P2P Foundation is pleased to repost below the official post from Orange announcing “The report “Synthetic overview of the collaborative economy”, coproduced by Orange Labs and the P2P Foundation”. During this month we will be serialising the report here on the blog, or you can download it immediately! Source: Orange.com when the economy… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: Centralized cloud environments vs. Decentralized alternatives for peer-production
* Article: The Commodification of Information Commons. By Primavera De Filippi and Miguel Said Vieira. Today, a follow-up of yesterday’s first excerpt on enclosures through the cloud. What can we do against it? GOVERNANCE AND ARCHITECTURE DESIGN, By Primavera De Filippi and Miguel Said Vieira: a. Decentralized peer-production “As mentioned in previous sections, most (successful)… Continue reading
Book of the Day: How to Thrive Online
Book: Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. By Howard Rheingold. Description Like it or not, knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century. But how can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants… Continue reading
Monitoring Bitcoin – Bitcoin Foundation, GLBSE Closure, and the ASIC Arms Race
(From our collaborator Jon Holmquist, Bitcoin community insider and entrepreneur) This week in the dramatic and sometimes comedic world of Bitcoin, the internet’s favorite crypto-currency: 1- The Bitcoin Foundation was announced in the last days of September. The Bitcoin Foundation has proposed three main goals: Standardizing and maintaining the code that is Bitcoin by funding the… Continue reading
Essay of the Day: The Commodification of the Information Commons through Cloud Computing
* Article: The Commodification of Information Commons. By Primavera De Filippi and Miguel Said Vieira. In summary: “”Internet and digital technologies allowed for the emergence of new modes of production involving cooperation and collaboration amongst peers (peer-production) and oriented towards the maximization of the common good—as opposed to the maximization of profits. To ensure that… Continue reading
On the Need for Global Deterritorialized Counter-Struggles
* Article: Reactivating the Social Body in Insurrectionary Times: A Dialogue with Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi. By Hugill, David and Thorburn, Elise. Berkeley Planning Journal, 25(1), 2012 The article above is an extented interview with Franco “Bifo” Berardi that covers a broad swathe of topics, including issues of education, debt, crisis, and mediation in the contemporary… Continue reading
Book of the Day: Truth in the Age of Social Media
Report: Truth in the Age of Social Media. Nieman Reports, 2012 Patrick Meier: “Some of the gems in this superb 72-page Nieman Report. In the opening piece of the report, Craig Silverman writes that “never before in the history of journalism—or society—have more people and organizations been engaged in fact checking and verification. Never has… Continue reading