Tent is an open, decentralized networking protocol, made to run on multiple servers. “Tent allows every user to run their own server, but like email and the web, most users will use a hosting service to handle it.” The first hosted server to come on line is tent.is and it has a basic free account… Continue reading
The World Tomorrow: Cypherpunks, Part 1 & 2
Witnesses and prominent figures of the evolution of cyberpunk movement are discussing the current day issues. A must watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eil_1j72LOA&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQghUChYtk&feature=relmfu
Book of the Day: Peeragogy Handbook
Book: Peeragogy Handbook, a Resource for Self-organizing Self-learners. Howard Rheingold and Peeragogy Team. Description ‘With YouTube, Wikipedia, search engines, free chatrooms, blogs, wikis, and video communication, today’s self-learners have power never dreamed-of before. What does any group of self-learners need to know in order to self-organize learning about any topic? The Peeragogy Handbook is a… Continue reading
Video of the Day: Cooperative Codes
The following video was produced by the Free Software cooperative of Argentina called Gcoop with the support of the cooperative “La Olla”. The short movie received the 1st prize award in the Cooperatives National Congress in Argentina. It was released under a CC BY-SA license. We present it here with english subtitles:
Resilient Communities: Biochar, a portable factory, septic tank cleaning, and guerrilla grafting
John Robb, on his resilientcommunities.com site is advocating a change in lifestyle that gets us closer to the point where food grows and where the necessities for daily life have their origin. Resilience is the ability to withstand sudden changes in environmental conditions, including all those economic factors that make up our day to day… Continue reading
The Womanifesto : The Future is Female
The Womanifesto is the philosophy underpinning the satirical novel DOG Sharon: The Future is Female The Womanifesto calls for a positive re-evaluation and adoption of what have traditionally been referred to as Female Values and Perspectives with a corresponding paradigm shift in human affairs. The Womanifesto is the philosophy underpinning the satirical novel DOG Sharon: The Future is Female The Womanifesto calls… Continue reading
Peer Production: a New Economic Dawn? by Alistair Davidson
In his most recent blog post, Alastair Davidson, the author of Wikileaks, Karl Marx and You. clarifies his posoition on the emergence of peer production as a universal mode of production as in a Marx. that is in dialectical conflict with the existing capitalist mode. “I keep claiming that peer production is a new mode… Continue reading
We Are Legion – The Story of the Hacktivists
We Are Legion – The Story of the Hacktivists (2012) will be appearing in theaters in New York and Los Angeles on October 19th. Watch the video here:
Oil prices will make the Next Industrial Revolution a distributed one
Republished from John Aziz: “Large, centrally-directed systems are inherently fragile. Think of the human body; a spontaneous, unexpected blow to the head can kill an otherwise healthy creature; all the healthy cells and tissue in the legs, arms, torso and so forth killed through dependency on the brain’s functionality. Interdependent systems are only ever as… Continue reading
Organisation 4.0: Rising of the revolutionary ne(t)worganisation
New organising is networganising which is different than both organising and networking performed by traditional organisation and network. It is a higher level synthesis of the best parts of the two and that goes beyond the practices of pre-synthesis hybrid forms networked organisation (networg) and organised network (orgnet). Networganising is what a networganisation does in order to reach out like minded, key peers, link them and their… Continue reading