Kaila Colbin of the VortexDNA blog has a great series on the evolution of the internet, inspired by Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory. It starts here and then goes through the five stages separately. Here’s a summary of the main points of the series: “The concept behind a hierarchy of needs is simple: each… Continue reading
Henrik Igo’s critique of the (Geldart) Active Web proposal
Henrik Igo reacts to our presentation of the proposal of Joe Geldart towards an Active Web. The intervention of Henrik is rather technical, but still of interest for non-developers. Henrik Igo: The Document web definition is fine, it is what anyone would consider “Web 1.0”. What I strongly disagree with is the authors criticism or… Continue reading
Books sold in our P2P Bookshop: 2008
The following books were among the best-sellers from our Bookshop this year. We now have an extensive collection of the best P2P-related books for your selection. Please remember that all proceeds go towards supporting the P2P Foundation, and that if you plan to buy any book on Amazon, we will get credit for it if… Continue reading
Joe Geldart on the future of the (active) web
What comes next? Joe Geldart has an extensive interpretation of the history and future of the web, which I found very appealing as a non-technical observer, but which our associate Henrik Igo criticizes on technical grounds. We recommend reading the whole article, of which we present a summary here, and tomorrow, we will present Henrik’s… Continue reading
Security notice: fixing disruption to the wordpress theme of this site
Some of you might of noticed that the theme to this blog has looked a little screwy in the last week, a couple of times. That’s because someone replaced the header to this site with their own code, some of which looked very spammy. I’m trying to lockdown the security here and find the culprit(although… Continue reading
Top 5 P2P Books of the Month
1) Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives, by Amanda Spink (Editor), Michael Zimmer (Editor) [via michaelzimmer.org] Web search engines are not just indispensable tools for finding and accessing information online, but have become a defining component of the human condition and can be conceptualized as a complex behavior embedded within an individual’s everyday social, cultural, political, and… Continue reading
Documenting the history of fan communities
As Henry Jenkins shows in his strongly recommended essay on the Moral Economy of Web 2.0, fan communities were amongst the earliest examples of the trend towards participatory or user-generated content, exemplifying many of the contradictions between co-creation and hyper-exploitation. The history of these fan movements are now being documented in a new project, i.e…. Continue reading
Mark Surman proposes a new political compass uniting pirates and communautarians
Mark Surman has an interesting blogpost reviewing various attempts to broaden the left/right divide with the new open paradigm. After a review of the other alternative attempts, he comes up with his own, which is pictured above. He concludes that: “We need both halves of open. And, while each group needs to insist on doing… Continue reading
Distinguishing groups, networks and collectives
Terry Anderson introduces some key distinctions in collective p2p dynamics. It’s part of an essay on networked modes of learning. Terry Anderson: “the model illustrates three levels of aggregation of learners in either formal or informal learning. The most familiar level is the group. Groups are cohesive and often have formal lines of authority and… Continue reading
Peernet: Infrastructure and software for a million networks
In Extending the Internet: The Peernet OpenMesh, Robin Good pulls together the strings of an evolving idea. It started out with “Backing up the Internet in a P2P ‘cloud’“, a discussion around the concept of making the internet more resilient to all kinds of interference, and perhaps even providing an alternative way of interaction that… Continue reading
Explaining Subtle Activism
Can the power of our collective prayers and intentions help to facilitate social healing and global transformation? David Nicol explains the rational behind the Gaiafield Project that we mentioned yesterday: “Conventional approaches to activism, embedded in the dominant modern paradigm of materialism, tend to promote direct engagement in the overt structures of the political arena… Continue reading
Wikiworld: Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media
Colleague, researcher, and great guy Tere Vadén (with Juha Suoranta) have new work available: WIKIWORLD Political Economy and the Promise of Participatory Media Juha Suoranta & Tere Vadén University of Tampere, Finland In the digital world of learning there is a progressive transformation from the institutionalized and individualized forms of learning to open learning and… Continue reading
Presenting the GaiaField Project
The vision of the GaiaField Project is to support the emergence of a large, resilient, multi-hub network of spiritual leaders and their constituencies who will regularly participate in and co-create large-scale global meditation and prayer vigils. David Nicol, What is the GaiaField Project? : “Many people intuitively recognize the power of uniting millions of people… Continue reading
Video: The corporate machine
A little hard-core and not representative of all companies, but then not all companies are corporate machines. Is yours?
Lawrence Wollersheim on Open Sourcing Spirituality (5): Values and Principles 3
Lawrence continues his inquiry into the values and principles needed as a foundation for an integrative and participatory spirituality. This concludes our presentation, which however does not exhaust the more rich insights all available if you read the full document here. 11.) On Organization and Distribution Humanity’s vast knowledge base of spiritual wisdom will be… Continue reading
Lawrence Wollersheim on Open Sourcing Spirituality (4): Values and Principles 2
Lawrence continues his inquiry into the fundamental principles for a participative spirituality: 6.) On the Questioning of Faith Beliefs and Practices We have come to a new point in humanity’s spiritual history where if individuals or religious organization’s assert to another that their own faith beliefs or practices should be believed or followed as fact… Continue reading