Here are a few opportunities to meet me around San Francisco during early March: 1. March 6, Walnut Creek 2008 Mar 6th – Thu at 6:00 PM / The Lub’s Residence – 61 Los Cerros Place – Walnut Creek, CA 94598 MICHEL BAUWENS: Founder of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives – Peer To Peer As… Continue reading
Christian Siefkes on Money (and state forms) in the Peer Economy
I have asked Christian, author of From Exchange to Contributions, his book about the Peer Economy, how he sees the role of money. Below is his response, which gives an interesting view of the method he used to write his book. Christian Siefkes: “I don’t think that I explicitly discuss corporations or money anywhere in… Continue reading
New links and highlights from the P2P Audiovisual Guide (March ’08)
New Links and Your LinksOur P2P Audiovisual Guide now features new links right on the first page of the guide: After a month they will be moved to their actual places in the guide and a new set of new links will be on the first page. If you have any links you would like… Continue reading
Adam Arvidsson: Social innovation in Malmo
Via. Adam Arvidsson: “In modern society we were used to thinking of culture and its production as business of specialized institutions of groups. Indeed the progressive disappearance of spontaneous popular culture, and the concomitant institutionalization of mass culture, were understood to be to central tendencies within the modernization process. “Spontankultur†Since the post-War years this… Continue reading
Not An Employee
In keeping with the recent focus on Johan Söderberg’s Hacking Capitalism as well as Clay Shirky’s recent “Here Comes Everybody” blog and book , I would like to call attention to what I think is an important venture, and, moreover, what I hope is merely one of many similar initiatives to come. Not An Employee… Continue reading
Dale Carrico on defining left and right
This is how Dale Carrico defines left and right: “the fact is that you are perfectly intelligible as a person of the progressive democratic Left if you affirm or feel inspired by the following basic ideas, just as you are perfectly intelligible as a person of the reactionary elitist Right if you feel indifference, skepticism,… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Hacking Capitalism. Part Three: From class struggle to play struggle
We continue our presentation of Johan Soderbergh’s book with a last excerpt about perhaps the key concept of the book: Play Struggle. Johan Soderbergh: “The notion of hackers becoming ‘revolutionaries just for fun’ would have appealed to the eighteenth century poet Friedrich Schiller. Disappointed by the failure of the French Revolution, he sat down to… Continue reading
Podcast: Interview with Michel Bauwens, P2P and spirituality
A interview between James Burke and Michel Bauwens on participative spirituality and the relationship of P2P with religion and religious practice. This podcasts clarifies and adds to a recent series of posts including, The next Buddha will be a collective. See related posts below: part 1:Spiritual expression in the peer to peer era part 2:… Continue reading
Stan Rhodes: Advertising is waste
Republished from Stan Rhodes: You’d think that everyone that’s ever seen an advertisement would know this, but no one seems to want to say it. We’re all thinking it, aren’t we? Advertising, at its root, is waste. Advertisements are waste. Right now, we have an arms race between what a person wants to pay attention… Continue reading
Charles Leadbeater’s book on mass innovation, We Think, is out!
Announcement from the author: “WE THINK: mass innovation not mass production – is published this week. The book was partly written online and incorporates readers’ comments on a draft released on the web in late 2006. The first three chapters of the finished book can be downloaded from my website, where you can also comment…. Continue reading
The Medium is the Mess…
This is an adaption of a recent entry on my own blog in which I discuss the nature of ‘The Web’ and why it needs to be seen as quite distinct from ‘The Internet’. The focus of this piece is a little different, as I believe there is particular relevance to the P2P movement, in… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Hacking Capitalism. Part Two: Hacking as a labour movement
Book: Johan Söderberg. Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Movement. Routledge, 2007 We continue our presentation with an excerpt on the topic of “Hacking and Capitalism”, which stresses the continuation between the hackers and the labour movement. Johan Soderbergh: “The skirmishes between the hacker movement and corporations and governments have deeper roots… Continue reading
Arguments againsts patents and copyright
Via Graham Seaman: “The final version of Levine and Boldrin’s book on ‘IP’ (which they call ‘intellectual monopoly’) has been made available as a pdf (it’s not out in print till the summer) They are marginalist economists who are against patents, claiming they are unnecessary even within capitalism as it is. It’s not at all… Continue reading
Chris Cook’s critique of Carbon Trading : If you want to keep a donkey healthy, you don’t regulate what comes out of it, but what goes in
From the very beginning of our work at the P2P Foundation, we were in touch with Chris Cook, who has been working on open capital formats, a kind of peer to peer based market reform, which could be enabled by new methods of corporate governance, such as the UK-based Limited Liability Partnerships. I’m must admit… Continue reading
Book of the Week: Hacking Capitalism. Part One: presentation
Book: Johan Söderberg. Hacking Capitalism: The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Movement. Routledge, 2007 We expressed our enthusiasm for this book before, so we would like to present it more formally here. Below is the short description, followed by the chapter by chapter outline. Short description: “The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement… Continue reading
Marcin Jakubowski: an appeal for global collaboration on open product development.
From an appeal by Marcin Jakubowski, distributed by email: Fellows, I would like to raise the issue of wide collaboration for open source product development. Sam Rose and I have been in a heated discussion regarding collaboration, and how to align a wide range of people to collaborate more deeply. We’d like to break the… Continue reading