What happens when the quality control process moves from the front to the back end of content production, as it does with peer production of content? Here’s an interesting take on this topic by John Blossom: (we recommend reading the full entry, but here are the main arguments) “How does one address the need for… Continue reading
The P2P Foundation as a neo-nomad structure
My encounter with Franz Nahrada’s work on Global Villages, with quintessential nomad Dante, and the reading of this most interesting review of the neonomad meme by Thomas Jankowski (which I recommend reading in full), is leading me to the conclusion that the P2P Foundation itself is actually an instantiation of a neonomad structure. Neonomadism refers… Continue reading
Dmytri Kleiner proposes new commons-oriented license
Dmytri Kleiner has written a Marxist critique of both the limitations of the General Public Licene and the Creative Commons license (for Mute Magazine), which ends with a proposal for a new type of Copyfarleft license which would disallow commercial usage, but only by private firms. It is not similar, but reminds us of a… Continue reading
Robin Good TV: global p2p-tv with zero capital
A global video-based news channel, started with zero capital? Robin Good has been at it again! Marshall Kirkpatrick reports: “Robin Good, publisher of MasterNewMedia.org and a number of other excellent websites, is one of the most popular and prolific European tech writers on the web. Now he’s started a video network called RobinGood.TV with international… Continue reading
Social networking applications listed by Dave Pollard in a ‘taskonomy’
People-Connector Tools Examples Useful for Identifying & Finding This Kind of People What You Can Do Now People-Finders LinkedIn, Ryze, Orkut, Facebook1 People meeting selected search criteria or having a specified affinity with you Set up a just-in-time canvassing system2 Social Network Mappers InFlow People connected with others in an organization Read The Hidden Power… Continue reading
Video: Soma, a body-based peer to peer therapy from brazil
Launch of the Local Commons Survey Project
From David Bollier: “We’re inviting interested citizens and civic groups to conduct commons surveys for their hometowns. Each independently managed project will make a formal inventory of a community’s commons and assess the strengths and weaknesses of each. Then it will publish an interpretive report for the benefit of fellow citizens, the press, government bodies… Continue reading
Book of the Week: David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous (2)
We continue our publication of excperts of David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous. In the first excerpt, David explained how humanity dealt with four principles of knowledge organization up to the digital era. Here, he describes the big changes that are in the offing. Excerpt: Three new strategic principles are emerging, severing the ties between the… Continue reading
Book of the Week: David Weinberger’s Everything is Miscellaneous (1)
David Weinberger, co-author of “The Cluetrain Manifesto” (2000) and the author of “Small Pieces Loosely Joined” in 2002, has received many positive reviews for his latest “Everything is Miscellaneous‘. It’s a marvelous book for understanding the evolution of knowledge, both how we know things and how we organize our knowledge. We publish it as book… Continue reading
Kevin Carson on decentralized and re-localized production
Kevin Carson is continuing to publish interesting items. He’s been writing new chapters of his book on decentralized production, see here. Chapter 3 and 4 argue that state policies foster excessive scale and centralization. A discussion on the prospects of relocalized production. Here is a must-read critique of the very (legal) form of the corporation… Continue reading
The Cloud OS is not an open source web based operating system
Martin Springer comments on the following article by Rod Boothby. Commentary by Martin Springer: In his article Cloud OS and the Personal Server Rod Boothby explains that content and services become more valuable when they can be shared between users. The solution offered by his company Teqlo enables users to integrate business processes and make… Continue reading
Are the deletion Nazis taking over Wikipedia?
Finally, finally, Andrew Lih is tackling one of the main deteriorations of Wikipedia, i.e. the emergence of a new breed of vigilantes who use their detailed knowledge of obscure regulations, to nominate articles for deletion. In a previous article, Andrew, who is one of the experienced pioneers of the Wikipedia community, had noted that the… Continue reading
More on Abundance vs. Scarcity as Mentalities
If we use an integral approach, we can never miss out on the subjective and intersubjective aspects of any phenomena, including a discussion of abundance and scarcity, which we started yesterday. The mentality aspect of this is well explained an article by Penny Tremblay. Note that such thinking can easily become new age psychologizing when… Continue reading
Questions That Emerge on Scarcity vs. Abundance Thinking
Michele Martin of the Bamboo Project blog has a fascinating thought piece on how scarcity thinking affects even the nonprofit world. In short abundance means thinking that the pie is big enough and growing, so that if everyone works together, all will benefit. Scarcity thinking means that one considers the pie to be fixed or… Continue reading
Great citations about peer to peer learning
A Collection of Citations on Open, free, participatory, and commons-oriented learning approaches. Citation 1: The Open Education movement is gaining momentum “The field of open education is gaining momentum around the world. Literally hundreds of open education projects are springing up from Tokyo to Boston to Paris to Beijing. Over 2000 courses are now available… Continue reading
The Voding funding mechanism
Vodes.net is an attempt to create a financing mechanism for collaborative projects based on total transparency. The governance system of the project is innovative in the sense that it gives a say to the different stakeholders including to outside advisers, and all of that is structurally embedded. If you decide to finance a project, you… Continue reading