At the P2P Foundation
Chinese Translation of the Political Economy of Peer Production
Don’t miss it if you read Chinese and let your Chinese friends know it is available.
P2P Business/Economic Trends
Social shopping – Home – Times Online
The trend is called social shopping, and it relies on similar social-networking technologies that have enabled YouTube to automate its selection of must-see videos and MySpace to determine who at any moment is cool.
Alternative indicators of well-being: comparison
Essai tackles the problem of developing meaningful, comprehensive and rigorous measures of social well-being.
WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: A Pair of Ecological Economics Textbooks
The growing community of Ecological Economists aims to expand the context of economics to include resource and ecosystem service constraints, and broader definitions of human well-being.
Phil Windley’s Technometria | A Framework for Building Reputation Systems
This paper introduces a set of principles for governing the design and operation of online reputation systems.
P2P Culture
Musicovery : interactive webRadio
wow, try it! I really liked this music discovery site
The Top 10 Arguments Against DRM
Great summary of the arguments.
Ecospherics Ethics
This Web Site provides an introduction to ecocentrism, an emerging new way of seeing ourselves – Homo sapiens – in and on this Earth.
Avenue A – Razorfish, a real Entreprise 2.0
Recommended = examples of deep Enterprise 2.0 penetration — where freeform social software platforms had become so widely and deeply used that they were no-longer-exceptional parts of the company’s technology infrastucture, and its culture. See the extraordinary internal weblog at Razorfish.
P2P Education & Learning
Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials by Yochai Benkler (Book) in Education & Language
eBook on open textbooks.
Henry Jenkins on learning in a participatory age
Report for the MacArthur Foundation.
P2P Epistemology
First Monday: An empirical examination of Wikipedia’s credibility
Not read, but important.
Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy
Philosophical relativism appears to be the underlying philosophy behind folksonomies.
eFoundations: The "social" in social tagging
A community of "trained cataloguers" might engage in social tagging and "ordinary people" might "tag" in ways which are not "social". Tagging must not be uninformed, and it is not necessarily social. Informed social tagging is a possibility.
Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy
Philosophical relativism appears to be the underlying philosophy behind folksonomies.
data visualization & visual design – information aesthetics
Amazing blog on visualization.
Dandelife.com : A Social Biography Network.
One time-line for all your life’s evetns and connections. Fascinating.
Visualizing Social Bookmarking Data
All three of the major social bookmarking sites have their own unique ways of getting the news to the users. Each site is primarily differentiated from the other in how it uses its visualization model to display the information to users
P2P Governance
Plone: A Model of a mature open source project
Dissertation into the governance models of a successful FLOSS community.
Unit Structures: Case Study: Facebook Feeds and Networked Political Action
small report on the Facebook feeds fiasco; the report shows how A-list bloggers supported the change, but a rank and file protest from student users killed it.
P2P Politics
Activists beyond Virtual Borders: Internet–Mediated Networks and Informational Politics in China
Internet–mediated networks in
P2P Science
Neogeography – P2P Foundation
a diverse set of practices that operate outside, or alongside, or in the manner of, the practices of professional geographers.
Radical Statistics Group
We believe that statistics can be used to support radical campaigns for progressive social change. Statistics should inform, not drive policies. Social problems should not be disguised by technical language.
P2P Technology
Social Software – P2P Foundation
We updated this overview page
Collaborative Thinking: Attributes Of Social Software
Analysis of five attributes that seem to reoccur