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2006-12-24

  • 16:10 UTC CommunityWiki LackOfReworking
    LackOfReworking notes:



    • Reworking is rewriting the text for future readers. summarizing, drawing lessons, clarifying.

    • Page states "rewards for the person reworkign are minimal". Although, I would make a small argument that rewards are the same as the rewards for the person that jots down notes and summarizes key points from conversati ...

2006-11-25

  • 20:16 UTC Open the Future: Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot

    The Second Life internal economy was predicated on the notion that designers could produce in-game objects that they could then sell; these objects would ostensibly be scarce (in the economic sense) because the designer could put limits on how many copies s/he would sell, and because -- in principle -- other residents couldn't make copies except by tedious efforts to reproduce a design by h ...

2006-11-11

2006-09-22

  • 02:10 UTC Allband Communication Cooperative

    Services:

    A loan from the united States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development division will help Allband build a state-of-the-art telecommunications network in Allband’s certificated service area. Allband plans to spend a little over 8 million dollars in two phases on the first all fiber to the ho ...

2006-09-20

  • 15:23 UTC Getting open thinking through Gated Communities

    Getting open thinking through Gated Communities

    We’ve had an influx of members due to a Springwise article picking up on our Angelic crowdsourcing (You can 20:37 UTC CommunityWiki: WikiMusic

    The idea here is collaborative asynchronous recording of music, wherin you record your parts to a music editing software file, then upload it for others to add to. Each version of the file can be left online, so that people can revert back to older versions. I this is like wiki for music. It’s not hard to do. Perhaps someone is already doing it?

    An open source multi-track music digi ...

2006-09-05

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2006-08-15

  • 19:54 UTC Putting people first Planning Portal enabling transformational government
    Planning Portal is not only a successful example of technology enablement in service delivery but could prove to be a tremendous asset for local authorities in their quest to develop and deliver citizen centric services, says eGov monitor.

    Just under two years ago, the [UK] Government unveiled its ambition to develop a world class e-Planning Service which wou ...

2006-08-09

  • 21:24 UTC Symbiosis and Living Machines
    Human-Plant/Animal Species Symbiosis

    The nature of human cooperation with other species is now largely a based upon a symbiotic structure that has changed very little since the dawn of agriculture in early human civilization.

    This symbiotic relationship has consisted mostly of humans selectively breeding, raising and caring for different plant and animal ...

2006-08-01

2006-07-26

  • 19:06 UTC Zopa - The first lending and borrowing exchange
    Here's the way the world works (and it must be right because it's been like this for hundreds of years...)

    People who have spare money give it to a bank. Banks then do whatever they like with it. Some of it they lend to people who need to borrow. Some of it they give to their shareholders. Some of it they gamble on the price of tin, or the dollar going down, or wheth ...

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2012-02-08

  • 00:27 UTC Video of the Day: Mindful Maps Presents Collaborative ConsumptionA short animated film to introduce Rachel Botsman’s important insights on collaborative consumption: Throughline with Mindful Maps presents Collaborative Consumption: An RSA/Nominet Film Competition Short Film from Kate Hammer on Vimeo.
  • 00:12 UTC Essay of the Day: Anonymous as an Antinomian MovementExcerpted from Dan McQuillan: “Anonymous has been a direct link between the Arab Spring and the global Occupy movement, with a visible presence in camps and protests as well as online. But they are only part of a plurality of currents that echo the English Dissenters of the Interregnum. It was the Diggers who most [...]
  • 00:00 UTC Links for 2012-02-07 [del.icio.us]
    • P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Discussing OWS (2): #OccupyWallStreet and the Decline of the Professional Managerial Class
      "There was, as well, another inescapable problem embedded in the right-wing populist strategy: even by 2000, and certainly by 2010, the class of people who might qualify as part of the “liberal elite” was in increasingly bad repair. Public-sector budget cuts and corporate-inspired reorganizations were decimating the ranks of decently paid academics, who were being replaced by adjunct professors working on bare subsistence incomes. Media firms were shrinking their newsrooms and editorial budgets. Law firms had startedoutsourcing their more routine tasks to India. Hospitals beamed X-rays to cheap foreign radiologists. Funding had dried up for nonprofit ventures in the arts and public service. Hence the iconic figure of the Occupy movement: the college graduate with tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debts and a job paying about $10 a hour, or no job at all."
    • 2011 - The Democratization of the Social Entrepreneurship Movement? | Turning Ideas into Action
      "We begin 2012 with an overview of key developments in social entrepreneurship in 2011."
    • Insight into the Impact Investment Market
      "The report finds that the majority of the 52 surveyed impact investors have tempered optimism about the impact investing industry: they believe it is "in its infancy and growing." The investors plan to invest almost USD 4 billion over the next year, and most expect that 5-10 percent of overall portfolios will be allocated to impact investments in ten years. "
    • LP Shutdown
      "Thank you for visiting LexPop. Unfortunately, LexPop will be shut down until Jan. 2013."
    • Dynamic Democracy | A better way to govern together.
    • Greek Hospital workers decide to occupy the hospital and run it themselves | Take The Square
      "The workers of the Γ.Ν. (General Hospital) of Kilkis: doctors, nursing and the rest of the staff that participated in the General Assembly concluded that: We recognize that the current and enduring problems of Ε.Σ.Υ (the national health system) and related organizations cannot be solved with specific and isolated demands or demands serving our special interests, since these problems are a product of a more general anti-popular governmental policy and of the bold global neoliberalism."
    • Occupy the Truth: Whistleblowers Conference, February 17-19 at UC Berkeley | Fresh Juice Party
      "Occupy the Truth: Whistleblowers Conference! The three day event will begin at 6pm on Friday, February 17th with a Bradley Manning Panel featuring Daniel Ellsberg, Ann Wright and Ray McGovern, followed by a performance by Reverend Billy!"
    • On Crop Mobs, and Starting One of Our Own | TimeBank Media
      "The real kicker in our case here in Media is the marriage of Crop Mobbing with the Timebank. It is such an intuitive connection to make between the two movements, and it plays so well to strengths of each, that I was surprised to find that there have not really been any previous efforts like the one we are planning. The idea is that participants in our Crop Mob who are also members of the Timebank can earn Time Dollars by taking part. Crop Mobbing will be a unique way to put the neighbor-to-neighbor principles of the Timebank into practice
    • Evolutionary Leadership: The Embodiment of Systems Being - Rethinking Complexity
      "Evolutionary leadership is shared leadership that embraces the complexity and interconnectedness of the world’s problems—the "problematique"—and acknowledges the need to collaborate and create a synergic system of innovative solutions—the "solutionatique." Evolutionary leadership is a means for each one of us to understand that we have a role to play in the creation of a better world no matter what our field, interests, or expertise—whether we are improving educational systems, saving the rainforest, transforming organizational cultures, engaging youth in creative expression, producing renewable energy or serving victims of abuse."
    • Socialforge – Scarsità ed abbondanza II (dibattito)
      "Dibattito sul testo “Abbondanza di cibo contro abbondanza di ricette”, con commenti di Michel Bauwens, Franz Nahrada e Wofgang Hoeschele al documento di Brian Davey del 17 novembre 2010"

2012-02-07

  • 15:21 UTC Discussing OWS: The Black Block is the cancer of the #OccupyWallStreet movement, argues Chris HedgesExcerpted from Chris Hedges, who minces no words in this harsh critique of the Black Block: “Black Bloc anarchists are an example of what Theodore Roszak in “The Making of a Counter Culture” called the “progressive adolescentization” of the American left. In Zerzan’s now defunct magazine Green Anarchy (which survives as a website) he published [...]
  • 00:08 UTC Essay of the Day: Matthew Champion on Internet and DemocracyExcerpted from Matthew Champion: “There are two main schools of thought on this: that the internet’s inherently democratic potential is yet to be realised (cosmopolis theory or the cosmopolitan interpretation), or that its innate undemocratic nature is taking effect (the citadel theory or the citadellian interpretation). A third, less frequently argued position on the internet [...]
  • 00:00 UTC Links for 2012-02-06 [del.icio.us]
    • Review: New Financial Horizons by Lorna Gold [Vol. 4, #15.5]
      "he book describes not “an economy of communion” as some type of general movement, but the description of one particular organization called the Economy of Communion (EOC), rooted in the Roman Catholic Church. Her case study is of the two largest manifestations of the EOC, in Italy and Brazil, not the United States and Brazil as the back cover states."
    • The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry [ Feature Review ]
      "many readers of the ERB have heard of Wendell Berry, some may even have read his essays, fiction, or perhaps his poetry, however, he still remains less visible than the Kardashians for some strange reason. I’ve introduced works of this Kentucky farmer-writer to a number of people and have received mixed results. Some were immediately taken with his agrarian convictions, his fictional community of Port William, Kentucky, and his intimate, quotidian poetry. Others, not so much, finding him preachy or too agrarian. If you have not read anything by Mr. Berry, then The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry is not a good place to start. "
    • The Roots of the Focolare Movement's Economic Ethic by Lorna Gold :: SSRN
      "The Focolare Movement is an emerging global ecclesial community. Since 1991 it has been engaged in promoting a radical alternative to the dominant neoliberal capitalist vision - the "Economy of Communion" - involving a global network of small- and medium-size businesses committed to Christian principles. The roots of this proposal, however, stretch back to the very beginnings of the movement during the 1940s in Italy. This article explores the early historical and philosophical roots underpinning the specific vision of economic life that emerges from the spirituality of the Focolare and some of the consequent economic practices that have emerged. The article asks whether such normative visions present in the new ecclesial movements could represent a "new Weberian thesis" capable of redirecting the capitalist economy in more sustainable directions."
    • (5) NYC Shared, Squared
      "Collaborative consumption companies collaboratively consuming coffee. Unifying the "sharing" movement, starting in our own backyard- NYC. "
    • sharedsquared.org
      nyc sharing economy group
    • The Meaning of Sufficiency Economy International Conference | MEAs Think Tank
      "Plaza Athenee Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand Organized by the National Assembly, King Prajadhipok's Institute, Thammasat University, Office of The National Economic and Social Development Board, Thailand Development Research Institute, Research and Development Institute of Sufficiency Economy Philosophy Foundation, and the Pridi Bhanomyong Institute"
    • radio cb-band based meshworks?
      "In opposition with the hierarchical and centralized form of networks, and in contrast with the way they occupate the territory and structurate the city, we propose an horizontal and moving network (as can be other « ghost networks » known as citizen band, fluid nexus, etc…)"
    • About « pied la biche
      "Pied la biche is a collective that brings people together to experiment the public space make things about urbanism through interventions, science-fictions, films, lectures
    • Black Block as The Cancer in Occupy | Chris Hedges in Common Dreams
      "The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are the cancer of the Occupy movement. The presence of Black Bloc anarchists—so named because they dress in black, obscure their faces, move as a unified mass, seek physical confrontations with police and destroy property—is a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state. "
    • Millennial Nomads: Did We Peak in College? @PolicyMic | Audrey Farber
      "Even though I ooze resilience, when I dwell on the sum total of my post-college failures, I have to convince myself I don’t want or need a "real" job. Did I really peak at 18? Much to the shock and chagrin of our parents’ generation, rather than building an investment portfolio or 401k while sitting behind a desk for 40 or more hours a week, we are working in bakeries, coffee shops, and restaurants until the rest of our lives fall into place, convinced they never will. I’m not complaining, it was choice as much as necessity to veer from the “path” when my initial forays didn’t work out. The problem is long-term sustainability: At 24 with no debt, loans, or credit cards, I manage fairly comfortably on $9/hour, but someday I’ll need more. The poverty line is decidedly not the new nouveau riche."

2012-02-06

  • 22:12 UTC European Forum in Rome: Income, Common Goods and DemocracyEuropean Forum in Rome: Income, Common Goods and Democracy // Rome 10-12 February, Teatro Valle Throughout Europe, we are witnessing massive transfers of resources from the public to the private sphere. The political responses to the crises are defined by austerity measures and by cuts to social spending, driving Europe further into recession. From Greece [...]
  • 14:00 UTC Book of the Day: No Straight LinesBook: No Straight Lines. Alan Moore. Bloodstone, 2011 In No Straight Lines, Alan Moore argues that we have reached the nadir of the adaptive range of our industrialised world. Now faced with an unsustainable trilemma of social, organisational and economic complexity, we have entered an era in which the rules we have previously organised our [...]
  • 00:00 UTC Links for 2012-02-05 [del.icio.us]

2012-02-05

  • 19:00 UTC The Future of Learning in a Connected WorldSOURCE: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub How must learning and education adapt to digital society? That’s the question hundreds of technologists, futurists, researchers, and educators will take on in the “Beyond Educational Technology: Learning Innovations in a Connected World” conference, Mar. 1-3, in San Francisco. With provocative talks, inspiring case studies, and panel conversations [...]
  • 17:00 UTC The Pirate Bay: Year of the stormSource: The Pirate Bay blog “The Pirate Bay will reach an age of 9 years. Experiencing raids, espionage and death threats, we’re still here. We’ve been through hell and back and it has made us tougher than ever. The people running the site has changed during the years. No sane human being would put up [...]
  • 14:00 UTC Book of the Day: The Urban Food RevolutionBook: The Urban Food Revolution. Peter Ladner. New Society Publishers, 2011. Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by rising food prices. With only a handful of corporations responsible for the lion’s share of the food on our supermarket shelves, [...]
  • 00:00 UTC Links for 2012-02-04 [del.icio.us]
    • The 'Free Internet Act' - A Bold Plan To Save The Internet : ACTA
      "What I propose is not aimed at just defeating ACTA but at freeing the Net. Therefor I call upon the reddit community to create FIA or better known as the 'Free Internet Act' (just my suggestion for a name) and to demand to congress and the European Parliament to pass it by mobilizing the Public. I suggest to outlaw without exceptions any form of censorship, third party liability and surveillance on the net. I suggest retroactively invalidating all laws and Treaties that contradict with FIA. And I suggest writing Net Neutrality into FIA as well. Maybe we wont get all of it (this time) but even half of it would be a triumph."
    • P2P Foundation » Real Cities, Real Transformations - How Seattle Transformed itself
      "This post is a response to “How Seattle Transformed itself” by Edward L. Glaeser. "
    • About the Book 'Good Governance'
      "The core topic of his book is 'good governance'. Although 'governance' is a neutral enough noun is 'good' a highly biased adjective. Just think about food and you know what I mean. Good Governance is just the same. Don’t be fooled by political jargon. Those telling you what 'Good Governance' is, will tell you what they think is 'good'. For a generation now we have all been made believe that stock markets 'know' what is 'right'. This has in turn led us to think that quicker return is better, and that those who earn a higher and faster return are better than those who earn a lower and slower one. This is how corporate greed has taken control – not only over the corporate sector, but also over political life. That is why the 2008 financial crash is also political."
    • Le peer-to-peer, clé de voûte pour les économies futures ? | Silicon Maniacs
      "« Ce ne sera pas une conférence sur comment devenir riche avec des startup ?, » souriait Michel Bauwens au début du séminaire W2S à la Cantine de vendredi 16 décembre. Les deux heures et demi de présentation et de discussion qui ont suivi, ayant pour thème « From Collaborative Prosumer Capitalism to a Commons-based P2P Economy », ont pourtant mis en avant la possibilité d’un véritable modèle économique alternatif basé sur le peer-to-peer (P2P). Loin d’être une utopie pour un futur lointain, il s’infiltre toujours plus dans nos pratiques quotidiennes et pourrait constituer la clé de la durabilité à moyen et long terme de nos économies et de nos sociétés."
    • Michel Bauwens : “Le P2P préfigure la société de demain” | Silicon Maniacs
      "Le monde de demain fonctionnera-t-il en peer-to-peer ? Dénoncé par l’Hadopi et trop souvent réduit aux questions de téléchargement, le peer-to-peer (P2P) fait référence à une forme d’architecture d’un réseau informatique. Un modèle qui imprègne peu à peu nos mode de pensée et d’engagement, au point de dessiner les contours d’une alternative au modèle capitaliste. C’est en tout cas la thèse défendue par Michel Bauwens, théoricien reconnu des réseaux pair-à-pair et fondateur de le P2P Foundation."
    • Lecturing at La Cantine in Paris (photo)
    • Michel Bauwens - Wikipédia.fr
    • Global City 2.0 > Home
      "Is your 'city civic organization/initiative' already in our world-map? "
    • (5) GLOBAL CITY 2.0
      "The civic movement ‘Cidades pela Retoma’, based in Portugal (http://noeconomicrecoverywithoutcities.blogs.sapo.pt/...), is challenging its partners to create a network called 'GLOBAL CITY 2.0', an open invitation to groups and individuals (academics, researchers, journalists, artists, decision-makers or engaged citizens) "
    • Open-source city: In urban interventions, the metaphor matters — BMW Guggenheim Lab | log
      ""As digital devices and technological infrastructures increasingly mediate the way we live in cities, the language by which we describe urbanism shifts accordingly.""

2012-02-04

  • 19:00 UTC GPL enforcement sparks community flamesBrian Proffitt – ITWorld The debate over enforcement of the GPL took an interesting turn this week, after one developer’s call for more projects to begin enforcement proceedings against alleged GPL violators of the Linux kernel. Red Hat kernel developer Matthew Garrett, who has long railed against downstream Android vendors who are very likely violating [...]
  • 00:00 UTC Links for 2012-02-03 [del.icio.us]
    • Etherpad Foundation - Live Document Collaboration
      "The Etherpad Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the development of the Etherpad project."
    • Comparing business development paradigms | Forward Foundation Blog
      "In a posting to http://localfoodsystems.org on Feb 04, 2010, Steve Bosserman introduced the idea of "Production Centered Local Economies", and "People Centered Local Economies". This article synthesizes Steve's coining of those terms, and uses concepts developed by Sam Rose, Paul Hartzog and Richard C Adler of Forward Foundation to further explain the differences between these economies, from a business development perspective."
    • Open Source Urbanism | Open Source City | urbanohumano
      "Traditional medias don’t broadcast what the citizens are debating or organizing on a daily basis. Nevertheless, thanks to Social Networks, people can receive information and interact in real time with others, taking part in debates and social movements
    • Piracy is the new airwaves « Keithpp's Blog
      "I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That’s how music gets around. — Neil Young Neil Young is right when he refers to piracy as the new radio."
    • Neil Young is right — piracy is the new radio — Tech News and Analysis
      "Instead of railing against file-sharers, Young called piracy “the new radio” because it’s “how music gets around.” The musician’s comment puts a lot of the hysteria about copyright infringement into perspective — as we’ve pointed out before, file-sharing and monetization aren’t mutually exclusive, and in many cases a certain amount of so-called “piracy” can actually be good for business, as authors, musicians and even game developers have come to realize."
    • Neil Young on music and Steve Jobs: 'piracy is the new radio' | The Verge
      "Young also wants to see better music recording and high resolution recording, but we're not anywhere near that yet. He hopes that "some rich guy" will solve the problem of creating and distributing "100 percent" of the sound in music."
    • Adam Curtis Interview (May 20, 2011) - YouTube
      "Discussing Curtis' latest series of films, "All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace""
    • Together We Can: Pathways to Collective Leadership, from Steve Bosserman
      "Together We Can recounts effective strategies for institutional change and focuses on collective leadership within the land-grant university system, with reflections on Hiler's long and successful career in academic leadership, both at Texas A
    • Verdantix Blog - The Midlife Crisis Of Carbon Labels
      "Large procurers such as BT, McDonalds and Wal-Mart are increasingly requiring evidence of suppliers’ environmental credentials while multinationals such as Apple and Unilever are shifting from a narrow ‘enterprise sustainability’ view to focus on product level sustainability. Both of these developments lead back to thinking about the best use of voluntary environmental product labels."
    • Open-Market Sustainability | Solutions

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2006-12-24

  • 16:10 UTC CommunityWiki LackOfReworking
    LackOfReworking notes:



    • Reworking is rewriting the text for future readers. summarizing, drawing lessons, clarifying.

    • Page states "rewards for the person reworkign are minimal". Although, I would make a small argument that rewards are the same as the rewards for the person that jots down notes and summarizes key points from conversati ...

2006-11-25

  • 20:16 UTC Open the Future: Second Life, Economic Evolution and the CopyBot

    The Second Life internal economy was predicated on the notion that designers could produce in-game objects that they could then sell; these objects would ostensibly be scarce (in the economic sense) because the designer could put limits on how many copies s/he would sell, and because -- in principle -- other residents couldn't make copies except by tedious efforts to reproduce a design by h ...

2006-11-11

2006-09-22

  • 02:10 UTC Allband Communication Cooperative

    Services:

    A loan from the united States Department of Agriculture's Rural Development division will help Allband build a state-of-the-art telecommunications network in Allband’s certificated service area. Allband plans to spend a little over 8 million dollars in two phases on the first all fiber to the ho ...

2006-09-20

  • 15:23 UTC Getting open thinking through Gated Communities

    Getting open thinking through Gated Communities

    We’ve had an influx of members due to a Springwise article picking up on our Angelic crowdsourcing (You can 20:37 UTC CommunityWiki: WikiMusic

    The idea here is collaborative asynchronous recording of music, wherin you record your parts to a music editing software file, then upload it for others to add to. Each version of the file can be left online, so that people can revert back to older versions. I this is like wiki for music. It’s not hard to do. Perhaps someone is already doing it?

    An open source multi-track music digi ...

2006-09-05

2006-08-17

2006-08-15

  • 19:54 UTC Putting people first Planning Portal enabling transformational government
    Planning Portal is not only a successful example of technology enablement in service delivery but could prove to be a tremendous asset for local authorities in their quest to develop and deliver citizen centric services, says eGov monitor.

    Just under two years ago, the [UK] Government unveiled its ambition to develop a world class e-Planning Service which wou ...

2006-08-09

  • 21:24 UTC Symbiosis and Living Machines
    Human-Plant/Animal Species Symbiosis

    The nature of human cooperation with other species is now largely a based upon a symbiotic structure that has changed very little since the dawn of agriculture in early human civilization.

    This symbiotic relationship has consisted mostly of humans selectively breeding, raising and caring for different plant and animal ...

2006-08-01

2006-07-26

  • 19:06 UTC Zopa - The first lending and borrowing exchange
    Here's the way the world works (and it must be right because it's been like this for hundreds of years...)

    People who have spare money give it to a bank. Banks then do whatever they like with it. Some of it they lend to people who need to borrow. Some of it they give to their shareholders. Some of it they gamble on the price of tin, or the dollar going down, or wheth ...

2006-07-25