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Superflex - Self Organisation / Counter Economic Strategies

Danish artists group Superflex have released a .pdf of their most recent book on-line, free to download and share. Ive not had a thorough read of the book but it covers lots of interesting projects, some Superflex are directly involved in such as ‘Free Beer’, ‘Copy Shop’ but the book also covers things like the recovered factories… Continue

Posted by Kevin Flanagan on 2 July 2008 at 2:31am — No Comments

Can Consumers Collectively Own 'Producers'?

In today's world we have for the most part - a strict separation of production and consumption, which together constitute "the market". The incentive for a market economy is a division of labor. Some are good at organizing, others are good at doing various "jobs". The enterprising spirits who are good at organizing become producers or purveyors of commerce, meaning, distributors of things produced. The less enterprising who yet need some resources to survive contribute by selling their manual or… Continue

Posted by Sepp Hasslberger on 13 May 2008 at 2:01pm — 20 Comments

The best software news I have seen in a while - Freenet Messaging System

http://locut.us/blog/2008/05/11/fms-spam-proof-anonymous-message-boards-on-freenet/ Continue

Posted by Carl Ballard Swanson on 12 May 2008 at 4:41am — No Comments

Hub Breakfast | Charles Leadbeater on mass innovation & creativity for social innovation

Hi, for all of you who are in London we are hosting a Hub Breakfast with Charles Leadbeater on the 19th May at The Hub London (www.the-hub.net/where/london). You are all invited. Details below. x Maria Hub Breakfast | Charles Leadbeater on mass innovation & creativity for social innovation Monday 19th May @ 8.30 am, The Hub London Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation strate… Continue

Posted by Maria on 11 May 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Pursuing the Common Good, some personal reflections on attending the Vatican conference

I'll be reporting from the regular blog, but I tend to avoid personal recollections in the movement blog, and I think the community setting here is more appropriate for some of the more personal reactions. I'd like to take a jab at why I'm excited at attending this conference, which aims to update the social doctrine of the Catholic Church, 'in light of current social developments." Report of the conference at the Vatican: Pursuing the Common Good: How Solidarity and Subsidiarity Can Work Toget… Continue

Posted by Michel Bauwens on 1 May 2008 at 1:48pm — No Comments

Quality of Experience

In the west (and particularly in Europe) we tend to settle for the less-than-inspiring experience: the experience with the product that we cannot configure and use; the experience with the train service that sells us the long distance ticket on the sardine-packed train with no seat; and the experience with the institution that takes no extra step to realize the goal in such a way as would benefit everyone: the applicant, the civil servant who's getting paid to perform the job, and the group of… Continue

Posted by John Hammink on 28 April 2008 at 4:30pm — 21 Comments

Graffiti Research Lab The Movie

I just finished watching the Graffiti Research Lab Movie wh… Continue

Posted by Kevin Flanagan on 27 April 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Appeal for blog posts at http://blog.p2pfoundation.net

Dear friends, A lot of people seem to be joining our Ning network here, and I'm sure each of you has interesting projects and ideas that others may be interested in. Why not describe them at our blog? I'm particularly keen on new content to keep our publishing schedule on track, as I will be travelling until May 20 at least!! Michel Continue

Posted by Michel Bauwens on 21 April 2008 at 12:04pm — No Comments

L I N K S I'm involved in:

Public Daily Brief (recommend right clicking new window)

Earth Intelligence Network

Architecture for Humanity G**gle Group Online

Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (free online version)

Re-Configure.org…

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Posted by Jason Liszkiewicz on 20 April 2008 at 8:30pm — No Comments

CCi International Conference - Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons

Some of you might be interested in the following conference, which takes place here in Brisbane in June. It might not be immediately obvious from the themes, but much of the conference will be about user-led content creation / p2p production / produsage (as well as questions around the increasing commercial embrace of commons models). More information, including a tentative list of keynote speakers, is on the CCi… Continue

Posted by Axel Bruns on 9 April 2008 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

Vibewire e-Festival of Ideas

For those of you who are interested: the Vibewire e-Festival of Ideas runs all through next week. A great line-up of participants, and they're posting up some interviews in the lead-up as well. Worth checking out... Continue

Posted by Axel Bruns on 4 April 2008 at 2:03am — No Comments

To begin ...

... where? March 2008? After 13 years on the web? After 36 years of online activity in one form or another? (I could say 41 years, if I counted ham radio!) How about this:
let's go with "something old and something new ..."
I'll let the "something blue" be the tree / blue sky / horizon JPG I just installed as the background on my profile page here. :-)

Something old:
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Posted by Bernard D. Tremblay (ben) on 1 April 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments

'Yahu' for Collaboration

Taken from I. Velikovsky’s ‘Worlds In Collision‘: ‘Here is a story, told by …..the Snohomish tribe on Puget Sound, about the origin of the exclamation “Yahu”. “A long time ago, when all the animals were still human beings, the sky was very low. It was so low that the people could not stand erect… They called a meeting together and discussed how they could raise the sky. But they were at a loss to know how to do so. Not one was strong enough to lift the sky. Finally the idea occurred to them tha… Continue

Posted by Stephen Joyce on 19 March 2008 at 5:52pm — No Comments

7 Easy Ways to Build Workplace Collaboration

Ever wondered what your workplace would be like if everyone collaborated more effectively? Stephen James Joyce, the best selling author of ‘Teaching an Anthill to Fetch’ and a recognized authority on collaboration, shares crucial insights on one of the most pressing questions in business to-day: How can we develop a greater sense of collaboration in the workplace? This free downloadable e-Book , ‘7 Easy Ways to Build Collaboration in the Workplace’ is packed with practical solutions to an import… Continue

Posted by Stephen Joyce on 19 March 2008 at 5:49pm — No Comments

Numero Uno

"I honestly believe that these P2P ideas are moving (have moved) fairly quickly in the right direction." There are two striking things about this network, the apparent lack of diversity in the members and the advanced and generally less than fully explored/implemented P2P ideas. This is not an indictment or source of shame anymore than having unmet goals for yourself is a source of shame. I would not be aware and hopeful about many collaborations and projects if I had not followed to this P2P n… Continue

Posted by Carl Ballard Swanson on 14 March 2008 at 1:08pm — 2 Comments

tribler gets EU funding

http://iptv.tmcnet.com/topics/iptv-technology/articles/21510-introducing-p2p-next-european-union-internet-data-tv.htm "P2P-Next is based on a technology called Tribler, developed at the Delft University of Technology ... four years of funding will be used to develop a number of enhancements to Tribler, covering live P2P streaming, an improved user interface, inbuil… Continue

Posted by Karen Eliot on 27 February 2008 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment