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Featured Blog Posts – January 2010 Archive (6)

Special issue on renewable and distributed energy infrastructures

From: Rasa Smite

we have extended deadline for ENERGY publication - now it is March 31, 2010,

CALL FOR PAPERS:

ENERGY. Scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of future terrestrial energy.

Acoustic Space (Issue nr. 8)

"Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be transformed."

(The law of conservation of energy)

RIXC Centre for New Media Culture is seeking manuscripts for the upcoming Acoustic… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 29, 2010 at 9:23 — No Comments

Virtual Communication, Collaboration and Conflict Research Group, conference in Hull

More info at http://virt3c.wordpress.com/about/

The Virtual Communication, Collaboration and Conflict Research Group (VIRT3C) is about passionate collaborative production and exploring the strengths and weakness of peer technology and open projects. VIRT3C will bring leading cybertheorists, internet, peer production and social networking experts together for knowledge-sharing, and collaboration in interdisciplinary academic… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 27, 2010 at 7:00 — No Comments

Call for Papers on The Ethics of Sharing

Via Felix Stalder, http://felix.openflows.com

Call for Papers, Deadline extented

International Review of Information Ethics

http://www.i-r-i-e.net/

The Ethics of Sharing

Call for Papers for Vol. 15 - July 2011

• Deadline for extended abstracts: January 31, 2011

• Notification of acceptance to authors:…

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Added by Michel Bauwens on January 22, 2010 at 1:00 — No Comments

Volunteers Needed To Help Map the Distributed Manufacturing Ecosystem

An appeal by Suresh Fernando, that is worthy of our support,

contact him via suresh@radical-inclusion.com

In case you are not aware, OpenKollab, the Forward Foundation and the P2P Foundation are collaborating on mapping out the Distributed Manufacturing space in some detail.

The benefit to you is that you will:

* Learn about the Distributed Manufacturing space

* Learn about P2P networks

* Learn about the OpenKollab Ecosystem Pooled… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 6, 2010 at 5:02 — 3 Comments

Restoring animals as peers through totemic kinship: The Quest For A New Kinship With Nature by James William Gibson

Book: A Reenchanted World: The Quest For A New Kinship With Nature by James William Gibson.

Introduction

James William Gibson:

"1, The culture of enchantment creates symbolic, totemic kinship ties with wild animals. It does not erases human-animal differences, but clearly links them in human-animal kinship ties.

2. Consecrating land--restoring enchantment or sacredness to lands and waters--is a collective act. Consecration changes the… Continue

Added by Michel Bauwens on January 6, 2010 at 2:36 — 1 Comment

P2P Etiquette

I am hopefully not breaking P2P etiquette here, but my Kickstarter project funding seems to be stalled.

If I am to make further progress this year, I need to make this work.

So, I am requesting that you consider 5 or 10 dollars for the project, its is less about the amount, than about attracting a show of interest and support. This is a reasonably small sum, and you'll all have access to the full plans when they are published in march 2010. Equally important is for interested… Continue

Added by James Jones on January 3, 2010 at 2:00 — 1 Comment