Michel Bauwens's Blog – March 2011 Archive (8)

Info via http://lapetition.be/en-ligne/petition-9491.html

PERSÉE IN DANGER, SIGN THE PETITION



PERSÉE – the leading program for digitizing and distributing french-speaking scientific content – is today threatened on account of a decision taken by the University of Lyon 2 - Lumière



Without prior consultation with Persée's staff, director and partners, the board of the Lyon 2 University has…

Via Sam Rose:

See http://rockethub.com/projects/1349-understanding-today-s-economic-transformation#

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Via Eli Farley:

 http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/OSE_custom_search_engine

It allows you to search the OSE wiki (http://openfarmtech.org/wiki/),…

Via Andrew Paterson:

More info at http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/videovortex/vv-reader

Dear All,



the Institute of Network Cultures is pleased to announce the publication of Video Vortex Reader II: moving images beyond YouTube. The printed copies have arrived safe and sound at the INC headquarters as we wait excitedly to launch the book at the Video Vortex #6 conference on Saturday,…

Via Daniel at https://ripplexchange.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=826:

Ripple has grown over recent months, from an interesting concept with dormant projects into an actively developing ecosystem.



The Ripple Project (http://ripple-project.org/) aims to build a new form of money which derives from existing social relationships rather than from…

Via Joe Rinehart:

Dear Friends of the Eastern Conference for Workpace Democracy,

As you may know, the ECWD will be held July 8-10, 2011 on the campus of University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  We're in the process of recruiting presenters and proposals for panels, caucuses, or other sessions, and we'd love to hear from you!…

via Sam Rose:

http://bugs.joindiaspora.com/issues/311



Here's what I wrote:



"We're experimenting with "plugin" architecture ideas for diaspora.



We have a simple idea that is based off of the

http://flows.panarchy.com draft RFC



Our idea is to basically keep the "plugins" completely outside of the…

By Ezio…