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Massimo de Angelis has written an interesting essay on how to correlate the growth and re-emergence of the commons, with the rythms of the rise and fall of social and political movements, with a view on the transformation of the present society.
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CES 2013 was shaping up to the the year of 3D printing with 8 major exhibitors showing of 3D printers, 3D printing marketplaces, and more. We visited the booths, heard the announcements, and talked to the teams.
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Post has been updated to reflect the per page price increase for Pacer that took affect April 2012 Aaron Swartz was only 13 when he started using his talent for software programing to make the world a better place than he found it.
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"Here Swartz describes the nature of the shift from centralized one-to-many systems, such as broadcast television, to the decentralized many-to-many topography of network communication. The end of scarcity in transmission capacity poses the question of how to finance information production and how people can find their way through the abundance; search engines and collaborative filtering mechanisms have become both essential tools and points of control. These systems paradoxically exercise a renewed centralizing influence due to the social entrenchment of the 'hit' phenomenon. Can technical design help to counteract this tendency?"
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Christian Science Monitor 9 ways to kick off a year of sharing in 2013 Christian Science Monitor It is very important to do this not only with the classic ways of proprietary platforms but also through new forms of ethical market entities that are...
New companies are partnering with universities to offer online courses, in an effort that could define the future of higher education — if anyone can figure out how to make money.
Why commercial p2p sharing companies like AirBnB and Uber need to be regulated - http://t.co/7ww9sZo9
On ZNet, Michael Albert of Parecon and Christian Siefkes of Peercommony discuss their respective approaches to social change.
Denis Postle has written an important book, Therapy Futures, which we will present soon. Here is already an introduction in the form of a call to defend the “psychological commons”, which are just as real and necessary as the other commons.
Eurozine - Contested copyright - Sabine Nuss The battle over intellectual property http://t.co/eQCFS8Pw via @Diigo
The following is excerpted from Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, by Julian Assange with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jérémie Zimmermann. OR Books, New York, 2012, Pag...
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“That said, there is another emerging discipline with which I’m fascinated. It’s called “growth hacking,” or, as Danielle Morrill prefers, “distribution hacking.” Andrew Chen brought attention to the new title with his blog post, “Growth Hacker is the new VP Marketing.”
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Successful movement builders create avalanches of attention. But they can also be buried by them.
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“Corporation 2020 is a global, systemic and future-oriented review of the past of “Corporation 1920″, how it has morphed into the global corporation of today and where it can evolve into a powerful agent for shaping the global transition to a green economy now underway.
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"Commons movements’ first goal is addressing directly different needs of reproduction by mobilising the natural and creative resources at their disposal.
Aljazeera.com The crisis of global journalism and the Freedom of the Press Foundation Aljazeera.com WikiLeaks and other equally committed journalistic organisations are the core of a new model: a strongly autonomous global commons of truth that...
The Food Commons, building a national network of localized food systems. (We LOVE this idea about the #food #commons, which speaks to what we hope to help build.
10 Desktop Bittorrent Clients Tom's Guide Note: We'd like to remind our readers that using P2P and file-sharing technologies like the BitTorrent protocol to distribute copyrighted material without authorization is illegal in the United States and...
Eric Hunting, On Parametric Design and the Emergence of a Design Science: “On the blog complexitys.com, devoted to the subject of parametric architecture, an article recently appeared on the related subject of associative design featuring an...
Intimate conversation with co-working social entepreneurship in Rio. Never have I met so many people willing to change their lives and leave the traditional system as in Brazil.
From Steubenville to India, videos and tweets are being turned against perpetrators of sexual violence (Rape in the Age of Social Media | Alternet http://t.co/yuHWdOtO via @Diigo)...
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