June, 2008

Contribution by Stefan Merten in the Oekonux mailing list:

The following is something I promised Michel to do. It has been triggered by the use of the term “peer money” which I think is a contradiction in terms. This is an attempt to give reasons why I think that money and peer production are generally in contradiction.

Having said that I should also say that they can walk together for some time but according to germ form theory that is no contradiction to the contradiction thesis. But one should keep in mind that to use money for peer production projects is always a twisted approach because of that contradiction.

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• The Beltway-Blog Battle - TIME
  It's too simple to say that the new media are killing off the old media. Interest in political news is sky-high, and new and old media each need the other to supply material and drive attention. What's happening instead is a kind of melding of roles.
• Emotions were let loose! — Jen Reeves - New Media Mind
  

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Today I read this amazing article:

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/06/the_google_way.php

It’s worth mentioning that their is no science without theory. The human mind is wired for creating theories. That is why there is a neural network built into our brain/mind system. It is wired to consider the un-manifested.

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Tout ce qui touche aux séfirot à tendance à porter à confusion, mais il est toujours possible de s’y retrouver si l’on se rappelle qu’il est simplement question de désirs. Keter est le désir du Créateur de donner la Lumière (plaisir)  et Hochma est notre réception de ce plaisir, Bina est notre désir de donner en retour au Créateur, Z’’A est notre désir de recevoir dans le but de donner au Créateur et Malchout est notre désir de recevoir, la racine des créatures – nous.

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(the following may be a useful summary restatement of an issue that we have discussed here quite a few times)

A key issue is how a mode of production that is successful in the creation of ‘immaterial value’ is co-dependent and can co-exist with the sphere of material value creation.

The problem can be described as follows:

Immaterial production deals with non-rival or even anti-rival goods that can be produced through the self-assemblage of interconnected brains, the result of which can then be made ‘universally available’. This works without any problem for software and what is generally called ‘content’.

continue reading "On the relation between open design communities and their physical production partners"

Key theme of this contribution: Why Abundance is a necessary policy goal for internet governance.

Via the Berkman Centers Publius Project on ‘constitutional moments of the internet‘

So far, we have been very lucky at the P2P Foundation, in the sense that we always have had civil dialogue, and we have done this with a minimal amount of explicit rules, but rather relying on the general civility of our participants.

continue reading "The Tacit Governance of the Internet as a sign of strength"

• Video: Jeff Jarvis and the Future of Journalism part 1 | Media | guardian.co.uk
  What models of participation will work in the future of journalism?
• The Civil Engineering Portal - Open Source
  Several open source engineering applications

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Open-source animation

A selected list of quite brilliant free and open-source tools for beginners as well as experienced animators - be it for 2D, 3D or code based animation - can be found in our P2P Audiovisual Guide in the June 08 update (on the main page, just scroll down…). This update further includes some interesting (online) video related links…

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I know from correspondence with many readers of this blog that most of you are following some spiritual, not necessarily religious path. Here are a few little pointers that may help. They apply to everybody who knows that what seems to be happening isn’t really what’s going on.

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Remember Ian Skerret ‘s (Eclipse Foundation) quote a few days ago ?

It is a myth that committers are volunteers. The committers for the established open source projects are nearly all paid by companies to commit code to open source projects.

This reminds us of an uncomfortable truth: peer production, in order to work, needs a core group of committed ‘leaders’, with a nearly full-time attention to the project. But such a full time engagement is impossible to sustain through pure volunteering, unless you are, somehow a ‘rentier’, i.e. you have a full-time job which gives you freedom, you are a student on a research stipend, living on unemployment benefits, living off a heritage, etc…

continue reading "Networked scenius, private patronage, and the partner state"

• Socialbomb dot com
  Socialbomb is a social games development company
• Washington Times - OP-ED: Facebook in the Middle East
  "The growing list of Facebook dissidents and cyber-dissidents should not remain in Middle Eastern prisons unnoticed."

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I began this series of posts about the old and new creations while coiled in a self-defensive posture. As a non-Christian, how do I respond to Andrew’s justification of the Yahwistic genocide recorded in Deuteronomy 7, a mass slaughter of Gentiles by Jews that harkens back to the Flood and foreshadows the Last Judgment? For Andrew this mass eradication of entire nations exemplified God’s ongoing project of separating the elect microcosm of the “new creation” from the corrupt macrocosmic “old creation.” While it’s possible to infer new/old creation distinctions in certain historical events and turns of phrase that appear in the Old Testament, only Paul actually uses the words and concepts explicitly. Does Paul draw the distinction between old and new creations the same way Andrew does?

continue reading "The New Creation in Paul: Summary and Implications for the Church"

• First Socialcamp in Germany | crisscrossed
  I finally write about my visit to the first Socialcamp in Germany. There were activists, campaigners, NGOs and many others who shared their work, experiences and visions with an open spirit.
• betterplace
  People in need of support, meet others who want to help.

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Perhaps the greatest barrier to sociable and fertile discussion between religious and non-religious folk is the question of God.¹ God is THE defining barrier between Theists and Atheists—for example. And almost as potent: defining God or gods separates adherents of one religion from another. That is: Theology is perhaps the most divisive undertaking in human history—next to war, anyway. Kinda seems backward, doesn't it?

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EU internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy has announced his intention to extend the European copyright term for sound recordings from 50 to 95 years.

This is of course a dangerous and absurd policy and we should therefore support the campaign for a Sound Copyright in the EU.

Go the following site for the petitionL http://www.soundcopyright.eu/. Here is the text advocating this position.

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For those of us who don’t venture into the laboratories of science, it’s difficult to appreciate how fragmented, proprietary and inefficient drug and disease research truly is. At a time when the Internet is making it easier than ever to share and collaborate, some of the most well-funded, high-tech scientific projects today still operate in their own isolated silos. They are effectively cut off from vast quantities of potentially useful research, scientific literature, emerging ideas and potential collaborators.

continue reading "Tapping into the Power to Share"

Vemana a saint poet is believed to have lived in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India during 17-18 centuries. He enjoyed worldly pleasures and company of women in his youth without a check and is believed to have renounced the world at a later stage much disillusioned with the way of world. His poems are popular with common men and   he spelt out his poems in simple Telugu poetey that could be very easily understood. His poems reflect the social and political conditions of that age and ills in the society.  The European officer C Brown of British Government who was an officer in the related district where Vemana roamed and lived has done a great amount of research work. Some of his Telugu poems are presented as translated English poems that send an universal message to the people of the world.

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Rav Laitman : Il y a la honte au dessus l’égo et la honte dans l’égo.
« J’ai honte, j’ai volé et tout était parfait mais j’ai été attrapé. Oh ! Que les gens vont-ils dirent de moi ? Ma réputation est finie… donc, j’ai honte. Ai-je honte parce que j’ai volé ? Non, j’ai honte parce que j’ai été attrapé. » Il s’agit de la honte sous le Machsom.
La honte au dessus du machsom est de « Est-ce que je donne ? J’aime vraiment ? » et la honte est de découvrir que je ne supporte pas cela, en aucune façon, c’est une honte d’un manque de don.

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• Marketing 2.0, l'intelligence collective
  new book by Denis Failly
• Brand Tags
  The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people's heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is what it is. 1.1 million + tags and counting.

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Et maintenant nous pouvons voir la vérité des mots du Prophète: «Le loup habitera avec l’agneau et le tigre se couchera près du chevreau (Isaïe 11:6)» et il conclut que «la terre sera remplie de la connaissance du Seigneur, comme les eaux couvrent la mer (Isaïe 11:9)». Ainsi nous voyons que le Prophète conditionne la paix dans le monde entier à la connaissance de Dieu, juste comme nous avons dit que l’opposition dure et égoïste entre peuples, ainsi que la détérioration des relations internationales ne cesseront pas dans le monde sous quelques conditions que ce soit, malgré les conseils et les stratagèmes humains. Il adviendra que pourra.

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It’s been said that Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians serves as a template for the letter to the Ephesians. Whether or not that’s the case, the passage on the "new man" in Colossians 3 closely parallels that in Ephesians 4, with some notable augmentations.

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This is a blog post in reply to http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/marcin-jakubowski-on-a-policy-to-expand-material-peer-production-through-land/2008/06/25, and the quote therein from James Edwards:

“I feel that if the movement doesn’t free itself from its dependence on corporate support it can’t legitimately claim to be a viable and credible alternative to the current system.”

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In one of the email discussions taking place around the edge of the P2P Foundation, there was a vigorous exchange after a remark by James Edwards:

“I feel that if the movement doesn’t free itself from its dependance on corporate support it can’t legitimately claim to be a viable and credible alternative to the current system.”

This was the occasion for Marcin to give the following strategic and tactical considerations for a transition to ‘material peer production’.

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Links: slideshare presentation - tax choice(larger version) - tax report (larger version)

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Vemana a saint poet is believed to have lived in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India during 17-18 centuries. He enjoyed worldly pleasures and company of women in his youth without a check and is believed to have renounced the world at a later stage much disillusioned with the way of world. His poems are popular with common men and   he spelt out his poems in simple Telugu poetey that could be very easily understood. His poems reflect the social and political conditions of that age and ills in the society.  The European officer C Brown of British Government who was an officer in the related district where Vemana roamed and lived has done a great amount of research work. Some of his Telugu poems are presented as translated English poems that send an universal message to the people of the world.................

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