May 2011 - P2P-Foundation - lists.ourproject.org

Cory Doctorow on techno-optimism and techno-pessimism
by Michel Bauwens 04 May '11

04 May '11

Cory Doctorow on techno-optimism and techno-pessimism<http://groups.google.com/group/building-a-distributed-decentralized-interne…> Jon Lebkowsky <jon.lebkowsky(a)gmail.com> May 03 01:01PM -0500 ^<?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4#12fb80db2d453032_digest_top> http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2011/05/cory-doctorow-techno-optimism/ "To understand techno-optimism, it’s useful to look at the free software movement, whose ideology and activism gave rise to the GNU/Linux operating system, the Android mobile operating system, the Firefox and Chrome browsers, the BSD Unix that lives underneath Mac OS X, the Apache web-server and many other web- and e-mail-servers and innumerable other technologies. Free software is technology that is intended to be understood, modified, improved, and distributed by its users. There are many motivations for contributing to free/open software, but the movement’s roots are in this two-sided optimism/pessimism: pessimistic enough to believe that closed, proprietary technology will win the approval of users who don’t appreciate the dangers down the line (such as lock-in, loss of privacy, and losing work when proprietary technologies are orphaned); optimistic enough to believe that a core of programmers and users can both create polished alternatives and win over support for them by demonstrating their superiority and by helping people understand the risks of closed systems. "While some free software activists might dream of a world without proprietary technology, the pursuit of free software’s ideology is generally more practical in its goal; like good technologists, they view proprietary technology as a bug, and bugs can’t necessarily be eliminated. It’s just not possible to squash every bug, so programmers track, isolate, and minimize bugs instead." ~ Jon -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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vinay's freedom fest
by Michel Bauwens 04 May '11

04 May '11

Dear Chris, can you embed Vinay's manifesto (thoughtcapsules) on our blog, perhaps with a paragraph he could write to introduce it? post-dated mid-may or after? many thanks, see http://leashless.org/ -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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an update from colombia?
by Michel Bauwens 04 May '11

04 May '11

http://redpatodos.co/blog/ Dear Carolina, any update from Colombia or Latin America, on free cultural activities and developments that you could share with our readers on our blog? Michel -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: <nettime> Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding
by Michel Bauwens 04 May '11

04 May '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:41 PM Subject: Fwd: <nettime> Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com excerpt from Ben's reply : * * *" Most of these people would not, initially at least, be on Crabgrass or part of activist/radical media (if we're still allowed to say that*) milieux. As such I imagine that FB will remain an important way to communicate with a wide array of people. "* ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Benedict S Date: Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:23 AM Subject: Re: <nettime> Facebook censors 50 protest groups in the run up to the royal wedding To: nettime-l(a)kein.org Hey thanks for circulating this news, Merijn, Just to add that the groups targeted in the purge have now also set up a petition site and a blog, and no, these are not on Facebook. It would be great if nettimers could sign, circulate, and give their support/ suggestions: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/deletion-of-activist-facebook-profiles/ BTW - re the incredulity regarding a FB page against an FB purge: The FB page was an immediate and I think still logical response given that everyone who was discovering their pages had been taken down were of course discovering this on Facebook. For the same reasons these groups were on there already, it made and makes sense to spread the bad news via FB. For me the real issue here is that the UK state - whether by purely technical means or clandestine agreement with Facebook - shut down over 50 UK sites of political groups that were using FB purely for sharing public domain news about cuts or announcing social/discussion events, spreading news about campaigns, occupations, etc. No one was naive enough to plan anything proscribed by the State through these pages, though even some official State approved events such as the Glasgow May Day celebrations had their pages deleted. It's amusing to see the bigger cops stifling the smaller (the Glasgow police worked with the Scottish TUC to coordinate this event), but indicates the way things seem to be headed in the UK as the police go about pre-emptively arresting activists and raiding squats in the lead up to the wedding and in the wake of months of social strife in education and beyond. The pages deleted in the FB purge had been up and growing for months, helping enable contact between the wider population of university students, school kids and 6th formers, and other campaigns. Most of these people would not, initially at least, be on Crabgrass or part of activist/radical media (if we're still allowed to say that*) milieux. As such I imagine that FB will remain an important way to communicate with a wide array of people. But, re alternatives to FB, many of the groups are already using Crabgrass, etc, for organising beyond the level of announcements and news etc. I hope the discussion this purge is generating will hasten exodus from FB, but I suspect this will depend on development of tools capable of hosting the large numbers who made use of proprietary networks during the recent political events in the middle east and beyond. In the meantime, I hope this campaign will help heighten everyone's sense of the urgency of that. Thanks very much, Ben * http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110501/00523214103/marketing-company-tra… On 01/05/2011 21:42, Rob Myers wrote: > On 01/05/11 12:42, merijn oudenampsen wrote: > >> Join the protest against it... on facebook >> > <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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audio interview on free culture and more
by Michel Bauwens 03 May '11

03 May '11

in ireland, see http://www.rte.ie/lyricfm/culturefile/ Chris, could you post this podcast on May 8? (it's not the same as the previous audioboo, this one is a regular radio program) many thanks!! -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Re: [P2P-F] OHANDA
by Michel Bauwens 03 May '11

03 May '11

hi phoebe, I'm not aware of the latest status, so I'm forwarding to both p2p-f and open-manufacturing, where some people may be more aware of the latest developments concerning OHANDA, Michel On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:27 AM, Phoebe Moore <pvm.doc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.ohanda.org/ > http://www.ohanda.org/index.php/Main_Page > >OHANDA is an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open hardware and > design. It was first drafted at the GOSH!-Grounding Open Source Hardware > summit at the Banff Centre in July 2009 and one of the first goals of the > project is to build a service for sharing open hardware designs which > includes a certification model and a registration. OHANDA is in process. The > process is open. > > Alison Powell of LSE has in particular written about this initiative. I was > wondering what has happened to this initiative and wondered if anyone else > on the P2P list knew. Should I email the list directly? > > Yours, Phoebe > -- > > Personal email pvm.doc(a)gmail.com & Manchesterfilmcooperative(a)gmail.com > Work email p.moore(a)salford.ac.uk > > Employment profile http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/page/Phoebe_Moore > Manchester Film Cooperative http://www.manchesterfilm.coop/ > > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Re: [P2P-F] participatory museum
by Michel Bauwens 03 May '11

03 May '11

thanks Mark! On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Mark Petz <ravenwyn(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > http://museumtwo.blogspot.com/2011/04/answers-to-top-ten-questions-i-am-ask… > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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fascist biodynamic gardens?
by Michel Bauwens 03 May '11

03 May '11

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/gardening/radical-pl… -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Fwd: "Post-Democracy" - book - Colin Crouch
by Michel Bauwens 03 May '11

03 May '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:50 PM Subject: "Post-Democracy" - book - Colin Crouch To: econowmix(a)googlegroups.com, hc_ecology(a)yahoogroups.com, sustainable_solidarity(a)yahoogroups.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-democracy It is a polemic term because it calls attention to recognised democracies that are losing some of their foundations evolving toward an Aristocratic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristocracy_%28government%29> regime. A *Post-democracy* may be characterised with: - non representative elections <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election> - citizen rights<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_and_political_rights> are not respected by the state, or its representatives - or, impossibility to get balanced debates<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate> Hereby, while thus contradicting pluralist<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluralism_%28political_philosophy%29> assumptions, it seems to be an accepted presumption, that the common good were something to be determined objectively and that conflicts of interest were not to be handled within democratic processes but instead within administrative proceedings. ------------- http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=0745633153 *Post-Democracy* is a polemical work that goes beyond current complaints about the failings of our democracy and explores the deeper social and economic forces that account for the current malaise. Colin Crouch argues that the decline of those social classes which had made possible an active and critical mass politics has combined with the rise of global capitalism to produce a self-referential political class more concerned with forging links with wealthy business interests than with pursuing political programmes which meet the concerns of ordinary people. He shows how, in some respects, politics at the dawn of the twenty-first century returns us to a world familiar well before the start of the twentieth, when politics was a game played among elites. However, Crouch maintains that the experience of the twentieth century remains salient and it reminds us of possibilities for the revival of politics. -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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Re: [P2P-F] What is the Biggest Threat to Facebook? < emergent by design
by Michel Bauwens 03 May '11

03 May '11

thanks Rob On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Rob Peters <rob.peters(a)standardoftrust.com>wrote: > Michel: > > Interesting article: > > > http://emergentbydesign.com/2011/03/16/what-is-the-biggest-threat-to-faceboo > k/ > > Regards, > -Rob > > Rob Peters > Founder & CEO > Standard of Trust > 2500 West Talcott Rd > Unit 208 > Park Ridge, IL 60068 > (O) 847-698-3614 > (M) 708-819-8360 > Skype: RPeters59 > rob.peters(a)standardoftrust.com > www.StandardofTrust.com > > > > > > > > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens

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