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Kevin Carson really exists ... on production in freed markets and the desktop regulatory state
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Dear Chris, Can you link to this podcast in our regular blog? I suggest the following title, Kevin Carson on Mutualism, Freed Markets and the Desktop Regulatory State ... please note the podcast did not work for me (no sound), so thanks for checking ... http://thinkingliberty.net/2011-07-26/ Kevin Carson <http://mutualist.org/> interview; when and how he got where he is now; monopoly capitalism; overproduction; mutual banking; small scale vs. larger scale production in a freed market; Carson’s opinion of Mises crew; Carson’s new book in the works, The Desktop Regulatory State<http://desktopregulatorystate.wordpress.com/>; sources and influences; deontological or consequentialist?; opinion on Georgism; puns; Radical Abundance; record 48 live listeners. -- 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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social media in palestine for storify
by Michel Bauwens 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

hi amaia, if you mention the tel aviv mobilizations, here's another element for balance, see http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/sp/i/223/pid/223 actually some good presentations on the role of social media in Palestine, 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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Smart Cities..... http://www.smartcitiesglobal.com/ Is this a good group? To anyone know anything about them
by Gordon Cook 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

mary beth henry is a good friend whom i'd like to help Does anyone know anything about this group? http://www.smartcitiesglobal.com/ Mary Beth Henry marybeth.henry(a)portlandoregon.gov Office of Cable Communications and Franchise Management (www.portlandonline.com/cable) Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission (www.mhcrc.org) Immediate Past President, NATOA (www.natoa.org) 1120 SW 5th Avenue Portland, Oregon 97204 ============================================================= The COOK Report on Internet Protocol, (PSTN) 609 882-2572 (Skype-in) 609 643-4067 Back Issues: http://www.cookreport.com/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=37&… Cook's Collaborative Edge Blog http://gordoncook.net/wp/ Subscription info: http://www.cookreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&I… =============================================================

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Re: [P2P-F] Community Commons and the Commonskeepers
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

thank you Jeffrey, this will be published on our blog on the 31st, Michel http://p2pfoundation.net/Demand-Side_Reduction_Cooperatives On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:06 AM, Jeffrey Sterling <teleboiski(a)gmail.com>wrote: > The global economy is broken because it has evolved and mutated to serve > the needs corporations (govt corps and fortune 1000 corps) not human beings. > Many of the commonskeeper and caregiver roles that are a critical function > for civil society are either considered undervalued chores or the > responsibility of some bureaucracy. It is imperative to take back > responsibility for our community commons and form cooperative organizations > that work to reduce the demand for resources and services that are not > local. > > We need to create a new language and toolkit for a network of community > economies (geographical and virtual) where people can aggregate demand for > products/services and fulfill those needs without the middleman (aka Fortune > 1000 corporations). As we evolve our new economy we must find ways to allow > many kinds of public benefit organizations to flourish and collaborate by > being compensated for overall demand reduction. As such, > the future of resilient, eco-sustainable communities is in demand-side > reduction cooperatives. Our ablility to set the agenda lies in our control > of the entire demand-side of the economic equation and our ability to > self-organize using the Internet. > > Let's take a closer look at the community infrastructure from the > supply-side and the demand-side. > > On the supply side a community may have a electricity company, a water >> company, a gas company, oil companies (gasoline), and waste stream companies >> (sewer, trash, recycle, compost). Each company is siloed and views their job >> as maintaining and operating a supply chain for an ever growing demand for >> their service. Some pay lip service to demand reduction at times but it is a >> "fox in the hen house" situation. >> >> Now suppose community members created a demand side reduction cooperative, >> that was funded through a performance based contract placed on each of the >> supply side companies, that provided demand side reduction services to it's >> members. >> >> Examples: >> >> - Catching rainwater in cisterns for graywater and freshwater supply that >> eliminated the need for the next groundwater well or dam. >> >> - Superinsulating all homes in a community to reduce the number of new >> powerplants or a new gas pipeline. >> >> - Creating a smart microgrid that will provide peaking power negawatts as >> an independent power producer and provide solar collectors for peak cooling >> as well as battery backup storage and essential power to computers in the >> home. >> >> - Creating a community wide distributed generation system that provides >> essential power to the community in case of disaster plus CHP (combined heat >> power) to the local hospital/greenhouse/community pool. >> >> - Creating an on demand local ridesharing and shopping delivering service >> using community members and their vehicles to reduce the demand for >> cars/roads/gasoline and providing jobs for underemployed people and reducing >> the demand for underfunding government services. >> >> - Creating community reuse services that reduce the demand for recycling >> and waste removal that reduces the need for landfills. >> >> The basic idea is that siloed supply side companies are not in the >> business of reducing demand they are in the business of increasing supply >> which damages the environment and is not sustainable. Creating community-run >> demand side reduction coops (that are voluntary) will make a community >> resilient, sustainable and will create work for community members. Having a >> community-owned cloud will make the integration of demand side reduction >> services into the life of a community possible. Also establishing >> performance based contracts where demand reductions are measured with make >> it possible for demand side reduction services to be cash flow positive >> because demand reduction decreases the need for supply which keep the money >> in the community. >> >> > > > Given a choice people are usually willing to do more with less. Integrating > our demand-side consumption using demand-side reduction cooperatives and > other community benefit entities wil create meaningful work within one's own > community and make our community more resilient and eco-sustainable. > > -- 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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arab spring update
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

hi amaia, I hope you are up for a middle east storify? here's an interesting one, http://www.movements.org/blog/entry/a-marketplace-for-needs-and-haves-emerg… and please also include the Tel Aviv demos? I can send you material from delicious to include, 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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copyright article for blog
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

hi Franco, can you write about this for our blog, http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=589 "there is a rapid drop of commercial availability after (or rather during?) the first 10 years after a work has been published. This indicates that for the majority of all publications copyright protection is way too long. The fact that commercial availability of the surveyed works starts to increase again after seven decades (when works start to appear in the Public Domain in some jurisdictions, and are subsequently offered by print on demand services based in these jurisdictions) also shows that the current, excessive length of copyright protection is not only unnecessary but harmful to society since it leads to reduced commercial availability of older works and thus deprives the public of access to them. If you combine this insight with recommendation of the Public Domain Manifesto <http://www.publicdomainmanifesto.org/> you have a strong argument for a drastic reduction of the term of protection." -- 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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OutOfCopyright.eu makes Public Domain Calculators available for the entire European Union
by Franco Iacomella 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

OutOfCopyright.eu <http://OutOfCopyright.eu/> makes Public Domain Calculators available for the entire European Union Works that have fallen into the public domain after their term of copyright protection has elapsed can be freely used by everybody. In theory that means that these works can be reused by anyone for any purpose which includes commercial exploitation. In theory the public domain status increases access to our shared knowledge and culture and encourages economic activities that do not take place as long as works are protected by copyright. In turn the commercial exploitation of public domain works (for example out of copyright books <http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=589>) has the tendency to increase their accessibility. In practice however determining if a work has passed into the public domain can prove very difficult. This is especially true when attempting to determine the public domain status of content in multiple jurisdictions. As part of the EuropeanaConnect project <http://www.europeanaconnect.eu/> Knowledgeland <http://www.knowledgeland.org/> and the Institute for information Law at the University of Amsterdam <http://www.ivir.nl/> have developed public domain calculators to answer the question whether a certain work or other subject matter vested with copyright or neighbouring rights (related rights) has fallen into the public domain. These public domain Calculators have been developed for 30 countries (the European Union plus Switzerland, Iceland & Norway) and are available at www.outofcopyright.eu <http://www.outofcopyright.eu/> Users can use the calculators (and the underlying research <http://outofcopyright.eu/methodology.html> published at outofcopyright.eu <http://outofcopyright.eu/>) to determine the copyright status of works in all these countries. This is the first time that this question has been structurally researched across all European jurisdictions. The results of this research of national copyright laws shows a complex semi-harmonized field of legislation across Europe that makes it unnecessarily difficult to unlock the cultural, social and economic potential of works in the public domain. Identification of works as being in the public domain needs be made easier and less resource consuming by simplifying and harmonizing rules of copyright duration and territoriality. Outofcopyright continues to adjust and refine its calculators. It is also researching how to make calculation possible using large datasets like bibliographica <http://bibliographica.org/>, DBPedia <http://dbpedia.org/> and the Europeana <http://www.europeana-libraries.eu/web/api> datasets on cultural objects in Europe. We encourage everyone interested in the public domain to try the calculators, comment on them and re-use the published research. All research and other material on Outofcopyright is available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/> and the software <http://www.outofcopyright.eu/software_description.html> powering the calculators can be reused under the terms of the EUPL license <http://www.osor.eu/eupl> Kind regards, Maarten Zeinstra

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patents, why their time has gone
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2011/07/why-we-should---an… Dear chris, I wanted to excerpt from the above, but copy-paste doesn't work here ... can you publish the excerpt starting at (just under slide show) Patents date back to the 15th century, when they were issued by the English monarch as “letters patent” - “patent” because they were open for all to see, rather than sealed. Despite their royal provenance, they were essentially instruments of piracy: they were used to “steal” knowledge from other lands by offering a 20-year monopoly in England to the person bringing that knowledge into the country. UNTIL one-before-last paragraph above the nathan m. quote ... thanks Chris!! -- 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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"How Peer to Peer Communities will change the World - Interview with Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation founder." has been published
by Michel Bauwens 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

thanks for spreading this amongst your italian contacts, italian translation at bottom of this: http://meedabyte.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/how-peer-to-peer-communities-will… ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: meedabyte <donotreply(a)wordpress.com> Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:36 PM Subject: meedabyte's draft titled "How Peer to Peer Communities will change the World - Interview with Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation founder." has been published To: michelsub2004(a)gmail.com Howdy! Recently you were kind enough to give feedback on my draft "How Peer to Peer Communities will change the World - Interview with Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation founder.". It is now published! Thanks so much for your help. Here's the published version, and please share if you wish: http://meedabyte.wordpress.com/2011/07/26/how-peer-to-peer-communities-will… Regards, meedabyte -- 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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Scientists discover 10% is the tipping point for the spread of ideas
by Kevin Flanagan 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. .... http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2902&setappvar=page%281%29

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