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

temporary 'out of service' for flu ...
by Michel Bauwens 09 Aug '11

09 Aug '11

Dear friends, apologies for the radio silence, i have been ill with the flu since thursday ... feeling better since today only, but not just well enough yet for sustained online work, should be normalized next wednesday I hope, obviously, the backlog is quickly acculumating, so apologies for delayed responses, 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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Fw: Thoughts, and Visions...........Apologies, link in present post
by robert searle 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

--- On Mon, 8/8/11, robert searle <dharao4(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: robert searle <dharao4(a)yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Thoughts, and Visions................................................ To: p2p-foundation(a)lists.ourproject.org Date: Monday, 8 August, 2011, 12:49 Thoughts, and Visions blog maybe of interest. It is concerned with psycho-spiritual subjects.....especially obscure areas of it. Moreover, it is hoped that fairly soon alot of rare information will be published overtime concerned with esoteric sects, and their practices. This may become a major internet database which would notably help me in the development of Multi-Dimensional Science..... http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Multi-Dimensional_Science The blog address is as follows.......... http://thoughtsandvisions-searle88.blogspot.com/2011/06/anyone-can-feel-ene…

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Thoughts, and Visions................................................
by robert searle 08 Aug '11

08 Aug '11

Thoughts, and Visions blog maybe of interest. It is concerned with psycho-spiritual subjects.....especially obscure areas of it. Moreover, it is hoped that fairly soon alot of rare information will be published overtime concerned with esoteric sects, and their practices. This may become a major internet database which would notably help me in the development of Multi-Dimensional Science..... http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Multi-Dimensional_Science The blog address is as follows..........

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education for self-profit ...
by Michel Bauwens 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

It seems to me there is an emerging version of 'open' that is a hyper-neoliberal one, or perhaps right-wing libertarian, see for example, http://miiu.org/wiki/Vesting_students_as_co-owners_of_schools which must be about the most awful proposal for reforming education that I've seen so far ... in this version: people and parents would co-own the school, but the aim would be to generate profit, i.e. learning becomes a by-product of making a profit the same people propose 'free economic zones' with zero worker rights, etc ... I notice this is on John Robb's miu site under the name of resilience ... please note that I have no problem with co-ownership, only with the notion that education is a for-profit activity and that this would be strenghtened by giving students a vested interest in commercial activity ...; co-ownership of a mission-oriented educational institution would be an entirely different matter the issue at state here, a true ontological issue, is inscribing hyper-capitalism even deeper in the human structure, I have personal experience of this. Years ago, I was working for USWeb/CKS - MarchFIRST, a web consultancy that grew by leaps and bounds before collapsing. They had instituted a system whereby developers would become co-owners of the projects with our clients. The results were catastrophic as the whole culture of the company destroyed internal cooperation, since everyone was internally competing with everyone else, you could not call up a sister company, as they would steal your clients ... (actually that culture predated that reform, which only strenghtened it and was itself the result of a particular type of thinking). We had Jerry Springer-type meetings in which employees were competing to win prizes to exotic locations, and a VP saying: "if you see a competitor and he's down, jump on him again and again" .. The whole atmosphere was entirely disgusting. To imagine such dynamics taking over the school environment, is a nightmare of the highest proportion. Again this is not an opposition on any market dynamic per se. For example an interesting project is Kaospilots, a school for social enterpreneurship where students need to fund one third of their education by external consultancies ... but this is done entirely in the context of social projects, and it is a school for enterpreneurship that comes after general education, so it makes sense. 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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Re: [P2P-F] [opennetcoalition] No Net filtering in the name of consumer protection!
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hi Marco, I don't think that article is understandable for outsiders, but if you want to write something on it for the p2p blog, feel free! On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:45 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti(a)nexaima.net> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 17:11:00 PM +0200, La Quadrature du Net wrote: > > > Permanent link: > http://www.laquadrature.net/en/no-net-filtering-in-the-name-of-consumer-pro… > > No Net filtering in the name of consumer protection! > > Note: practically the same thing is happening now in Italy, see my > post here: > > http://stop.zona-m.net/2011/07/agcom-how-many-italians-realize-who-is-its-r… > > marco > -- > Digital Citizenship basics: > http://mfioretti.com/node/129 > _______________________________________________ > Opennetcoalition mailing list > Opennetcoalition(a)laquadrature.net > http://laquadrature.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/opennetcoalition > -- 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] The Modern Anglo-Dutch Empire
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

this seems like an original book, judging from the preface alone, I wonder if anyone is familiar with this history of the struggle against 'empire' ? One caveat though, it has a reference to LaRouche in the preface, and it you know anything about this extreme righ-wing cult, this should let the alarm bells ringing, I'm not at all familiar with the charge that Soros was responsible for stripping the jews in budapest of their possessions, that just doesn't ring true to me? Michel On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:15 PM, james burke <james(a)p2pfoundation.net>wrote: > http://www.oaklandasp.comcastbiz.net/ > > > Sent from my iPhone > -- 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: PAID INTERNSHIP: nef (the new economics foundation) are looking for a graduate intern to help them work on a new economic model for The Great Transition.
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mark Petz <ravenwyn(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 4:52 AM Subject: PAID INTERNSHIP: nef (the new economics foundation) are looking for a graduate intern to help them work on a new economic model for The Great Transition. To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, Mark Hewitt < M.A.Hewitt(a)staffs.ac.uk>, Vygantas Galinis <vygantas4(a)gmail.com> http://www.neweconomics.org/about/vacancies/intern-for-great-transition-mod… -- 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: doubts about leaders of mit poverty lab
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: christopher macrae <chris.macrae(a)yahoo.co.uk> Date: Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 5:19 AM Tea with The Economist<http://news.economist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/t/hCczj0W7QfL0BV4a0cIUB0EA> Abhijit Banerjee, professor of economics at MIT, shares his radical ideas for fighting global poverty - co-uthor wit Esther Duflo (and co-leader Poverty Lab) http://www.economist.com/node/21524415?fsrc=nlw|pub|08-03-2011|publishers -- 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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android least open mobile platform
by Michel Bauwens 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/08/study-android-is-least-open… blog commentary on this would be very welcome, 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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introducing mutualist visions of property
by Michel Bauwens 03 Aug '11

03 Aug '11

http://libertarian-labyrinth.org/booklets/LeftLiberty-02-2up.pdf Dear Kevin, is there any chance that you could introduce this special issue to our p2p blog, writing for people not familiar with the theoretical underpinnings of 19th anarchism, and also introduce the 'two-gun mutualism' project, i.e. a marriage of the individual and the collective? 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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