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Re: [P2P-F] http://links.ctrlc.hu
by Michel Bauwens 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

perhaps not the right person to suggest technical improvements, and I'm not sure I'm getting your question right ... Michel On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:59 AM, stef <stefan.marsiske(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:53:49AM +0700, Michel Bauwens wrote: > > thanks Stef, sharing with our list, > > thanks! > hmm, the url for the src might be wrong, it's: > http://gitorious.org/tagr/tagr > btw if you have some ideas for improvements pls share. i want to have many > of > these serves all interconnected. also i am planning short url support and > snapshotting of the urls content. any other ideas? > cheers,s > > -- > gpg: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/stef.gpg<https://www.ctrlc.hu/%7Estef/stef.gpg> > gpg fp: F617 AC77 6E86 5830 08B8 BB96 E7A4 C6CF A84A 7140 > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Re: [P2P-F] http://links.ctrlc.hu
by Michel Bauwens 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

thanks Stef, sharing with our list, Michel On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:42 AM, stef <stefan.marsiske(a)gmail.com> wrote: > hey Michel, > > if you ever need to go on an exodus with your 50k bookmarks from delicious, > you might consider this option. > http://links.ctrlc.hu > > the code is agplv3, django, mongodb, here: http://gitorious.org/tagr/tagr- > you can host your own - in fact you're encouraged. > > cheers,s > > -- > gpg: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/stef.gpg<https://www.ctrlc.hu/%7Estef/stef.gpg> > gpg fp: F617 AC77 6E86 5830 08B8 BB96 E7A4 C6CF A84A 7140 > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Re: [P2P-F] [Commoning] sharing, essence of things, technological determinism, economic determinism, and neoliberalism
by Michel Bauwens 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

Hi Roberto, my question is the following: is low power FM compatible with the internet, i.e. is it possible for local communities to use both interchangeably and with compatibility? (on other lists, we are working with sepp and douglas rushkoff and others, to create a mapping of available technologies, so that local communities can choose their own 'independent internet' infrastructures) for me by the way, the globalization is a plus, i.e. globa-local communication is superior to local communication only and the emancipatory possibilities of the internet are located in this combined effect; globally organized forces (MNO's, global financial markets) can outcompete/outcooperate local only forces, but globa-local forces can outcooperate global forces, i.e. it is te combination of relocalization with global cooperation that puts peer producers on a par with the global forces of capitalism, instead of the situation ex ante, where that possibility did not exist. In other words, the internet has rendered the current globalized infrastructure of capitalism essentially obsolete, and we no longer need MNO's and global financial markets (of course, we have to 'make' them disappear, the process won't be automatic) I would be totally opposed to charging per distance, which would again favour the old forces and take away our right to global communication, and free communication belongs to the great rights of humankind, along with free education and free medicine (and hold your horses, we can find ways to do this sustainably, free in this context means, 'as a public service' available to all) Michel On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Roberto Verzola <rverzola(a)gn.apc.org>wrote: > Hi Michel, > > 1) the internet is multi-lingual and can be used as a counter-force to >> anglo-saxon language domination (the stress by david de ugarte and >> lasindias.net <http://lasindias.net> on language-based phyles) >> > > Indeed, the Internet looks multi-lingual. It is in fact said that in a few > years, there will be more Chinese language users than English on the Web. > But this is the visible language that end-users see. > > However, HTML, C++, Java, PHP, Perl, etc. down to the assembly language of > CPUs and their microcode -- the hardware language inside those CPUs -- all > use English mnemonics. (I keep in my library a curious book ISBN > 5-8206-0030-4 in Russian, about Unix. Throughout the book are Unix keywords > including standard directories and filenames in English.) One has to learn > some rudimentary English to master the technology. The technology itself > plants the desire to learn the language. (By the way, Schumacher's book was > entitled Good Work, not Work as I wrote in my earlier post.) > > > >> 3) the internet can be a tremendous force for relocalization and >> re-empowering local communities (see >> http://delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Neighborhoods) >> > > Yes, but all those who are using the Internet for local work are being > forced to subsidize global communications. The bias/subsidy for > globalization is there all the time, without additional effort, whether a > user is aware of it or not, because technology itself masks the fact that > long-distance communications actually costs more per unit resource than > local communications -- even on the Internet. If Internet charging reflected > this distance-dependent costs we would even be more inclined towards local > communications than international ones. A long-time ago, I kept asking ISPs, > why not charge by distance? The typical answer I got was that it was much > harder to implement. Perhaps, as you say, it is "not inherent" in the > technology, but it is so deeply embedded that it is as good as built-in. And > the flat charging leads to the bias/subsidy I'm pointing out. > > I agree with you that we can work to overcome these. But the fact that we > have to suggests that the design itself contains a built-in bias. This is > the reason I'm all for an alternative Internet. But its designers must be > very conscious about the biases they are building into the alternative > technology. > > There is actually a mature technology that has the opposite bias (for > localization) which is also so embedded in the technology that it forces the > use of the local language and the focus on local interactions. This is > low-power FM. That LPFM is not more widespread than it should is due mainly > to the institutional bias against it, in favor of the Internet. The detailed > comparison I made between the Internet and LPFM (the technology for most > community radios) can be found here, p.169: > http://rverzola.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/infoeconomy-verzola.pdf. > > Another example of building in a bias: I've been hoping that China would > make a DVD player with a built-in burner (for sharing) and browser (for > browsing HTML files mirrored on DVD), to encourage copying as well as local > swapping of discs, a face-to-face social interaction, in contrast to the > impersonal anonymous exchanges on the Internet. > > Greetings, > > Roberto > > >> The effects you mention are therefore not inherent to the technology, but >> to socially dominant usage, which depends on the balance of forces in the >> wider society >> >> Michel >> >> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Roberto Verzola <rverzola(a)gn.apc.org<mailto: >> rverzola(a)gn.apc.org>> wrote: >> >> >> I suppose I am reacting to strongly to this because I find >> myself struggling with issues regarding determinism. I have - >> like you and like most sociologists and anthropologists - >> always made a case for the primacy of the social (should we >> call this social determinism?), but with the rise of the >> information age/ the network society/the digital economy this >> very familiar position started to erode a litte bit. It is an >> interesting question why /social/ sciences insist so stongly >> on the primacy of the /social/, or on /social/ determinism. It >> is like a natural reflex. I wonder if this has something to do >> with a protection of disciplines. Obviously, if people >> >> >> I find myself agreeing somewhat with Doug Engelbart, inventor of >> the mouse, who said we shape our tools and our tools then shape >> us. He talks of co-evolution of the human and their tools. We >> might call this "mutual determinism". When he says "shapes us", I >> presume "us" includes social relations. >> >> E.F.Schumacher (Small is Beautiful) went further and I strongly >> agree with him too. He wrote (in Work) that when we adopt a >> technology (shaped by someone else, presumably), we absorb the >> ideology (mindset, value-system) that comes with it. Schumacher >> believed that many technologies come embedded with ideologies, and >> those who think they can import a technology without also >> importing the ideology that comes with it are mistaken. This is >> probably more "technologically deterministic" than Engelbart, but >> I think E.F.Schumacher is correct, for some technologies at least. >> >> In fact, I did an analysis of the Internet, using Schumacher's >> perpective, and found several embedded mindsets/value-systems that >> Internet users are *forced* to absorb, often without realizing it. >> (For the complete piece, see >> http://www.scu.edu/sts/nexus/summer2005/VerzolaArticle.cfm) Let me >> just list three: >> >> 1. the universal dependence of Internet technology on the English >> language, down to the microcode inside microprocessors, forces us >> to learn English. If you learn the Anglo-Saxon tongue, you are >> bound to acquire the Anglo-Saxon taste. Learn the language, pick >> up the culture. >> >> 2. the automation mindset: to replace people with machines. This >> might make sense in a country rich in capital (though that's still >> debatable), but less so in countries rich in labor. When we >> replaced muscle-work with machines, we became less physically fit, >> what would happen as we replace mental-work with machines? >> >> 3. a built-in bias (in fact, subsidy) for global players and >> globalization.This is best seen in the Internet cost structure of >> flat rates regardless of distance. A 1mb file sent to a colleague >> using the same ISP costs as much as a 1mb file sent to someone at >> the other side of the globe. Yet the latter uses much more network >> resources (servers, routers, communication channels, etc.) than >> the former. So local players are charged higher per unit resource >> than global players, a subsidy for globalization that is built >> into the Internet, as designed today. >> >> So, do we reject the technology then? Schumacher's 1970s response >> was intermediate/appropriate technology. Today, Schumacher remains >> relevant, through the vocabulary might be different; I would say >> that we must also get involved in the redesign of the technology. >> This is why the talk about an alternative Internet on this list >> interests me a lot. >> >> I would not bind myself a priori to a fixed perpective that >> "things" determine social relations or that social relations >> determine "things". I would explore these perspectives on a >> case-to-case basis, and make use of whatever new and useful >> insight can come from either (or both). >> >> Greetings, >> >> Roberto >> >> > > -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: [fcforum] Read: Infrastructure part of the Fcforum declaration
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fuster, Mayo <Mayo.Fuster(a)eui.eu> Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:32 PM Subject: [fcforum] Read: Infrastructure part of the Fcforum declaration To: fcforum(a)list.fcforum.net Dear everybody! I hope that you are fine. In this PAD link you can access to the infrastructure part of the Fcforum 2010 working progress declaration. This part was missing in the version sent yesterday by Simona Levi, so please click in the link, read it, edit it if you consider necessary or/and send your comments on this part to me or this e-list. This part will be added to the whole text in a following release by Simona. Here it is: http://quadpad.lqdn.fr:9000/d1NSGToeC0 For those who prefer in text, you have it also in attachment. This infrastructure section of the declaration is the result a rich process including the analysis of 15 questionnaires to Fcforum participants and collaborators, notes from the infrastructure groups during the Fcforum 2010, and thanks to the inputs of Beatriz Busaniche (Fundacion Via Libre); Alice Wiegand (Wikimedia Germany); Mako Benjamin Hill (Autonomo.us and MIT); Jack Herrick and Betsy Megan (Wikihow); Michel Bauwens and Sepp Hasslberger (and the P2P Foundation mailing list); Leandro Navarro (guifi/apc/pangea); Federico Morando (COMMUNIA research); Joan Goma (Amical Viquipedia); Rick Prelinger (Prelinger archive); Luca Landucci (AKA Kaspo and Wikimedia Italia); Carolina Botero (Creative Commons Colombia); Phillipe Aigran (Quadrature du Net); Dimitri Kynier (Venture Comunism); Jaromil; Øystein Jakobsen (Genaro); Jimmy Wales (Wikia/Wikipedia); Evan Prodromou (Wikitravel and Identica); GACP Argentina; Dimitri Morairas (Indymedia, Social Forume, Plone); José Cervera (Baquia knowledge center); YProductions; Wouter Tebbens (Free Knowledge Institute); Carlos Castillo - Chato; Floren Cabello; Olivier Schulbaum (Platoniq.net) Daniel Dietrich (Open Knowledge Foundation); Marco Berlinguer; Fcforum 2009 Economy working group; Simona Levi, Felix Stalder; Yproductions; among others. Cheers! Mayo «·´`·.(*·.¸(`·.¸ ¸.·´)¸.·*).·´`·» «·´¨*·¸¸« Mayo Fuster Morell ».¸.·*¨`·» «·´`·.(¸.·´(¸.·* *·.¸)`·.¸).·´`·» Research Digital Commons Governance: http://www.onlinecreation.info Ph.D European University Institute Research collaborator. Institute of Govern and Public Policies. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Visiting researcher. School of information. University of California, Berkeley. Phone Italy: 0039-3312805010 or 0039-0558409982 Phone Spanish State: 0034-648877748 E-mail: mayo.fuster(a)eui.eu Skype: mayoneti Postal address: EUI - Badia Fiesolana Via dei Roccettini 9, I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI) - Italy ----- + info http://list.fcforum.net/wws/info/fcforum ------- -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: Distributed Democracy
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <dante.monson(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:26 AM Subject: Fwd: Distributed Democracy To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Thanks to Seth ! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: S http://www.slideshare.net/slidarko/memoirs-of-a-graph-addict-despair-to-red… see near slide 45 where it begins to discuss distributed voting -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: Chris Carlsson also commented on his link.
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Facebook <notification+pjiidwm(a)facebookmail.com<notification%2Bpjiidwm(a)facebookmail.com> > Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:30 AM Subject: Chris Carlsson also commented on his link. To: Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com> Chris Carlsson also commented on his link. Chris wrote: "Hi Michel, thanks very much for your thoughtful comments. I completely agree, of course, that the key point of working-class recomposition was left out of my post. I did it on purpose, but with the knowledge that the bleakness of the decomposition story needs its antidote. I think you filled it in in less than 24 hours! An additional point might be that the old 19th and 20th century forms of protest are themselves increasingly obsolete in the face of the Spectacle, of the most modern organization of capitalist life. The networks of Nowtopians, while real and vital and a place I put a lot of hope too, have not yet found (perhaps for not trying, not sure) a public political voice that presents the new way of life in opposition to the maintenance of the status quo–a status quo that is so patently brutal and stupid, that it is hard to believe anyone still defends it! Anyway, many thanks for your rejoinder. I don’t know if the protests and movements in Europe, South America, and east Asia are harbingers of a real transformation, or historically familiar political expressions that will be subsumed by the dominant logic of markets and money, as so many of the prior movements and revolts have been. Clearly we all have to ponder how to shape together a real global alternative to the barbarism that is still “winning,” and I would love to see mass revolts in Europe or South America point the way to an ecologically sane, materially sound, psychologically rich life for everyone… Here’s to a new year and a new decade, full of hope and possibility at least as much as it is spiraling into a very dark place!" To see the comment thread, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/n/?chris.carlsson1%2Fposts%2F185106044850922&mid=39… Thanks, The Facebook Team ___ Reply to this email to comment on this link. This message was intended for michelsub2004(a)gmail.com. If you do not wish to receive this type of email from Facebook in the future, please follow the link below to unsubscribe. http://www.facebook.com/o.php?k=c05bf5&u=528245547&mid=395779fG1f7c632bGd7f… Facebook, Inc. P.O. Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303 -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: TEDxDetroit
by Michel Bauwens 11 Jan '11

11 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Adler <richardcadler(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:16 AM Subject: TEDxDetroit To: paulbhartzog(a)gmail.com, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose(a)gmail.com>, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004(a)gmail.com>, Matt Berlin <mattberlin23(a)gmail.com> So apparently there was a TED event in Detroit last night, but good luck finding out about it. I only know it happened because of tweets posted from the event by a reporter with the Detroit Free Press whom Paul and I met a couple of years ago. Now another tweet provides this link: http://www.detroitmoxie.com/home/2011/1/10/the-super-secret-detroit-ted-eve… I've cut-and-pasted the last part of the blog post below. I'm mentioning it because, frankly, it leaves me speechless. Apparently, these people believe the future of Detroit should be an invite-only process? Why, if the city "on the precipice", does it make sense to restrict attendance and quite likely exclude people who might have wished to participate and contribute? RCA -------------------------- *Why the secrecy?* *I have no idea. My thought is that TED (without the x<http://www.tedxdetroit.com/>) is an exclusive brand and Lincoln was aligning themselves with that elite group. Lincoln surely delivered on the slick event; it was top shelf.* *The usual pre-event buzz wasn’t their priority. Instead they had many local Detroiters in the twitterverse scratching their head in a “how did I miss this” type of way.* *To be fair, it is my understanding that the invitation was sent to the entire TEDxDetroit<http://www.detroitmoxie.com/home/2010/9/22/big-thinkers-to-share-at-tedxdet…>database. So, why weren’t those that were planning on attending talking about it? A simple line in the invitation reads:* *Also, please, no blogging nor tweeting this invitation/event before it takes place.* *TED@MotorCity and Lincoln proved that an event doesn’t need the “this event is going to be so cool” buzz to, in fact, be cool.* *Detroit is on a precipice and the people and their actions and decisions are going to decide which way it goes. Our “New Tomorrow” is up to us.* *Feedback, makers, reinvention, connection, and sharing. That is our “New Tomorrow.”* *TED@MotorCity not only delivered world-class speakers but it was world-class all the way around. * -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Re: [P2P-F] sharing, essence of things, technological determinism, economic determinism, and neoliberalism
by Andreas Wittel 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hello Martin, On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:09 AM, j.martin.pedersen < m.pedersen(a)lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > > I agree to most of what you say, on some levels, but the point here is > about what some lawyers and philosophers call starting point: It is > typical of neoliberal economics to start with the "thing" as opposed to > the social. > I don't know which philosophers you are referring to. However I would reject this approach as an unnecessary expansion of what neoliberalism stands for. Accordiong to this logic a claim such as 'Digital technologies will ultimately lead to communism' would have the thing as starting point and as such be neoliberal. Isn't this sort of absurd? One might well argue that this statement is false, even silly - fair enough, it probably is. But it is not neoliberal. Another example: 'Digital technologies have brought about new social practices which in turn have created havoc in the creative industries.' This statement starts with the thing, moves on to the social in a determining way, and concludes with an economic situation. In my view it would be very difficult to argue against this claim. It seems to me that this is a correct statement. How can it be neoliberal? I suppose I am reacting to strongly to this because I find myself struggling with issues regarding determinism. I have - like you and like most sociologists and anthropologists - always made a case for the primacy of the social (should we call this social determinism?), but with the rise of the information age/ the network society/the digital economy this very familiar position started to erode a litte bit. It is an interesting question why * social* sciences insist so stongly on the primacy of the *social*, or on * social* determinism. It is like a natural reflex. I wonder if this has something to do with a protection of disciplines. Obviously, if people concede that the social can sometimes and in some situations be determined by the thing, disciplines such as sociology and anthropology lose ground and relevance Helpful to avoid economic determinism is Marx and his notion of mode of production, which combines technology (productive forces) and social relations (property relations, power relations etc.). Talking about a digital mode of production then refers to technologies and to the social struggles over competing economic alternatives, which are fought for between various political groups at the moment. > So, yes, you can and should distinguish between technological and > economic determinism, and in this case both are at play: firstly the > economic determinism, where the thing is foregrounded, then the > technological determinism where the essence of the thing determines how > it should be organised. Both of which background the social. > > My point is merely that social aspects come first: you can easily share > a car if you don't see it as an extension of your penis or fundamentally > constitutive of your identity (both of which are promoted through > advertising), I just throw you my keys. If I am not a very selfish and > ego-centric person there is likely no problems sharing it all. > > And access does matter, as far as I am concerned, as does the labour and > resources and energy that is required for cyberspace to exist: these are > enormous social actions and systems that have to continually be > sustained. Access also costs the world. So from the perspective of the > displaced peasant (where minerals are mined or a river dammed), sharing > a poem digitally is really a bummer - cyberspace is huge enterprise, > where the materiality is somewhat hidden. The same goes for the > electricity system: there is no apparent change when I flick the switch > in my house - your house still has light - so why should I not have the > light on all the time, in all rooms? Install another lamp or two? Also, > if I download your poem from your website a thousand times a second, > then noone else can share it. The similarities are striking, I think, > but not very surprising once we understand cyberspace as a huge > industrial machine and not merely some immaterial appearence. > > I completely agree with this. But as you say, the materiality behind the digital world is somewhat hidden. That is why it is so hard to get an idea about the external costs (monetary costs, environmental costs, etc.) of this. How can we start to calculate and evaluate these costs? In solidarity with labour and with an ecological consciousness, the poem > is hard work to share digitally. > > Sorry I cannot engage further with this. My partner has had a little > child and I am drowning in stuff and responsbilities as well joy and > wonder. > Congratulations. Enjoy the moment! andreas

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Japanese p2p fiction
by Michel Bauwens 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

Hi Kevin, I wonder if you could investigate, if not read, this: http://www.stanford.edu/~allison/saito.html ast year, I published a Sci-Fi fantasy novel to illustrate the goal of my research, as a sequel to Prof. Jun Murai's book about the Internet for children. I have translated the novel into English, and begun to distribute it under a CreativeCommons license so that people around the world can read the novel, and also hopefully help me improve the document and my research. The novel is titled "NEO IN WONDERLAND - A Tale of Money That Changed Our Future". The home url of the novel is http://grsj.jp/neo.pdf Please help spread the word about the novel. ------------------------------ *Overview of the novel:* Today, humanity seems to be suffering from a trilogy of problems: we are living in the era of Peak Oil in which the world production of petroleum is about to hit its peak if not it has already done so (energy crisis), which is probably the fundamental reason why we are experiencing the severest economic depression in the history of capitalism (economic crisis), while the whole human activities with effects to change the earthly environment are alleged to be the cause of climate changes (environmental crisis). Some argue that moving toward so-called green economy, or changing to natural energy sources instead of relying on fossil fuels, is the solution to all these. Will it work, or will it just introduce another level of the same trilogy of problems as long as our economy requires to keep growing? Let's begin an adventure with Accianco, a kindergarten girl, Kencha, a super robot, and Puppy-chan, a puppy, to explore an alternative solution in this sci-fi monetary fantasy novel. The story begins one year after the past adventure of the trio, in which they visited the Wonderland where the Internet is utilized in an extreme fashion. Dr. Suttokoholm, a blind genius scientist in the Wonderland, is kidnapped by the Army of Centricity that aims to invade the country! Accianco, Kencha, Puppy-chan and Accianco's mother go to the Wonderland through the wormhole invented by Dr. Suttokoholm. A new adventure begins around the centerless monetary mechanism in the centerless Wonderland that takes place in Hunan City, a big city in the Wonderland. What is the Army of Centricity after? Will Accianco and her friends be able to save Dr. Suttokoholm? The story evolves in an unexpected way as they encounter mysterious NEO in the Wonderland. <ks91(a)sfc.wide.ad.jp> -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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Fwd: [pox] CFP ~~ Collaborative Engineering and Science
by Michel Bauwens 10 Jan '11

10 Jan '11

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: isCES'11 Organizing Committee <iceme(a)mail.2011iiisconferences.org> Date: Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:07 PM Subject: [pox] CFP ~~ Collaborative Engineering and Science To: PROJEKT(a)oekonux.de ======================================================================== Call For Abstracts, Papers, and Invited Sessions Organizers ======================================================================== International Symposium on Collaborative Engineering and Science: isCES 2011 (www.2011iiisconferences.org/iceme/about-isces.asp) March 27th-30th, 2011 ~ Orlando, Florida, USA. In the context of The 2nd International Conference on Engineering and Meta-Engineering: ICEME 2011 (www.2011iiisconferences.org/iceme) ======================================================================== Submissions for face-to-face and virtual presentations are accepted and in both cases the respective final papers will be included in the proceedings. =============== Important dates =============== Papers/Abstracts Submissions and Invited Session Proposals: January 17th, 2011 Authors Notifications: February 7th, 2011 Camera-ready, full papers: February 22nd, 2011 =============== Main Areas =============== • Collaboration Strategies and Methodologies. e-Collaboration Technologies • Collaborative Engineering. e-Engineering • Collaborative Science. Collaborative Research. e-Science. e-Research • e-Enterprise • Reciprocal support with Collaborative Education, e-Education, E-training, e-Learning, and e-Knowledge. =============== Reviewing =============== Submissions will be reviewed in two-tier reviewing process: non-blind and double-blind reviewing. =============== Best papers: =============== A best paper will be selected for each session, and the best 20% of the papers presented at the symposium will also be published in the Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (All papers to be presented at the conference will be included in the conference proceedings) =============== Invited sessions organizers =============== Registration fees will be waived for EFFECTIVE invited session organizers. =============== isCES 2011 Organizing committee =============== If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to remove(a)mail.2011iiisconferences.org with REMOVE MLCONFERENCES in the subject line. Address: Torre Profesional La California, Av. Francisco de Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela. _____________________________ http://www.oekonux.de/projekt -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/p2presearch_listcultures.org Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens Think tank: http://www.asianforesightinstitute.org/index.php/eng/The-AFI

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