[P2P-F] re "Researching p2p practices in a fragmented state."

Wed May 22 19:40:06 CEST 2013

This has been proposed by these guys here already:
http://movecommons.org

I am not sure about the status of this project though, I think to recall
they tried a crowd-funding campaign which was not successful.

2013/5/19 Poor Richard <poor.ricardo at gmail.com>

> I can see applications of this concept for "Researching p2p practices in a
> fragmented state."
> Michel Bauwens posted this link on facebook:
> https://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home/politics/
> towards-leaderless-social-mass-movements/rethinking-social-movements#TOC
> -Here-s-one-solution
>
>
> <https://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home/politics/towards-leaderless-social-mass-movements/rethinking-social-movements#TOC-Here-s-one-solution>Excerpt
> from Multitude site (Creative Commons Attribution):
>
>
> "First proposed by Tiberius Brastaviceanu<http://www.google.com/profiles/tiberius.brastaviceanu>
>> .
>> ------------------------------
>> "Build a *smart widget* to play the role of *banner* for the social
>> movement. Nowadays, every individual or small organization that
>> associates with a movement has a presence on the Internet. In the past,
>> members and organizations part of a movement wore a banner to identify
>> themselves and to communicate to others that they belong to that particular
>> movement. In our case this banner becomes a *smart banner*, a widget,
>> which marks individuals and organizations in the virtual space, which is
>> "wore"* *on people's blogs, webpages, Facebook accounts, etc.
>>
>> *"An open data acquisition, analysis, and display system *
>> All *widgets are connected to a central system*. Every time they are
>> viewed online they send data to the central system. Every widget/banner has
>> it's own serial number, is unique. The central system is in fact *an
>> open system*. It gathers data from all banners/widgets in circulation,
>> processes it, and publicly displays information about the entire social
>> movement in real time. The way the information is analyzed and displayed is
>> open, and can be modified/improved by an open community.
>>
>> *"Spreading mechanism*
>> Anyone can grab a banner/widget from any other widget out there, just by
>> clicking on a link which brings you to a place where the code is provided.
>> It is not necessary to associate information about the owner of a widget,
>> but the location of the widget (the site or blog where it is installed)
>> will be known. Thus, the spread of banner/widgets becomes viral (spreads
>> from member to member), and adepts of the movement become ambassadors of
>> the movement with full rights. BUT, if someone in the community finds out
>> that some owner of a widget is acting against the movement his *widget/banner
>> can be terminated* from the central system through an open
>> and democratic decision making process. Reputation parameters can also be
>> added.
>>
>> [end of excerpt]
>>
>
> This is genius. The idea of smart, live banner-widgets (I would suggest
> adding live badges also) is totally awesome! I love this method for
> automatically creating a central database of resources (people, web sites,
> etc.). This is exactly the kind of thing we need to help overcome the
> fragmentation of effort and visibility across a broad spectrum of social
> movements.
>
>
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