<div dir="ltr"><h5 class=""><div class=""><span id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562991440411706}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562991440411706}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562991440411706}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]">I can see applications of this concept for "Researching p2p practices in a fragmented state." </span></span></span><br>
Michel Bauwens posted this link on facebook:<br></div></h5><h5 class=""> <span class=""><div><span class=""><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home/politics/towards-leaderless-social-mass-movements/rethinking-social-movements#TOC-Here-s-one-solution" target="_blank" rel="nofollow nofollow"><span>https://sites.google.com/site/</span><span class=""></span><span>multitude2008/Home/politics/</span><span class=""></span><span>towards-leaderless-social-mass-</span><span class=""></span><span>movements/</span><span class=""></span><span>rethinking-social-movements#TOC</span><span class=""></span>-Here-s-one-solution</a><div style="width:16px;height:16px;display:inline-block">
�<br></div></span></div></span></h5><div class=""><div><div class=""><div class="" id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562991440411706}.0"><a class="" href="https://sites.google.com/site/multitude2008/Home/politics/towards-leaderless-social-mass-movements/rethinking-social-movements#TOC-Here-s-one-solution" tabindex="-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img class="" src="https://fbstatic-a.akamaihd.net/rsrc.php/v2/y4/r/-PAXP-deijE.gif" alt="" style="background-image: url("https://fbexternal-a.akamaihd.net/safe_image.php?d=AQC32YE4Ar6C_uxm&w=154&h=154&url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fmultitude2008%2F_%2Frsrc%2F1285715895417%2Fconfig%2FSS-2010.09.28-19.17.46.png&cfs=1");"></a><span id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562979160412934}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][1]"></span><span id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562979160412934}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562979160412934}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562979160412934}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]">Excerpt from Multitude site (Creative Commons Attribution):<br>
<br></span></span></span><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562979160412934}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]"><span id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562979160412934}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[5].[1][4][1]{comment562958803748303_562979160412934}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]"><font size="3"><div>
<font size="3"><span style="font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px"><span style="font-size:medium"><span href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text" rel="nofollow">"First proposed</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px"><span style="font-size:medium">�by�</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px"><span style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/tiberius.brastaviceanu" rel="cc:attributionURL" style="color:rgb(0,0,204);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Tiberius Brastaviceanu</a></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px"><span style="font-size:medium">.</span></span></font></div>
<div><font size="3"><hr></font></div>"Build a <i><b>smart widget</b></i> to play the role of <i><b>banner</b></i> for the social movement. N</font><span style="font-size:medium">owadays, e</span><span style="font-size:medium">very
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 <b><i>smart banner</i></b>, a widget, which marks individuals and organizations in the virtual space, which is "wore"<i>�</i>on people's blogs, webpages, Facebook accounts, etc.�</span></span></span></span><div>
<font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><b>"An open data acquisition, analysis, and display system�</b></font></div><div><font size="3">All <b>widgets are connected to a central system</b>.
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 <b>an open system</b>. 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.</font><span style="font-size:medium">�</span></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3"><b>"Spreading mechanism</b></font></div><div><font size="3">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 <b>widget/banner can be terminated</b> from the central system through an open and�democratic�decision making process. Reputation parameters can also be added.�</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div>
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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.<br></span></span></span></div></div></div></div><br></div>