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Solidary for All in Greece (2): Imagine the City 27 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
Excerpted from Julia Amalia Heyer‘s report for Der Spiegel: “For Karantza, the crisis represents an opportunity for change. She and Stephania Xydia, 26, founded a non-governmental organization called...
Optimism is a Political Act 27 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Excerpts from a text by Alex Steffen : “Optimism is a political act. Entrenched interests use despair, confusion and apathy to prevent change. They encourage modes of thinking which lead us to belie...
Spanish study: collaborative culture in the entreprise 27 Aug 2013 | 03:54 am
From Ernesto Van Peborgh: “El Viaje de Odiseo investigates the potential of social networking related to communication, knowledge management and collaborative work inside big corporations. Since 200...
Project of the Day: Next System Project 27 Aug 2013 | 02:20 am
Next System Project Introduction “a multi-year initiative aimed at developing the carefully researched and comprehensive proposals required to deal with the systemic challenges—environmental, econom...
Open machining status update: Open Tech Forever’s Cooperative Barn Raise 27 Aug 2013 | 02:05 am
“Open Tech Forever is an open source hardware co-operative based in Denver CO. We’re building a micro factory 10 minutes North of Denver. This video documents stage one of our barn // workshop renovat...
Fora do Eixo’s adaptation to and appropriation of, network forms (2) 26 Aug 2013 | 07:52 pm
“The network’s establishment of national headquarters in S˜ao Paulo, and its need to reach out to musicians who gained visibility prior to their participation in Fora do Eixo, reveals the limitations ...
Rich get Richer effect empirically observed in Bitcoin’s evolution 26 Aug 2013 | 06:25 pm
Excerpted from Technology Review, which reviews a arxiv published study: “In 2011, however, BitCoin began to get significant media coverage which attracted many more users. The currency also became m...
The Parody of the Commons 26 Aug 2013 | 12:56 pm
A new essay titled “The Parody of the Commons” and written by P2P Lab collaborators has just been published at the open access journal TripleC: This essay builds on the idea that Commons-based peer p...
Project of the Day: Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science 25 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science = Public Lab is a community where you can learn how to investigate environmental concerns. Using inexpensive DIY techniques, we seek to change how pe...
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri on the Felicitious Encounter in the Urban Commons 25 Aug 2013 | 06:20 am
Excerpted from Gabriel Murgar: “In Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s recent book, “Commonwealth” the authors focus on the idea of the city as a location where the disenfranchised are able to organize...
