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  Posted: August 4th, 2008, 10:00pm PDT

  • Once media-shy Taliban go hi-tech in propaganda war - Yahoo! News
    With their own website, magazines, DVDs, audio cassettes, pamphlets and mobile phones, the ICG says, the Taliban are able to capitalize on mistakes made by the government and its allies and reveal their own "inflated tales of battlefield exploits."
  • P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Types of connectivity
    From Chris Lucas, who uses complexity sciences and the spiral dynamics system to distinguish nine different types of connectivity; it all seems very logical and plausible though I have the gravest reservations about coral which seems like a deus-ex-machina solution
  • Calculation in-Natura, from Neurath to Kantorovich
    can we forego money for a complex economy? Paul Cockshott, drawing on Neurath and others, says we can.
  • Potlatch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    The status of any given family is raised not by who has the most resources, but by who distributes the most resources. Sponsors of a potlatch give away many useful items
  • Taking social networks abroad - Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan
    The world’s two largest social networks, MySpace and Facebook, barely register in Japan.
  • P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Design in a P2P world: interview by Julien McHardy
    The recognition that value is not something designer inject into objects but a relational property of the network of designer, objects and users has wide implications on the role of all parties hereto.
  • Amazon.com: Selected Stories: Theodore Sturgeon: Books - Skills of Xanadu
    inspired Ted Nelson's Xanadu hypertext system. Essentially, everyone on a planet wears a nanotech networked somewhat-self-replicating computer giving them access to all human knowledge through a sort of peer-to-peer telepathy, and another hierarchically oriented society shows up to conquer them.
  • Amazon.com: To Marry Medusa: Theodore Sturgeon: Books
    puts into conflict a p2p consciousness made of individual people vs. an single amazing unity of most of the rest of the galaxy's organisms.
  • [LAFKON] - A movie about Trusted Computing.
  • OSCOMAK Semantic Community On Manufactured Artifacts and Know-how
    The OSCOMAK project will foster a community in which many interested individuals will contribute to the creation of a distributed global repository of manufacturing knowledge about past, present and future processes, materials, and products. OSCOMAK stands for "OSCOMAK Semantic Community On Manufactured Artifacts and Know-how".
  • Kurtz and Fernhout
    Paul has been working on the OSCOMAK, OpenVirgle, Pointrel, and PataPata projects. He also has posted stuff on sustainability, space habitats, F/OSS issues, and programming to various news groups, as well as slashdot and elsewhere.
  • The Original Affluent Society--Marshall Sahlins
    "Hunter-gatherers consume less energy per capita per year than any other group of human beings. Yet when you come to examine it the original affluent society was none other than the [hunter-gatherers'] - in which all the people's material wants were easily satisfied. To accept that [hunter-gatherers] are affluent is therefore to recognise that the present human condition of [humanity] slaving to bridge the gap between ... unlimited wants and ... insufficient means is a tragedy of modern times."
  • Why Work? // Featured Book Excerpt
    In my Shelter magazine of 1930-33 and in my 1938 book Nine Chains to the Moon, I identified this progressive doing-more-with-less as ephemeralization.
  • Voyage from Yesteryear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Since the availability of power from fusion reactors and cheap automated labor has enabled them to develop a post-scarcity economy, they do not use money as a means of exchange, nor do they recognize material possessions as symbols of status. Instead, competence and talent are considered symbolic of one's social standing-resources that cannot be counterfeited or hoarded
  • Innovate: Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum
    In the rhizomatic model of learning, curriculum is not driven by predefined inputs from experts; it is constructed and negotiated in real time by the contributions of those engaged in the learning process. This community acts as the curriculum, spontaneously shaping, constructing, and reconstructing itself and the subject of its learning in the same way that the rhizome responds to changing environmental conditions