The Literacy of Cooperation, Video 1, entry 2
The Best Place to Store My Catch is In My Neighbor's Belly Still early in the video, Howard introduces a pivotal idea, which I will paraphrase as, "Cooperation is reinforced by surplus." This certainly...
View ArticleIASC CONFERENCE: Creating a political voice for 'commons'
Next week the 12th Biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC) will be held at the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, England. One of the events that...
View ArticleDiscussing New Commons at the IASC Conference
The IASC Conference started yesterday with a series of pre-conference workshops. One of them was on New Commons organized by Charlotte Hess. She was presenting an overview of academic work on 'new'...
View ArticleAn experiment on collaboration: trying to change the world
Ever wondered what you could do to change the world? Just decide, say it publicly, and things will start to happen. This is the theory behind a lot of the recent (and not so recent) ideas that float...
View ArticleHow much of a Buddhist do you have to be to use Twitter?
From what I see, there are 2 ways to look at Twitter: - an instant messenger for exhibitionists - a tool to add another layer of randomness into your life Now who would want to use this? Are you an...
View ArticleThe Economist on the Commons
This week's Economics Focus on The Economist is entitled Commons Sense and talks about the study of the commons and the IASC conference. Charlotte Hess and Elinor Ostrom are quoted, and the article...
View ArticleOpen Everything
P2P Foundation has announced an Open Everything topic area at the P2P Foundation wiki, and CoCo is pleased to spread the word. From the Open Everything home page: Open Everything is a global...
View ArticleHow Brands and their evangelists should manage blogs
Just like with the internet websites of web1.0, companies are slowly getting into social media and web2.0: many companies today have blogs, and try to establish a presence in the blogosphere through...
View ArticleHoward Rheingold's 2005 TED Talk
Not the first time I've been late to the party, and if you haven't already seen Howard's 2005 TED Talk, take a look now. Around minute 9 Howard says, "The fundamental basis of neo-classic economics...
View ArticleFrom NY Times - RenGen: A new generation poised to invent
Interesting article from the New York Times: "their agenda is to collaborate, to connect and to create. They don’t respond to directive. They respond to teaming"
View Article93% of americans want companies to have a presence on Social Media Sites
From ReadWriteWeb: According to the 2008 Cone Business in Social Media Study, 93% of Americans believe that a company should have a presence on social media sites and 85 percent believe that these...
View ArticleReframeit!
Just downloaded the Firefox extension from Reframeit. This is a great tool that allows you to comment on any page on the web, and see comments by others. It should make the experience of reading the...
View ArticleTop 150 social media blogs
My friends at eCairn just released that Top 150 social media blogs list, ranked based on a relevance formula that mix topic and topology relevance - not crowdsourcing, actual science:...
View ArticleA new essay by Xavier Comtesse - Direct Territories
After his essay on Direct Economy, Xavier Comtesse (www.thinkstudio.com) is coming out with a new essay (in French for now) on Direct Territories. Here is a short summary of the essay: >> Summary...
View ArticleHow to manage engagement and participation - the democratic process in a...
eCairn recently published a very interesting analysis on what happens when you open a site and ask people to contribute ideas. They mention Dell Ideastorm and the Obama administration Citizen's...
View ArticleNew Territories - New Currencies
I discussed in a previous post presenting Xavier Comtesse work on the matter how New Territories are emerging as a result of the disconnection between the business layer and geographical limits as...
View ArticleHow to manage communication within your company: the end of the email nightmare
I recently received a message from somebody who had declared "email bankruptcy": basically his email inbox was getting so big, and he was falling so far behind, that he gave up on trying to manage the...
View ArticleSSRN Abstract: Lemley's "Property, Intellectual Property, and Free Riding"
From the text: "...copying information actually multiplies the available resources, not only by making a new physical copy but by spreading the idea and therefore permitting others to use and enjoy it....
View ArticleAbstract: Manifesto for the Reputation Society by Hassan Masum and Yi–Cheng...
From the text: "Reputation is a surrogate — a partial reflection representing our "best educated guess" of the underlying true state of affairs. Active evaluation by looking behind surface signals can...
View ArticleOpen Access Journal: tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-operation
From the triple C home page: The Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society provides a forum to discuss the challenges humanity is facing today. It promotes contributions within...
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