Let me start with a disclaimer: I have not watched the KONY2012 video. Just listening to it made me feel a bit uneasy (my fiancée watched on her laptop whilst we both worked at home sitting opposite each other at our dining table). I have, however, been familiar with the work of Invisible Children since March 2006 (doesn't the Internet age fast? all links on that post but theirs' have since expired). Not long after that, I organised a screening of their first self-entitled film and to be … [Read more...]
What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire
"A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle" This is a really well put together film. Highly recommended. You can buy the film from the official website or download it using this torrent … [Read more...]
Email to Toby Hemenway re: Piracy
NOTE: I've had a series of increasingly great responses from Toby - please see the comments Toby Hemenway, a leading permaculture author sent me a message with very very thinly veiled threat to sue me for including his great book Gaia's Garden here https://files.uniteddiversity.com/Permaculture/ (someone else has also put it up on Scribd) Here is the text of his message: at https://files.uniteddiversity.com/Permaculture/ you have a pirated copy of my book, Gaia's Garden. My publisher, Chelsea … [Read more...]
Most retweeted P2P Foundation articles
Via Topsy: * Estimating the Development Cost of Open Source Software * The 10 Most Important P2P Trends of the Year * Cory Doctorow. Makers * Abundance Creates Utility But Destroys Exchange Value * Greenwashing or conscious capitalism? * Will the Web bankrupt government? * Facebook and your data * Could American Democracy survive 13 million foreclosures? View original post … [Read more...]
The decentralisation of Pirate Bay filesharing
Following a suggestion by Rasmus Fleischer, a leading member of the Pirate Bureau, Torrentfreak concludes: “The Pirate Bay will dissolve, but in its place many “new TPBs” will return, just without the familiar domain name and pirate ship logo. This is very similar to a concept Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde had in mind for the new Pirate Bay. A decentralized setup through which the ‘torrent site’ controls only a tiny part of the ’sharing’ process. At the basis of this new scheme are two … [Read more...]
Hyperlocal file sharing: The Pirate Kiosk brings the Pirate Bay to the streets
Many sites and projects have rushed to the rescue ever since the Pirate Bay announced its intended sale back in June. Opentracker wants to take over the Pirate Bay's tracker duties, and Torrage wants to step in as an independent torrent file hoster, just to name two. And then there is the Pirate Kiosk - an exact copy of the Pirate Bay that's run out of an old newsstand and that can only be accessed via Wifi. pirate kiosk From kioskofpiracy.org: "(A) copy of the infamous Pirate Bay is … [Read more...]
Wikipedia + Flickr = Fotopedia
I am a huge fan of Wikipedia, one of the greatest achievements of sharing; I also enjoy wandering around Flickr, although its lack of over-arching organisation makes that hard to do. Maybe this is perfect solution: Fotopedia, "the first collaborative photo encyclopedia", which uses text from Wikipedia, but only to provide what amount to extended captions for the pix, which are generally very attractive.It's not the first to do this - VisWiki has been around for some time - but Fotopedia seems … [Read more...]
Open Everything
Today, an Open Everything event will take place at the Paraflows Festival in Vienna, Austria. Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation is the main speaker. Franz Nahrada and Ralf Schlatterbeck will follow up with the hardware side of open production, with Factor e Farm and Open Source Ecology as a case in point. We prepared a short video - which Ralf will present - on creating a post-scarcity village on the scale of 30 acres. The essence of such a village is open technology and knowhow. This video … [Read more...]
Biosphere Home Farming from Philips designers
See larger image here. by Clive van Heerden, August 6, 2009 Looking into the economics and politics of rising food prices and theories about impending food shortages led us to create the “food farm” to test peoples sensitivity to the issue. We wanted to develop something initially that would supplement the nutritional needs of a family living in high rise accommodation, without drawing electricity or gas. The ‘’diagnostic kitchen’’ concept is a response to the global diet business and obsession … [Read more...]
Peer to peer ‘unclasses’
Springwise reports on the LaidOffCamp initiative: “Unconferences have become increasingly common over the past decade or so, notable in particular for their low-key structure and participant-driven format. LaidOffCamp is one such example, and now—inspired, in fact, by that initiative—the concept has been applied to education with the launch of (un)classes. Aiming to provide a more casual and ad hoc way for people to learn something new during their limited free time, the (un)classes website … [Read more...]
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