Getting to Know the Tools
Greetings.I am not yet clear on posting guidelines, editorial policies, nor the full feature set available to standard users in this environment. Anyone in a similar state is invited to offer questions...
View ArticleFighting license problems/proliferation by introducing another license.
Chris Lott at Ruminate, a fine distance education tech blog, posts a link to the Open Education License Draft. My title here is extracted from Lott's pithy description, and the below is excerpted from...
View ArticleThe Fair Music Initiative
In their own words:Fair music is the first global initiative for fairness and justice in the music business. It strives to create awareness for the importance of fair music and to strengthen the...
View ArticleCommons/Enclosure: Opening up the American lawbooks
Originally spotted at the inestimable boingboing.net, here:The nation's laws are supposed to belong to the people, yet they are amazingly hard to get access to.Columbia Law School Professor Tim Wu and...
View ArticleSSRN on Cooperation, Commons
If you are not yet acquainted with Social Science Research Network, take a moment to visit at http://www.ssrn.com. From their FAQ:What is the Social Science Research Network?Social Science Research...
View ArticleShow Me the Fair-Use Money!
Cutting to the chase, original here: Fair Use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws are responsible for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the findings of an...
View ArticleChilled by Respect?
I find it has been almost half a year since I posted anything here. Why should that be? Because I am intimidated by the level of academic rigor in the research summaries and don't want to bring down...
View ArticleThe Foundation for P2P Alternatives
It is such a big world, I should perhaps not feel bad for not having found this resource sooner, but I am kicking myself for only getting there today. The Foundation for P2P Alternative is a tremendous...
View ArticleThe Literacy of Cooperation, Video 1, entry 1
I am starting the task of working my way through the Literacy of Cooperation videos. I will comment here as I can. If you haven't already viewed these then maybe you can be enticed to follow along with...
View ArticleThe Darwin Project
The Darwin Project describes "first-half Darwinism" the competition narrative derived by some from Darwin's "The Descent of Man". From their splash page:In the Descent of Man Charles Darwin wrote only...
View ArticleOne Web Day 2008
One Web Day is an initiative started in 2006 to create for the web something akin to what Earth Day is for the planet. As humans are doing things to the planet which in time (short time!) could destroy...
View ArticleDuties
I found a text on line today, but it probably isn't authorized by the rights holder. I wrote a letter to the likely rights holder, notifying her of the existence of this on line version of the text,...
View ArticleRevisiting Doctorow's "Metacrap"
Cory Doctorow's acerbic essay, Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia came up in conversation today, and I thought that a good excuse to revisit this short gem. Here's a pull...
View ArticleAnatol Rappoport: More Than a Footnote in Axelrod
In conversation elsewhere I've had cause to discuss the writings of game theorist and mathematical psychologist (and peace activist) Anatol Rappoport. This, in turn, set me surfing. I was agog to read...
View ArticleThe Literacy of Cooperation, Video 1, entry 2
The Best Place to Store My Catch is In My Neighbor's BellyStill early in the video, Howard introduces a pivotal idea, which I will paraphrase as, "Cooperation is reinforced by surplus." This certainly...
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 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 would...
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 an...
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