OpenID-Decentralized Open Standards For Online Identity
Slashdot | The Case for OpenIDIn the wake of the Internet Identity Workshop 2006, people are talking more and more about the idea of an "identity commons" and basing identity around open...
View ArticleP2P International Currency Exchange
[Originally Posted at P2P Foundation][bliki | what is a bliki?][via P2P Blog]Moneytwins.com describes itself as:"..the first service that allows individuals and small companies to exchange their...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing
[bliki | What is a bliki?]Back in January of this year I blogged on smartmobs.com about an interesting blog posting from Jeff Jarvis.The idea that I talked about at the time, inspired by Jarvis' post...
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Audience 2.0 Launch!
Be sure to spread the word about the launch of Audience 2.0 magazine! The magazine is published by participatory media innovator by Micheal Pick. Issue 1 will be about Defining Audience 2.0 , and will...
View ArticleConsumer Emissions Trading Online
[via Smartmobs.com]Emissions Trading first surfaced in the 1970's in the US, and more recently1990 Acid Rain Program of the Clean Air Act. The idea was to create a system that issued credits to...
View ArticleCommunityWikiBank Experiment
[Bliki | What is a Bliki?]CommunityWiki.org defines itself this way:This is a jam-session. We don’t know where we are going. We talk about communities both online and offline: Management, teaching,...
View ArticleCollactive: Online Political Swarming
Earlier in 2006, Aran Reshef and Amir Hirsh folded their unique anti-spam service, Blue Frog, due to a massive cyber-attack that was following them across the Internet.Blue Frog worked by automating...
View ArticleCitizenEngagedGovernment
[Via Social Synergy Wiki]Wikipedia:Zephyr_Teachout, Director of Internet Organizing for HowardDean’s presidential campaign, posted an election day blog posting to New Assignment with some suggestions...
View ArticleCan Collective Action Stop Spam From Ruining The Internet?
[via Social Synergy Weblog][bliki]Steve Rubel has a great little article on micropersuasion about how previewing an upcoming Wired magazine piece about how "sploggers", blogs created to tap into...
View ArticleCan A Literacy of Cooperation Inform Carbon Trading Schemes?
[bliki | What is a bliki?]Carbon Trading Scheme experiments are happening in industrial sector markets, like ETS, that allow carbon dioxide-emitting industries to buy credits. They are also also being...
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Boston Launches Small Business Incentive Card Program
[via Boston Business Journal]The neighborhood of Roslindale, in the City of Boston, has adopted the use of the Interra Incentive Card. Interra is designed to be a consumer rewards program that gives...
View ArticleBliki (blog+wiki)
[via Social Synergy Weblog][bliki | What is a bliki?]From now on, in all of the posts that I make here in this blog, as well as posts to Cooperation Commons and Smartmobs, and original writings to any...
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Audience 2.0 Launch!
Be sure to spread the word about the launch of Audience 2.0 magazine! The magazine is published by participatory media innovator by Micheal Pick. Issue 1 will be about Defining Audience 2.0 , and will...
View ArticleDid Cooperation Give Early Humans A Competitive Edge?
[via New Scientist]Augustin Fuentes at the University of Notre Dame hypothesizes that Paranthropus went extinct because early Homo(human ancestor) species were more adept at...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs of Cooperation Essay
[bliki| What is a bliki?]Jonathan Rowe has an excellent essay published at onthecommons.org that discusses historic examples of successful cooperative economies that emerged during the Great Depression...
View ArticleOnTheCommons.org Resources
On The Commons is a great resource and blog for understanding what a "commons" is.On The Commons defines a commons this way:The commons is a new way to express a very old idea — that some forms of...
View ArticleNewAssignment.net: An experiment in participatory journalism
[bliki | what is a bliki?][via BuzzMachine]Jay Rosen has launched an open source and open funded journalism experiment called NewAssignment.net. Here's how it works:Alright, what is it?In simplest...
View ArticleNew Summary: David Bollier, When Push Comes To Pull
When Push comes To Pull: The New Economy and Culture of Networking TechnologyAuthor/Editor: Bollier, David;Source:...
View ArticleLooking At Social Media Ecologies
Link: Matt McAlister » Challenging why (and how) people tag things.Matt McAlister writes about Bradley Horowitz’s influencer pyramid:"...[it] is a great visualization of how tagging can add value for...
View ArticleJay Rosen:The People Formerly Known As "The Audience"
I 've got a new post up at P2P Foundation blog that covers quite a few Smartmobby subjects. Namely, the idea that control of media content is shifting:We really are currently witnessing an emerging...
View ArticleInternet Enabled Music Collaboration
William Benzon's Beethoven's Anvil: Music in Mind and Culture is a great place to start studying how human music-making is related to the subject of cooperation. From the CooperationCommons.com...
View ArticleHow To Solve The Net Neutrality Problem
[bliki|What is a bliki?]Robert X. Cringely has new posting wherin he discusses his concept of each of us owning our last mile, and cooperatively creating our own "pipes".This connects to an ongoing...
View ArticleGrassroots Use of Technology Conference 2006
[bliki | What is a bliki?]7th Annual Organizers' Collaborative Grassroots Use of Technology Conference Saturday, June 17, 2006 -- 8:30 to 5:30 U of Massachusetts, Boston Wheatley Hall - Snowden...
View ArticleFTC On Net Neutrality: More Of The Same
[via Smartmobs]Broadband Reports posted a news brief yesterday about the FTC hearing on Net Neutrality. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras is quoted"[W]e virtually always...
View ArticleEvolving Distributed Power In Online Communities
The following is from a Comment at BeyondYes in MeatballWiki. We are discussing possible ways that Meatball wiki decision making can happen in a way that distributes power and responsibility to the...
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