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 Data, Opendata, WikiData
[via Social Synergy Weblog][bliki | What is bliki?]Slashdot reports about Google's launch of Google Spreadsheet. While this may be an attempt on Google's part to try and insert advertising into new...
View ArticleThe Shifting Hub
A new study by the New England Complex Science Institute looks at the stability of highly connected "hubs" in social networks(quoted from NECSI Press release):If you’re one of sixty million or so...
View ArticleUsing Technologies of Cooperation, Knowledge Commons, and Foresight to Avert...
O'Rielly networks published some articles today on using rapid deployment of open source telephony tools to help survive a possible pandemic.The introduction For SARS Press 1, for Bird Flu Press 2......
View ArticleWhat You Should Know About Copyright
[orginally posted at Social Synergy, via BoingBoing]Why should you become literate about the way that copyright works? Think about the amount of media in the form of books, movies, music, video games,...
View ArticleWireless Internet Commons
onthecommons.org has an informative post about Pierre deVries of the New America Foundation and his working paper, “Populating the Vacant Channels.” (PDF) The foundational idea of the paper is that, in...
View ArticleYouTube Whistle Blowing
[Bliki|What is a Bliki?]The Washington Post reports that Lockheed engineer Michael De Kort became frustrated after he repeatedly warned Coast Gaurd officials about security problems,and cold weather...
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 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 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 ArticleOpenID-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 Data, Opendata, WikiData
[via Social Synergy Weblog][bliki | What is bliki?]Slashdot reports about Google's launch of Google Spreadsheet. While this may be an attempt on Google's part to try and insert advertising into new...
View ArticleThe Possibilities of "Synergizing" (a framework for doing more with less)
[via P2P Foundation Weblog]A set of dilemmas that I face, and that I presume a lot of other people face, in collaborating and cooperating online are:Information overload: There is so much to process...
View ArticleThe Peer-Production/Wisdom of Crowds Debate contd.
[originally posted to Social Synergy Weblog]Fellow Cooperation Commons blogger Michel Bauwens has initiated a blog-debate (a "grid blog"?) about Marc Fawza's "The Unwisdom of Crowds" ideas.Michel's...
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 ArticleRootsCamp: Civic Engagement Un-Conference
Chris Messina writes:I'd like to welcome RootsCamp to the BarCamp family. This is an idea that's been pioneered of Zack Exley (zackexley.com) and Nica Lorber that I think you all should take a look at:...
View ArticleSellaband and Musical Innovation
OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » Sellaband - A Truly Distributed Music BusinessReceived this message today from Michel Bauwens:Today Johan Vosmeijer and Pim Betist of Sellaband.com will start writing...
View ArticleStudy: Groups outperform the best individuals at problem solving
[Thanks Madtom]A study by Patrick R. Laughlin, Erin C. Hatch, Jonathan S. Silver, and Lee Boh of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, published in the APA Journal of Personality and Social...
View ArticleStudy Shows Cockroaches Make Group Decisions
[via Slashdot]A study outlined in ths month'sPNAS talks about evidence that cockroaches communicate and make group deicisions.Discover Channel News Online reports: Halloy tested cockroach group...
View ArticleSymbiosis And Living Machines
Human-Plant/Animal Species Symbiosis The nature of human cooperation with other species is now largely a based upon a symbiotic structure that has changed very little since the dawn of agriculture in...
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