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Rickard Falkvinge: New York Public Library versus Online “Piracy”

Culture, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy

 

Rickard Falkvinge

The Pirate Bay is the World's Most Efficient Public Library

The way media piracy works is that one person or group purchases a work, and then shares it with millions of other people. This supposedly deprives the author or artist of those millions of people’s money. One group has acquired over 50 million media items, and makes each of them available to approximately 20 million people — which must be a tremendous hit to creative professionals’ wallets. This notorious institution is called the New York Public Library.

It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. After all, The Pirate Bay’s community shares significantly less than the New York Public Library: just 1 million items in 2008 (and the collection certainly hasn’t grown 5000% since then). The reason that The Pirate Bay is offensive [efficient and pro-active], and the New York Public Library is not, is because of its efficiency.

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John McGuire: YouTube (13:30) The Dawn of Open-Source Self-Sovereignty & The Human Element

P2P / Panarchy

Phi Beta Iota: 13.5 minutes, a cry from the heart of America, useful as a moment of personal self-reflection.

A short video stressing the importance of Self-Evaluation, Identity Reclamation, and becoming an Agent for the Open-Source post-scarcity era. Thanks for your interest and support!

Other Videos:

John Maguire: YouTube (13:00) The Evolution of Open-Source Science

John Maguire: YouTube (7:36) The Curious Case for Open-Source Religion

John Maguire: YouTube (6:30) Robert Steele, Open-Source, and You

Transcript Below the Line

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Michel Bauwens: One Click Collaborative Politics

P2P / Panarchy, Politics
Michel Bauwens

Co-operative politics for busy people

A new online tool allows co-operatives to make decisions through the internet – meaning members can be more involved

Patrick Kingsley

The Guardian, 22 October 2012

Participatory democracy doesn't work, some say, because it takes too much time. If you've got to take the kids to school, do the shopping and – who knows – maybe have some downtime, you probably haven't got the energy to help run a cooperative bank.

The bureaucracy of cooperative politics, says Charles Armstrong, an anthropologist who has spent years studying communities in Italy and the Scilly Isles, “excludes a lot of people who would otherwise be willing to contribute”.

But what if much of that bureaucracy could be done remotely? For Armstrong, that's not just a hypothetical question. In partnership with Cooperatives UK, he is about to launch a new online tool that allows cooperatives to make decisions through the internet.

It's called One Click Orgs, and caters for groups that want to organise online with a few clicks of the mouse (geddit?) Having targeted non-profit organisations since 2008, from next week it's aimed at co-ops – be they small or large, completely non-hierarchical or managed by a board. “The platform will cover almost every piece of workflow that is part of how a cooperative operates,” says Armstrong. “It means that all the record-keeping – who the members are, what the share holdings are, who's authorised to do what – is automated. If someone wants to make a proposal, that's all electronic. If you're on a train and you have an idea for something, you can initiate that from your phone then and there. And people can vote on that, wherever they are.”

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Reflections: Intelligence for the President Revisited

All Reflections & Story Boards, Economics/True Cost, Education, Innovation, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy, Politics, Resilience
Robert David STEELE Vivas
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http://tinyurl.com/Obama-Intel

I am delighted to find some of my earlier work being looked at with new eyes.

Intelligence for the President–and Everyone Else: How Obama Can Create a Smart Nation and a Prosperous World at Peace (CounterpPunch, Week-End Edition,Feb 29 – Mar 02 2009)

Fixing the White House and National Intelligence  (International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 23/2 2010)

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Berto Jongman: Kristan Wheaton on The New Human Intelligence

Crowd-Sourcing, Innovation, Knowledge, P2P / Panarchy
Berto Jongman

Two pieces .  Another view, a variation of Stefan Dedijer in 1992, “know who knows;” and Robert Steele in 1995 if not earlier, “do not send a spy where a schoolboy can go”

Top 5 Things Only Spies Used To Do (But Everyone Does Now)

#5 — Have a cover story.
#4 — Shake a tail.
#3 — Use passwords and encrypt data.
#2 — Have an agent network.
#1 — Use satellites.

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The New HUMINT?

EXTRACT:

Only an expert case officer with deep contacts can hope to be able to respond to the wide variety of requests for information.  In today's fast moving, crisis-of-the-day type world, the question becomes “Where can I find good sources of information … on this particular topic … quickly?”

Twitter to the rescue!

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Patrick Meier: Hybrid Mergers of Crowdsourcing and Computers

Geospatial, P2P / Panarchy
Patrick Meier

The Limits of Crowdsourcing Crisis Information and The Promise of Advanced Computing

First, I want to express my sincere gratitude to the dozen or so iRevolution readers who recently contacted me. I have indeed not been blogging for the past few weeks but this does notmean I have decided to stop blogging altogether. I’ve simply been ridiculously busy (and still am!). But I truly, truly appreciate the kind encouragement to continue blogging, so thanks again to all of you who wrote in.

Now, despite the (catchy?) title of this blog post, I am not bashing crowd-sourcing or worshipping on the alter of technology. My purpose here is simply to suggest that the crowdsourcing of crisis information is an approach that does not scale very well. I have lost count of the number of humanitarian organizations who said they simply didn’t have hundreds of volunteers available to manually monitor social media and create a live crisis map. Hence my interest in advanced computing solutions.

The past few months at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have made it clear to me that developing and applying advanced computing solutions to address major humanitarian challenges is anything but trivial. I have learned heaps about social computing, machine learning and big data analytics. So I am now more aware of the hurdles but am even more excited than before about the promise that advanced computing holds for the development of next-generation humanitarian technology.

The way forward combines both crowdsourcing and advanced computing. The next generation of humanitarian technologies will take a hybrid approach—at times prioritizing “smart crowdsourcing” and at other times leading with automated algorithms. I shall explain what I mean by smart crowdsourcing in a future post. In the meantime, the video above from my recent talk at TEDxSendai expands on the themes I have just described.

Phi Beta Iota:  Dr. Meier, an absolute pioneer in crisis information management that leverages shared geospatial foundations and brilliant innovative collaborative networks of open source software and a melange of common hand-held cell phones, has bracketed  two of the four pillars of advanced intelligence.  The other two are the whole system model that assumes nothing, and the true cost documentation that assumes nothing.

See Also:

21st Century Intelligence Core References 2007-2013