Event: 30 Jun, 2010 OpenNet Initiative (ONI) Global Summit–Should Cyberspace be Secured as an Open Commons?
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) 2010 Global Summit will convene three high-level panels of experts and practitioners on prominent topics related to cyberspace governance, security, and advocacy. The three panels will be organized as informal “talk show” or “Davos” style format: an active moderator, questions and answers from the audience, and high-level exchanges among the panelists and the …
Journal: Real Estate Crash, Internet Censors, & Commons
The crash in real estate among the very rich who were NOT part of the Wall Street cabal is a fine indicator of “relative valuations.” Bottom line: Everything is worth 50% less now in “real dollars,” and will be worth even less as the US dollar continues to devalue. In other news of idiocy run …
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Journal: Vermont Commons, Secession, & Collapse
Secession is Constitutional, Abraham Lincoln’s unconstitutional pillaging and looting of the South not-with-standing. Few are sufficiently educated to actually know that Lincoln did not free the slaves of the north and west and did not have the Constitutional authority to suspend habeas corpus, conscript men of the north, borrow money to wage war on peacefully …
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Review: Understanding Knowledge as a Commons–From Theory to Practice
Almost a Three–Ambitious Title, Narrow Focus November 29, 2009 Charlotte Hess An MIT publication from 2007, this is actually knowledge from the 2000-2004 timeframe, and it is annoying narrow knowledge written from legal-economic point of view. Well-intentioned, no doubt, this is not the “inter-disciplinary” work that it claims to be, and I demonstrate restraint in …
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The Contested Commons
Michele Flournoy and Shawn Brimley U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings July 2009 Vol. 135/7/1,277 Two officials from the Office of the Secretary of Defense look at a changing and challenging world and what it means for the future of American power. The world is undergoing a profound and lasting shift in the relative balance of power …
Review: Capitalism 3.0–A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons
Coherent and Simple, Not the Whole Story, December 27, 2006
