Yoda: Peer Review Stifles Innovation

Multi-part problem. Does the peer review process stifle scientific innovation? A new study suggests the current model may succeed in keeping out the scientific riff-raff, but its maintenance of the status quo comes with a drawback, the study’s authors argue — the regular rejection of cutting-edge work.

Jean Lievens: Nora McDevitt on Living in the 21st Century – The Sharing Economy, Peer to Peer, Climate Change, and The Last 5 Billion

Living in the 21st Century: The Sharing Economy, Peer to Peer, Climate Change, and The Last 5 Billion EXTRACT This fast-moving, transformative, technological revolution will continue to unseat the old paradigm in ways that we have only begun to fathom. The old model of leadership enforces a top-down paradigm, and coined by Shepard Fairley as …

Hunter Newby: Infrastructure Peering — A Physical Layer Understanding of Net Neutrality

Hunter Newby is the CEO of Allied Fiber, a carrier neutral provider of dark fiber with a national footprint addressing the lack of accessible dark fiber in the market by making it available for long term lease. He is a twelve year veteran of the telecom networking industry and has built a depth of creative …

Jean Lievens: YouTube – 14 Minutes with Michel Bauwens, Founder of Peer to Peer (P2P) Foundation

Truth and coherence are emphasized. Michel Bauwens (Belgium) is a leading theorist on Peer to Peer (P2P) Economics. He is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He has been an analyst for the United …