Eben Moglen, law professor at Columbia university (NYC) and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center.
Video: FreedomBox v Facebook
Audio: Before and After IP: Ownership of Ideas in the 21st Century (mp3)
Autonomous [Free, Distributed] Internet
The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Eben Moglen, law professor at Columbia university (NYC) and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center.
Video: FreedomBox v Facebook
Audio: Before and After IP: Ownership of Ideas in the 21st Century (mp3)
Autonomous [Free, Distributed] Internet
Bahrain, Egypt-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Lebanon, Libya, Libya-India, Comment on No-Fly Zones, Special Comment on Aid to Uprisings and Mercenaries

Samuel Rose created Socialsynergyweb.com to help people deal with the complexities of knowledge, understanding, change, human systems, evolution, foresight, cooperation and collaboration, and technology. This business is now integrated into both Forward Foundation and Future Forward Institute.
He is a principal contributor to the Autonomous Internet Road Map.
He is interested in effective knowledge synthesis, and in exploring and developing the concepts of open knowledge, open design, and open business.
He is involved in a growing list of blogs, wikis, social software experiments and developings, including CoummunityWiki, Meatball Wiki, Cooperation Commons Weblog, Smartmobs Weblog.
Past clients have included Howard Rheingold, MacArthur Foundation, MIT Press, Stanford University, USDA, David Korten and People Centered Development Forum, and the Cooperation Commons and Social Media Classroom community.
twitter: @SamRose

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part of http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Geography
and updated via http://delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Mapping
A righteous question.Ā Ā There is no complete answer, but there is a process answer.
Human truth is that “best truth” devised and defined by a collective of humans who communicate with clarity; appreciate and embrace diversity of view and factor in a holistic fashion; embody integrity in every aspect of their behavior, existence, and reflections; and are committed to a sustainable future for humanity, to wit, a prosperous world at peace.
Robert David Steele-Vivas
Electronic communication, 3 March 2011
Persistent URL:Ā http://tinyurl.com/Steele-Truth
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Professor Eben Moglen is a long-standing champion of free and open source software and one of the top twelve to twenty-five minds thinking deeply in the English language about the future of the Internet consistent with creating a prosperous world at peace.Ā Among many other accomplishments, including global mind-melds in multiple languages, Professor Moglen is the founding director of the Software Freedom Law Center, and most recently, the FreedomBox Foundation.
See Especially:
Before and After IP: Ownership of Ideas in the 21st Century, Digital Studies Group, CUNY Graduate Center, November 17. 2010 (audio stream). Download: Ogg Vorbis | MP3

I spend a lot of time looking at and writing about disruptive business models, and lately I have been talking about a handful that I think are really meaningful that will continue to mature over time and work their way into lots of other industries. 1) Friending. 2) Getting nothing, but paying for it. 3) Getting something, but not paying for it. 4) David beating Goliath. 5) Adding a third party to two party transactions. Visit Blog for full text accompanying each of the above. Phi Beta Iota: At DEMO Spring 2011 the deep persistent theme was the embedding of social media into everything.Ā Ā This is also one of the themes in Jane McGonigal's book, Reality Is BrokenāWhy Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World.