The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Introduction to Cooperation Theory A six week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter to introduce the fundamentals of an interdisciplinary study of cooperation: social dilemmas, institutions for collective action, the commons, evolution of cooperation, technologies of cooperation, and cooperative arrangements in biology from cells to ecosystems. …
People-Powered Markets — 60 Resources There is a growing movement towards peer-to-peer value exchange and production, prompted by a variety of things, like economic conditions, shifting cultural values, exploration into collective intelligence, and further enabled by social technologies. I’ve been tracking the online marketplaces that have been cropping up for sharing, swapping, gifting and renting, …
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Death of the Duopoly Being binary is bad for business, so when will politics cure its bipolar disorder? Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch on the lessons Washington should learn from the real world. By NICK GILLESPIE and MATT WELCH Wall Street Journal, Saturday, June 18, 2011 Nothing in American life today seems as archaic, ubiquitous …
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this is the second post in a series to highlight the people and projects coming together at this year’s Contact Conference, Oct 20, 2011 in NYCOne of the big areas we’ll be highlighting at Contact is ‘next net’ technologies – hardware and software tools that bring people internet access and the ability to connect, communicate …
THE BITCOIN BUBBLE If you haven’t already heard about bitcoin, the first popular cypto-currency, you soon will. The idea for the currency is simple. It’s a software system that makes it possible to manufacture and trade (P2P), in a public and decentralized way, a limited digital resource. That’s it. So why the interest in bitcoin? …
What Happens When Anonymous Gets a Bank? Dominic Basulto on May 18, 2011 bigthink The same people who brought you Wikileaks are back, and this time, they’ve created a virtual currency called Bitcoin that could destabilize the entire global financial system. Bitcoin is an open-source virtual currency generated by a computer algorithm that is completely …
Constructing, living, and demanding Participatory Democracy in the #spanishrevolution Camps Michel Bauwens, 23rd May 2011 We, the unemployed, the underpaid, the subcontracted, the precarious, the young … demand a change towards a future with dignity. We are fed up of reforms, of being laid off, of the banks which have caused the crisis hardening our …
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