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April 30, 2009 at 1:34 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I just decided to upgrade my site a bit and chose to try to do it all in Silverlight 2 (there is no public runtime for Silverlight 3 out yet, it’s expected to launch this August or so). It’s really work in progress, but I will be uploading every time I have a new build that makes sense, so please feel free to comment, suggest, criticize, scold, praise or make suggestions to stuff I really need to do on there or tips and tricks to doing things better and smarter.
I really hope you will take the time to give the new site a spin and get back to me right here with your thoughts. Really, I need it. Thanks.
March 27, 2009 at 2:19 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Today I attended two keynotes on the limitations of peer production by Stefan Merton and another on the social organization of peer production by Mathieu O’Neil(Which, it turns out, is not at all based on equelibrety and therefore ‘peer’ might not be the right word. I prefer distributed in this context.)Both presentations ended in truly passionate and enlightened debates. one central issue in both discussions was the relationship between peer production and the existing capitalist system.It’s a really long discussion, but I think that what we are experiencing is a transition from one way of organizing production to another. That peer production as a logic of organization rather than an ideology will eventually out compete the industrial logic on sheer effectiveness. That means that it really isn’t relevant to talk about peer production as opposed to capitalism. The way I see it peer production is what capitalist industrialism is evolving into as we speak.
It’s a matter of logic, not ideology.
March 27, 2009 at 5:05 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I am currently attending the Oekonux 4 conference held at the University of Manchester by the P2P Foundation. The next few blog post will address some key issues discussed at the conference that maybe even shed some light on matters related to the subject matter of the conference: “Free Software and Beyond - The World of Peer Production”. What I am especially interested in still in anticipation of the first keynote is:
- The organization of peer production: Are we still going to have companies as we know them producing our assets, or will we see a completely different organization of production and labour?
- The limitations of peer production: We know peer production works on digital products such as open source software, music, and design, but where are the limits of when peer production is the most effective organization of production? Services? Cars? Food?
- Practical implications: How do you actually set up peer production?
I might find some further issues that are more relevant, but if these questions sound intriguing hang on for updates over the next few days. Thanks.
August 2, 2008 at 4:32 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but I have been off the air for quite a long time. The reason - there is, of cause, a reason - is that I have started a new and equally exiting job at connecting cubes where we help companies and organizations who have seen their single string value chain explode into a supply- and value chain network communicate and manage relations and organization. However, I have a few posts on the sketching board including one about The Economist’s report on web 2.0 and business and some windy reflections on my recent trip to New York.
January 9, 2008 at 2:19 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Network enterprise. Peer production. Crowd sourcing. Any of these concepts sound familiar? If not they will, and in a shorter time frame than you should think. As men, women, children and even pets move online, so do businesses of all shapes and colours. Distributed business models are still young but they are gaining more and more inflence. First the music business suffered severe punishment for not converting their business model to a distrubuted marketplace, and now software, t-shirts, and even cars are developed through different degrees of distributed production.
But so far the jungle of distributed business has been uncharted territory. But theenthusiastic people of the P2P Foundation have started an exciting new meme mapping project for P2P Business. Plaese go there and help out if you can. The outset for the project is this still rough but informative outline of a P2P business meme map:
Because many people doing each a little bit of the work are more efficient and flexible than few people doing all the work.
