Cognitive Surplus visualized. Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world. Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration. Clay Shirky: How social media can make history. Gallery e upload 100luoghi. Noinet. P2P Theory. I will respond to the critique later on.
Here are the arguments from Stefan Meretz: “Michel Bauwens has made a proposal for a “median choice of socialist licenses” which is based on the Copyfarleft-License of Dymtri Kleiner. In this post I try to critically analyze his proposal. UnCloud — It's not that kind. Control your own cloud.
The proliferation of social networking and current developments in service-based platforms (what has become known as 'cloud computing') provide explicit examples of the privatization and commodification of social production. What becomes clear is that our experience of the web is bound to inherent paradoxes that are reflected in its technical organization. One of the foundations for its critique relies on the recognition of the ways in which the energies of peer production and social exchange have been expropriated from the commons by the market. unCloud is an application that enables anyone with a laptop to create an open wireless network and distribute their own information. Once it is launched, a passerby using a mobile internet device can connect to this open wireless network. Mesh Networks Research Group.