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This is a crucial statement, below: P2P Foundation Does peer production destroy profits? How true: "In my own formulation it says that we now have a society, where the creation of use value grows exponentially, but the growth of monetization of this use value grows only linearly.." THAT is the real challenge for next-generation media business models. Another quote: "Is this perhaps what is happening...
Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation, is trying to raise funds to expand the Foundation's activities. The quality of writing on the P2P Foundation blog is incomparable, and I have relied heavily on material in the P2P Wiki on peer production, open source manufacturing, and desktop manufacturing, in writing Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen of my org theory manuscript . I...
We’ve recently been in conversation with various individuals about starting a project to map open projects and groups. People who have been particularly keen include: Panagiota Alevizou, London School of Economics Michel Bauwens, P2P FoundationJuan Carlos De Martin, COMMUNIA Heather Ford, iCommons David J Patrick, Linuxcaffe Mark Surman, Shuttleworth Foundation and soon of the Mozilla...
Via Glyn Moody. Members of this community and readers of the P2P Foundation blog are probably familiar with the thesis of Adam Arvidsson and myself on the crisis of value. In my own formulation it says that we now have a society, where the creation of use value grows exponentially, but the growth of monetization of this [...]
There’s a lot of movement on the ‘fabbing’ front, i.e. the ability to make 3D objects out of the comfort of your home (by either owning a 3D printer, or sending it by email to a company which sends you the object). This is important to the P2P Foundation, because it is one of the underlying [...]
One of the things we follow at the P2P Foundation is the social conflicts that arise around peer to peer logics of cooperation, and a few months ago, we attempted to formulate a typology of social relations in the article, The Social Web and its Social Contracts (some interesting comments by Geoff Cox are here). In [...]
As Gerrit Visser reminds us of this most wonderful website, service, and movement: “ Worldchanging was founded on the idea that real solutions already exist for building the future we want. it’s just a matter of grabbing hold and getting moving.” This is very much inline with the spirit of the age and our own philosophy at the P2P Foundation . Similarly inspired initiatives are: 1) Attainable...
