First of all for the Oekonux community itself (really an interlocking of several inter-related networks, one of them being the P2P Foundation). For the P2P Foundation itself, which was co-organizing, the meeting will have been instrumental in turning the Association of Peer to Peer Researchers, hitherto a virtual association working through a mailing list, into a real institution, which will be based in Hull, and should be of great help in generating funding for peer to peer research. The 4th Oekonux Conference is over and it was not just a terribly interesting one (not a single lecture I attended was wasted time, and people were raving about the one’s I missed), but also, I believe, a historical milestone of sorts.

It also signifies that while we work on the autonomy and social reproduction of sharing and commons-based communities, we need to critically ally ourselves, based on common interests (while also be aware of differential interests) of the new netarchical forces that are converting, and thereby strengthening the emergence of the P2P alternatives. The Obama coalition represents the conjunction of Wall Street, hence the doomed-to-fail attempts to restore the old predatory financial system; the high tech sector most conducive to P2P-influenced economic models (hence the ‘open’ nature of theother

I looked for 10, but came up with the following 6, as the most important trends that originated in 2008, but will make themselves felt quite strongly in 2009. was tempted to add p2p currency and p2p energy developments, but I think while there was a lot of discourse about it, I haven’t seen too many realisations yet. All this is being used in the context of many new initiatives for more peer-oriented I One exception may be the mobile currencies in Africa.

Much of the content is still as relevant today, and particularly relate to our p2p concerns. Tags: P2P Theor I was recently contacted by Gus diZerega, a post-Wilberian integrative thinker who has been studying “emergence”, and started a website with online journal, Studies in Emergent Order . One of his articles, New Directions in Emergent Order Research , from the Fall 2008 issue, charts out the aims of the project and its historical grounding.

A meditation on P2P ethics by Ryan Lanham : Can they be applied to a new age media phenomenon like P2P? modernism of the P2P world is like setting a skyscraper next to old art gallery. Mostly P2P mensches try very hard to make sense of what’s going on. A mensch is a person of integrity and honor .

What has been important in 2009, that is not reflected here? Whether it’s the P2P Foundation or many of our brother, sister, or ‘cousin’ organizations, all of us feel that 2009 was a breakthrough year in terms of growing attention and recognition. Tags: Link recommendations Open Models P2P Politic Below, I’m focusing on trends in business and politics. WHAT DID I FORGET?

Tags: P2P Healthcar Insulin-dependent diabetics, for example, quickly learn how to manage their blood glucose levels at home by matching their insulin dosage to changes in their diet and physical activity. Many diabetics have also joined online communities to share information and advice, sometimes viewing each other as more trusted advisors than their own doctors. Diabetics who

Ryan Lanham has been continuing his work on establishing the Core P2P Collaboration Principle s, which takes a more ethical approach to P2P. Ryan Lanham: “A peer-to-peer (P2P) project is not suitably classified under any mainstream economic system. That’s because the motivations behind P2P are fundamentally different than those allowed for in conventional political economic theories. I’ve asked him to elaborate on his point of view for our blog. In a capitalist system, a person acts to maximize profit in a transaction.

Full reprint of an i mportant editorial by Alan Rosenblith : “I f there is one over-arching trend in the information age, it is towards p2p architecture . P2P is more efficient since resources are not needed to maintain access hubs (think Skype, Limewire, etc). The evolution towards p2p is a continuation of what happened to scribes when the printing press was invented. How to best transcend the current economic mess? Put Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Nathan Myhrvold, and Danny Hillis in a room somewhere and don’t let

Here, we’re only reproducing the questions about the P2P Foundation project itself, since it provides some extra personal details which are not usually available. “ You were an information scientist and magazine editor before you started the P2P Foundation. So in October 2002, I decided to quit my corporate engagement, take a sabbatical to think things through, and moved to Thailand to create a global cyber-collective to research and promote P2P dynamics. V. Sasi Kumar undertook a lengthy interview after my visit to Kerala in December 2008.