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COLLABORATIVE THINKING DECEMBER 31, 2011 Abstract: Social Capital (Key Ideas) Field, J. 2008). Social Capital (2nd ed.). Routledge. Abstract. John Field is Director of the Division of Academic Innovation and Continuing Education at the University of Stirling. His book, Social Capital, is part of a complimentary collection of essays to the series, Key Sociologists. He is best known for the book, “Bowling Alone”. Enterprise 2.0 | P2P FOUNDATION DECEMBER 31, 2011 Samir Amin: the era of social compromise is over Via : At the start of this important essay , Samir Amin writes that: “Contemporary capitalism is a capitalism of generalized monopolies. By this I mean that monopolies are now no longer islands (albeit important) in a sea of other still relatively autonomous companies, but are an integrated system. They are therefore a false alternative. | | | | | | | | | |
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ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2011 Facebook Smart Lists Work Around
In Why Facebook Smart Lists are Actually Dumb , I expressed my annoyance with Facebook for permitting their “smart lists” to interfere with our use of the lists we’ve deliberately created in order to manage our Facebook friends. ” I’ve devised a simple method to work around the Facebook Smart List glitch. MORE >> -
P2P FOUNDATION | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2011 P2P Person of the Day: Richard Grossman
Source: David Bollier. The lack of constitutional authority for corporate power was Grossman’s abiding passion. He began to dig into that issue by co-founding in the 1990s the activist research group POCLAD, the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy. Corporate personhood had its roots in an 1819 U.S. They are diversions. MORE >> -
P2P FOUNDATION | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2011 Hacking the food system
Marc Alt reflects on the different ways that technology is impacting on the food production system: “The connection between global agricultural data, ecosystem services and the feeding of a growing population is increasingly a focus for world governing bodies, humanitarian NGOs, technology companies and even investment banks and speculators. MORE >>
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