By samrose, 12 weeks 4 days ago.

Via: 3quarksdaily
(thanks mitten!)

Ewen Callaway in New Scientist:

God may work in mysterious ways, but a simple computer program may explain how religion evolved

By samrose, 12 weeks 4 days ago.

Michel Bauwens recently sent this link in an email to the p2plist:

http://research.cibcwm.com/economic_public/download/feature1.pdf

Along with the question: "Are higher transportation costs reversing globalization?"

My own answer:

By samrose, 40 weeks 2 days ago.

I've just returned from Nottingham, UK., where I participated in the first-ever academic workshop on p2p concepts, a conference/workshop on "the political economies of peer production".

I plan on giving a review of each presentation in blog postings here. This first post is about Adam Arvidsson's amazing, and thought provoking presentation on what he is calling the "Ethical Economy".

By samrose, 48 weeks 9 hours ago.

GiveMeaning - online donation, online fundraising and creative fundraising ideas

An interesting idea, connecting news stories with Donation projects, and giving people ways to collectively rate and filter different dimensions, or propose their own way to solve the problem. "Problem spaces" are sorted through tags, and tag clouds show areas with higher activity.

By samrose, 49 weeks 3 days ago.

Ask The Next President - ask presidential canditates questions

What Questions do you think the Presidential Candidates should answer?

By samrose, 1 year 4 days ago.

Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation discusses the core P2P concepts at Swinburne in Australia recently:

View on Google Video

By samrose, 1 year 1 week ago.

(via P2P-Kredite)

The P2P Lending enabler-site http://prosper.com is experiencing a rebellion by it's lenders, mostly found on it's forums:

By samrose, 1 year 3 weeks ago.

Burak Arikan recently wrote about the acquisition of services and data by services providers like Google, and yahoo.

Arikan writes