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by robdyke 2008-02-08 16:39 geek · technology · innovation · SocialNetworking
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Although the study of civil society has largely confined itself to the study of organizations, there is growing interest in understanding the broader contexts and enabling conditions for a healthy and effective civil society. At the same time, the spread of low cost communication systems in the last two decades has helped spur interest in applying the science of networks to social groups and social phenomena. We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of the Journal of Networks and Civil Society. This is the second thematic issue in our journal series and is intended to complement the previous issue which focused on information technology.
by robdyke 2008-02-08 16:37 journal · technology · CivilSociety · network society
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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism, like preferring candles to electric light or hansom cabs to aeroplanes. Underneath this lies the half-conscious belief that language is a natural growth and not an instrument which we shape for our own purposes.
by robdyke 2008-02-08 16:36 orwell · english · language · discourse
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Edition en ligne de la revue imprimée et de ses compléments virtuels éventuels.
by robdyke 2008-02-06 05:02 journal · multitude · empire · hardt · negri · french
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"People just don't realise that all these things go through undersea cables - that this is the main way these economies are all linked," said Alan Mauldin, the research director of TeleGeography. "Even when you're using wireless internet, it's only really wireless back to your base station: the rest is done over real, physical connections."
by robdyke 2008-02-03 05:03 communications · technology · economy · globalisation
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BiOS is a response to inequities in food security, nutrition, health and natural resource management. Our goal is to democratise problem solving to enable diverse solutions through decentralised innovation.
by robdyke 2008-01-27 12:43 open source · open society · open science
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With public perception of high street banks at an all time low, Giles Andrews, CFO of ZOPA, tells our reporter about his company's revolutionary approach that's fit for the iPod generation
by robdyke 2008-01-21 10:59 social lending · banking · companies and markets · zopa · social economics
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by robdyke 2008-01-20 11:10 e-democracy · e-government · events
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Imaginary Futures demonstrates how politics influenced the way the powerful tool called the internet is controlled today and calls upon all who are cyber-connected to use the Internet for taking revolutionary politics into their own hands, to create a more positive future.
by robdyke 2008-01-20 11:09 internet culture · Politics · democracy · book
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In this short book, Richard Barbrook presents a collection of quotations from authors who in different ways attempt to identify an innovative element within society: ‘the class of the new’. Announcing a new economic and social paradigm, this class constitutes a ‘social prophecy’ of the shape of work to come. From Adam Smith's ‘Philosophers’ of the late 18th century, down to the ‘Creative Class’ celebrated by sociologist Richard Florida today, the class of the new represents the future of production within and beyond capitalism.
by robdyke 2008-01-20 11:07 class of the new · property · production · book · beyond capitalism
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The online forum for disseminating knowledge about community and complementary currencies around the world.
by robdyke 2008-01-10 06:47 money · LETS · network economy · journal
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Complementary Community Currency Systems and Local Exchange Networks
by robdyke 2008-01-10 06:46 money · LETS · network economy
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by robdyke 2008-01-04 16:37 carl schmitt · republican party · american politics
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LaTeX word count: script and web-interface
by robdyke 2008-01-04 16:17 latex · utility · script
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TeX is a powerful text processing language and is the required format for some periodicals now. TeX has many macros to which you can eventually add your own. LaTeX is a macro package which sits on top of TeX and provides all the structuring facilities to help with writing large documents.
by robdyke 2008-01-04 16:17 TeX · latex · about · resources
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Description: mm.pl is a perl script which converts a mindmap file generated using freemind, to a latex presentation in beamer mode. It takes a mindmap file and creates a presentation
by robdyke 2007-12-23 18:32 freemind · TeX · latex · perl script · convert
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Between the increasingly strident demands by drug and media corporations for the protection of their trademarks, copyrights or patents, and the pervasive popular cultures of file sharing and pirating, lies more than an incidental clash of interests. In this bold new book, McKenzie Wark argues that the struggle around so-called ‘intellectual property’ is not just a legal or technical matter. It signals a whole new era of class conflict.
by robdyke 2007-11-21 12:56 hacker ideology · book · class conflict · network society
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McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. He works mainly on media theory, critical theory and new media. His best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory.
by robdyke 2007-11-21 12:55 person · network society · author · hacker ideology · wikipedia
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Geert Lovink's Web Archive
by robdyke 2007-11-19 09:44 person · network society · culture · archive
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This is the title of an upcoming lecture at Goldsmith’s University in London by Geert Lovink, author of a recent book by the same name. Lovink is critiquing notions of blogging as citizen journalism, and I thought that you might be interested in his analysis. The following quote outlines Lovink’s position, and may provide some food for thought.
by robdyke 2007-11-19 09:43 network society · culture · Blogging... · blog
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The book contains eleven essays and an introduction that deals with Web 2.0 and Internet culture after its recovery of 9/11 and the dotcom crash.
by robdyke 2007-11-19 09:43 network society · culture · book · blog
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n early 2004, ONE/Northwest’s executive director, Gideon Rosenblatt published a paper called “Movement as Network: Connecting People and Organizations in the Environmental Movement.” This think piece represents much of the philosophical underpinning of ONE/Northwest’s work in the decade ahead.
by robdyke 2007-11-19 09:42 networking · new social movments · environmentalism · SocialNetworking
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post-autistic economics network heterodox economics sanity, humanity and science pluralism in economics
by robdyke 2007-11-19 09:41 economics · journal · sanity humanity and science
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Forum on Economic Reform In recent decades the alliance of neoclassical economics and neoliberalism has hijacked the term “economic reform”. By presenting political choices as market necessities, they have subverted public debate about what economic policy changes are possible and are or are not desirable. This venue promotes discussion of economic reform that is not limited to the one ideological point of view.
by robdyke 2007-11-19 09:40 economics · journal article · economic reform
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While the world's markets and economies are becoming increasingly integrated, the process is far from complete — and differences between countries are much greater than generally recognized. As a result, the world is not globalized — rather, it is semiglobalized, argues Pankaj Ghemawat in this Globalist Bookshelf selection from "Redefining Global Strategy."
by robdyke 2007-11-19 09:40 globalisation · economics
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Project Syndicate is an international association of quality newspapers devoted to: * bringing distinguished voices from across the world to local audiences everywhere; * strengthening the independence of printed media in transition and developing countries; * upgrading their journalistic, editorial, and business capacities.
by robdyke 2007-11-19 09:39 newspaper · journalism
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The term formatting is rather broad, but in this case it needs to be as this section will guide you through the various text, paragraph and page formatting techniques. Formatting tends to refer to most things to do with appearance, it makes the list of possible topics quite eclectic: text style, font, size; paragraph alignment, interline spacing, indents; special paragraph types; list structures; footnotes, margin notes, etc.
by robdyke 2007-11-12 19:06 TeX · reference
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The style tells you a lot about the substance. If it's part of the style to break people off into political categories, you can bet it's part of the substance, too. If it's part of the style to finesse a tough call rather than make it, then, sooner or later, that will do for the substance, too.
by robdyke 2007-11-04 17:24 rhetoric · depoliticizing politics
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Participatory budgeting (PB) is a mechanism of local government, which brings local communities closer to the decision-making process around the public budget. It is a flexible process, which has been implemented in varying forms across cities of all sizes, within Brazil and beyond. It works to enhance participation in local democracy whilst improving community cohesion and ensuring the delivery of cost-effective local services.
by robdyke 2007-11-04 16:47 budgeting · Participatoryeconomics · social economics · local government · residents associations
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WORKSHOP IN POLITICAL THEORY AND POLICY ANALYSIS Fall 2007 Colloquia, seminars, indiana university
by robdyke 2007-11-04 13:12 seminar paper topics · source for mining · abstracts
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Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Survey and Study
by robdyke 2007-11-04 11:59 FLOSS · survey · information society · network economy · european union
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A three-part introduction: why debate copyright, what are the possible futures, and what’s the problem?
by robdyke 2007-10-31 18:13 people · copyright · intellectual property · commons regimes
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Mr. Shirky divides his time between consulting, teaching, and writing on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies. His consulting practice is focused on the rise of decentralized technologies such as peer-to-peer, web services, and wireless networks that provide alternatives to the wired client/server infrastructure that characterizes the Web. Current clients include Nokia, GBN, the Library of Congress, the Highlands Forum, the Markle Foundation, and the BBC.
by robdyke 2007-10-31 18:11 person · peer to peer · network society · social economics
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The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is a book by law professor Yochai Benkler published by Yale University Press on April 3, 2006. A complete PDF of the book is freely downloadable on the wiki of the book and is available under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license.[1] Benkley has said that his editable online book is "an experiment of how books might be in the future," demonstrating how authors and readers might connect instantly or even collaborate.[2]
by robdyke 2007-10-31 17:55 network society · social economics · book · wikipedia · peer to peer
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The UK-based peer to peer finance service Zopa (see here for a previous report) had already been “cutting out the middleman” between lender and borrowers for some time by letting lenders specify what rate they want to lend at and matching them to identity and credit-checked, risk-assessed borrowers willing to pay that rate.
by robdyke 2007-10-31 17:39 social economics · lending · blog · peer to peer
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Social Lending is a smarter, fairer and more human way of doing money. It's like borrowing and lending with your friends and family - except there are thousands of people you can lend and borrow with.
by robdyke 2007-10-30 18:49 economics 2.0 · social economics · banking · service provider
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THE INTEREST-FREE SAVINGS AND LOAN SYSTEM JAK has been operating an interest-free savings and loan system since 1970. A bank license was obtained in 1997. Formally JAK is a co-operative bank. We have 33,000 members and our growth is 7 percent per year.
by robdyke 2007-10-30 18:48 economics 2.0 · social economics · banking · sweeden
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by robdyke 2007-10-30 18:47 economics 2.0 · blog · social economics
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IF THE banks won't lend you money, might a stranger? Probably not, to judge by recent data from Prosper, an American peer-to-peer lending marketplace (a place where people can lend their own money to other people).
by robdyke 2007-10-30 18:47 economics 2.0 · social economics · peer to peer · article
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The Institute for Social Banking develops different, individually coordinated university courses in the field of ethical-ecological, socially motivated finance and banking.
by robdyke 2007-10-30 18:46 economics 2.0 · wikinomics · social economics
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FREE WORDS: THEORY: DAVID GRAEBER ON MAUSS
by robdyke 2007-10-21 18:59 anarchism · political economy · anthropology · gift culture
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An introduction to some of the great philosophy books read by the author Nigel Warburton
by robdyke 2007-10-21 12:15 podcasts · audio · philosophy · people · ideas
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Charles Taylor tackles the problem of the false priorities of capitalism, particularly in the welfare sector, and asks the fundamental question: are these false priorities structural or marginal to capitalism?
by robdyke 2007-10-21 11:55 capitalism · welfare · journal article
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Whither Socialism? poses as an attack on the possibility of market socialism. [*] But that pose is superficial. The central object of Stiglitz’s attack is the conventional general equilibrium model of twentieth-century economic theory
by robdyke 2007-10-21 11:52 economics · political economy · stiglitz
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Chinese cockle pickers in Lancashire; energy price hikes in Europe after a quarrel between former Soviet states; markets in new reproductive technologies: these events make the news, but cause consternation and perplexity. Are these one-off incidents? Or, are they the tip of radical economic shifts profoundly affecting both our lives and world society? If so, how can we explain these underlying trends?
by robdyke 2007-10-21 11:46 conference · economics · anthropology · development
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by robdyke 2007-10-21 11:45 conference · economics · LETS · anthropology
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by robdyke 2007-10-21 11:44 money · debt · political economy · film
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Is the ‘anti-globalization movement’ anything of the kind? Active resistance is true globalization, David Graeber maintains, and its repertoire of forms is currently coming from the arsenal of a reinvented anarchism.
by robdyke 2007-10-21 09:25 anti-globalisation · anarchism · anthropology · journal article
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Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC is devoted to giving serious authors free rein to say what's right and what's wrong about their disciplines and about the world, including what's never been said before. The result is intellectuals unbound, writing unconstrained and creative texts about meaningful matters.
by robdyke 2007-10-21 09:23 publications · opinion · journal
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