The wiki and Creative Commons rant
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Intro Stephen’s trip to Guatemala Flattr is crowdsourced microfinance If you like the show, please Flattr us 3:06 Sharing good practice – tribalism [...]
Continue Reading →The fact that hackers have been drawn to libertarianism is largely due to the absolute failure of the left to understand where the class line runs through the information wars.
Continue Reading →Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) offers powerful, free tools for trade unions and their activists, and a serious attempt should be made to adopt them, and to defend the freedom of the Internet. In the UK, this includes working to repeal the Digital Economy Act.
The idea of Creative Commons should [...]
Continue Reading →While new technologies offer activists new tools to use for union activity, it is important to conceptualise cyperspace as space, and to understand activity taking place there as being in a new realm with its own possibilities, ethics and practice. Peter Waterman feels that most trade union use of new technology
“…represents a [...]
Continue Reading →“The new order is predicated upon open access, decentralized participation, and cheap and easy sharing.” (David Bollier)
The Commons Movement is a political, ecological and cultural movement to reclaim the Commons. Its central principle is that the resources of the earth – the Commons – are the collective responsibility and property of [...]
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