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Design in a P2P world: interview by Julien McHardy

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| His recent interest as a designer and researcher are the implications of 
| design approaches that no longer focus on objects or users but on the very 
| processes of design and use.  
| 
| He writes that:
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| “The recognition that value is not something designer inject into objects but 
| a relational property of the network of designer, objects and users has wide 
| implications on the role of all parties hereto. The evolving questions of 
| openness and control, power and responsibility resonate in your work.   
| 
| Allow me to sketch out some of the arguments you make in P2P and Human 
| Evolution (Bauwens 2008), as I understand them: You propose that we live in a 
| phase of cognitive capitalism where immaterial processes and the creativity 
| that drives them become the main key for innovation. The hierarchical power 
| structures of capitalism however can neither cope with, nor produce the 
| increasing diversity and abundance of information that such a knowledge 
| driven economy both creates and depends upon. The distribute networks of the 
| internet and the web enabled the emergence of peer-to-peer modes of 
| production, governance and ownership which are based on the “free cooperation 
| of equals in view of the performance of a common task”.         
| 
| [...]
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http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/design-in-a-p2p-world-interview-by-julien-mchardy/2008/08/03

Open source EV community invites suppliers to offer components for converting
existing ICE vehicles to electric drive

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| Electric Cars - Now!, a Finland-based open source EV community, is working to 
| promote the mass conversion of ICE cars to electric drive. 
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http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sci-tech/open-source-ev-community-vehicles-electric_10079747.html
http://tinyurl.com/69hmw4


Recent:

Blog researcher talks blog success

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| Of the approximately 75 million blogs on the Internet, about 23 
| million of those are updated every 90 days.
| 
| [...]
| 
| An online publication of national reputation can post a story these 
| days and get a disappointing 50,000 hits, while a blog on the same 
| topic can get 250,000. That's something publishers have to look at, 
| Red Herring CEO Alex Vieux told CNET News.com.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9737081-7.html?tag=head


Google appeals Belgian copyright ruling

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| Copiepresse sued Google last year alleging that the search giant's 
| use of headlines and snippets of Belgian newspaper articles in its 
| Google News aggregation service, and its practice of providing 
| links to cached copies of the articles in its main Web search 
| results, violated copyright.
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9739346-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Related:

Studies: music industry overstating threat of P2P piracy

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| Or perhaps it's not all that amazing. A more likely explanation is 
| that the numbers aren't even right. As Canadian law professor Michael 
| Geist showed a few weeks ago, claims about piracy rates can be wildly
| variable and downright fictional. High numbers are often used to 
| support legal threats or calls for Congressional action, as in the 
| MRT case. MRT has a lot to gain by overstating the threat of 
| streamripping and, so far, has not showed its numbers. Both MRT 
| and NPD agree, though, that P2P is hardly the music industry's 
| biggest problem.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070531-studies-music-industry-overstating-threat-of-p2p-piracy.html


File sharing could threaten personal and national security

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| A recent government report says that the old adage "buyer beware" now
| even applies to those who are not technically buying anything at all.
| Despite the reputation of "free" downloads, much of the illegal file
| sharing done on the internet comes at a steep price: personal and
| national security.
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http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6424471&partner=eb&spacedesc=news


The European Parliament approves new, stricter anti-piracy directive 

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| The European Parliament voted yes on the new controversial directive
| Ipred 2 which concludes that all kinds of infringement of the 
| intellectual copyrights will be considered criminal. The directive 
| is actually stricter than that and even criminalizes attempts of
| infringing on copyrights. In theory this means that basically all
| video sites, P2P developers and other services used to spread
| material around the web is criminal.
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http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6197.html
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