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OnTheCommons.org » The Commoners of Crottorf (Part III)
This is the third of a three-part installment of a report on the future of the commons, which is based on conversations at a retreat held at Crottorf Castle in Germany, in June 2009.
OnTheCommons.org » The Commoners at Crottorf (Part II)
This blog post continues the one started yesterday — a report on the future of the commons as discussed by the commoners who met at Crottorf Castle in Germany, in June 2009.
OnTheCommons.org » Open Source Hardware
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Chances are you haven’t heard about the Zoybar, — a modular instrument loosely based on the guitar. As its inventor describes it, “Every user can create his own unique instrument by its own voice and needs. We call this Decentralized Innovation. For the first time these instruments can be duplicated and evolve regardless of location and market interests.”
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Then there is the Monome, — a midi controller for computer-based music that uses community-created, open-source software. Monome the company consists of Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain, who have used open-source philosophy to design a “fundamentally adaptable” musical instrument. Each Monome is “a reconfigurable grid of backlit keypads which connects to a computer. Interaction between the keys and lights is determined by the application running on the computer. There is no hard-wired functionality.”
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OnTheCommons.org » Art, God and Copyright
Two examples of copyright and religion in conflict: Indonesian batik designers, and sermon sharing sites.
Rest Stops, R.I.P. | GOOD
State governments are shutting down interstate rest-stops because of money woes and competition from KwikMats and McDonalds.
"Caritas in veritate" - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI
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7. Another important consideration is the common good. To love someone is to
desire that person's good and to take effective steps to secure it. Besides the
good of the individual, there is a good that is linked to living in society: the
common good. It is the good of “all of us”, made up of individuals, families and
intermediate groups who together constitute society[4]. It is a good
that is sought not for its own sake, but for the people who belong to the social
community and who can only really and effectively pursue their good within it.
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of
justice and charity. To take a stand for the common good is on the one hand
to be solicitous for, and on the other hand to avail oneself of, that complex of
institutions that give structure to the life of society, juridically, civilly,
politically and culturally, making it the pólis, or “city”. The more we
strive to secure a common good corresponding to the real needs of our neighbours,
the more effectively we love them. Every Christian is called to practise this
charity, in a manner corresponding to his vocation and according to the degree
of influence he wields in the pólis. This is the institutional path — we
might also call it the political path — of charity, no less excellent and
effective than the kind of charity which encounters the neighbour directly,
outside the institutional mediation of the pólis.
OnTheCommons.org » Still Spooked by Communism
This is just stupid. As a matter of intellectual history and politics, the emerging online collectivism has nothing to do with communist revolutions or state socialism. So why even locate online media in that tradition? One suspects that Kelly or some shallow editor thought that “the new socialism” would be a catchy, provocative hook. Sigh. The silly conventions of mass-market journalism.
OnTheCommons.org » How Shall We Govern the (Online) Commons?
David Bollier outlines some possible online governing strategies for the commons.
OnTheCommons.org » Sharing the Work, Spreading the Wealth
essay by Janet Hively
To create a commons-based society, people need more than exposure to new ideas. They need tangible ways of practicing and living out these bright possibilities. Old habits about how we organize and pay for work maintain the sharp divisions between rich and poor and tie us to the consumer values of the market-based society. At this time when unemployment due to layoffs is growing, we should try out some new ways to share the work and spread the wealth.
The Magna Carta Manifesto : Peter Linebaugh
This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny—and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture—are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this powerful book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition of empire seize a state. Peter Linebaugh draws on primary sources to construct a wholly original history of the Great Charter and its scarcely-known companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor.
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