Oh Well
We have not been blogging much lately, because spring is here and we’re on the land. When spring hits, the sparks start flying with action outside. We’re building Sanctuary, aka Factor e Farm. The last week we’ve been drilling our well...
An Open Letter to Lovers of Centralization
I detect a widespread lack of acknowledgement of the critical issue of scale in human orgnanization. E.F. Schumacher’s seminal work on the subject points clearly that human organization simply breaks down after a certain size is reached, as is stated...
Turn Up the Heat
Vinay just informed me today of a great post on our work on BoingBoing, a Directory of Wonderful Things. Sam found another link about us at the Wired magazine blog. A few days ago, Steve Bosserman wrote a great post on how open source products can make...
Visiting Sam Rose
I’m now in Lansing, Michigan, visiting with Sam Rose. We’re having fiery discussion on putting the P2P Economy into practice, starting with the collaborative open source product development platform. While we’re discussing the CEB press,...
Open Engineering: Better Than Sliced Bread
We are presently struggling with explaining a general open source product development method to others. We are talking about developing a large-scale, parallel effort of world-class, optimal product development to address the needs of the emergent, peer-based,...
Quality of Life Poll
Today, Dave Pollard of How to Save the World Blog wrote an interesting formula for how each day should be spent, which I copy here: 9 hours a day for sleeping and personal hygiene 2 hours a day for physical exercise — running, meditation, working...
A Letter to the Concerned Denizen
We have been busy on refining our funding method for open product development, and in particular, for the open source Compressed Earth Block (CEB) press. Our present strategy is to recruit social network leaders to spread our collaborative funding request...
Ecotechnology Buying Club
It’s time to take our open source product development to the next level. The next on the Compressed Earth Block (CEB) press prototype development is a computer controlled XYZ table for automating acetylene torch cutting of the metal. You may see...
OSE Product Cycle
We are proposing this model for developing open source products, which includes voluntary funding from many stakeholders: More notes are found here, and the more extensive proposal is here. Today, Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation commented that he’s...
P2P Economy and Permafacture
We need to take this P2P economy seriously. A new financial system is waiting to emerge, with power at the bottom of the pyramid. As international boundaries begin to crumble, local and bioregional economies take over. People learn from torrents, not...
