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What Gov 2.0 Can Learn from Participatory Budgeting

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Participatory budgeting puts into practice the principles of open source and online collaboration: radical transparency, voluntary participation, distributed organizational structures, and more. Read more »

Can Reddit Crowdsource A Better SOPA?

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Can 1000 Reddit users crowdsource a bill to curb piracy that preserves online freedom? Read more »

Don't Believe the Hype: The Entertainment Industry is Growing, But...

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The entertainment industry is growing, not shrinking, despite the claims of large media conglomerates and politicians. But things remain hard for DIY creators of all stripes. Read more »

Aggregation, Not Algorithms, Is The Key To Establishing Trust Online

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Do current reputation systems like Klout or Trustcloud do an effective enough job of establishing trust to work for collaborative consumption services? Read more »

A Path to Thriving: "Possess" Nothing, "Own" Everything

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I’ve encountered a lot of talk about thriving lately. Everywhere I turn I am hearing that word: movies, meetings, online and personal conversation. It used to be that sustainable was sufficient. That word has now become inadequate. Read more »

Facebook Poses a Far Greater Threat to the Web than Apple

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For all the talk about Apple's walled garden, a far greater threat to Internet freedom is the invasive species Facebook. Read more »

Airbnb Places Wake Up Call to Sharing Entrepreneurs

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What collaborative consumption services need to learn from the Airbnb fiasco. Read more »

The Evolution Will Be Socialized

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From the actions of the Egyptian government to the policies of Facebook, the monopolies of central banks to the corporatization of the Internet, we are witnessing the potential of a peer-to-peer networking become overshadowed by the hierarchies of th. Read more »

The Next Net

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The moment the "net neutrality" debate began was the moment the net neutrality debate was lost. Read more »

Real Girl Talk: Is Remix Culture A White Spin on Mixtapes?

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Popular music has always had an ambivalent relationship with American law and order, so it's unsurprising that the mash-up DJ Girl Talk has become a living example of what stringent intellectual property law makes impossible. Read more »
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