Wikipedia Watch
Markus Euskirchen | 13. August 2010 | Filed under: Commons • Intellectual Property • Internet • Media • Knowledge • Actors • Education/Knowledge • Communication • Public Goods | Leave a comment
The people behind google-critical Google search front end “Scroogle Scraper” also run Wikipedia-Watch. Stressing their weird humor they point out weaknesses and lapses of the wikipedia principle – and thereby maybe of the more general principle of commons based peer produktion.
Power Structure Research
Markus Euskirchen | 12. August 2010 | Filed under: Reichland • USA • Actors • Distribution of Wealth | Leave a comment
Power structure research is an approach to the study of power that highlights the unequal distribution of resources upon which power is based (e.g., wealth, political office, control of the mass media) and the importance of formal and informal social networks as the means by which power is concentrated and institutionalized. Read more
Once again pretending to save the world…
Markus Euskirchen | 4. August 2010 | Filed under: Commons • Nature • Biodiversity/gen.Ressources | Leave a comment
…by supposing to turn something into private property: Read the summary of the article “Resolving the Tragedy of the Commons by Creating Private Property Rights in Wildlife” to have another example for the the bullheadedness of the bourgeois mind: During humanity’s relatively brief existence on this planet, it has relied on the bounty of its Continue reading →
