Last week Politiek Online had its first get-together in a series of diner conversations, theme for the evening: E-participation (soup with gremola, duck, cucumber salad, a glass of wine and other home made pleasantries).
Why is it that we trust in Wikipedia, but shrug at the outcomes of discussions with citizens?
At least three diner guests […]

Felix Stalder has posted an interesting review of the recent Economies of the Commons Conference (organized by Knowledgeland in collaboration with the Balie, Images for the Future, p2p fusion and Creative Commons Netherlands) to the nettime mailing list.
His review highlights the increasingly difficult position that large archive projects (like Images for the Future) find […]

Knowledgeland, Sound & Vision, The Balie and other organizations host the conference ‘Economies of the Commons’ at debate-center The Balie in Amsterdam on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of April . Leading experts and specialists from audiovisual archives (BBC, INA), libraries, frontrunners in open access and the music industry (Last.fm and Fabchannel), cultural producers, p2p- […]