The irony here is that even the inventor of GNP/GDP himself, Simon Kuznets, said that "the welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income."
Ha! Thanks, Louise. That definitely should have been number six (or probably no. 1 in a list of 6). In fact, do you think you'd be interested in writing something for us about community land trusts? If yes, shoot me an email: jeremy (at) shareable.net.
C'mon, shareable! No mention of the role of community land trusts in placing foreclosed properties into community hands on a non-speculative basis?? It's the ultimate manifestation of the commons, people! See http://bit.ly/a8FPJO and http://bit.ly/crKxzO. Still love ya work, though.
It's great to see co-op pub initiatives, but in truth there aren't many yet and so many pubs have closed in the UK. I can think of about 10 immediately in my local area (Norfolk, UK) that I've been into and yet are now closed. Since I moved here only two years ago, they've all closed in the last two years. In many ways this is probably the one result of the recession that I personally have noticed the most.
I'm also intrigued by other ideas to combine pubs, post offices and local community shops into the same place. This also seems like a no-brainer to me, but I've yet to actually see one.
A very heart felt article that drive a few bright ideas home. A "heads up " approach to the "job fair" of life. Welcome aboard!
Your sincerity sounds all to familiar.
Good luck in your endeavors!
I'm guessing Peñalosa is against poverty, human rights violations, and paramilitaries. We in North American face all of those issues as well (including the paramilitaries--ever hear of the Oath Keepers?). But those are not the only issues confronting the United States, and they are not the only issues confronting Colombia. They, like us, also face issues of growth, crime, development, environmental decline, physical and mental health, and so on. And we might just have some things to learn from people like Peñalosa and countries like Colombia. So why not just listen?
Maybe they should measure a societies happiness by lack of poverty and human rights violations. Or lack of paramiltary forces butchering peasants in villages? Maybe. Just a suggestion.
I am an independent publisher who has recently co-produced and released the Open Collaboration Encyclopedia, with Alpha Lo, which is available for free as an Open Textbook permanently in addition to purchasable ebooks and paper copies, on our website: www.pioneerimprints.com.
I have looked at this issue from the trenches, and from many angles, and this is what I have determined...
I do find the present study of roll out times etc... to be very valuable, and it gives food for thought and some guides for my own operation.
However an apparently overlooked and obvious variable in the present study was the attitudes and demographic of the consumer niche.
Tracking the viewers of our free reader of the Encyclopedia, I have seen that in the last three weeks we have had approximately 900 readers from five continents. We consider this a great success. However, of this viewing group, the number of readers who have purchased copies, has been one. Yes, one. I attribute this to the consumer and reciprocal exchange attitudes of the reader niche.
I definitely sell more copies of my title, "Stewardship in Your Family Enterprise", a book aimed at family business owners, which does not currently have a free version, and has a much smaller relevant readership. But I hypothesize that I would sell even more copies of that title if I did provide a free reader. I believe this because I believe that the demographic that title is aimed at, has more of a traditional value and ethic of 'paying' for what they get.
Hence the difference between results of the Random House study, obviously a different consumer demographic, with different exchange values, than a fantasy book publisher, with usually a much younger and i would conjecture a less 'pay-for-it' oriented readership demographic.
The value for reciprocal exchange has decreased significantly in our present digital rip culture, and pioneers of shareable technologies do take a risk to offer free versions within communities that do not have a value for collective support. Business people understand that everyone has overheads, most teenagers, and even college students, don't really seem to get that.
In shareware programming culture of the 80's and 90's, there was an assumption one in 10 users would pay for that product, and business models reflected that. Again that was a different culture than we have even today. I'm looking today at one in 1000, in the demographic that is interested in our book.
As we progress deeper down the pathway of shareability, our fundamental attitudes towards reciprocity and how we take advantage of 'open licenses' will need to shift dramatically if we are going to maintain viability of such projects. Similarly I sense, but am not certain, that unless this occurs shareability will reach some lines in the sand which will cause us to look at whether we will practice shareability with the very stuff of survival, not just media and ephemeralities.
It should be remembered that Utopian Socialism, the ultimate shareable society, has only existed sustainably in one place, and that was the Galactic Federation of Star Trek. And then only due to the invention of the replicator in the 24th century. Our digital culture is in a sense a replicator. (im not actually a trekkie, but i have studied utopian socialism...)
I firmly believe that many of the buyers of the Random House paper books did so, not just because they wanted a paper version, but that they didn't feel comfortable taking something for nothing. They had an ethic ingrained in them in a place perhaps even below their own radar to identify what it was. It just wasn't right in their gut...
I also believe that the Tor group, didn't really find as much wrong with that.
And that's a result of the directions of our culture.
Its as much an ethics thing, and a cultivated sense of collective responsibility,
as anything else.
That is why our book, a very good one (buy) the way ; ), is so important and unique. It begins to map, as a key part of the equation, the foundational psychologic and spiritual requisites for an actually sustainable and flourishing sharing culture.
If we do not make wholesale shifts in our fundamental views, taking to full application the underlying ethics and perspectives that drive the impulse to sharing, not picking and choosing based on what's immediately comfortable to us, I propose that as a meme sharing like we're talking about may not compute in the long run.
So, do check out the book, and remember its fully open to collaborators...
And you aren't mandated to give anything, or 'pay for' anything. That's your choice. I'm just suggesting we all look deeper at what assumptions really drive that final decision in each of us.
We're interested in doing a story on your website today for the 5pm news.
Please contact me ASAP at 513-240-8754. We'll want to talk to people who've used the website to see how they like it.
Fantastic! We don't give nearly enough thought or attention to how pay is determined in this country (that doesn't stop us, however, from bitch about it when the ridiculousness of the inequities finally boils over-- a la 2-million dollar office remodeling for bailed out bankers).
I wonder how this company's financial bottom line is doing? I bet the turnover rate is pretty mini.
Classic though, “I will eat local. Food not people.” Right up there with “I will stop (using plastic sacks) in the name of love.”
-MHD http://mile-highdads.com/
I can definitely understand Tess's problem; I like to read and zone out to and from work, and I would resist a chatty environment. Not because I'm anti-social, but just because I need a buffer from a job that demands a lot of socializing. But I can imagine making a request like the one you suggest weirding people out. What's my solution? Ride public transit, ride a bike...or, if I must share a car with other people, suck it up. If you bring a book and stick your nose in it, and laughingly explain that it's your habit to read while traveling, people will respect that--of course, you have to be able to shut out their chatter, but that's life in the big city. Focusing is a skill!
Those are great, Laura, thanks. Though I'd hate to be accused of stalking someone...it occurs to me, however, that person-following could be turned into an organized event. Some service similar to CouchSurfing (with similar trust-building mechanisms) matches you to someone who wants to be followed. You follow that person through their day, and then write up a private-detective style report, which is posted anonymously online. People would strive to write amusing and entertaining reports, which might be rated upstream; it would be funny to read such a thing about yourself. People being followed might attempt to lose their stalkers, thereby giving everyone's ordinary day a little adrenaline rush, or perhaps they'll deliberately engage in some covert task-- and the detective's job is to figure out the task.
My favorites/fallbacks:
1. Get on a bike. You feel less trapped by the area you are in, and your mobility allows you to be interested in where you are/what you are passing without getting bogged down by unfamiliar details and sacrificing the sense of grand adventure. Also the most bike friendly areas in a city are also usually the most pedestrian friendly and have the most community built up within them.
2. Follow someone who looks interesting. Pick someone, follow them, and try not to let on. Pretend you are a detective, cross the street, duck behind a tree, studiously examine a shopfront. If they arrive at their destination pick a new person.
The irony here is that even the inventor of GNP/GDP himself, Simon Kuznets, said that "the welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of national income."
Ha! Thanks, Louise. That definitely should have been number six (or probably no. 1 in a list of 6). In fact, do you think you'd be interested in writing something for us about community land trusts? If yes, shoot me an email: jeremy (at) shareable.net.
C'mon, shareable! No mention of the role of community land trusts in placing foreclosed properties into community hands on a non-speculative basis?? It's the ultimate manifestation of the commons, people! See http://bit.ly/a8FPJO and http://bit.ly/crKxzO. Still love ya work, though.
There's at least one pub co-op in the US that's getting off the ground. Blackstar Co-op Pub & Brewery in Austin, TX ( http://www.blackstar.coop/ )
It's great to see co-op pub initiatives, but in truth there aren't many yet and so many pubs have closed in the UK. I can think of about 10 immediately in my local area (Norfolk, UK) that I've been into and yet are now closed. Since I moved here only two years ago, they've all closed in the last two years. In many ways this is probably the one result of the recession that I personally have noticed the most.
I'm also intrigued by other ideas to combine pubs, post offices and local community shops into the same place. This also seems like a no-brainer to me, but I've yet to actually see one.
Great piece of observation. Not only takes on the challenge, but offers real solutions
A very heart felt article that drive a few bright ideas home. A "heads up " approach to the "job fair" of life. Welcome aboard!
Your sincerity sounds all to familiar.
Good luck in your endeavors!
OMG! This video is amazing.
I love it! Thanks for sharing. Go Latin America!
I'm guessing Peñalosa is against poverty, human rights violations, and paramilitaries. We in North American face all of those issues as well (including the paramilitaries--ever hear of the Oath Keepers?). But those are not the only issues confronting the United States, and they are not the only issues confronting Colombia. They, like us, also face issues of growth, crime, development, environmental decline, physical and mental health, and so on. And we might just have some things to learn from people like Peñalosa and countries like Colombia. So why not just listen?
Maybe they should measure a societies happiness by lack of poverty and human rights violations. Or lack of paramiltary forces butchering peasants in villages? Maybe. Just a suggestion.
I am an independent publisher who has recently co-produced and released the Open Collaboration Encyclopedia, with Alpha Lo, which is available for free as an Open Textbook permanently in addition to purchasable ebooks and paper copies, on our website: www.pioneerimprints.com.
I have looked at this issue from the trenches, and from many angles, and this is what I have determined...
I do find the present study of roll out times etc... to be very valuable, and it gives food for thought and some guides for my own operation.
However an apparently overlooked and obvious variable in the present study was the attitudes and demographic of the consumer niche.
Tracking the viewers of our free reader of the Encyclopedia, I have seen that in the last three weeks we have had approximately 900 readers from five continents. We consider this a great success. However, of this viewing group, the number of readers who have purchased copies, has been one. Yes, one. I attribute this to the consumer and reciprocal exchange attitudes of the reader niche.
I definitely sell more copies of my title, "Stewardship in Your Family Enterprise", a book aimed at family business owners, which does not currently have a free version, and has a much smaller relevant readership. But I hypothesize that I would sell even more copies of that title if I did provide a free reader. I believe this because I believe that the demographic that title is aimed at, has more of a traditional value and ethic of 'paying' for what they get.
Hence the difference between results of the Random House study, obviously a different consumer demographic, with different exchange values, than a fantasy book publisher, with usually a much younger and i would conjecture a less 'pay-for-it' oriented readership demographic.
The value for reciprocal exchange has decreased significantly in our present digital rip culture, and pioneers of shareable technologies do take a risk to offer free versions within communities that do not have a value for collective support. Business people understand that everyone has overheads, most teenagers, and even college students, don't really seem to get that.
In shareware programming culture of the 80's and 90's, there was an assumption one in 10 users would pay for that product, and business models reflected that. Again that was a different culture than we have even today. I'm looking today at one in 1000, in the demographic that is interested in our book.
As we progress deeper down the pathway of shareability, our fundamental attitudes towards reciprocity and how we take advantage of 'open licenses' will need to shift dramatically if we are going to maintain viability of such projects. Similarly I sense, but am not certain, that unless this occurs shareability will reach some lines in the sand which will cause us to look at whether we will practice shareability with the very stuff of survival, not just media and ephemeralities.
It should be remembered that Utopian Socialism, the ultimate shareable society, has only existed sustainably in one place, and that was the Galactic Federation of Star Trek. And then only due to the invention of the replicator in the 24th century. Our digital culture is in a sense a replicator. (im not actually a trekkie, but i have studied utopian socialism...)
I firmly believe that many of the buyers of the Random House paper books did so, not just because they wanted a paper version, but that they didn't feel comfortable taking something for nothing. They had an ethic ingrained in them in a place perhaps even below their own radar to identify what it was. It just wasn't right in their gut...
I also believe that the Tor group, didn't really find as much wrong with that.
And that's a result of the directions of our culture.
Its as much an ethics thing, and a cultivated sense of collective responsibility,
as anything else.
That is why our book, a very good one (buy) the way ; ), is so important and unique. It begins to map, as a key part of the equation, the foundational psychologic and spiritual requisites for an actually sustainable and flourishing sharing culture.
If we do not make wholesale shifts in our fundamental views, taking to full application the underlying ethics and perspectives that drive the impulse to sharing, not picking and choosing based on what's immediately comfortable to us, I propose that as a meme sharing like we're talking about may not compute in the long run.
So, do check out the book, and remember its fully open to collaborators...
And you aren't mandated to give anything, or 'pay for' anything. That's your choice. I'm just suggesting we all look deeper at what assumptions really drive that final decision in each of us.
Alden Bevington
editor@pioneerimprints.com
Hi Keara!
We're interested in doing a story on your website today for the 5pm news.
Please contact me ASAP at 513-240-8754. We'll want to talk to people who've used the website to see how they like it.
Thanks
Love that idea! Turning the city into a game, connecting strangers, and discovering new spots all at once. Sign me up!
Wow, in a few words you clarified the moment for those who believe in both worlds.
Fantastic! We don't give nearly enough thought or attention to how pay is determined in this country (that doesn't stop us, however, from bitch about it when the ridiculousness of the inequities finally boils over-- a la 2-million dollar office remodeling for bailed out bankers).
I wonder how this company's financial bottom line is doing? I bet the turnover rate is pretty mini.
Classic though, “I will eat local. Food not people.” Right up there with “I will stop (using plastic sacks) in the name of love.”
-MHD
http://mile-highdads.com/
Thumbs up! Excellent concept.
Good luck
I can definitely understand Tess's problem; I like to read and zone out to and from work, and I would resist a chatty environment. Not because I'm anti-social, but just because I need a buffer from a job that demands a lot of socializing. But I can imagine making a request like the one you suggest weirding people out. What's my solution? Ride public transit, ride a bike...or, if I must share a car with other people, suck it up. If you bring a book and stick your nose in it, and laughingly explain that it's your habit to read while traveling, people will respect that--of course, you have to be able to shut out their chatter, but that's life in the big city. Focusing is a skill!
thanks so much for a nice topic
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Those are great, Laura, thanks. Though I'd hate to be accused of stalking someone...it occurs to me, however, that person-following could be turned into an organized event. Some service similar to CouchSurfing (with similar trust-building mechanisms) matches you to someone who wants to be followed. You follow that person through their day, and then write up a private-detective style report, which is posted anonymously online. People would strive to write amusing and entertaining reports, which might be rated upstream; it would be funny to read such a thing about yourself. People being followed might attempt to lose their stalkers, thereby giving everyone's ordinary day a little adrenaline rush, or perhaps they'll deliberately engage in some covert task-- and the detective's job is to figure out the task.
Number 2 is especially fun if you wear a trenchcoat and fedora.
My favorites/fallbacks:
1. Get on a bike. You feel less trapped by the area you are in, and your mobility allows you to be interested in where you are/what you are passing without getting bogged down by unfamiliar details and sacrificing the sense of grand adventure. Also the most bike friendly areas in a city are also usually the most pedestrian friendly and have the most community built up within them.
2. Follow someone who looks interesting. Pick someone, follow them, and try not to let on. Pretend you are a detective, cross the street, duck behind a tree, studiously examine a shopfront. If they arrive at their destination pick a new person.
sorry, should read Caucasus
The second one is from Adigei, located in the Caucusus mountains. It is pretty cool.