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Scoop.it!
A documentary on networks in Sarantaporo area produced by the media arts collective Personal Cinema. 
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Mapping 30 areas of activity (Fig. 1) (This post by Marco Berlinguer & Mayo Fuster originally appeared on the P2Pvalue blog) It has been for some time now that research is engaging around a fauna of new forms of production that have been progressively appearing in the sectors more intensively impacted by the Internet and …
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Second of a series of videos from the New School on Digital Labor, includes two video lectures on the future of the sharing economy.
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Since the Industrial Revolution we have used technology to overcome the barriers imposed by space, creating a significant transformation of the economy and territory, also recognizable by a specific lifestyle.
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This is a guest post by Gary Swart, the CEO of oDesk, an online marketplace for hiring virtual workers. Today’s millennials don’t like to own anything—besides businesses, that is.
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In his 1973 bestseller Small Is Beautiful, the British economist E.F. Schumacher outlined a concept that would come to be known as “appropriate technology.” This meant, in essence, adopting technologies that actually suit the needs they’re meant to address and the contexts in which they’re meant to operate. He was worried chiefly about technological overkill in international development, but it’s an idea that resonates elsewhere. In sum: Use the tool that fits the need.
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http://www.hp.com/go/discoverperformance Join us for episode 51 of Discover Performance Weekly as we look at a recent Discover Performance article: The sharing economy: Lessons for the enterpris.
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Tucked down into the southeast corner of Tennessee, Chattanooga is, perhaps, the most unassuming city in the Volunteer State. Though it doesn't have the musical legacies of Nashville or Memphis, or the University of Tennessee like Knoxville, what Chattanooga's 170,000 residents do share is the fastest Internet speeds in the United States. That's right: Chattanooga is the first Western Hemisphere city running a one-gigabit-per-second fiber Internet service. It's 200 times faster than the national average and has earned Chattanooga its nickname, Gig City, along with a seat at the grown-up table.
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A new wave of technology companies claims to be expanding the possibilities of sharing and collaboration, and is clashing with established industries such as hospitality and transit. These companies make up what is being called the “sharing economy”: they provide web sites and applications through which individual residents or drivers can offer to “share” their apartment or car with a guest, for a price.
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