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The Battle for Power on the Internet – Bruce Schneier – The Atlantic.

Let’s be skeptical and consider the effects of technological forms only now emerging on the shape of power to come. Power, I’d like to think, is more than force and more than access.

How Amazon and Goodreads could lose their best readers – Salon.com.

How the FLOK Society Brings a Commons Approach to Ecuador’s Economy – Shareable.a

Quote:

“Daniel Vazquez: The idea for the FLOK Society—a “free, libre, open knowledge” society—comes straight from Ecuador’s five-year strategic plan called the Plan of Good Living, which was first published in 2009 (a second version was published this year, but is not yet available in English). The plan itself provides a path for transitioning away from Ecuador’s extractive, oil-reliant economic model toward one that is based on open and shared knowledge.”

The End of Hypocrisy | Foreign Affairs.

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If Multistakeholderism Had Prevailed in the Late 19th/Early 20th Century Would Women Have the Vote? (…Would We Still Have Slavery? | Gurstein’s Community Informatics.

Interview with Chris DiBona of Google | opensource.com.

Announcing open corporate network data: not just good, but better | OpenCorporates news.

Beyond Transparency.

Documentary of the Week: Steve Keen Lecture on Non-Equilibrium Economics.

Google’s iron grip on Android: Controlling open source by any means necessary | Ars Technica.