Met with Michael Roberts, director of Bellanet, a leader in the open source and open development movement in international development. He’s attending an interesting seminar this coming Friday on ways people are finding to work together and collaborate, virtually and physically. He talked about a sense he has, and that the organizer, Eugene Eric Kim, […]

Had a great breakfast with Kevin Danaher about his real estate idea; the Global Citizen Center. He tells the story from the green perspective; green retail tied to progressive offices, with all externalities, from ownership to materials used, to waste, to supplier relationships, etc. made transparent as part of the story and value. I […]

turn over any social rock and if you look hard enough, you’ll find a bank under it

I’m having dinner with Bruce Boston tomorrow, an economist who has worked in the gaming world and now is a business intelligence analyst at Cnet. Here is one thing I think will be interesting to talk to him and my friend Ron Meiners about:

I have a tactical idea underneath the broad strategy we are employing […]

In the past few blog posts I√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve been looking at a couple groups of people who are engaging in changing that value; gamers and open source folks, since I√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢m trying to figure out who should be in the room when we try to come with a scenario about how best the good capital market could […]

Douglas Rushkoff is good in this riff on how the concept of abundance upends traditional, Rennaiscance-formed thinking on how you create value by building walls around it. “As Google’s founders well understood, that’s what this whole internet thing was about: upending the zero-sum game of market competition and replacing it with the abundance that […]

Emailing with Bruce Boston, a game world economist who’s a friend of my friend and game designer Ron Meiners on the community economy led to this thread Notes on the Community Age and a dinner scheduled with the two of them this week.

People who get open source totally get that we have entered […]

Talking further with Jay Ogilvy of GBN, about who should be in the room as we start to talk about a scenario on the ways that the capital flow to good could be, or might not be, accelerated. He pointed me to some new evolutionary thinking. I think that’s pretty spot on; the bad economic […]

…we decided to create an Index (everybody loves an Index): the ratio of pages with a story, ad or job posting that explicitly mentions this shift in supply and demand indicative of the changing money “zeitgeist,” to the number of pages in the Economist.

Xigi is an open source project to show graphically and quantifiably the detail and the size of the growing good capital market. But every decision on ownership has a political dimension, from software to land. One sixth of the world’s population lives in squatter settlements in major developing world cities like Mumbai, mostly because property […]