[p2p-research] question of scale

Tue Jan 8 07:23:28 CET 2008

Hi Bonnita,

good to hear from you, I'm also copying the new p2presearch mailing list,
full of scholars ...

I believe Kevin Carson addresses this issue in his new book on decentralized
production, so I put him in cc,

Perhaps Paul in his work on panarchy?

I have myself not specifically studied this issue, but below from the search
function in our wiki

Michel

http://p2pfoundation.net/Economy_of_Scope

   1. Large-scale Internet
Collaboration<http://p2pfoundation.net/Large-scale_Internet_Collaboration>(711
bytes)
   2: ...is researching collaboration and developing
large-scalecollaborative systems and methods''' for his PhD ...
   2. Human Scale <http://p2pfoundation.net/Human_Scale> (1,171 bytes)
   3: '''Kirkpatrick Sale's Human Scale = Book on the decentralisation of
   production.'''
   7: ...s of references to interesting work on economy of scale and
   decentralized economics, that showed peak eff...
   3. Knowing Networks vs Scale-free
Networks<http://p2pfoundation.net/Knowing_Networks_vs_Scale-free_Networks>(2,748
bytes)
   1: '''Scale-free networks are characterised by a highly unequ...
   11: Knowing networks as an alternative to scale-free networks'''
   21: ...we arrive at an account of a knowing network. The scale-free
   networks contemplated above constitute insta...
   4. Directed Scale-Free
Networks<http://p2pfoundation.net/Directed_Scale-Free_Networks>(1,652
bytes)
   2: A subset of [[Scale-Free Networks]], used for example by terrorist
   ne...
   11: ...mportant subset: directional scale-free networks. Scale-free
   networks are typically depicted by a set of ...
   13: When you apply the directional scale-free network model to al
   Qaeda, you see a fairly ...
   22: ...alguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/05/scale
   free_terro.html
   5. Diseconomies of
Scale<http://p2pfoundation.net/Diseconomies_of_Scale>(490 bytes)
   7: ... economists have long understood as "economies of scale", the
   forces which enable larger firms to produce...
   8: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseconomies_of_scale)
   6. Scale-Free Networks
<http://p2pfoundation.net/Scale-Free_Networks>(9,415 bytes)
   5: "a network that is scale-free will have the same properties no
   matter what...
   7: ...rom the Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale
   -free_network
   13: ... distribution, and is a characteristic feature of scale-free
   networks."
   19: ...es, particularly the nervous system, also exhibit scale-free
   organization, though so far the complexity o...
   21: ...ciations in speech and text (Ferrer et al. 2001). Scale-free
   organization has also been reported for elec...
   7. Jon Phillips on Building Large Scale "Open" Communities around
   Multiple Media<http://p2pfoundation.net/Jon_Phillips_on_Building_Large_Scale_%22Open%22_Communities_around_Multiple_Media>(2,248
bytes)
   7: ... social and technical strategy for building large scale "Open
   Content" licensed communities around specif...
   13: ...esentation will hover on HOWTO develop more large scale "Open
   Content" communities using the learned stra...

On Jan 7, 2008 6:05 PM, bonnitta roy <bonnittaroy at mindspring.com> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> I am researching for an article about scalar structuration (economies of
> scale, ecological scale, scalar structures in power, scalar structuration in
> values, ethics, and morals, etc...)  I am wondering what are the most
> promising books or articles you have read related to the question of scale,
> and if there is some p2p literature that specifically cites the processes of
> scalar structuration and how to make them flexible, not static. I am most
> interested in the metaphysical/philosophical question of scale in designing
> thought, economies, values systems, action plans, etc.... not necessarily an
> analysis based on a specific use of conventional scalar relations (as that
> is what I am calling into question).
>
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> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Bonnie
>
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michel Bauwens
> Sent: Jan 7, 2008 5:21 AM
> To: Peer-to-Peer Foundation Nederland , strategic_p2p at googlegroups.com
> Cc: james burke , Valentin Spirik , Samuel Rose , MarkDilley
> Subject: annual review of blog outreach
>
>  Dear friends,
>
> I produced a review of our blog stats, see below. I'm hoping someone else
> will do the wiki overview.
>
> However, we should note a huge discrepancy between the numbers given by
> mediawiki itself, and google analytics, the latter are much more lower. How
> can that be?
>
> According to GA, we generate between 500 and 1,000 page views per day, and
> there's no way this adds up to the 2.5 million pageviews registered in the
> wiki itself .. Of course, sometimes robots distort the figures, but there is
> only one page where that really happened (laser theory), and it is now
> deleted. Any explanations?
>
> Valentin should be happy that in both sources his section is still tops.
>
> An amazing 30K different keywords are used to visit us through the search
> engines, an extremely long tail that is
>
> Michel
>
> BLOG REVIEW
>
>
>
> I used Google Analytics to review our progress in reach through our blog,
> using a year on year comparison between 2006 and 2007. The figures are
> slightly skewed because we only started in February, but I think that
> overall the news is good. We doubled our audience, but of course it is
> admittedly a small niche audience, and our wiki is much more popular. How
> much would those figures change if we knew the RSS subscriptions and such?
>
> *Overview of Visits*
>
> All figures are for 2007, except for growth rates comparing 2007 to 2006
>
> 41,547 Visits
>
> 30,184 Absolute Unique Visitors
>
> - Of which 72.13% came only once, But nearly 15% came 9 times or more
>
> - Where they came from:
>
> 18.18% Direct Traffic
>
> 37.78% Referring Sites , 4.65% through p2pfoundation.net
>
> 44.02% Search Engines , 3.35% used p2p in search engine; 0.81% used p2p
> foundation
>
> *Focusing on the content:*
>
> 63,083 Pageviews
>
> 51,122 Unique Views
>
> - Of which, 27.44% came to the home page
> - The most popular categories are p2p business models, anti-p2p, and
> cognitive capitalism
>
> Most popular items:
>
> 1. Ken Wilber is losing it, http://blog.p2pfoundation.net?p=244
> 2. Top P2P Podcasts by topic, http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=651
> 3. Rob Myers critique of open source,
> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/rob-myers-critique-of-open-source/2007/08/25
> 4. How ethical is the web 2.0 business model (Trebor Scholz),
> http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-ethical-is-the-new-web-20-business-model-trebor-scholz/2007/02/09
> 5. The emerging attention economy http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=698
>
> Top list of less-obvious keywords used in search engines (i.e. not p2p
> etc..)
>
> 1. relationality
> 2. cognitive capitalism
> 3. adam arvidsson
>
> *Year on year trends*
>
> +86.21% growth in page views
> +96.43% growth in unique views
> +107.31% growth in visits
> +125.17% growth in absolutely unique visitors
> -21.46% decline in referrals, but growth both in direct traffic (+11.81%)
> and from search engines (+23.52%)
> +156.07% growth in traffic generated through keywords in search engines
>
>
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http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/09/p2p-very-core-of-world-to-come.html
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