From Michel Bauwens, here is a mindmap that presents a condensation of 3 years of his research at the P2P Foundation. The main body of the visualization contains 6 aspects of processes representing the cycle of reproduction and growth of openness in our societies:

Aspects of Openness
Enablers of Openness
Infrastructures of Openness
Open Practices
Open Domains of Practice
Open Products
Open [...]

Tags: Maps, Open Culture, Peer-to-Peer

In this post I’d like to suggest you a Creative Commons-licensed reading, to announce you an event I’m going to participate to and start an open discussion about their common subject: what will probably be the future of Industrial Design and Manufacturing, and how we can draw a map of it?
First, I suggest you reading [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design, Enabler, Fabbing, Generative system, Maps, Open Design, Product Design

Max Barret,
Social Circles

Everyone
A Venn diagram, drawn with light, showing
the 5 different sets of social databases I use:
Hotmail.com contacts, Facebook.com friends,
Myspace.com friends, MSN messenger
contacts and those in my mobile phonebook.
A total of 259 people.

via | manystuff.org

Tags: Community, Graphic Design, Maps, Social Network, Web 2.0