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	<title>Austin PPS blogs -- Dan</title>
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	<description>A blog about Participatory Society</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>afk</title>
		<link>http://austinpps.org/blogs/dan/?p=59</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[AFK for a week or so, as I&#8217;m here in beautiful Berkeley.  Very important posts when I get back!
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		<title>A counterproposal for a new IOPS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, Michael Albert wrote a piece arguing for the creation of a new International Organization for a Participatory Society.  I reacted rather negatively to it when I heard about it, because I felt that it glossed over the important things, the things that individuals advocating a Participatory Society are currently struggling with in favor of hypothetical problems that nobody is currently struggling with (e.g. how to handle fissioning a larger PPS into multiple smaller PPS's).  Today, I'd like to suggest an alternative.
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		<title>accepting status, decoupling it from income and power</title>
		<link>http://austinpps.org/blogs/dan/?p=55</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the core topics that parecon takes on is the question: how much should people get paid in exchange for their hard work?  We come up with an answer that we think is fair, yet often leaves people feeling a little ill at ease (that people should be rewarded with consumption power in proportion to their effort and sacrifice).  One reason I think that people feel ill at ease with this answer is that, in capitalism, people's income stands for more than the direct things which people benefit from; it stands for status.  But how can we live in a status-filled world?]]></description>
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		<title>Non-commodity producer-consumer relationships</title>
		<link>http://austinpps.org/blogs/dan/?p=53</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In parecon, we talk about relationships between producers and consumers under the rubric of production negotiations at the Iteration Facilitation Board.  There, as the classic examples go, the consumers and producers make proposals for how much of what they will make.  This makes a lot of sense for the production of commodities. But what about non-commodities?]]></description>
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		<title>Oy</title>
		<link>http://austinpps.org/blogs/dan/?p=45</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, write after posting about why I'm not happy about Z, I run across this blog post by Chris Spannos, staff at Z.

Chris, in that post, seems to be trying to guilt-trip the entire left into using Z...]]></description>
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		<title>Rumblings at Z</title>
		<link>http://austinpps.org/blogs/dan/?p=38</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Z communications is one of the institutions at the heart of this community--the community centered around Participatory Society, and the community that broadly calls itself The Left. Michael Albert, one of the original creators of Participatory Economics, founded and continues to be one of the few (two?) paid employees of Z communications.  It is the "home site" of many famous authors of the left.

Unfortunately, it's been years since I've felt really connected with Z--since shortly before they announced the new ZSpace...
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		<title>How large is ParSoc movement?</title>
		<link>http://austinpps.org/blogs/dan/?p=40</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[How many people total are involved in ParSoc activism?  On the one hand, Parecon: Life after Capitalism sold quite well and, at APPS, whenever we put out an open call for new members, we get people who have long been interested in the subject coming out of the woodwork to show up at our meetings.  On the other hand, the active world of people participating in Parsoc activism seems almost vanishingly small, perhaps no more than 100 people worldwide--way smaller, say, than the number of people involved in neighborhood councils here in our little town of Austin.  The same people write chapters in Real Utopia, show up on the IPPS mailing list, are Z sustainers, and show up at Z functions like the parecon/parsoc classes over the summer. ]]></description>
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		<title>housekeeping</title>
		<link>http://austinpps.org/blogs/dan/?p=36</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[APPS had our first public meeting in a long time last night.  It was very cool; some lurkers who had been keeping tabs on us showed up for a low-key meeting.  We&#8217;re looking at slow and steady, trying very hard to manage expectations to prevent burnout.
As for Planet, I updated the config so that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>obama election</title>
		<link>http://austinpps.org/blogs/dan/?p=33</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the Democratic party won increased majorities in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, as well as the presidency.  After watching Obama turn a raucous crowd silent while he was here in Austin by saying "We're for capitalism", I don't expect that the Democrats are going to all of a sudden embrace the principles of Parecon really really close.  But I do expect that there'll be room for some more good ideas that would have been non-starters before. (I haven't figured out how to do a "Read More" tag, so if you're reading this on the planet, click the byline to read more.)]]></description>
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		<title>tools before rules</title>
		<link>http://austinpps.org/blogs/dan/?p=27</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I discussed software that allows for efficient collaboration within lateral structures by partitioning the lateral structures into task-based small groups--software like Mediawiki (behind Wikipedia) and bugzilla.  I think some of the lessons from this software could be used beyond the worlds of free software and free content, within participatory structures.  Read below the fold for how.]]></description>
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