current efforts

Plenty of keyboard time coming up over the next few weeks… The dissertation project continues: are radical openness of f/los communities embodying resistance to Empire? My proposal was graded at 8/10 … must be doing something right. Now to maintain that effort! Also researching a paper on social. p2p and participatory financial models with specific reference to banking systems. Zopa, Kiva and Open Capital are my case studies. Meeting with the CFO of Zopa tomorrow!...

February 4, 2008 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

dissertation research proposal submitted today

Phew! Completed the text, committed to my repository, created a PDF, printed the output. Attached… Dissertation Research Proposal{#p304} (for those with too much time on their hands.) I should get 5 spare minutes now to make public my repository and publish other essays and notes from previous study years.

November 13, 2007 · 1 min · Rob Dyke

research proposal for my politics degree

This year I get to write a dissertation for my degree course. I’m going to blog the development of my focus of study and my argument here and use my wiki and other tools to share resources I’ve found useful. I can’t wiki my work though - it needs to be all my own effort! But I will be publishing here it after its been submitted - another 10,000 words to add to the global text pool that is the internet. ...

November 2, 2007 · 4 min · Rob Dyke