User talk:Bricolab

Michael Pick (aka Bricolab) is a passionate advocate of peer to peer and open source culture, collaborative authorship and communities of practice. His Bricolab project is designed to bring creatives of all stripes, levels of proficiency, and styles together in the creation of collaborative works, and to aid one another's ongoing creative practice.

A firm believer in the wisdom of crowds, and the power of distributed cognition, his interest is in the unstoppable growth of participatory culture, and the way that this is having a huge impact upon the communications industries, and the ways that we express ourselves.

The PocketPacket Project (or PPP has it has been called in the p2p digital press) is an experiment in p2p-brut, or peer to peer in the raw, bringing the underlying philosophy of peer to peer to street level. People are encouraged to commit small acts of sharing, delivering up free content to strangers, anonymously, to both enhance their existences in a small but tangible way, and spread the word about the peer to peer alternative simultaneously.

Currently living in Tokyo, he is at present under consideration for a PhD in Open Source Culture and Collaborative Authorship back in the UK. With a background in media and language education, he is currently completing an M. Ed, focusing on online education and communities of practice.