It’s great how the global coworking community pulled together to get the coworking.com domain they always wanted.
You can read the story here.
Nice to see you.
Super cool – coworking community now have coworking.com
Lets work less
I’ve long had frustration with how our capitalist system works. Especially since having kids. Things get damn expensive.
This post kind of focuses of the children/family angle, but will hopefully show how our society is driven to spend and we increasingly feel tied down because of what we feel we need to commit to.
Perhaps turn away [...]
Reluctance to take community seriously
There’s a great post about the reluctance of people to take community seriously. Also a response to it too.
Both worth a read if you’re into ‘community’.
Crowdsourcing for government
I can’t help but look at the government and feel completely dissatisfied.
There really could be a better way.
As an example, imagine if:
Each street in every town and city had a representative. A community person. Someone who ensured everything in the street was ok. Someone who would act and report things on behalf of the street. [...]
Road Witch
Over the holidays I have been reading The Idler 42: Smash the System. It has a series of essays that really make you ‘think’.
One talks about Road Witch – which is about people reclaiming streets by calming traffic in an unofficial way Once upon a time people could feel more relaxed and safe [...]
Twitter Lists – RSS not a default
I use RSS lots and lots to aggregate and publish content. At the moment this is mostly for The Software Testing Club Feeds.
I was a bit surprised and disappointed to find that Twitter lists doesn’t come with RSS.
I got a tip from @rocketkeis about Twitter Lists 2 RSS. Within a few seconds I had the [...]
An offer for Sussex Interns
My wee company schux has signed up for the Sussex Internships. If you are interested in what we do. Want to get a feel for the industry. Fancy a chat or a cuppa. Meet other people within the industry…
Then here is an offer: from January onwards come to and cowork and Lewes Werks for free. [...]
Community #fail – Virgin Money Giving
We are learn from mistakes, right? Best learn from other people’s ones then
I briefly wrote about the Virgin Money Giving website and communiity/forum and how launching a forum with no content was a really bad idea.
That was back in August. It’s now December and a quick look shows that it hasn’t changed. Maybe [...]
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