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.
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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.
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 [...]
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’.
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
For those interested in the lovely art of community building and all that, there is a free ebook available. Print version can also be bought.
I had a rather uneventful trip to a Consulate the other day. I needed to sort out some papers that could only really be done there.
Apart from it feeling weird (like walking into a different dimension), it soon came apparent it wouldn’t be a place I’d want to work or even visit if I could [...]
I love Get Satisfaction's commitment to community. Here they provide videos (webcasts) on topics of building communities.