19 days ago by Demandra

(Here is where a really pretty widget would go if it would work. But it won't. Sigh) Thanks to Kenya over at be well {groomed!} for alerting me to this awesome little community experience. The 29-Day Giving Challenge is pretty self explanatory: You give one thing a day away for 29 days. It doesn't h ...

Consciously Frugal - consciouslyfrugal.blogspot.com · Rank: 130,159 · 4 references

23 days ago by Amy Lenzo

In this month's issue of TableTalk, I spoke about the challenges & uncertainty of the times we're in now and how it's in these times that we become even more appreciative of things like the power of conversation and the blessings of community. In the spirit of harvest and thanksgiving, I invited us ...

World Cafe Community - conversationsthatmatter.typepad.com/world_cafe_community · 11 references

33 days ago by Adam Thierer

Somewhere between Nick Carr’s “ Typology of Network Strategies” and Chris Anderson’s “ Four Kinds of Free” is the secret to understanding our new economy: Carr’s “Typology of Network Strategies”: Network effect Data mining Digital sharecropping, or “user-generated content” Complements Two-sided mark ...

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36 days ago by me

i spend a lot of time thinking about how the design of social rules and institutions can work together to produce a more loving, fairer society. people have an inherent capacity for good (or so i tend to believe in my better moments), but drawing good out of people often requires some sort of extern ...

what does it mean to be a ... - jordanbower.com/blog · 2 references

37 days ago by NG

Last Saturday, San Francisco’s Really Really Free Market spread out across the Mission District’s Dolores Park as it does each month, attracting a diverse crowd of gift economists with books, clothes, food, art and skills to share. Aptly named, Really Really Free Markets may be the only intentional ...

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39 days ago by Amy Lenzo

We received this email recently from Jennifer Goudemand in South Africa. It was so beautiful I had to share it with you all here: " Thank you for this work – I stumbled upon this methodology very recently, and am awed by the power, relevance and willingness to share evident in The World Cafe. In my ...

World Cafe Community - conversationsthatmatter.typepad.com/world_cafe_community · 11 references

48 days ago by michael

As Blog Action Day - 2008 draws to a close I write in solidarity with all who took up the cause of Poverty, today. Blogging is powerful, and the freedom to blog is something we should not take lightly. We are exercising a significant privilege. While thinking about poverty two points come immediatel ...

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54 days ago by Pierre M

As it is now common practice to clarify when talking about such subject, this text is about free as in speech, not free as in beer. But, since the Free (as in speech) of the internet has a strong tendency to become free (as in beer), it often also applies to the latter. From the beginning, the inter ...

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54 days ago by michael

Colbert Report, from Hulu. May expire at some point…

wrythings - wrythings.net · 15 references

56 days ago by nholdener

Anlass fr diesen Blog-Eintrag ist der Artikel “ Free” von Chris Anderson. Anderson zeigt anhand von Beispielen auf, wie man mit verschiedenen Geschäftsmodellen den Usern Sachen gratis anbieten kann. Anderson geht dabei von sechs verschiedenen Modellen aus, die hier kurz erläutert und verlinkt werden ...

Der Cast Blog. Der Blog ... - vca08.wordpress.com