Tag: community
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Howard Rheingold’s new video blog
Howard Rheingold (author of The Virtual Community) has a new vlog up. The first video does a great job in setting today’s high-bandwidth, visually immersive world in the context of online community, social networking, and activism over the late 20 years. From his intro post on Smartmobs: It all started when I started thinking about…
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Antifreeze for the winter in Seattle
There was a great article in the Seattle PI on Friday about Seattle Anti-Freeze and how their participative, theme-based gender-balanced parties are “finding a cure for the common cold”. Gayle Laakmann, one of Anti-freeze’s founders, interned for me several years ago at Microsoft Research, and since this gave me an opportunity to get in on…