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Heather Ion, David Brin, Harold M. Koenig talk about resiliency in a time of financial turmoil | Tom Munnecke's Eclectica

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:56:48 +0000

"this can be an opportunity, in disguise – a chance to emphasize community and neighborhood connections that used to fortify earlier Americans, in hard times. Activities that don’t require much money or new-bought goods, but fill our emotional and practical needs. In that spirit, here is a short list of ways that neighborhoods might rebuild that old village feeling, increasing local self-reliance while enjoying greater connection and meaning."

Tags: #communities #economy #resiliency

The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News)

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:09:04 +0000

"I want starting a Digg-like community to be as easy as creating a weblog on blogger.com."

Tags: #communities #digg #metablogging #publishing

In Teens' Web World, MySpace Is So Last Year - washingtonpost.com

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:02:29 +0000

"think it's definitely going down -- a lot of my friends have deleted their MySpaces and are more into Facebook now"

Tags: #communities #myspace #youth