Some stuff I’m reading this week…
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
Funny comic that demonstrates one of the layers of discrimination in the tech community.
Helping Customers Help Each Other Online — online community forums — online customer service
It’s also important to create an atmosphere where customers want to [...]
and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom
cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
- ani difranco, 32 flavors
Is it just me, or does everyone else notice that women who make it to some reasonable level of power in North America are painted [...]
Some stuff I’m reading this week…
opencities.ca
Open Cities Toronto 2007 is a weekend-long web of conversation and celebration that asks: how do we collaboratively add more open to the urban landscape we share? What happens when people working on open source, public space, open content, mash up art, and open business work together? How do we [...]
Some stuff I’m reading this week…
Project Good : Good Stuff For A Good World
“Learn about the importance of trust providers in building the new People Positive marketplace” Nice. People positive marketplace.
Tease-O-Rama Burlesque Convention
America’s first convention dedicated to the foxy, fabulous and all-around over-the-top world of burlesque! SEE performances from 200+ contemporary pinup queens, TAKE classes [...]
I’ve talked about this topic in a couple of places, but I don’t think I’ve actually posted what we ended up kind of coming up with as pretty decent measurements of the health of a community. But, perhaps I should first define what I mean by community health:
The health of a community is the gauge [...]
Some stuff I’m reading this week…
Coworkers of the World, Unite! | The American Prospect
“Community” is also central to everything that Citizen Agency does; it’s one of the “4 pillars of coworking” that Hunt recently posted to the movement’s Google Group (others include collaboration, openness and sustainability). Hunt and Messina scoff at “fly-by-night” commercial coworking spaces, [...]
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