#community (101 links)
- Scotland just showed us how to keep wealth in local communities. betterfuturemedia.substack.com
A new Scottish law will quietly shift how wealth circulates – and who actually benefits from economic growth.
- A new kind of gentrification is spreading through London – and emptying out schools | Anna Minton | The Guardian theguardian.com
The positive rhetoric and branding of placemaking is that it transforms run-down areas into vibrant and economically successful parts of the city. The reality is that it creates sterile places, emptied of so many of the essential aspects of urban life, except the expensive activities. The city may be emptier than ever of children and families, but tables at sought-after restaurants are still booked up weeks in advance.
- BICEPS palomamedina.com
There are six core needs researchers find are important for humans (both at work and in our personal lives). Each of us have a personal hierarchy for the six however: You might find that equity and belonging are most important to you, but choice and status are most important to your employee, your partner, your child. Getting to know them is a shortcut to better communication, as well as greater inclusivity at work.
- Online Safety Act Notes for Small Sites — Russ Garrett russ.garrett.co.uk
- Team Topologies Community team-topologies-community.mn.co
- Healthy System Healthy Body underconsideration.com
New Identity for Ayushman Bharat Wellness Centers by Lopez Design
- Loomio: decide together loomio.com
Bring people together, have discussions, make proposals and achieve clear outcomes
- A year of new avenues robinsloan.com
I want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage internet; a public library internet; a kitchen table internet.
- 🌄 MetaFilter’s rule-laden mini-utopia newpublic.substack.com
- RxC QV quadraticvote.radicalxchange.org
Quadratic Voting is the mathematically optimal way to vote in a democratic community. Vote through collective decision-making, by allocating votes that express the degree of your preferences, not just direction.
In the conventional survey, people tended to gravitate to one end of the scale or the other. They expressed strong approval or disapproval, just as online reviewers tend to give five stars or none. In both cases, a strong statement costs nothing. In the quadratic poll, people faced a constraint. Expressing vehemence on one issue required them to weaken their stand on another. This constraint forced them to be more discerning about their passions.
- The continuing rise of private virtual neighbourhoods (Interconnected) interconnected.org
Perhaps what we’re seeing is the disentangling of social media back into social and media: newsletters and podcasts are best understood as being part of the media spectrum, even if many of them are smaller and have community spaces attached. And Discord space, Slack spaces, etc, these virtual neighbourhoods are pure social.
- Free Cakes for Kids UK freecakesforkids.org.uk
<blockquote>A community service to families who find it difficult to provide a birthday cake for their child. The cakes are baked by volunteers from your community with your kid’s favourite theme or style.</blockquote>
What a fine idea.
- The Future of Manufacturing is Local - NYTimes.com opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com
"Mark Dwight, who started SFMade in 2010, explains, “For decades we have developed a culture of disposability — from consumer goods to medical instruments and machine tools. To fuel economic growth, marketers replaced longevity with planned obsolescence — and our mastery of technology has given birth to ever-accelerating unplanned obsolescence. I think there is increasing awareness that this is no longer sustainable on the scale we have developed.”
- Forking is a Feature - Anil Dash dashes.com
"Part of the predicate for forks being so disruptive was the idea that there is One True Version — a creation, like a piece of software, a written work, or anything else, that can only be accurately represented by a single ideal expression [...] Until a git named Linus changed that." Worth poking through the comments.
- The slow death of Dopplr | Technology | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
Boo. True. Sad. Can't blame people for selling, mind.
- Microloans in Hackney | Feature | Society | The Observer guardian.co.uk
When you start dealing with people with unpredictable lifestyles and with income that might be variable month by month, you can't just use the same computerised systems of default and interest that you use for people in regular salaried employment. Muhammad Yunus's microfinance model, which operated in parts of the world where everyone's lifestyle was precarious, had shown that. You had to know exactly who you were lending to, and establish more intimate and flexible models based on that knowledge.
#microfinance #development #london #money #poverty #uk #economics #hackney #community #banking#credit - What went wrong with Freecycle in the UK? - The Ecologist theecologist.org
"Deron Beal and the US Network made no comment." Says it all, really.
- Image Spark imgspark.com
Discover, share, tag and converge images that inspire you and your work
- John Resig - Eulogy to _why ejohn.org
I tend to see _why more as an artist. He used a wide variety of mediums for his exploration: Written word, drawings, code, and even music.
- Toy Chest (Online or Downloadable Tools for Building Projects) - UCSB English Department Knowledge Base wiki.english.ucsb.edu
""Toy Chest" collects online or downloadable software tools/thinking toys that humanities students and others without programming skills (but with basic computer and Internet literacy) can use to create interesting projects."
Twitter is becoming an ever present backchannel at conferences and events. However sometimes it needs curating and moderating, especially if it's to be displayed large as a part of the event. Here we talk about an app built in a few hours and open sourced today which we used for this purpose for The Guardian's Activate Summit.
- Tools of Engagement: The New Practice of User-Centered Design, by Robert Fabricant - Core77 core77.com
We have been operating under the assumption that the primary challenge is to convince businesses to focus on fulfilling user needs with higher quality products, with more meaningful experiences. But what if the 'users' themselves are the problem? What if users represent not a coherent set of needs but a messy mix of desires and influences? What, ultimately, is the role of the designer in sorting through these desires to determine which should drive our design decisions? And what frameworks, other than intuition, should we use to make these judgments?
"Over the past 2 months the city government, in cooperation with business groups and non-profits, has turned a corner of one of the busiest intersections in San Francisco into a public plaza. The 17th Street Plaza project took 72-hours to implement, and is carefully called a “reversible trial.” Like the phrase “reversible pilot”.
- ShiftSpace | An open source layer above any webpage shiftspace.org
An open source browser plugin for collaboratively annotating, editing and shifting the web.
- Report Paints a Painful View of Ad Agencies « FUEL LINES Fueling Ad Agency New Business Through Social Media fuelingnewbusiness.com
"Forrester Research believes today’s ad agencies are not well-structured to take on tomorrow’s marketing challenges, needing to move from making messages to establishing community connections." What, really?
- GigPark gigpark.com
Discover the trusted service people your friends use
- MusicTwitters musictwitters.com
DrownedinSound.com explored Twitter and compiled this site to help you to see at a glance music on the Twittersphere.
- del.icio.us network explorer twoantennas.com
- Bring Back The Webmaster | crackunit.com crackunit.com
"What I like about the term webmaster is that it implies that one person is the big boss. The master of the site. The person who speaks with the voice of the machine. When you come across a brilliant site it so often feels like it comes through one person. Or at least there’s a very strong sense of singularity in the way it’s written and presented." I always wanted to be a webmaster.
The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, which will publish the “Social Media Futures” report compiled by Future Foundation next week, has warned that advertising agencies face growth of just 1.2 per cent a year by 2016 if the industry fails to tackle the changes to the media created by sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
- The forecast for 2009: Mobile is the key, says Goldmund Byrne of The Sun | Media | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"An increasing number of mobiles are coming with flat-rate data access as standard. Remember how much more eagerly we used the net when we stopped paying by the minute? Stop the cost clock and mobile booms. Checking mail, synching calendars. Using geo-tagging and location aware services to see what's cool and nearby for a quick impulse buy." No more in the article than that. Ranty counterpoint in the comments.
- 90-9-1 90-9-1.com
The 90-9-1 Principle is an often discussed concept that has been used in countless conversations about online communities and social strategy. Until now, there hasn't been a single collection of description and support for the principle, making it hard to share a single links with clients, colleagues, and friends who haven't heard of 90-9-1. This site works to solve that problem!
- Landshare - What is Landshare landshare.channel4.com
Linking people who want to grow their own food to space where they can grow it
- Radar Music Videos | connecting filmmakers with music video opportunities radarmusicvideos.com
Radar was set up in 2006 to inspire, empower and connect people worldwide through music video filmmaking.
- How can I get a music video? | New Music Strategies newmusicstrategies.com
I recently stumbled across Radar Music Videos. It’s a site that connects independent video producers with musicians, with some quite spectacular results. For quite realistic budgets, there are some very impressive music promo clips.
- sw0p - zero cost items and skills sw0p.com
Takes the best bits of online auctioning, recycling and LETS systems and combines them into a simple and free item and skill bartering service.
- Xfm Uploaded xfmuploaded.co.uk
Xfm's unsigned band network. Bands can create a homepage, upload songs, post gig info, build a gallery and receive a unique Xfm Uploaded web address. They might even get played on Xfm itself.
- Pinax pinaxproject.com
An open-source collection of re-usable apps for the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.
- siliconroundabout siliconroundabout.ning.com
- FT.com | Tech Blog | Silicon Roundabout: Is this the heart of the UK’s new dotcom boom? blogs.ft.com
Heh, funny.