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October 30, 2006
Grattan School evening lecture program (SF)
Robert Birnbach, who shot the awesome author photo on the page-cover book-jacket flap of The Power of Many writes to tell me about an evening lecture suries he is helping start called The Grattan Speaker Series, “featuring locally and nationally...(See full entry.)
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December 28, 2005
All politics, still local
Ron Fournier, political writer for the Associated Press, put an article on the newswires on Christmas Eve summing up a trend over the past few years: Internet Fosters Local Political Movements. Sound like a familiar premise? The examples he cites...(See full entry.)
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December 16, 2004
Ed Cone on local alternative media
Quoting from Greensboro sees birth of new alternative media: A new kind of alternative press is emerging in Greensboro. The writers are local people who publish at their own Web sites. As individuals, these bloggers offer reporting and commentary that...(See full entry.)
November 4, 2004
Municipal blogging
Jed Miller writes about building town blogs at Personal Democracy Forum (another site I contribute to): Mark Glaser of OJR keeps a steady eye on the encounter between journalism and the Internet. In today's article he uses the lovely coinage...(See full entry.)
October 27, 2004
Coolness quotient for cities based on blogs, craigslist, Upcoming, and Meetup
Rob Goodspeed correlates creativity and online culture on his blog (On "Cool Cities" and Blogs): My theory: cities with the richest local online culture (measured in number of blogs, and use of a select group of other geographically-bound websites) will...(See full entry.)
August 17, 2004
Neighborhoods, physical and virtual
Keith Hampton has announced the launch of i-neighbors, a set of free web services for neighborhoods in Canada and the US inspired by the research into the connection between virtual and f2f communities done by himself and Barry Wellman....(See full entry.)
March 22, 2004
Review of '24 Hours on Craigslist'
craigblog: first review of 24 hours on craigslist (I have to reboot my computer, so I have to close about 400 browser tabs, so I have to blog some of them so I can find them again later.)...(See full entry.)
February 26, 2004
Think globally, recycle locally
Not sure how I found my way to Freecycle: Membership is free. To join simply click on your city under "Sign up" below. It will generate a automatic e-mail which, when sent, will sign you up for your local group...(See full entry.)
January 24, 2004
A virtual village weekly
I'm interviewing Roger Karraker of 95346.com about the genesis of his site, its intentions, and how it works. We're doing the interview in the context of his blog. Here's a quotation from Roger's answer to my first question: [Stewart] Brand...(See full entry.)
January 23, 2004
Kickball online?
A Sybex editor reports that a group of EastBay-ers who play kickball had been organizing their team meetings and adminsitration online, through the World Adult Kickball Assn. (WAKA). This is apparently huge in San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and N.Y....(See full entry.)
January 19, 2004
Community building in Forestville, CA
Roger Karraker is using TypePad and a number of other technologies to host a community site for Forestville called www.95436.com....(See full entry.)
January 5, 2004
Family links
Pete: Various sites are set up for kids to go and play, chat, learn, build their own webpages. Some also act like personal organizers. A friend pointing me to Kiddo Net led to me finding that they're categorized on Google...(See full entry.)
Sports links
Pete: Almost every kids' soccer league in California has its schedules (field and referee assignments, dates/times) and tournament data on a website: CCSL, Yourth Soccer. Little League online, not much more than info. Tons of companies offer Web site construction...(See full entry.)
Community links
online chat sessions with local candidates or candidate info Online high school Online help (with audio) for students who failed state testing Sierra Club. International has a page to let visitors send boilerplate letters to politicians on various topics. N.J....(See full entry.)