Ghost of Midnight

Bob of the Starr Farm Neighborhood Forum wrote on July 13…
Softball, Soccer, Frisbee (Ultimate)… Is anyone in the “Neighborhood” interested in putting together a neighborhood game of some sort? Nothing ultra-competitive, keeping it fun, maybe even playing against another neighborhood. Any ideas?
Not much response. Then, some wonderful volunteers happened to distribute Front Porch [...]

Julie from the Huntington Neighborhood Forum writes to us today…
You’ve done an amazing thing with [Front Porch Forum]. I have avoided all of those other social sites including linked-in (I have way too many contacts for business), etc, but this is really grounding.  Do you have many forums outside of Vermont yet? What happens when [...]

Yelvington.com writes today about “good enough” technology…
Truly disruptive technologies tend to enter the environment at the low end, not the high end.
To incumbents, they may at first appear to be a joke. Two examples from the world of database technology serve as examples.
He lists a couple of examples, including…
The first is MySQL, a free relational [...]

Since its launch last fall, Front Porch Forum has attracted wonderful people who join and put the service to great use.  Then the praise flows in.  Here are couple from today…
I joined this forum about a month ago but have been “lurking.” So, belatedly, “Hi, I’m Here”
The magic of the internet has made me feel [...]

Gotta love surprises! At least good ones. Last night I noted a post by Mark Glaser of MediaShift, a PBS blog, that put the question to his readers… “What’s your favorite way of getting hyper-local or neighborhood news?”
I wondered how Front Porch Forum members would answer that, so I asked a group of [...]

The simple message below appeared in all 38 of the Burlington neighborhood forums in the few days before this fun event…
Burlington Bocce Social July 22, 5 PM
Come join Burlington Parks and Recreation to learn about the game of bocce and how to use the brand new bocce courts at Oakledge Park. This free event is [...]

I learned more today about a promising event coming this fall to Burlington (October 23-25, 2007)…
COMMUNITYMATTERS07 is the next annual gathering of the Orton Family Foundation and PlaceMatters, where a national network of practitioners comes together to learn, share, inspire and seed innovation in place, collectively elevating the art and science of planning for vibrant, [...]

We were touched the other day when a couple neighbors passed the hat at the annul block party to help support their neighborhood forum.  More than 40 households contributed.  Thank you Five Sisters and Dori and Lori!
Contributions to Front Porch Forum are welcome and they help cover expenses during this early stage of development.  Some [...]

Under the heading “Babysitter Needed - Urgent” this moving message circulated through the Village Green Neighborhood Forum a couple days ago…
Hi - We have a 14 month old and are looking for a baby sitter for tomorrow night. It’s my husband’s last night in town before he deploys to Iraq, and the baby sitter we [...]

Pegasus News, a local media site covering the Dallas area, was recently acquired. This is one of the most touted “new media” sites… citizen journalism meets alternative weekly meets web 2.0 gadgets. From its blog…
We’ve just sold Pegasus News to Fisher Communications (NASDAQ: FSCI), a publicly-traded TV and radio broadcasting company based in [...]