Archives for January 2008
Neighbors have lots to say across Chittenden County, VT, as seen on the 130 neighborhood forums hosted by Front Porch Forum. Here are sample headlines from the past week…
• 2008 Trees for Local Communities Grant Announced
• 3rd Annual Friends of WHS Calcutta Feb. 17
• AFTERSCHOOL [...]
Duncan Watts of Yahoo! takes Malcom Gladwell’s Tipping Point thesis to task in Clive Thompson’s FastCompany.com article today. In particular, he goes after the notion that a small number of people carry extra weight in igniting trends that spread exponentially… influentials. Rather, its society’s readiness for a trend that matters most…
“If society is ready to [...]
Philip Baruth has an excellent piece on VPR and his blog about Vermont libraries providing internet access for folks who couldn’t otherwise afford it. Read it here.
Front Porch Forum keeps access as open as possible… subscriptions are free and we focus on the low-end of the tech spectrum. In fact, a Burlington FPF member told [...]
Congratulations to Justin (Front Porch Forum member) and his MocoSpace team. From Erick Schonfeld on TechCrunch…
Mobile social networking startup MocoSpace raised a $4 million B round from existing investors General Catalyst, Bob Pittman’s Pilot Group and former eBay exec Michael Deering. The previous A round was $3 million in January 2007. MocoSpace [...]
From Praized…
Graham Hill of TreeHugger.com fame offered 9 lessons web entrepreneurs should take heed of.
The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Humans don’t really change. If something feels wrong, it probably is.
Incentives drive the world. For employees, for business development, etc.
Truth is told at cash registers and [...]
VC Fred Wilson wrote this week about his Outside.in and Everyblock.com. The comments are interesting too. Fred wrote…
Techcrunch calls outside.in a competitor of EveryBlock. I think collaborator is more like it. It’s going to take more than one company to rebuild the local newspaper from the ground up.
Amen. Front Porch Forum is [...]
A national federation of U.S. “green” business groups ran a blurb today. From the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) e-newsletter…
Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility is experimenting with Front Porch Forum to increase traffic to member job listings on the VBSR site while increasing interest in socially responsible businesses.
VBSR is a sponsor of FPF [...]
Marc Andreessen (go UIUC engineering!) writes today about a group of neighbors in Seattle creating an online social networking using Ning to address concerns over a recent crime wave…
From Bill Gossman and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
“I’ve lived here 11 years and never seen anything like this,” said Bill Gossman, a Magnolia resident who about two weeks [...]
Good to read this posting today on my own neighborhood’s Front Porch Forum by Carolyn…
I had the glorious pleasure of listening to Bill McKibben speak this week at an AIA meeting. He is the guru on global warming, and has chosen to live in Vermont, too!
While he was answering questions about great things happening, he [...]
Congratulations to the Everyblock team… they just launched this new service in Chicago, New York and San Francisco…
EveryBlock filters an assortment of local news by location so you can keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city.
Powerful stuff. I might subscribe to an RSS feed of my [...]