Archives for January 2009
Pew keeps cranking out the internet data. A recent report shows…
74% of adult Americans are online
Of those online…
2% visit a virtual world
11% create a blog
26% participate in online auctions
32% read blog
32% rate a person or product
35% use social networking sites
38% send instant messages
89% use search engines
91% use email
So, if I understand the data, Pew is [...]
I had to share a posting from Sarah Judd tonight on her FPF neighborhood forum in Burlington’s Old North End…
Please join us for the opening of the ONE Woman photography show this Friday, January 30th, at the Burlington College Community Gallery, 95 North Ave. in Burlington. The Gallery will be open from 3-9 p.m., with [...]
I’m intrigued by Steve Yelvington’s post today about possible functions that a local newspaper can fulfill…
President Obama’s inauguration was incredible… inspirational. Here are a couple of TV news stories from WPTZ (on the way to DC and upon our return)…
[grr... can't get the video to load here or onto YouTube... hopefully WPTZ will keep them accessible on its site for awhile.]
And some newspaper coverage of our journey is here.
It’s always [...]
A couple of deserving media darlings are in the news again this week…
EveryBlock, the six person Adrian Holovaty “micro-local” project funded to the tune of $1.1 million by the Knight News Challenge, is preparing to go “for profit” when the two year Knight grant ends in June.
And…
Placeblogger, a 2007 recipient of $220k from the Knight [...]
Kevin Harris posts from the U.K…
Last month HBOS released another in this entertaining series, finding that 6% of respondents thought that good relationships with new neighbours were ‘not at all important’ and would prefer not to have any contact with them.
So not everyone is gungho on the concept of community and neighborhood. So be it.
UPDATE: Click here for some TV news coverage of our journey.
Joel Banner Baird wrote a piece in today’s Burlington Free Press about a little community adventure my wife is organizing. Should be wonderful! Good, bad or otherwise, you can follow along as the Free Press will be reporting live along the road.
Vermonters take bus ride [...]
We’re proud to announce a new set of telecom specials made available to eligible Burlington Front Porch Forum members via Burlington Telecom. If you live in Burlington in an area served by Burlington Telecom and are interested in top-of-the-line internet/cable TV/telephone service options, please check this out. Also, existing BT subscribers can get special discounts [...]
Steven Clift today calls for federal stimulus dollars for Front Porch Forum-like projects across the country… to the tune of $900 million. Go Steve!
A bridge is infrastructure designed to connect people to each other for social and economic growth. Digital bridges can do the same for a fraction of the cost.
Across the United States, a [...]
Wow! Once Front Porch Forum members got the hang of our “Nine Words for 2009” contest, the entries started to roll in… 990 at last count! And more than half were submitted from subscribers who had never posted before. Hopefully, their neighbors will be hearing from them again, now that they successfully posted their first [...]