Archives for April 2009
Indeed they do. A long-time FPF subscriber (who gladly pays a monthly donation), shared the following today…
We are in the middle of an eight-month tour of the world with our kids (right now in Kathmandu), so we are enjoying Front Porch Forum more than ever, as it keeps us in touch with what’s going on [...]
From FeverBee…
10 groups of 40 members is better than 1 group of 400
Smaller groups are more intimate. Participation rates are higher. Activity levels increase. Messages resonate through friends, not through your organisation. It’s less work with better results.
Front Porch Forum is a network of relatively small online neighborhood forums, and our experience matches Richard’s trend [...]
Front Porch Forum is giving away one pair of tickets for each of the following Higher Ground concerts…
April 22 – Talib Kweli
April 28 – Slightly Stoopid
If you want a chance to win these tickets, leave a comment below that completes this thought… “I deserve to win these tickets because…”
We’ll pick one winner from the [...]
Greg Sterling writes recently…
This article from the Sunday NY Times magazine has some interesting and controversial “food for thought” about the future of the economy and local communities. The piece focuses on the “Transition” movement, whose central idea is that to be sustainable in a coming era of no oil, society will have to “relocalize” [...]
Like most cities, Burlington has a graffiti problem. It’s frequent fodder on Front Porch Forum… sometimes it gets testy when someone takes the “tag on the side of your house is art” line of reasoning. Spring brings a fresh round of graffiti and FPF discussion.
That’s why Karen’s comment below was a breath of fresh air [...]
See America’s Heart & Soul at Palace 9 in South Burlington, VT, thru April 27. If enough Vermonters watch this documentary portrait of ordinary people doing extraordinary things (children free), then it will be released nationally! This movie shares much in common with Front Porch Forum… people pulling together to accomplish so much important work.
A community newspaper in Vermont recently raised concerns about Front Porch Forum to an entity that is supportive of our work. Here are some of the points made by the newspaper publisher…
… internet activities like the Front Porch Forum are direct competitors to community newspapers…
… subsidizing these forums and spreading their access is hastening the [...]
Thomas Hark, President of the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, makes good and frequent use of Front Porch Forum in Richmond, where VYCC’s West Monitor Barn is located. Currently, there’s some interesting back and forth about a beef-cattle proposal. Good points all around, but what really caught my attention was Thomas’ remark…
Front Porch Forum is a [...]
More impressive coverage for “hyper-local” media darlings Outside.in and Everyblock, this time in the New York Times. Venture capitalists have pumped $7.5 million into aggregator Outside.in and the Knight Foundation has given Everyblock a $1.1 million grant.
Of course, neither is actually local, rather they work in a host of cities from afar, cobbling together data [...]
From the Local Democracy blog in the U.K…
There’s a really good, detailed bit of reporting here from Friday’s Guardian about the near-collapse of local newspapers in some areas.
The starting point that Stephen Moss chose was my old local paper when I was young – The Long Eaton Advertiser.
This bit stood out for me:
“For the [...]