Bank Transfer Day and the power of specificity
This fall, roughly 700,000 Americans abandoned their banks and transferred an estimated US $4.5 billion to credit unions. This collective act of protest was inspired by…
Read articleMy Idea Du Jour: 10,000 Tweets
Before Christmas, while working on the Save the Great Bear campaign, I had an idea for a Twitter-powered site that could, if successful, be an effective…
Read articlePimping For Some Friends
I’m on the slow road to wellness (go away, neon phlegm, you’re needed elsewhere!). In the meantime, I wanted to mention a few good-cause projects that…
Read articleThe Centre for Social Innovation
When I was in Toronto back in, er, September, I had lunch with my friend Sarah. Afterwards, she gave me a tour of the super-cool Centre…
Read article1100 Stacies
This is the source text of a speech I gave at Gnomedex in 2007. Here’s a video of me giving this talk. One A few years…
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