reinventnow

Heh, speaking of google’s philanthropic policy, I had the bad semantic connection to the 1% doctrine which smacks of plain old paranoia…
My friend Rick back in Austin is now an entrepreneur… how ’bout a little “pair blogging” on the role of small, independent companies giving back to the community?
Though, I can’t say much, my old […]

I attended an event tonight hosted by the Entrepreneurs Foundation, a non-profit helping organize entrepreneurs to contribute back to the communities they operate within. It was their annual networking, awards and speaker event. I got to meet a few good people and chat about AngelPoints a bit, but I […]

Here’s a quick run-down of a few places I heard about that I hadn’t visited before:

Citizen Agency: http://www.citizenagency.com
Tara Hunt’s new creation to “transform the way we work”… a collective, citizen-owned agency for the rest of us…
ScrAPI’s: http://www.scrapi.org
A beginning to collecting scraping tools and building common API’s for a scraping database…
TourBus: http://tourb.us/
An awesome site to track […]

BarCamp San Francisco
Originally uploaded by Laughing Squid.

I think Dan was talking about the awesome potential of the web for social change… I was raving about the some great new technology to build better communities… and Galen was just enjoying a damn good donut.

One of the first sessions I went to at BarCamp San Francisco was one called, “getting people who disagree with you to talk…” — it was instigated by Dan (who had a very cool mac and who had a great discussion with my boy)…
A few little out-takes from the discussion:

email one-to-one with someone to keep […]

The first night of barcamp san francisco was great. I took Galen with me so he could see the city and to see if he related to anything that was going to be talked about. We showed up and grabbed a few of the schwag, got a couple of t-shirts, munched on some […]

Interesting cosmic disturbances in the works… time is being ruptured here and there… I have to keep looking around to make sure we all haven’t just sped by and spent five years doing nothing. Gotta make sure I’m still here and awake. These waves will sweep over us and put us to sleep.
Message, […]