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lunch at dunphy park
Originally uploaded by tracyshaun.

An impromptu decision yesterday to have lunch in the park near office turned out to be great. 11 of us from AngelPoints showed up and sat in the shade and chatted and ate our lunch. A little frisbee afterwards and back to the office. Though, now […]

On Saturday morning, I attended a world café gathering in Berkeley. I hadn’t been in such a large group of passionate, intelligent and warm people in a long time. They were incredibly welcoming of me even though I was a “newbie” to the whole process.
I had never been part of a world cafe […]

Duras’ “stomp” group won first place at Hall Middle School. She and a few of her friends coreographed their own stomp-styled performance. See the video now.

Blogs, Wikis and Online Social Networks for Youth
Quick stats:

in US, 87% of 12-17 yr olds are online
in US, 80% of parents are online

dana boyd says… US explicitly practiced age segregation in the early 20th century with the public school systems.  Before then, kids mixed with different ages.  Now, socialization is happening in same-age groups.  The […]

Emerging Social and Technology Trends
There was a bit of debate about what’s driving what… technology affecting social change or social changing driving technology.  At the least, we are all receiving more feedback about our identities online than we have before.
Three interesting trends:

the “widgetizing” of web content and interactivity.  It’s breaking down the sense of “place” […]

Panel Home Page
A panel of the “in crowd” lists all the ways they stay in touch and connected with their friends.  The big sites they use:

upcoming
twitter — the one, big hype site of this year
dodgeball
consumating
plazes
sxswbaby

Over the weekend, Ami sent out an email to the thousands and thousands of people connected through idealist.org.  They want to catalyze change from the ground up and work locally to find leaders to help foster this change.
And on the week of February 5-11, join us, wherever you are, to help launch this initiative with […]