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The integrity of our economy and democracy only exists if citizens and investors have perfect information. That day will come when all of us -- corporations, politicians, consumers, and private citizens -- are transparent about our costs and impact.

August 15, 2008

Twitter Spam - Why do you have to ruin every medium?

Seriously, why do people try to abuse every interesting and useful new medium for the love of making money? For all the talk of useful + creative replacing interruptive advertising, obviously interruption is still effective at getting our attention. =(

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August 3, 2008

Trailer for the book Crowdsourcing

Interesting to see a video trailer for a book, makes sense especially for something like this. The next wave after Crowdsourcing in my view is Crowdfunding for the future.

Croudsourcing Trailer

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April 5, 2008

Social Innovation Camp in London this weekend

This weekend in East London is what looks like an amazing first of it's kind event that hopefully will be replicated across the world soon. Based on the Barcamp / Unconference events that have blown up over the last year or so, Social Innovation Camp puts teams of techies with social entrepreneurs whose 5 ideas have been chosen before the weekend event.

My housemate Seth actually submitted one of the selected ideas, which is Stuffshare, Freecycle meets Street Car . The idea that actually seems the most similar to my own vision for Open Green is Barcode Wikipedia:

A site for storing user-generated information – such as carbon footprint, manufacturing conditions and reviews - against a product, identified by its barcode number.

Even though I'm a bit disappointed to not have submitted an idea to the perfect event for my converging interests (too much of my time focused on my job), it'll be cool to attend the final session tomorrow afternoon.

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February 5, 2008

OpenGreen - Draft Presentation

A draft presentation that seeks to demonstrate the value of open value chains for inspiring consumer behavior and demand toward a green culture and responsible economy. Definitely looking for feedback as I move this forward. Note: The audio for some reason became out of synch when uploaded to youtube, and will be corrected shortly.

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December 1, 2007

The Evolution of the Digital Bumper Sticker

From conversations back in 2002, and then resurfacing when discussing life visions while my brother Adam was visiting me in London on his way to Ruanda, I have the following vision for a digital bumper sticker.

Disclaimer: There are others (Killer Cotton, Tonkatronix, and MotionLed, which seems the most evolved with LED messages powered by the cigarette lighter.

The key breakthroughs that I would like to help make happen are the following:
1. solar powered to remove the need for charging and improve eco footprint
2. enable submissions of text and images via mobile device (bluetooth or equivalent)

I think the LED text is fine for promotions or expressing road rage, but for enabling people to communicate some of their personal values and identity, we need more graphical and font creativity. Also, connecting it to mobile devices like phones will enable more network effects and interesting uses we haven't even thought of yet.

Does anyone know someone who could help with this?

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