Tag: news

No Opposition to Growth of SF Carsharing Requirements

08.17.10, 3:34pm Comments (1)

In 2002, San Francisco began requiring every residential development with 50 or more units and every commercial building with 25 or more parking spaces to have at least one space set aside for carsharing--a policy that has not only made carsharing

When Socially-Curated News Fails

By Paul M. Davis

08.06.10, 12:36pm Comments (4)

The venerable social news service Digg has a problem. As Alternet reports, a team of conservative users have been gaming the system for years thro

Google Reader's Social Rebirth

By Paul M. Davis

07.30.10, 8:47am Comments (0)

Many of us would love to be rid of our RSS readers, to replace them with the socially-curated news feeds we get from Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr. Even when using the dominant client, Google Reader, brow

Will Flipboard Transform Social News?

By Paul M. Davis

07.23.10, 12:21pm Comments (2)

Providing relevant social news remains a tantalizing but elusive goal for developers. There are many services that aggregate shared news items from across the Internet and highlight the most-discussed stories of the day. But popular news and relev

New Legislation Seeks to Support Peer-to-Peer Carsharing

By Jeremy Adam Smith

04.28.10, 5:50pm Comments (2)

In "Would You Share Your Car with a Stranger?" Kim Gaskins identified insurance concerns as a major obstacle to the growth of new peer-to-pe

The Cooperative Beer

By David Bollier

03.09.10, 10:55am Comments (2)

The venerable English pub has long been a place where everyone from the businessman to the housewife to the student, factory worker and vicar could meet as equals — a social commons that reflected the neighborhood and its idiosyncrasies.

Has Cab-Sharing in New York Really Failed?

By RACHEL BOTSMAN

03.09.10, 7:26am Comments (2)

"Wondering why the city’s cab-sharing experiment fizzled last week?"

Human Touch: Distributed Problem Solving?

By Jeremy Adam Smith

02.23.10, 12:05pm Comments (0)

Dacher Keltner is the director of the UC Berkeley Greater Good Science Center, where I worked for three years (and a contributor to Shar

Community-Supported Music

By Bernice Yeung

02.22.10, 11:24am Comments (0)

It was the summer of 2007 and Kristin Hersh, frontwoman for the then-defunct band Throwing Muses, was at the end of a seven-month tour to promote her latest solo record. Hersh and her 10-person coterie ha