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Melbourne Eats With Me

By Bethany Jones

01.31.11, 8:37am Comments (0)

The basket’s packed. I’m ready to go. The sun is shining outside my door. I love to eat and meet new friends but I'm a bit nervous about meeting 21 strangers.
I have organized a summer picnic in the park on eatwithme. Read more »

Craigslist Yields Used "Bike Chariot" for Jake

By Neal Gorenflo

01.30.11, 3:09pm Comments (1)

How do you stay fit while being a parent of a toddler? Great question. I'm not doing such a good job. Before Jake was born 13 months ago, I biked regularly during the week and surfed on weekends. That gave me a full body workout and great cardio. Read more »

Projects to Help Egyptians Get Online

By Paul M. Davis

01.29.11, 2:28pm Comments (5)

Internet users around the world are working on projects to help Egyptians bypass the government shutdown of Internet and cellular communications. Read more »

Homelessness And The Need for Shareable Housing

By Malcolm Harris

01.28.11, 1:17pm Comments (3)

Earlier this month, The National Alliance to End Homelessness released its report "State of Homelessness in America in 2011," and the results aren't pretty. Read more »

The Great American Bungalow: Perfect for Community Spirit

By Jay Walljasper

01.27.11, 5:38pm Comments (3)

Advocates of sharing and other unimpeachably sensible ideas often get flack for being out-of-step with the American spirit—for trying to force some kind of (take your pick) Euro/ socialist/ zen Buddhist/ nostalgic/ Third World/ green lifestyle . Read more »

This Week in Sharing

By Malcolm Harris

01.27.11, 10:28am Comments (0)

Here are some links we at Shareable found interesting this week, and we've saved them for you. Hope you enjoy, and add your own below in the comments. Read more »

An Interview With Dan Sinker, Creator of the Chicago Mayoral Election Scorecard

By Paul M. Davis

01.26.11, 11:50am Comments (0)

Politics in Chicago is a rough-and-tumble sport only rivaled for mindshare by the city’s beloved Bears. Since Mayor Richard M. Read more »

The Post-College Flow Chart of Misery and Pain

By Jenna Brager

01.25.11, 11:23am Comments (5)

Some light-hearted despair for those Shareable readers who began their last semester of college today, here's a cartoon from Jenna Brager. Read more »

New, Or Just New to Us? Social Media's Historical Antecedents

By Jonathan Salem Baskin

01.24.11, 9:23am Comments (2)

Societies have been social since civilization began. It’s what societies do (hence the shared latin root socius, for “allied” or “friend”). Read more »

Internet Users More Collaborative, Group-Oriented

By Paul M. Davis

01.24.11, 8:28am Comments (0)

Pat yourself on the back, engaged Internet user: a new Pew study has found that you are more likely to be active in some kind of voluntary group or organization. Read more »