Yes, many examples: government in France requires major cities and companies to define a mobility plan to reduce carbon emissions, Italian law promotes carpooling with reduced fare for toll on some freeways and airport parkings, Spanish government has launched a carpooling portal... would be happy to share with you more offline.
Awesome post ! Nice information regarding co-working spaces.
A Coworking space is a shared space that anyone can use for any kind of quiet work they like. The more you head out to these co-working spaces, the more people you can meet and spread out your name in the industry for potential employers in the future.
It's a good thing I use Identi.ca, a (surprise!) decentralized, open source microblogging service. My updates are first posted there (which puts them under a CC-BY license), and only then pushed to Twitter. And that assumes 140-character updates can be copyrighted in the first place.
Nah, DAs sending subpoenas to Twitter are because of two things: 1) they want to get the private messages as well (as they can't imagine someone working entirely in the open) and 2) that's how they rock; laws are simply not designed for a world where every single human being is a publisher and broadcaster.
Thanks Whitney. Feel free to drop me a line on Twitter: @donmacca if you ever need any more info/ideas about the process. Would also love to hear how it goes!
Jef, love the article! Thought those WWII posters were particularly fascinating. Slugging happens in the San Francisco Bay area as well! There it's called "casual carpool" but operates exactly the same. Riders and drivers can learn more at http://www.sfcasualcarpool.com . What can we do to bring slugging/casual carpool to new cities across the US?
This is a great article: thank you Jef!
In Europe, ridesharing is also following the rise of oil prices but overall, the practice is becoming incredibly popular anyway.
I think that we are currently witnessing the rise of a very interesting peer-to-peer phenomenon in the transport sector, Soon, ridesharing will have to be integrated in every country transport policy.
For those interested, you may also like a little story of carpooling in Europe: http://www.carpooling.com/press/companypressmedia-kit/little-story-of-ca...
That sounds good in theory but I believe cross promotion and/or partnerships will end up providing the shared support you mention rather than exchange of money. Financially each collaborative consumption site is different. It wouldn't really be appropriate for RelayRides to take their investors money and give a portion to another firm. To date Airbnb would be considered the largest for profit sucess in this space but they are a for profit C corp with shareholder/investor obligations as well.
The investor communities are well established and have solid mechanisms for vetting companies and teams.
I think it would be great to see cross platform promotions in time. For example my startup (P2P tools) could integrate an API for something like TaskRabbit/Zaarly to reserve a chain saw through ToolSpinner then just check a box to auto tweet a request for help this weekend.
With the amazingly large collection of movies available online, you will never get no as an answer. Name a movie, and you’ll have it right before you, all set to watch. These movies are made available in quality that matches that of the original DVDs, and are full versions, free of any cutting or editing. You can also make use of the resources available on the websites to read previews, user reviews, as well as expert reviews of any movie that you wish to.
I completely agree with you Erica; collaborating is what Collaborative Consumption is all about. I believe, like you, that if you share one asset or resource, you would be more willing to share others. Because of this, sharemyspaces.com is developing a patentable search engine aggregator that will connect all kinds of collaborative consumption sites, like airbnb, NeighborGoods, RelayRides, etc. Our business model is to be the Kayak of sharing, where we work together to allow individuals and/or businesses to share both physical and cyber spaces.
As a start-up in open beta, we hope to find other companies willing to collaborate with us, and we in turn are eager to share their services with our community.
Of course the pro-choice contingent is going aumento peniano to try to refute these stories by saying that they are not typical or that having children is still tensordin .
Hi Corbyn, although I haven't seen you for awhile I do read your blog. Your writing is a gift and has moved me to tears (i.e. Throat Clearing). You are a survivor and an inspiration to me. You have reminded me to assess what is really important in life - friends and family. Your kids will probably look back on these lean years and remember the lessons you are teaching them. Rock on my friend!
"it can take longer for indie artists to reach the critical mass of audience awareness to quit their day jobs." Why should they? Why is it we have come to expect creators of art to stop living in the real world that inspired their art in the first place?
The old school bare-knuckle boxers were largely laborers, so too the original football players. The expectation that anyone makes a living by entertaining others is ludicrous. Even in ancient times poets and play-wrights were expected to work for their daily bread. They entertained people for spare money! In the past it was only through patrons people created great works, and kept themselves alive, and so should it be today!
I really don't see what the problem is. Everything takes ten years of hard work to get you anywhere. Music, art, programming... you name it. For how long did the Beatles sing in seedy bars before they were noticed by a record label exec? How many other bands weren't so lucky?
90% of everything is crap. 90% of people never amount to much. But the more people *try* to do something worthwhile, the more the other 10% will amount to, in absolute terms. And that's why the Internet matters.
Also, you're operating under the assumption that artists are somehow supposed to earn a living with their art. No they aren't. For most of recorded history, most art was done for other purposes than financial gain (and without copyright protection, but I'm digressing), and that didn't stop anyone. Consider that even today the vast majority of novels are written without any guarantee that they'll ever be picked up by a publisher, let alone sell enough to matter. Heck, I know of a professional writer who took time from writing for money to create a fan novel which by definition *he'll never be allowed to sell*. (If you like Firefly, check out My Own Kind of Freedom, it's awesome.)
If you do manage to make money with your art, or even make a living, more power to you. But if you fail, instead of complaining, consider how lucky you are that you got to try in the first place, and without having to ask anyone for permission!
Thank you for sharing this! It's beautifully written and I'm happy that you finally got to pursue your passion.
I've noticed this trend among my friends as well. Bankers and lawyers who lost their job but seemed happy they could now justify doing what they really wanted to do, which was often a creative pursuit. I think part of the reason was that the huge wage differential between being a lawyer and being an Art History grad student or photographer suddenly wasn't that big. But what happens when the economy picks up and those wage differentials come back? Will half of Harvard's graduating class go back to consulting? Probably.
Without more equitable distribution of wages (which European countries achieve through sectoral level wage bargaining and taxation/redistribution) and universal benefits (like health care, free higher education) I'm afraid our country's human capital will remain poorly distributed. That is social science speak for: a lot of people will either have to accept poor pay as a creative, or go back to jobs they don't love.
Getting your money out of your pocket into theirs ( their clients) is the marketeers mantra. What has "informed" USA Inc is based on an ideology that is no longer scientifically relevant. We are on a limited planet of limited resources and "Consumer Economics" is eating its way through the world, leaving waste, pollution, dis-ease of mind, heart and body and we have 10,000 jelly bean flavors but have to fight for "real" food. Save your $ and invest in the world you want to see manifest. There are co-ops, groups etc and creating a diverse, scintillating new economic ssystem is necessary if humans and other living things are to bloom and thrive.
HOW CAN ICA EXTEND HELPED TO COOPERATIVES IN THE PHILIPPINES? A COUNTRY THAT IS VISITED BY 20 TYPHOONS EVERY YEAR. DEVASTATED BY FLOODS.AND OTHER CALAMITIES.
Very true, we really do tend to overuse words to the point that they get thrown around and repeated without true mindfullness of the meaning of the word or how it will manifest as action.
Reading this, I thought of playwright Wally Shawn's line in my favorite movie of all time, "My Dinner With Andre". He says, "When I was young and rich, all I thought about was art and music. Now I'm 36, and all I think about is money." Life sweeps us up and it's easy to think we'll get back to our creative paths...someday. I'm happy you've found your way back to your own writer's way. It's partly selfish: your heartfelt, thoughtful description of life in these hugely transitional times gives me hope and cheers me up, even when you are dealing with tough things. It's good to know there are smart, caring people like you out there who will be part of shaping the world.
I found the perfect place for my needs. Contains wonderful and useful messages. I have read most of them and has a lot of them. To me, he's doing the great work.
Thanks Odile, we may be in touch.
Also, a question for the group. Are there highways or road systems somewhere in the world build specifically to enable slugging?
Yes, many examples: government in France requires major cities and companies to define a mobility plan to reduce carbon emissions, Italian law promotes carpooling with reduced fare for toll on some freeways and airport parkings, Spanish government has launched a carpooling portal... would be happy to share with you more offline.
Awesome post ! Nice information regarding co-working spaces.
A Coworking space is a shared space that anyone can use for any kind of quiet work they like. The more you head out to these co-working spaces, the more people you can meet and spread out your name in the industry for potential employers in the future.
It's a good thing I use Identi.ca, a (surprise!) decentralized, open source microblogging service. My updates are first posted there (which puts them under a CC-BY license), and only then pushed to Twitter. And that assumes 140-character updates can be copyrighted in the first place.
Nah, DAs sending subpoenas to Twitter are because of two things: 1) they want to get the private messages as well (as they can't imagine someone working entirely in the open) and 2) that's how they rock; laws are simply not designed for a world where every single human being is a publisher and broadcaster.
Odile, do you have examples of laws or policies that support carpooling, ridesharing?
Shareable is in dialog with the city of San Francisco about the sharing economy, so we're interested in ideas from all over.
-Neal
Or they could just, you know, not write their Terms of Service that way. That'd work too.
Thanks Whitney. Feel free to drop me a line on Twitter: @donmacca if you ever need any more info/ideas about the process. Would also love to hear how it goes!
Donnie
Jef, love the article! Thought those WWII posters were particularly fascinating. Slugging happens in the San Francisco Bay area as well! There it's called "casual carpool" but operates exactly the same. Riders and drivers can learn more at http://www.sfcasualcarpool.com . What can we do to bring slugging/casual carpool to new cities across the US?
This is a great article: thank you Jef!
In Europe, ridesharing is also following the rise of oil prices but overall, the practice is becoming incredibly popular anyway.
I think that we are currently witnessing the rise of a very interesting peer-to-peer phenomenon in the transport sector, Soon, ridesharing will have to be integrated in every country transport policy.
For those interested, you may also like a little story of carpooling in Europe: http://www.carpooling.com/press/companypressmedia-kit/little-story-of-ca...
That sounds good in theory but I believe cross promotion and/or partnerships will end up providing the shared support you mention rather than exchange of money. Financially each collaborative consumption site is different. It wouldn't really be appropriate for RelayRides to take their investors money and give a portion to another firm. To date Airbnb would be considered the largest for profit sucess in this space but they are a for profit C corp with shareholder/investor obligations as well.
The investor communities are well established and have solid mechanisms for vetting companies and teams.
I think it would be great to see cross platform promotions in time. For example my startup (P2P tools) could integrate an API for something like TaskRabbit/Zaarly to reserve a chain saw through ToolSpinner then just check a box to auto tweet a request for help this weekend.
With the amazingly large collection of movies available online, you will never get no as an answer. Name a movie, and you’ll have it right before you, all set to watch. These movies are made available in quality that matches that of the original DVDs, and are full versions, free of any cutting or editing. You can also make use of the resources available on the websites to read previews, user reviews, as well as expert reviews of any movie that you wish to.
http://www.moviewatchlist.com/moviedownloads
I completely agree with you Erica; collaborating is what Collaborative Consumption is all about. I believe, like you, that if you share one asset or resource, you would be more willing to share others. Because of this, sharemyspaces.com is developing a patentable search engine aggregator that will connect all kinds of collaborative consumption sites, like airbnb, NeighborGoods, RelayRides, etc. Our business model is to be the Kayak of sharing, where we work together to allow individuals and/or businesses to share both physical and cyber spaces.
As a start-up in open beta, we hope to find other companies willing to collaborate with us, and we in turn are eager to share their services with our community.
Of course the pro-choice contingent is going aumento peniano to try to refute these stories by saying that they are not typical or that having children is still tensordin .
Hi Corbyn, although I haven't seen you for awhile I do read your blog. Your writing is a gift and has moved me to tears (i.e. Throat Clearing). You are a survivor and an inspiration to me. You have reminded me to assess what is really important in life - friends and family. Your kids will probably look back on these lean years and remember the lessons you are teaching them. Rock on my friend!
Fantastic blog. You often publish a absorbing article. Thanks!
"it can take longer for indie artists to reach the critical mass of audience awareness to quit their day jobs." Why should they? Why is it we have come to expect creators of art to stop living in the real world that inspired their art in the first place?
The old school bare-knuckle boxers were largely laborers, so too the original football players. The expectation that anyone makes a living by entertaining others is ludicrous. Even in ancient times poets and play-wrights were expected to work for their daily bread. They entertained people for spare money! In the past it was only through patrons people created great works, and kept themselves alive, and so should it be today!
I really don't see what the problem is. Everything takes ten years of hard work to get you anywhere. Music, art, programming... you name it. For how long did the Beatles sing in seedy bars before they were noticed by a record label exec? How many other bands weren't so lucky?
90% of everything is crap. 90% of people never amount to much. But the more people *try* to do something worthwhile, the more the other 10% will amount to, in absolute terms. And that's why the Internet matters.
Also, you're operating under the assumption that artists are somehow supposed to earn a living with their art. No they aren't. For most of recorded history, most art was done for other purposes than financial gain (and without copyright protection, but I'm digressing), and that didn't stop anyone. Consider that even today the vast majority of novels are written without any guarantee that they'll ever be picked up by a publisher, let alone sell enough to matter. Heck, I know of a professional writer who took time from writing for money to create a fan novel which by definition *he'll never be allowed to sell*. (If you like Firefly, check out My Own Kind of Freedom, it's awesome.)
If you do manage to make money with your art, or even make a living, more power to you. But if you fail, instead of complaining, consider how lucky you are that you got to try in the first place, and without having to ask anyone for permission!
Thank you for sharing this! It's beautifully written and I'm happy that you finally got to pursue your passion.
I've noticed this trend among my friends as well. Bankers and lawyers who lost their job but seemed happy they could now justify doing what they really wanted to do, which was often a creative pursuit. I think part of the reason was that the huge wage differential between being a lawyer and being an Art History grad student or photographer suddenly wasn't that big. But what happens when the economy picks up and those wage differentials come back? Will half of Harvard's graduating class go back to consulting? Probably.
Without more equitable distribution of wages (which European countries achieve through sectoral level wage bargaining and taxation/redistribution) and universal benefits (like health care, free higher education) I'm afraid our country's human capital will remain poorly distributed. That is social science speak for: a lot of people will either have to accept poor pay as a creative, or go back to jobs they don't love.
Getting your money out of your pocket into theirs ( their clients) is the marketeers mantra. What has "informed" USA Inc is based on an ideology that is no longer scientifically relevant. We are on a limited planet of limited resources and "Consumer Economics" is eating its way through the world, leaving waste, pollution, dis-ease of mind, heart and body and we have 10,000 jelly bean flavors but have to fight for "real" food. Save your $ and invest in the world you want to see manifest. There are co-ops, groups etc and creating a diverse, scintillating new economic ssystem is necessary if humans and other living things are to bloom and thrive.
HOW CAN ICA EXTEND HELPED TO COOPERATIVES IN THE PHILIPPINES? A COUNTRY THAT IS VISITED BY 20 TYPHOONS EVERY YEAR. DEVASTATED BY FLOODS.AND OTHER CALAMITIES.
Very true, we really do tend to overuse words to the point that they get thrown around and repeated without true mindfullness of the meaning of the word or how it will manifest as action.
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What a thoughtful and kindhearted comment, Thea. Thank you so much.
Reading this, I thought of playwright Wally Shawn's line in my favorite movie of all time, "My Dinner With Andre". He says, "When I was young and rich, all I thought about was art and music. Now I'm 36, and all I think about is money." Life sweeps us up and it's easy to think we'll get back to our creative paths...someday. I'm happy you've found your way back to your own writer's way. It's partly selfish: your heartfelt, thoughtful description of life in these hugely transitional times gives me hope and cheers me up, even when you are dealing with tough things. It's good to know there are smart, caring people like you out there who will be part of shaping the world.
I found the perfect place for my needs. Contains wonderful and useful messages. I have read most of them and has a lot of them. To me, he's doing the great work.
Absolutely amazing.i agree - great article!