Blog: Rachel Botsman
By RACHEL BOTSMAN
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06.29.10, 5:04am
For over 15 years, Jesse Richards has run a successful blog sharing his views on everything from Tolstoy to comic books to artists such as Whistler. It has become a montage of his diverse passions and fusion of his thinking about our future.
By RACHEL BOTSMAN
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06.13.10, 8:22pm
One of the best parts of being a writer is meeting entrepreneurs and thought leaders who blow you away with their insights about the way people behave and their vision to use technology to transform our daily lives for the better.
Cindy Gallop – a former chairman of leading advertising agency BBH who left to start If We Ran The World – is one of those people.
By RACHEL BOTSMAN
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06.10.10, 6:48am
Last Saturday, I took part in Creative Sydney at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Towards the end of the speech I was telling the audience about how I went to see an exhibition in 2006 called Massive Change. (Tagline: "It’s not about the world of design.
By RACHEL BOTSMAN
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04.05.10, 9:04am
In March 2008, Dustin Zuckerman started a local tool-lending library from the back closet of his small one-bedroom carriage house in Santa Rosa. Zuckerman is a gently spoken man in his late thirties. His friends describe him as the "giving type." He grew up in Los Angeles, the son of pawn brokers, but realized from an early age that the family business was not for him.
By RACHEL BOTSMAN
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03.09.10, 6:26am
"Wondering why the city’s cab-sharing experiment fizzled last week?" writes Michael Grynbaum in the New York Times. His piece offers a range of answers: lousy locations, rider impatience, fear of strangers.
By RACHEL BOTSMAN
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02.10.10, 5:47am
Casey Fenton is the founder of CouchSurfing, a global movement that connects travelers with locals in over 230 countries and territories around the world. Here he talks with What's Mine Is Yours author Rachel Botsman about trust and reputation, community decision-making, social entrepreneurship, and the future of travel.
By RACHEL BOTSMAN
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12.29.09, 8:15am
In 2002, media entrepreneur Stan Stalnaker published Hub Culture: The Next Wave of Urban Consumers
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11.29.09, 8:14pm
John Wilson stopped in Chicago during a road trip from Boston. He was walking by Wicker Park when he noticed a “totally anonymous and unsupervised” local drop box where you could leave or take unwanted books and DVD’s.
When he got back home, he started talking about the idea with Chris Maggio, an old school friend and co-founder of the art collective the Future Machine. Would something similar work in Boston? They decided to find out.
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Rachel Botsman is the co-author of a book with Roo Rogers called What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Harper Collins 2010). Is it about how virtual and real-world communities are coming together through organized sharing, swapping, bartering, trading, gifting and renting to get the same pleasures of ownership with reduced personal cost and burden, and lower environmental impact. Follow her research on twitter at @rachelbotsman.
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