Blog: Neal Gorenflo
Jake Porway, founder of Data Without Borders, keynoting at Code for America's Big Data for the Public Good event last night said that we're at watershed moment - that the shift to a data driven society is accelerating. Soon it will be common to make life and public decisions using the vast amount of data that is being generated by our information driven lives and society.
I'm at the Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC), the second annual coworking held in Austin before SXSW. My first impression - wow, coworking is all grow'd up. The size and professionalism of the event is a big shift from last year's less formal, grassroots effort. Oh, and apparently, coworking is not so much a movement anymore, it's an industry.
In this interview, Shareable publisher Neal Gorenflo, John Robb of Global Guerrillas, and P2P foundation's Michel Bauwens talk to David de Ugarte, one of the originators of the Spanish cyberpunk scene about his more recent work developing a multinational worker cooperative, Las Indias, that is a culmination of his community's thinking and work for the last decade.
This interview with JD Moyer by Michel Bauwens and Neal Gorenflo is important to us here at Shareable because it combines two important perspectives. The first one is that JD is an entrepreneur who made a successful transition to operating in an open and participatory music culture, embracing and accepting it, providing lessons on how this might be done.
Happy Martin Luther King day. Dr. King was one of the all time sharing superstars. After all, a world that shares is one that shares across all lines of difference.
As the holidays and year comes to a close, I find myself asking again a long asked question. What kind of holidays should be celebrated by a citizen, sharer, and commons advocate?

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Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder and publisher of Shareable Magazine, a nonprofit online magazine about sharing. As a former market researcher, stock analyst, and Fortune 500 strategist, Neal is perhaps an unlikely voice for sharing. An epiphany in 2004 inspired Neal to leave the corporate world to help people share through Internet startups, publishing, grassroots organizing, and a circle of friends committed to the common good.
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