September 4, 2009
I happened to be reading Mark Bertil’s post on risk taking and funding and he points out Kickstarter — a funding platform for artists, designers, etc. — not unlike Kiva, except they focus on alleviating poverty through partnerships with micro-financing institutions and by encouraging people to make small loans to entrepreneurs to fund their endeavours.
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June 7, 2009
Uh… We love conversations
Amidst all the e-book discussion; the conversations about “conversations” within the realm of social media (including book reviews); and the idea of community, I felt that while there may be a lot of focus on what authors, publishers, marketers and technologists may want — there wasn’t really any focus on the fundamental [...]
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