In the coming weeks we’ll be ramping up our preparations for our first video sprint with the British Council during Social Media Week Berlin. We’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Ben, Phil and Jón Þór via Skype in order to seed the conversation we’d like to have about transatlantic influence. Their Skype interviews will be [...]
Theme: Transatlantic Influence We live in a world where influence – both its definition and who has it – is shifting. From movements in the global economy, to innovations in online metrics, to trends in social media, the manner in which countries, companies and individuals can affect change in the world is evolving at a [...]
Over the past several months we’ve enjoyed watching my mom’s project Studio Neptune grow. My mom’s an artist and children’s art educator. I grew up both participating in her art classes and eventually teaching some cartooning classes myself. On her website Studio Neptune she is meticulously documenting and making available step-by-step instructions on various art [...]
After having spent several months last year working on the Future of Money, it’s inspiring to see ever more startup initiatives that seek to create new economic structures. Berlin-based friendfund takes a fresh approach to sharing expenses with friends they call friendfunding. While this sort of thing may seem familiar, it’s an entirely separate concept [...]
A couple weeks ago I returned from touring with Jay Cousins in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland – meeting different groups of people enthusiastic about alternatives to monetary value exchange and the connection between such alternatives and Creative Commons. I surprised myself seeing how passionately I spoke about Creative Commons, realizing in the process of the [...]