Bridge into Beacon is an application to encourage economic growth in Downtown Beacon by providing context to visitors and tourists. I began the project with a post about resilient communities, and an intention to create an app that promotes resilience. From the beginning, I’ve tried to keep the application simple, not just for the end [...]
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Impulsive and on-the-go
March 2nd, 2010 1 Comment
I had a meeting at BEAHIVE in Beacon, NY last week to present my ideas for a “digital bridge into Beacon” and got some great feedback. Based on the conversation and subsequent consideration, I’ve decided to focus most heavily on the mobile web component. BEAHIVE member Chris Joslyn highlighted the importance of knowing the user’s [...]
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Hybrid Communities: Etsy and the Apocalypse
February 10th, 2010 No Comments
I was telling a friend about my thesis direction and he made an interesting observation: post-apocalyptic scenarios make problem solving easy. This is because it creates a clear set of constraints and eliminates many of the complexities of our current way of life. Hearing this, I realized that perhaps I’ve been leaning too much towards [...]
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Standalone WiFi Application Hubs
February 7th, 2010 No Comments
Continuing on my foray into resilient communities via local community tech hubs, I’ve begun thinking about extreme scenarios. Imagine a community with limited power and little or no internet connectivity; standard hosted platforms for commerce and communications – Ning, Twitter, Etsy, Facebook, Gmail, etc – would cease to be effective. It is possible, however, to [...]
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Community App – Custom vs 3rd Party
February 7th, 2010 No Comments
Thanks to encouragement from Mark Frazier at Open World, I’m more seriously exploring existing platforms and content management systems as digital hubs for local communities. I had been thinking along the lines of a fully custom app that I could open-source, but the development and documentation overhead would be high on a project like that. Right [...]
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