Saturday, March 13, 2010

Neighbors and Online Networks

by Bill McKibben from Yankee website. What a great idea on how to build your immediate community using the internet!
Forget the World Wide Web--this one stretched barely four blocks. And no video, no rating systems, no celebrities, no hyperlinks. Just the daily rhythm of neighborhood life. "It grew steadily, from 10 or 20 percent of the neighborhood to the point where by 2006 we had 90 percent of the neighborhood signed up," says Wood-Lewis.