Thanks to Rushworth Kidder of the Institute for Global Ethics for point this out in his weekly Ethics Newsline. The NewTithing Group has compiled an IRS based assessment of charitable giving using the percentage of income donated and income brackets.  The graph shows a conclusion that may be startling to some – those who make less tend to give a ...

Yesterday I was updating my Yellow Arrow account. Immediately after I went into Second Life and that jump inspired me to try and set up the Yellow Arrow program within digital and virtual worlds.  The system can support the placement of these arrows – for the most part.  There are two key technologies that would need to be developed.1. A ...

Community Mobilization point to Rocketboom for uncovering an account of a Subway Flash-Mob party.  As a technology cellphones are priming the culture for instantaneous plan adjustment.  A flash-mob is equally dependent on the technology as it is on the culture of the society.  Would a flash-mob work equally as well in a repressive culture as it would in an open ...

I was privileged to present, alongside Stowe Boyd and others, to the recent AMA Hot Topic event titled Getting Ahead of the Curve. The attendees were a fantastic mix of diverse and outgoing people. As part of my presentation I directed our group in the construction of a very rough, and I do mean rough, Social Network Articulation. We used ...