No I haven’t forgot about the little endeavour I launched in May: I started thinking we need someplace to just try stuff. If it works, then great: we can replicate it on our own sites or even develop something more permanent, public, and professional. If it doesn’t work, then that’s ok too: without actually losing [...]
Tagged as: community organizing, creativity, development, enterprise modelling, initiatives, institutions, ldnbeta, learning, open democracy, professionalism, progress, projects, rapid prototyping, relationships, signalling, social capital, social media, web
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The Victoria Stafford story is well outside of my old comfort zone: I’ve always preferred abstractness… This is real. After a few weeks of keeping my distance, it was actually not even the story itself but the way The London Free Press has covered it that started to draw me in. And then there was the secondary [...]
Tagged as: community, crime, evil, neighbourhoods, security, social capital, social engagement, society, tori stafford
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Wow, super day of PodCamp – far surpassing my expectations (and destroying the inhibitions I may have had). When I first heard about this a few months ago I was totally expecting it to be a slightly more organized version of the monthly geek dinner meetup, with a few dozen people I already know (or virtually [...]
Tagged as: pclo09, podcamp london, social capital, social change, social media
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by Brian on 12-24-2008
Continued from Social and Creative Capital in London, Orchestra Edition. I meant to address the issue of Rib-Fest and the future of festivals in London but I had to cut that one off: I ended up spending a lot more time talking about the arts than I meant to. I wasn’t going to write anything tonight [...]
Tagged as: barack obama, blogging, collaboration, community, creative city, creativity, gardening, innovation, insight, london, social capital, summer festivals
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by Brian on 12-22-2008
I’m happy to see a lot of concentrated discussion around London about issues I actually know something about. In the past week we saw Orchestra London successfully appeal for financial support from the city, and we heard news that Ribfest might be cooked. Now I know next to nothing in terms of background specifics about either of [...]
Tagged as: arts funding, civic institutions, classical music, creative capital, creative city, creative class, creativity, elgar concerto, glenn gould, london, music, orchestra london, performing arts, social capital, sociology
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I’m glad Paul Berton of the London Free Press highlighted the “shameful mocking of community work” by Giuliani and Palin at the Republican convention. The jokes about community organizing stood out as especially disgraceful in what is becoming an increasingly nauseating campaign… Paul Krugman responded to them by insisting that this “politics of resentment” strategy [...]
Tagged as: community, politics, social capital
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