Reimagined Community

Eli Pariser put it on the Techdirt Podcast recently. It’s like we live in a world with no libraries, only bookstores. And in that case, “you don’t blame a bookstore for not being a library,” says Eli. Instead, you figure out how to open a dang library! And once you have a library, you don’t evaluate it in bookstore terms — no one expects 10x or 100... See more

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On the local news side, there are exciting experiments around community media and re-envisioning local news not just to be something that we bring back in its old form, but something that is co-created in a participatory manner by communities.

the root causes of, essentially, an economy built on capturing as much of our attention and leisure time as possible.

We don’t need a second brain, we need a second heart. We need more soul.

This is also inspired by Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s First Minister of Digital Affairs, on increasing the bitrate of democracy by creating more opportunities for people to participate. Can we increase the bitrate of neighborhoods?

Bridging Movement 3-layer Theory of Change

• Layer 1 - Field Capacity: Strengthen the bridge-building field


• Layer 2 - Broad Mobilization: Mobilize target sectors and audiences


• Layer 3 - Societal Conditions: Shift social norms at scale