Brainstorm!
Feb. 10th, 2009 08:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Prompted by a discussion with
bunnykitteh, who's good at prompting these kinds of things:
Imagine a Facebook and/or MySpace application aimed at organising flash mobs for political action (e.g., the kind of thing Anonymous might use to quickly notify members of imminent $cientology activity in a particular location). What features should it have? (Twitter gateway?)
(Note that with Facebook, especially, there are all kinds of interesting concerns with respect to privacy...)
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Imagine a Facebook and/or MySpace application aimed at organising flash mobs for political action (e.g., the kind of thing Anonymous might use to quickly notify members of imminent $cientology activity in a particular location). What features should it have? (Twitter gateway?)
(Note that with Facebook, especially, there are all kinds of interesting concerns with respect to privacy...)
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Date: 2009-02-11 12:43 am (UTC)I've been kicking around for several years an idea (specific to the Bear community, because of the name) to start a project called "Bearly Involved" that would highlight very easy steps that people could follow to actively do something helpful for the environment. Post one "challenge" each quarter-year, have people write in their accomplishment on the postcard and bring it to a Bear event. The postcards are collected and then a winner is randomly drawn to receive a prize. I think it would be a great way to entice/introduce people to "scary eco-activist" ideas but in a grounded and practical way. I would focus on the plight of the poor polar bear, just to begin, but branch out from there. From barely involved to bearly involved.
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Date: 2009-02-11 12:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-02-11 04:08 am (UTC)